The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-07
FACTS IN FEW LINES

skins year.
There is one postoffice in Switzer
land to every 910 Inhabitants.
Every cat in Berlin must wear q
metal plate containing its license mum.
Der.
The -four mills of the United States
represent fixed investments of about
100000 900.
tuberculosis germs can sustain the
greatest cold and succumb only at 25G
degrees below zero.
Turkey has more aged people in pro.
portion to her population than any
other European country.
The fifteenth son in the fifteenth
year has been born to Mr.. and Mrs
Chris Roller in Noble township. Cass
county. Ind.
A New York state farmer has re.
quested an insurance policy which will
protect his property from damage by
airships as well as aightning
Ordinary corncobs are worth 16 cents
per eighty pounds in India. They are
ground to q coarse meal, mixed with
molasses and used as a food for cat
tie.
Professor Enrico Batelli Of New Ha-
ven, Conn.,, has composed a musical
composition to the memory of Consul
and Mrs. Arthur s. Cheney, who lost
their lives in the Sicilian earthquake.
| A "foot" measure varies in China
from eleven inches to fifteen inches.
| Iicfri tot loc fnatv,11,,c tc
pounds and its pecks. An effort is now
being made to introduce a uniform sys.
tenn.
The largest chimes in the world are
being installed in the tower of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance compa-
ny's building at New York. The four
bells weigh 1,500, 1000. 5000 and 1000
pounds.
Two English inventors claim to save
from so to 75 per cent on gas bills by
the use Of their machine, which carbu-
rets the air with small portion Of pc
troll vapor, producing highly illumi-
mating nonexplosive gas.
An odd wedding which took place in
Washington recently was that of Jesse
Il. Jevons of Philadelphia and Jessie
L. Jevons of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Both
the parties had been married before,
but despite their similarity of names
were in no way related to each other.
Thanks to the present efficient state
Of the Siamese navy, sea robbers are
no more to be seen, and the confidence
Of the people in the protection of the
government is now so great that they
have no further apprehension in car
rying on their coast trade with free
dom and protection.
The long war with Yaqui Indians in
killed at different times, including
many Americans, has been terminated
by a treaty of peace agreed upon by
three Indian chiefs and 166 of their
followers and the governor Of the
state of Sonora, Mexico.
There has been a considerable in
crease in Japanese shipping losses.
Some attribute this to the trade de-
preston, which induces shipowners
to take more risks, while others think
the mishaps are due largely to the
inferior boats, of which many We're ac-
quired during the war with Russia.
A striking illustration of the rate at
which savings bank deposits will grow
is afforded by an account at a bank in
Worcester. This account was opened
by G. II. Walters of Groton in 1885
with five dollar deposit, which, with
no other accumulation than the an
nual interest, now amounts to $216.62.
Edward McCone of Dover, N. H.,
has in his possession bank bill more
than fifty years old, issued in 1854 by
bank of Fall River, Mass. The back
Of the bill is plain and resembles a
piece of brown paper. The bill came
into Mr.. McCone's hands forty years
ago and is in an excellent state of
preservation.
Lancashire Gngland) medical Off
GERS are calling attention to the dan
ger of weaverS in the cotton mills
contracting infectious diseases from
the practice known as shuttle kiss
ing'-sucking the weft through the
eye of the shuttle. Diphtheria, con-
sumption and many other diseases are
spread by this custom.
Gold was discovered in the Klondike
placer gold districts a little over a
decade ago, since which time this field
with an area of % by so miles square
has produced gold to the value OF
about $125,00O,OO0. Nearly all of this
has been mined by the primitive proc
ess of pick and shovel and washed by
the pan, the rocker and the sluice box
Professor w. II. Pickering of Har
ward university has completed calcula
tions which not only prove the exist
ence Of an unknown planet in the solar
system but describe its orbit, beyond
Neptune. The discovery is much like
that made by Leverrier in 1912, wher
Neptune was discovered through calcu
lations of the eccentric motions OF
Uranus
Herr Bollagen, the celebrated frescC
painter Of Berlin. has been commits
stoned by a German steamship com
pany to procure in America accurate
historical data and local color for {
series of pictures dealing with the life
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