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FACTS IN FEW LINES

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Denmark has a population Of 2,59s,-
900. OF these 10000 are In Copenha-
gen and its suburbs.
There is a great shortage Of officers
In the Russian army. In the infantry
alone It amounts to 5000.
During each month for the last two
years about 1900 Russian immigrants
have entered the port OF New York.
Britain, Canada, Australia and New
Zealand had to pay a deficiency OF
$311,S10 on last years working OF the
Pacific cable.
An air gun Of large size, working on
the principle Of the pneumatic ham,
mer, has been devised for killing ami
mails in a humane manner.
On her preliminary trials the British
destroyer Swift maintained for sew
eral hours a speed Of 3S.3 knots, or
nearly forty-6ve miles an hour. She
Is the fastest vessel ever built
Seven hundred Of the persons who
died In ireland last year were stated
to be ninety-five years Of age or up
ward. and no fewer than AS were re-
ported to be centenarians or upward.
The British built but German owned
ship Columbia, dismasted by a hurri-
cane OF Cape Flattery, has been pur-
chased by Americans and converted
into the first six masted barkentine In
the world.
Lassa, the mysterious capital Of
Tibet, Is beginning to show longings
for the amenities Of western civiliza-
tion. 1t has Just placed a contract
with a Calcutta firm to supply a large
number Of European band instru-
ments.
Nine. Poppova Is a Russian woman
who has invented an airship and has
called It the Annotated Dragon, which
gives one an idea Of its shape. There
Is a system Of hoops that serves to
steer It, and the ship is said to adapt
itself to every sort Of wind very read
lily.
A Pittsfeld GIass) business house
has adopted the policy Of having a
young woman bill collector. The girl
is meeting with more success than
three men, 1t IS said. Her favOrite
form OF salutation is to smile prettily
and ask, Don't you want tc pay your
bill today?" The answer is nearly al
ways yes.
A few years ago the currency Of
Austria was changed from guldens
and kreutzers to crowns and hellers.
To deceive customers figures are still
sometimes placed IN shop windows in
such a way that forms are mistaken
for crowns and bills made accordingly.
By a recent ordinance this has been
made punishable act.
There has died in the workhouse at
Dorchester, England, a woman named
Harriet Hammett, a native Of Tol-
puddle, who was admitted to the
workhouse in 1874 AS her age at
death was sixty-nIne, she must have
donned workhouse garb when five
years old. The only home she ever
remembered was the house"
The beneficial effect Of storage on
the sanitary quality Of water now
seems to be well established, and a
further contribution to the data on the
subject has Just been made by one Of
the experts Of the London water board.
he has shown that typhoid bacili put
In river water gradually disappear as
the water remains longer in storage.
Sweden has three factories building
limitations Of American mowers and
reapers. The largest Of these built
5000 to 1000 machines for the season
Of 1908, copying almost exclusively one
Of the best selling American mowers.
Their reaper Is an exact copy Of the
American original, Swedish made
parts fitting American built machines.
The new Turkish minister Of educa-
tion says: I'VE have compulsory edu-
cation at present, but we lack primary
schools. We shall establish them. We
shall develop the existing higher edu-
cation The study Of history win now
be allowed We want a regime Of
liberty Of the press, even with all the
evils It means, for it Is a necessary
evil"
There has been opened In Mannheim,
Germany, q tuberculosis museum, the
object Of which Is to educate the pub
lie as 70 the causes, cure and proven
ton Of consumption. The museum Is
opened three times q week for period
q two hours, and during that time
physicians are present who instruct
visitors IN the manner Of fighting the
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