Northern Weekly Gazette. — 1902-03-01 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

NORTHERN WEEKLY GAZETTE.  FACTS IN A nIITSHELL  Great Britain has 1,951,000 domestic Sfwvants earning £68,500,000 per annum.  Spain has a population of 17 500,000, a which number 11,000,000 cannot read or write.  The Norwegian law prohibits a person from spending more than 20 at one vis.A. Pto a public-house.  The Caspian Sea has but 11lb. of salt to a ton of water; while there are 811 b. in a ton of ordinary Atlantic water.  A Frenah physiologist, who has made a study of criminology Ilse observed that nearly ail criminals haX,O imp) ears.  Th. exterraime water power act Mysore, gonera.Le an dectrie current that operates at gokiliolds 100 miles distant.  The United States has now the third largeot Hebrew population of any oountry in the world. One in every 70 is a Jew.  During the Last 30 yeans of the 19th eentury India received and retained 350 millions atealing worth of gold and silver coin.  A starn-plough weighing 36,0001 b., and owned in Sam Bernardino County, California, ia supposed to be the largest plough in the workl.  If a man fell out of a balloon at a distance of five miles above the earth, h.th velocity at the last second would be at the rate of 4,653 feet per sewnd.  A woman who wears a stuffed bird on her hair is liable to a fine of from LS to £lO lay a law reotynety passed by the Legislature of Arloaswfas, U.S.A.  lifytweein 21 and 30 a man i ill five and a half days a year on an average; and between 30 and 40 seven days. In the next 10 yeare he loses 11 days annually; and between 50 and 60 30 days.  In many respecita the Canadian Pacific Railway is the most remarkable concern in the world. Without changing carriages it is possible to travel from Halifax to Vancouver, which is a distance of 3,662 miles.  Anstraba has, proportiarnately, more dhkurives than any other oauntry, the number being 6,013, or 2.10 to every 100,000 people. England has 144 chure.hes to every 100,000; Russ.a only 55 to the same ohm ber  In Prussia the mak3rity of the travedling public urse fourth olass. Formerly the, faurth-ekass oarriages had no seats, but treeently beniellea have bean introduced. South Gorman raalwta.ys have no fourth dam.  The aprioot orchards in Santa Clara County, in the vicinity of San Jose, are the lamest in the work!.. Several (minutia there are over 100 acres in extent, and many cover 50 and 70 aores. The total aoreage (xf aprioott orohar(is in Santa Glans Cl' malty is over 5,000 acres.  One of the most curious plants in the world is the toothbrush plant, a species of creeper which grows in Jamaica. By cutting a pieoe of the stem and fraying; the sods the natives make a toothbrtah, and a dek.tifride to use with it is prepared by pulverising the dead stanza  America leads in the matter of women praotising medicine. The first was Elisabeth Blackwell, who graduated se physician in 1849. Three years later there were six in Philadelphia. In 1889 In-ere were 3,000 vicimen doctors in the United States; in 1896 there were 4,555, and now there are probrubly 6,000. some of whom have a very lucrative practice  Russia is opening new eavings banks ai the rate of 600 a year.  Groat Bribain loses more tbe.ri £10,000,000 worth of property a.anuaLly by fire.  In 1800 there were fewer Ulna 50 hovkis in Australis; in 1900 there wore 2,000.000.  Bank of Englar.d notes are numborcd bookwawds, that to from one to 10,000, hence the figures 00,001.  About 600,000 trees ar e annually planted by Swedish aultool olliktren under the guithwee of their teachers.  The average duration of marriages in England ia a years; in France and Germany, 26; Norway, 24; Ruasia, 30.  At Salts, in Argergine, a list of bora and girls who 'have failed to attend Aloe! regularly Ls published in the newspapers.  Good mortar should only contain one third lime. Mortar with one-sixth unit lime is not male for use in building.  About 350 Ante of Parliament were paaail every year during the last. cematry. f hreel little over one-third were Public Acte.  A farmer who hung himself from a tee neez Danbury ((Joon.) was the fifteenth member of hi a family to commit suicide.  Eighty thousand cats are yearly exported from Great Britain. The total number in these isle.nds is estimated at seve.n mklliorba.  Of the 38 Sultans who have ruled the Otboman Empire since the conquest of Constantinople by the Turks 34 have died violent deaths.  A Nuremberg merchant has invented • new kind of boot, %nub an apparatus in the heel, by moans of winch the whole foot can bo warmed.  Two miles from Milnri is the most remarktubas eetho In the world. It is at the Oast of dammed.", and repeats the allot of a .piatol 60 times.  A carious custom prevails in Cora. If a man meets his wife ia the streeit, he ignores her presence, and poems her as if she were a stranger.  The long tails of the Shah of Persia'a horses are dyed CT' 11190(1) for six inehes at tiheiv tips—a jeajouely guarded privilege at vile ruler and his s(mo.  Far away from civilisation in Australia gesture latoguage is still extant. Some of the tsibre possess such an expedient pods that it is adn-post as useful for practical purposas as the spoken language.