The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-05-17
FACTS IN FEW LINES

iOi III tAiC iiOpN COuSuI lOl
by al classes in Siam.
Rents of working class dwellings
are about % per cent lower in Bel
gium than in England.
The most expensive publication in
New York. with the least income, is
the City Record, which costs yearly
$1,1SOO00.
The government of Victoria. Austria
liza, II promoting an immigration
scheme to secure 10000 settlers with
In two years.
A flexible rubber mouthpiece for
telephones is novelty, the ide& being
to prevent breakagc should a desk in
strument he upset
The total number of patents issued
in all countries which thus protect
their inventors from the earliest time
to Dec. L, 1909, was 2,999,433 q
The smallpox epidemic at Santiago
last winter cost that city more than
100000 United States gold for treat
ment in pesthouses, vaccination, etc.
The acute ralsin crisis in Spain has
led to the uprooting of many acres of
muscatel vines and the planting of
almonds ms 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 1000
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.
woman in Chicago society says
that II would be an excellent thing for
the men of that city and New York
to spend little time reading Lord
Chester6eld's letters. She thinks it
would improve their manners.
The first trust in the United States
to pass the Sl00,000,000 mark in capi-
talization was the United States Leath-
er company. organized In 1893. Its
capital stock combined with an issue
Of bonds amounted to $13S,O00O00.
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.
| 6a xytl ~ gI9n
600 a year for a monthly steamship
service on the Atlantic between Cana
da. Australia and New Zealand by
way of the Cape of Good Hope. The
ships may return by any route they
choose.
The slow progress in French Guiana
with only 10000 inhabitants. on ter
ritory more than one-fifth the area OF
France. Is contrasted with the success
ful work of the Dutch and the Eng
lish in their respective portions OF
Guiana.
silk handkerchief was sold the
other day In Berlin for the equivalent
Of $3.75O. On 1t was printed a poem
preceded by these words. '"To Frauleir
Minna Planer on her marriage to Mu
steal Director Richard Wagner. Ko
nigsberg. Nov. Ia. 1886"
There are only half as many opium
dens in China as there were eighteei
months ago. 1t Is now difficult to bu!
opium. except by license, which per
mits smoker to buy at one time fiv,
drains Each license costs 10 cent
and Is good for three months.
Professor Frances Squire Potter ant
Professor Mary Gray Peck are to b,
suffrage settlements throughout tn,
country. The settlements are to b.
under the auspices IL not the actua
control of the National Woman's Suf
frage association.
Ground has been broken for tn
great library building at the Universl
ty of Chicago. which Is to serve as
memorial to the late president. VIII
! liam Rainey Harper, The contrac
price is 100000, and the building 4
to he completed by the summer o
1911. The structure will be 2T6 by 9
feet, fronting on the Midway Plai
sance.
A bill will be brought before tb
, British parliament calling for steps I
be taken to prevent the high mortalit
from tuberculosis In Ireland. The bi
: will demand the compulsory nodhca
ton and registration of tuberculosi
, cases, the establishment of special II
stitutions for consumptlve patients
the instruction of the public about thi
disease and improved control over tn
meat and milk supplies.
A German genealogist, Professo
Otto Forst, leading authority on INT
| diaev0l lines OF descent, has tried I
, demonstrate that two emperors. tn
German emperor and the czar OF Rus
, sia, and four kings-those OF Spair
, Portugal. Italy and Saxony: also Arci
j duke Ferdinand OF Austria-are d.
r scended from fifteenth century ban
, ber named Babou, who was born abou
1850 and who earned his living as
barber In Paris. where he was skill