The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-04-15
FACTS IN FEW LINES

over o,UOOOOO pairs or blankets are
woven in Great Britain annually.
On the basis OF real estate assess
ments the public parks of New York
city are worth $1,2O0,oo0,O00.
OF all places Of importance Sydney,
New South Wales, is farthest from
London as the crow flies. 1920 miles
Experiments with steam raising by
means of peat have been made by the
Swedish railways, but they have turn
ed out n failure.
Aloyse busch, a barber-dentist Of
Wunzenau. Germany, recently cele-
brated the fiftieth anniversary of his
entry into the double profession. He
has extracted no fewer than $1,000
teeth, all of which he has preserved.
BY the old method of salvage the
rents and breaks in the hull OF the
vessel were closed and the water
pumped out. BY the latest system the
ship is rid of water by pumping air
into the holds, which floats the vessel
The total quantity of radium which
has thus far been recovered for scien-
tific use throughout the world is esti
mated not TO exceed one-fourth of a
pound. The total stock in the London
hospital is but sixteen and one-quarter
milligrams.
In the vicinity Of Conception and
Talcahuano, Chile, there are more than
S0.000,0OO cubic meters of soft coal of
fair quality within an area of 10000
square meters, or about 30.7 square
miles. The vein is 35 meters, or about
11.5 feet, thick,
Or. Ponza. director of the lunatic
asylum at Alessandria, Italy, has cured
many of his insane patients by confin-
ing them in rooms of some uniform
color Patients suffering from acute
melancholia have become cheerful aft
er confinement in a red room.
To the formidable array of poisonous
substances found in tobacco, among
them carbon monOxide, prussic acid,
nicotine, pyridine, sulpbureted hydro
gen. carbollc acid. a new one has late
ly been added. which is under suspi-
cion of being angerous-sulphocya
nide of ammonia.
~ grim argument in favor OF letting
well enough alone is found in recent
New York case. Not content with a
verdict of murder in the second de-
gree, the lawyer for the convicted man
secured new trial, at which the pris-
oner was found guilty in the first de
gree and sentenced to death.
The first real road in Korea, except
that connecting Seoul and Chemupo,
connects the towns of Kunsan and
ChOnji. This policy of building high
ways is being pursued all over the
country, and an expenditure Of sew
eral million dollars will within a very
short time make itself felt in increas-
ed traffic and business.
Cairo, with about 100000 inhabit-
ants, has Ia pharmacies mentioned in
the Indicateur Egyptien. The proper
ton, however, is no criterion. as three
quarters of the native population are
poor and scarcely count as customers,
and the pharmacies being all crowded
into the European and semi-European
quarters, are sufficiently numerous for
the amount of business
The names of at least eight of the
American states will soon become ia
miliar to the inhabitants of the Le-
want, for. according to Consul General
Harris at Smyrna, an American mer-
chant has purchased that number Of
steamboats, from a Turkish company
to trade in the Mediterranean. and he
has changed the Turkish names to
those Of American states.
When Bryan Mullanphy of Joplin,
Mo. died in 1851 he left one-third Of
his large fortune TO be devoted to help
ing immigrants passing through st.
Louis ION their way to the west"
The fund has grown to about $1,000
900, and the trustees have nothing TO
do but draw their salaries. The su-
preme court has denied the right TO
divert the fund to other public pur-
poses.
About 1000 imported empty camem-
bert cheese boxes bearing the names
of well known French cheeses were
imported at New York on one steam
ship. Duty had to be paid on the
printed matter on their 1000 labels
and another duty on the imported
boxes. According TO a New York
trade journal. these boxes are filed in
New York state and sold as coming
from abroad
Methuselah must have had append
citis, according to DR.. Maurice II.
Richardson, who made the statement
in a recent address at the Harvard
Medical school. Said DR.. Richardson.
Even in Methuselah's day appendi-
citis was as common as 1t is today,
and a man could not have lived 800
years, the reputed age OF that patri-
arch, without undergoing an operation
for appendicitis"
South Africa has a brand new ma
tional anthem. The country endeavor-
ed for some time to secure a compost
ton suitable for that purpose. and out
OF $50 compositions the work Of Ber-
thold Kapolowitz was chosen, and the
citizens OF Johannesburg had the first