The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-16
FACTS IN FEW LINES

ing at the rate of 2,50O,0O0 per annum
In the last half century japan has
recorded more than 27,0O0 earth
quakes.
Although the world consumes mil.
lion tons Of sugar a month, the produc
tion is more than sufficient.
In Egypt as well as in southern Eu-
rope the olive crop is a failure. Asia
Minor had about half a crop.
Owing to the scarcity of whales the
whaling industry is dying out. Only
$50 are now caught each year.
Recent excavations in Mexico have
brought to light the remains of a man
who, it is stated, must have been fif-
teen feet tall.
The Bulgarian sobranje has voted to
tax bachelors over thirty years of age
So yearly The proceeds will be devot-
ed TO education.
The Church of England bishopric Of
Mackenzie river, in British North
America, is five times as large as the
United Kingdom.
There are only two. automobiles in
the Turkish city of Saloniki, and the
use of motor car outside the city lin
its is impracticable.
Accordions, rattles, tin whistles and
bugles were recently used as weapons
of obstruction in the Austrian parlia-
ment The debate was postponed.
There is only one day in the year on
which the inhabitants Of Monte Carlo
are allowed to gamble at the casino
tables. That day is the Prince of Mo-
naco's birthday.
Mongolia. with an area Of 1867, ,953
square miles, has population of only
2,5S0,000, whereas Manchuria. with
only 363 700 square miles, has a pop
ulation of s,50O,OO0.
Rioting has been common in the
neighborhood of the Chinese city Of
Annoy, following the refusal Of natives
to obey an order prohibiting the plant
ing of opium poppies.
The Spanish cabinet has accepted
the British bid of $40,000,O00 for the
construction Of the new Spanish squad
ron, subject to some notifications of
plans on the part of Spain.
A single dealer in Madrid sells an
nually 10000 larks, finches and other
small birds for food, and the total
number thus consumed is estimated at
a million in that city alone.
In Europe at the time of the French
revolution there were only twenty-one
cities of over 100000 inhabitants. Now
there are 100 such, and fifty-five of
| AL,
In Europe a first class peanut oil is
the most highly esteemed of vegetable
oils, after olive oil. 1t is also used in
the manufacture of butter substitutes.
The low grade oils are used for soap.
One of the functions of the Salvation
Army in India is to teach natives to
use improved hand looms, paying them
wages at once. They are soon able
to earn up to $5 month, a big sum in
India.
NJ. Paul Wolfskel, professor of math-
ematics at Darmstadt, has instituted
prize of So, 900 as an inducement to
rediscover the famous theorem of Far
mat, which has been lost for over two
centuries.
American Minister Rockhill, at Pc
kin, probably will be a special am
bassador of this country at the funeral
on May of the late emperor of China,
whose body is now in a temporary
resting place.
The Vienna College of Physicians
will celebrate the centenary of the
death of Auenbrugger, the inventor of
percussion, on May 1S. A marble me-
mortal tablet will be placed on the
house in which he died.
Amputating horses leg at the fet-
lock joint, Professor Udriski of the
veterinary school at Bucharest has re-
placed the lost portion with a leather
artificial leg that enables the animal
to walk about and take exercise.
The geological survey has formally
denied the statement going the rounds
that its experts had decided that one
fourth of Alaska was coal field. The
latest official estimate is that there are
about $4,000 square miles of coal areas
in that country.
John Burns, president of the local
governing board of London, has al
ready granted funds up to $S,7S2, 900
and loaned $5O,OO0,0OO at a low rate of
interest for use in starting public
works on 1920 improvement schemes
in order to give employment to the un-
employed.
Last year 12,554 women registered in
Boston to vote for school committee,
Twenty-nine sears ago. when the priv
ilege of voting at these elections was
first granted to women, only 900 reg
iStprcd. and for the following niN"