The San Francisco call., 1910-03-06

Japan has nearly 10000. 900 people,
more than half as many as the United
States.
The dum-dum bullet is named after
the place near Calcutta, where 1t was
first made.
The annual growth of the forests of
the United States is not more than II
cubic feet an acre.
Wheat exports OF this country are de-
clining because the home consumption
is increasing.
For brewing purposes in the United
King gdom last year 62,97f,755 pounds of
hops were used.
Queen Margherita has a weakness for
the books of American and English
novelists. She also reads English and
American magazines.
Queen Maud of Norway can ride
across country at a regular breakneck
speed, and she is said to have beaten
the record of the late Empress of Aus
tria in the-hunting field
DR.. Charles a. Raymond, the new
president of Union university, has
started a movement TO erect at Union
suitable memorial to John Howard
Payne, author of Home, Sweet Home"
OF the s135, 100000 worth of paper
and paper manufactures exported an
nually by various nations, practically
all is shipped from dozen countries.
but is distributed to practically every
corner of the world.
Fast freight line service of this
country uses $4,000 cars.
One town in Spain has one hunch-
back to every IS inha abitants.
The -four mills of Minneapolis grind
10000 900 bushels of wheat every year.
During the year 1903 the 544,935
acres under tea in India produced
2467a255l pounds
Austria is the country most lenient
TO murderers. A very small percentage
of those convicted is executed
Italy levies a graduated income tax
as well as a direct tax on land and
houses Small incomes are exempt
from taxation.
In eighteenth century England the
fashionable womans headdress often
had to be left untouched for weeks at
a time
Mrs. Russell Sage gave $4,000 to
Syracuse university on her last birth
day. The money is to be used as an
endowment fund for the teachers col
lege.
Within five years Uruguay will have
140, 900 olive trees, capable of produc-
ing 100000 pounds of olives and 50,-
900 gallons of oil.
1t was the custom in medieval times
to serve roast meat on u spit, and to
pass it round the table for each guest
to cut off what he liked.
Russian bank in Buenos Aires and
a direct line of Russian steamers to
South America are projected at st. Pc
tersburg owing to the continued in
trade.
The climate of Holland is damp and
rainy the year round.
Wireless telegraph apparatus is pro-
hibited in British India except upon
government license.
Austria is to develop $4,000 electrical
horsepower from the river Gaska.
which will be used for lighting and in
dustrial purposes.
The production of mercury at the Al
MAIDEN mines, Spain, was 1017O23
kilos, or 29,472 TASKS, in 1908 At Mi
cares it was 50.6S5 kilos.
Former Vice President Levi p. Nor
ton at Sc assumes the chairmanship of
the board of one OF the two largest
trust companies in the country.
Oil well machinery and supplies dis
tributed from Los Angeles, large
amount of it being manufactured there.
reaches the sum of over s1,o00,000 a
month.
Our grandfathers, who were Obliged
TO read their weekly papers by candle
light, escaped many of the eye troubles
which are common among their de-
scendants, who use electric lamps and
incandescent gas mantles 1t is the
ultraviolet rays in our brilliant lights
that are at fault. say oculists.
The great telescope of the Paris ex-
position of 1900, which was built at a
cost of s150,000. is now offered for sale
by the receiver of the exposition at
about one-tenth of its cost It's housing
requires building 130 feet long.