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FACTS IN FEW LINES

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Denmark has q population Of 1885,
900. OF these 10000 are In COpenha
gen and its suburbs.
There n q great shortage Of ofacerI
IN the Russian army. In the infantry
alone It amounts to 1900.
During each month for the last two
years about p, 900 Russian lmmigrantl
have entered the port Of New York.
Britain, Canada, Australia and New
Zealand had to pay q deficiency Of
e811,s10 On last years working Of tn
Pacific cable.
An air gun Of large size, working on
the principle Of the pneumatic ham
msr, has been devised for killing ami
mails In q humane manner.
On her preliminary trials the British
destroyer Swift maintained for sew
eral hours a speed Of 3S3 knots, OF
nearly forty-fve 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 145 were re-
ported to be eentenarians or upward.
The British built but German owned
ship Columbia, dismasted by a hurri-
cane on 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, Il beginning to show lodgings
for the amenities Of western ctViliza-
don 1t has just placed a contract
with q Calcutta firm to supply a large
number Of European band instru-
ments.
Nine. Poppova Is q Russian woman
who has invented an airship and has
called It the Annotated Dragon, which
gives one an idea Of its shape. There
q a system Of hoops that serves to
steer It, and the ship is said to adapt
itself to every sort Of wind very read
fly.
A Pittsfeld Mass.) business house
has adopted the policy Of having q
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 prettfly
and ask, Don't you want to pay your
bin todAyT' 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.
10 deceive customers figures are stfl
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 a punishable act
There has died in the workhouse at
Dorchester, England. a woman named
Harriet Hammett, a native Of Toll
puddle, who was admitted to the
workhcuse in 1874. As her age at
death was sixU-nIne, she must have
donned workhouse garb when five
years old. The only home she ever
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 bacilH 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-
don says: we have compulsory edu-
cation at present, but we lack primary
schools. We shan establish them. We
Ehall develop the existing higher edu-
ration The study Of history WIN now
b allowed We want a regime Of
lEberty Of the press. even with al the
Svus Il means. for IT e 4 necessary
va"
there has been opened IN Mannheim,
Germany, q tub0sculosis museum, the
object o. which Il 20 educate the pub
lie - 10 the causes, cure and prsyen-
I3on q consumption Ths museum =
sponed three zines q week for q period
e two hours. and during that tine
ph1sieians Gro present. who instruct
Visitors IN TIE manner Of fighting ths