The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-08-25
FACTS IN FEW LINES

widows.
Prince Edward Islands annual catch
of Holsters amounts to 200O0.O00.
A lump of hard coal weighing seven
tons was recently mined in pennsyl-
vania.
There was a decrease in the nations
drink expenditure last year of over
$7,50O,OO0.
a recent earthquake shock ut Toulon
caused the sea i'll the docks to fall
eighteen inches.
American farmers are buying auto
mobiles of the buggy type in steadily
increasing numbers.
During halstorm in Roumania re-
Gently some of the hailstones were as
large as Il mans fist.
In Chile are regions where there are
so many Germans that the native
servants learn their language.
Lamp chimncys which will stand
great and sudden changes Of tempera
turc are now made by now process
in France.
The Japanese cabinet recently re-
pealCd an ordinance enacted in 1873
prohibiting the use of foreign inks on
official documents.
The Chinese assumption that
woman must not he heard of outside
the door of her own house is now be-
in" criticised by up TO date Chinese
editors.
British postotiicc clerks have just
been admonishcd to be polite. They
say it is hard to be polite to .Amcri
cans, "the majority of whom are eX-
trcmely rude"
Marriage in India is contracted in
very early life, but there is nothing to
bear out the assumption that the off
spring of such marriages are mentally
defective. Idiots are rare.
OF $50 females who tried to commit
suicide in Moscow last year only thir-
ty-tive succeeded. Most of them were
under twenty years old. OF 594 men
who attempted to take their own lives
194 succeeded. A large majority of
them were from twenty-seven to thir-
ty-two years old.
Under existing laws there is no pos
sibiity of flour from the United States
or from any other country entering
France for consumption in the country,
except in the event of crop shortage.
Only two years of insufficient home
supplies occurred in the last twenty
years-once in 1891 and again in 1898.
The little town of FacnZa, in the
north of Italy, whence comes that deli
cate pottery known as faiencc, was
the birthplace of Torricclli, the in
ventor of the barometer, and its cit
izcns recently celebrated the tercen-
tenary of the famous mathematician's
birth Torricelli was a pupil of Cali
lei.
Experiments are now being made in
southern California to acclimate the
Uruguayan fruit known as guayba not
20 be confounded with the guava.
This fruit resembles a fig in shape.
The interior is filled with most lus-
rious red, white or blue sweet pulp,
the flavor resembling that of the musk
melon.
The largest cheese ever manufacture
ed in the Mohawk valley was shipped
from Utica. n. Y. to Chicago firm
recently The cheese was built in the
uSuul Sllipc, pul II lnedoulSu o. iiiNhS'
high and 45 inches in diameter and
weighed 1850 pounds. 1t took about
ten tons of milk to produce it, and it
was pressed into shape by specially
constructed press.
AIarconi denies the assertion recent
ly made to the effect that wireless
telegraph waves are dangerous to the
health of the operators. He says that
he has been in the business twelve
years without injury and adds that his
health was never better than during
periods when he was exposed for many
hours a day to the conditions which
have been challenged.
Berlin has a shorthand writer with a
unique speciality. He attends all fu-
nerals of prominent persons and takes
down verbatim the addresses of the
officiating clergymen. Then he pre-
pares highly ornamental copies of the
addresses and sells them to the friends
of the eulogized dead. His business is
so good that he has taken one assist
ant and has advertised for another
London has new chief of the fire
brigade, Lieutenant Sampson Sladen
r. N, having recently been elected to
the place by the London county coun
Gil The salary of the office is $4,000 q
year. less than half what New York
pays Chief Croker, whose compensa
ton was raised awhile ago to $4,000
q year. Lieutenant Sladen is not new
to the fire fighting business, having
been a divisional officer of the brigade
since 1890.
The effect Of singing on a child''
health is dealt with in memorandum
issued by the Scotch education depart
nent on the teaching of music in Scot
tsh primary schools. "There Is III
more health giving form of physica
exercise than singing says the mem
orandum. ut develops, strengthen
and maintains in good condition tn