The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-03-03
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Ths present syStsm Of punctuation
w1s devised in the fifteenth century.
New York city has consumed IA. .4O0.-
800 toms Of coal in the last twelve
anoaths.
or the 0S.45s Chinese admitted into
-tle Transvaal only 1900 are still in
ahs country.
The pearl is the only gem that does
cot require the lapidary's art to bring
Sut I'm beauty
Ths-cxvp reporting service Of the de-
|Gxkmenf OF agriculture costs the gov
eznnnent <22O, 600 4 year.
At .thn end of the new railroad line
I'm Afghnnistan only "A cents is charged
fx a cAmeL Carrying 400 pounds seven
MaEchea-
An artesian well recently was driven
10 q depth Of 1,O53 feet at Clime. Eng
land, before SUFFICIENT supply OF wa
ter was found
The consumption of lumber In the
United States has reached 400 feet per
capita per year as compared with only
sixty feet In Germany.
The French ambassador In st. Pc
tersburg receives $4,000 a year. In
Berlin and London the French ambas-
sadOrs get $4,000 n year.
Telephones are to be introduced into
the Turkish empire and operated b.
the government on the same plan as
the mail and telegraph services.
New York city's new penitentiary.
planned for Rikers island, will be the
largest In the world and will accom-
modate 2.OoO men and 500 women
By tagging birds in eastern Pr':s j
the migration of lake fowl has been
traced to Tunis. while a tagged stork
was shot near Fort Jameson, Rhode
sia.
A wind gauge has been erected at
one end of a high railroad viaduct in
England to signal trains to stop when
the wind blows so strongly as to be
dangerous.
Tests of small arms by the Swedish
government have shown that three
inches Of pasteboard will stop a bull
2et that easily penetrates a five inch
wooden plank.
By wireless telephone two French
naval officers have succeeded I'm hay
ing conversation, songs and even
whistlfng heard perfectly at distance
a,& NINETY miles. ,a....
Al kiils sla II sif On earnitupe
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my once owned by the famous actor.
Lawrence Barrett
A Pittsburg hospital uses 100000
gallons OF water sterilized by electric.
ally generated ozone each day. In
strnments and bandages are also ster.
ilized by the same method
A written language, invented by a
native OF the west coast of Africa, as
sisted by five friends, is said to be
successfully competing with English
in that portion OF the dark continent
The proprietor of a restaurant In
Munich has adopted a novel method OF
paying his walters. Instead of re
ceiying a fixed salary each man will
be paid according to the number OF
miles which he covers in the course OF
his work
Captain John Reid of Detroit, Mich.
having gone all the way to his boy
hood home in Scotland just TO get 6
drink Of water from the old spring
was disguised to find on arriving thai
the spring had in the course OF years
dried up.
A New York physician, enable t.
stand the strain of working day ant
night, has decided to confine himself
people, he thinks, would like to have &
doctor at night who was rested and
correspondingly amiable.
According to the Textile Word
: every Industrial country in the world
save one has now a provisO in its pat
ent laws that a patent may be re
vOked IL not worked In the country
granting it. The one exception is tn,
United States of America"
In taking out the window sash of al
old colonial house In New Bedford
Mass, 1t was found that its formel
tenants, living before the days OF Goa
and stoves, had fortified themselves
against the cold by calking all tn,
seams In the walls with Sleeps wool.
1t is the opinion OF Colonel Charles
Goodnight Of Goodnight. Tex, that II
a few years 1t will be possible for III
to excel Persia itself in the manufae
ture OF cloaks OF pure blood Persial
lamb skins. He himself owns the lar
gest herd OF Persian sheep In America
almoSt 200 head.
The feE may be gradually abOlishe'
In Turkey as u head covering. Aus
trta for years has enjoyed a practice
monopoly Of the feE manufacture. Tn
Ottomans are adopting the homemad
''calpak," which, like the fer. lend
itself to the MOslem customs. Will
the brimmed hats and caps do not.
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