The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-07-16
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The telephone business is picking up
In China. Pekin has now 1.TO0 sub.
scribers.
The cost of the Russian-Japancse
war to the two nations was about ST.
3O0,OOO,OOO.
Tcr acres of ground have been given
by the city Of Haarlem for the great
flower show to be held in that Dutch
city next year.
The Ceylon government in the esti
mates for 1910 proposes to include pro.
vision for wireless telegraphy between
Colombo and Minicov.
Elder Amasa Morse Of Putnam,
Conn.,, recently celebrateR his ninety.
fifth birthday anniversary. Elder
Morse is the oldest active Adventist
minister in New England.
As substitute for the baby carriage
a French inventor has brought out
portable hammock in which an infant
can be carried between two persons by
straps from their shoulders.
In Morocco there are about 10000
600 people, the bulk of whose material
for clothing is imported. The area of
the country is $4,000 square miles. 1t
is fertile and rich in minerals.
The Cossacks' reputation for horse
manship having begun to wane, the
Russian government is resorting to
special prizes to restore this body of
daring soldiers to its former high level.
Owing to the great scarcity Of draft
animals in the Philippines, it is pro.
posed to present bill to the assembly
authorizing the importation of ele.
plants from Ceylon to work in the
lumber camps.
The latest Improvement in windmills
comes from South Africa. 1t consists
of two toothed pinions, which, with
the aid of sufficiently long cylinder
supply double the usual quantity of
water per stroke.
The Limerick chamber Of commerce
has approved of a resolution making
Greenwich time the standard for the
entire United Kingdom. At the pres.
ent time Ireland is twenty-four min.
utes behind London.
Japanese army officer students are
/ allowed S1,150 year while learning
the English language. Others get from
$1,000 to $1,000 a year while learning
Russian, S1,050 for French, $3.50 for
German and 500 for Chinese
From Frontera Consul A. ]. Lespi.
nasse writes that the corozo tree
abounds throughout the Mexican state
of Tabasco, being most abundant in
the virgin forests, as it requires shade
and humidity to develop favorably.
Battleship maintenance cost during
the last year, found by averaging the
cost of current repairs on seventeen
United States battleships during 1908,
$4,000 per year per ship. This does
not include the more extensive repairs
or overhauling.
High above the street. in q crows
nest built in the steeple OF st. Agatha's
church, in Philadelphia, a five dollar
gold piece was found by two steeple-
jacks. The money was tightly wedged
in the nest and had evidently been
there some time.
| At WaitsburS, Wash, some growing
wheat was cut down, thrashed, sack
ed. conveyed two miles in an automo-
bile, ground into flour, made and
baked into biscuits, all in twenty-five
minutes. No special machinery was
erected for the test.
Members of the Barbers' union of
Chicago are denouncing the tipping
system, but not out of consideration
for their customers. They wish gratui-
| ties abolished because of their effect
on wages, which in some shops are
now near the vanishing point
Japan makes 10000 to $4,000 bicycles
/ yearly and also imports 10000, besides
separate parts enough to make $4,000.
The country now has $4,000 in use.
mostly for business purposes. The
demand for tires is 200 pairs daily,
two-thirds of which are imported.
Cnoccupied places in the Chicago
stockyards are to be made to bloom.
Instead of unattractive lanes and pens
and roadways and great bare build
ings the yards are to present stretches
of flower beds, with here and there
buildings surrounded with shrubbery.
The committee formed to arrange
for memorial to Grover Cleveland in
Chicago has decided that statue will
be the most appropriate memorial
The committee will try to raise $780,
600. 1t is expected that the statue
will be placed in Grant park, on the
lake front.
The Geological society OF London
has awarded the Victoria research
medal to Professor Alexander Agassiz
of Cambridge, Mass. The society has
also awarded special medal to Lieu
tenant Ernest II. Shackleton, who re-
Gently returned from an expedition to
the south pole.
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