The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-05-18
FACTS IN FEW LINES

about as high as in the United States.
Moving picture shows at present |
form the most sought for amusement |
by all classes In Siam.
Rents Of working class dwellings |
are about 25 per cent lower in Bel
GUM than In England.
The most expensive publication In
New York, with the least income, Is
the City Record, which costs yearly
$1,1S0,O00.
The government of Victoria, Austria
! liza. is promoting an immigration
scheme to secure 10000 settlers with
in two years.
A flexible rubber mouthpiece for
telephones is a novelty, the idea being
TO prevent breakage should desk in
strument be upset.
The total number of patents issued
in all countries which thus protect
their inventors from the earliest time
to Dec. /, 1909, was 2,999,433.
The smallpox epidemic at Santiago
last winter cost that city more than
100000 United States gold for treat
| ment III peSJ0OuSes, NdCCludtloh, SIS'
The acute raisin crisis In Spain has
led to the uprooting of many acres of
muscatel vines and the planting OF
almonds as the most promising substi-
tute crop.
Though the accidents in the streets
of New York are increasing in num-
Der, the proportion of fatalities is
growing less. Out of the last 1900
accidents 1900 were classified as seri-
Gus.
The Cunard line steamship Umbria
has been sold to ship breakers for
100000 and will now go to the scrap
heap The Umbria was built twenty
five years ago and at the time was the
: crack Of the Cunard fleet.
A woman in Chicago society says
that it would be an excellent thing for
the men of that city and New York
to spend little time reading Lord
Chesterfields letters. She thinks it
: would improve their manners.
The first trust in the United States
!, to pass the $100,OO0,000 mark In capt.
talization was the United States Leath-
er company, organized in 1893. Its
capital stock combined with an issue
= of bonds amounted to S13S,0O0,0O0.
German Southwest Africa produces
not only diamonds. but copper. tin,
lead. asbestus and graphite. More
over, it is said that gold has been
found in the northern parts Of the ter
: ritory. notably in the Karribb vicinity
!. Canada will pay subsidy Of $780,,
e 600 year for monthly steamship
e service on the Atlantic between Cana
l. da, Australia and New Zealand by
n way of the Cape of Good Hope. The
e ships may return by any route they
e choose.
W The slow progress in French Guiana
le with only 10000 Inhabitants, on ter
N ritory more than one-fifth the area Of
France, is contrasted with the success
is full work of the Dutch and the Eng
: lish in their respective portions o.
er Guiana.
l. a silk handkerchief was sold thu
e other day in Berlin for the equivalen
te Of $3,750. On it was printed poem
re preceded by these words, "To Frauleil
d, Minna Planer on her marriage to Mu
Of sical Director Richard Wagner, Ko
n nigsberg. Nov. Ia. 1886"
n There are only half as many opium
as dens in China as there were eighteel
II months ago 1t is now difficult to bu
IS opium except by license. which pei
ce mits smoker TO buy at one time fv
eu drains. Each license costs 10 cent
! Al. NIa
~ Professor Frances Squire Potter an
ls Professor Mary Gray Peck are to b
III at the head of the work of organizin
hs suffrage settlements throughout til
e country. The settlements are to b
under the auspices IL not the actu;
'e control of the National Woman's Su
in frage association.
VI Ground has been broken for IL
~, great library building at the Univers
'S' ty of Chicago. which is to serve as
ue memorial to the late president, WI
us liam Rainey Harper. The contra
lo' price is 100000. and the building
u.s. to be completed by the summer
III 1911. The structure will be 276 by
TN feet. fronting on the Midway Plf
au sance.
,oH A bill will be brought before Il
H British parliament calling for steps
%Sn % be taken to prevent the high mortali
Deu from tuberculosis In Ireland. The
~ will demand the compulsory notihc
oM M ton and registration Of tuberculo'
'uS cases, the establishment Of special
Vi stitutions for consumptive patien
VI the instruction of the public about Il
disease and improved control over
meat and milk supplies.
A German genealogist, Profess
,er Otto Forst, leading authority on Il
ind diaeval lines of descent has tried
INC demonstrate that two emperors,
heT German emperor and the czar Of RI
or sia, and four kings-those Of Spa
oh. Portugal, Italy and Saxony; also Ar
duka Ferdinand of Austria-are