The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-02-24
FACTS IN rLw LINES

tralianNstate of Victoria is in course Of
erection at Melbourne.
Tho number of men, women aad
children who received poor law relief
In Ireland during the year ended
March 81, 1908, amounted to 2lo220.
After stealing money and lot Of sill.
yer and clothing from James Burnen
of Bayonne, N. j., burglars nearly sue
ceeded In taking the piano out Of the
house before the occupants awakened.
Near Vallenar a gold mine has lately
been discovered from which ore has
been taken that contained 2C0 ounces
of pure gold per ton Of 1000 pounds.
This Is In the old gold mining region
of Chile.
The foundation for the recently COM
pleted Harbor of Refuge lighthouse,
Delaware bay, is a solid block of con.
crete eighteen feet deep, forty feet In
diameter at the base and tbirty-six feet
at the top.
AS Illustrative OF the cosmopolitan
conditions in New Hampshire 1t is re-
ported that in Somersworth recently
an Englishman carried an American
dag in a company Of Hibernians at a
French funeral.
With the completion Of the transla.
ton into Ylddish on which Professor
Louis Harrison Of Worcester, Mass.,
has been working for three years the
Bible will be readable In every spoken
language IN the world.
At u service Of thanksgiving for the
harvest Of the sen the walls Of an Eng.
lish 0shcrmen's church were draped
from end to end with fishing nets and
the window spaces occupied with lob.
ster pots and packing barrels.
When the Simplon tunnel was made
In Switzerland the old road over the
pass was no longer kept free Of snow
in winter. This, however, resulted In
so much inconvenience that 1t has
been decided to keep the road open ali
the year round again.
The Whistler house in Lowell, Mass,
the old fashioned three story dwelling
In which James Abbott MacNeill Whis-
tier, the artist, was born July 10, 1884,
was dedicated recently rs q memorial
to his work and as a permanent club,
house for the Lowell Art association.
A farmer of Goliad, Tex, who used
green willow posts at the corners of
his barn, found after year that they
had taken root and raised his barn
floor some three feet. He now has put
in a new lower floor and expects to
have three story barn In the course
Of time.
Doors that swing of themselves are
the latest At the Hotel Astor, New
York. the attendant who stands at the
main entrance merely has to press
bulb and the door, which is operated
by electricity, revolves. This plan has
the advantage of keeping the speed
uniform.
An invention which, it is said, will
revolutionize the curing Of meats has
been perfected by Cleveland men.
Electricity will be used to cause the
salt to penetrate the meats and thus
prepare them for the market in one
quarter the time the present method
requires.
In a scene of balloon race, repro.
duced in New York moving picture
show, Il. ]. Mailer saw his younger
brother, whom for three years he had
been unable to communicate with, and
writing to the officials Of the club con-
Quoting the race. was able to obtain
his address.
All the German joint stock COM
panies engaged in the herring fishery
have now entered into an agreement
for regulating the selling prices of their
catch. The consumption of sea fish
has greatly increased among the Ger
man population owing to the very high
prices asked for meat
Mrs. L. B. Bishop of Chicago offered
500 prize for the best verses favorable
to votes for women in Chicago, and
some of them were certainly funny.
One of the poems tells the men vot-
ers that it is burning shame that
they should shoulder all the cares
when we are willing to be your help
ers and the mayors"
Suicide among children in German
schools seems ON the increase. Some
startling figures are published officially
tuul lIOiil 1OOU W
1908 the average number of suicides
or attempts at suicide among pupils Of
the higher schools was IA per annum.
Since then the figures are: 1904, 0;
1905, 1S; 1905. IS; 1907. 20; 1905 %.
Harry Barnato, who died the other
day. was one of-the multimillionaires
of whom the general public knew and
saw very little. Some years ago his
fortune was computed at f12,002,000.
His savings alone amounted to sew
eral hundreds of thousands of pounds
: a year, for to great extent he lived
: frugally. his one luxury being good
cigars, which he smoked necessarily.
State railroad commissioners repre-
resentlng Illinois. Indiana, Ohio. Wis
consin and Michigan at recent meet.
ing in Chicago took action toward less
enlng the terrible record of fatalities
to trespasscrs on railroad rights OF
. way. Resolutions were adopted urg