| Show V r nw 1 l r r rr ia CONDENSED FACTS OF GENERAL INTEREST one fifth of the marri married eki couple couples in france have no children drury lane theater london waa was first opened years ago among the 2038 students at glasgow university last term there were women the two tunnels most needed in europe now are for the caucasus and the pyrenees but one belbel in ten of the corn produced pod in 1 the united states Is exported nearly one third of tho united states or about acres Is vacant public land since her war with china japan has bas doubled lier her army and increased her navy fourfold A roquefort cheep sheep furnishes thirty or tony forty pounds of cheese choose a year the dock flock numbers of 01 those sentenced by english courts as habitual drunkards more than on thle d are women no interviews with count lyo leo tolstoi or gorki may nor now appear lu in the russian press there are between and american civilians in the philippines most of them ex soldiers it takes about three seconds for ft message to go from one end of the atlantic cable to the other the railway companies of great britain pay on an kveraga ave ragi 1300 a day as compensation for damage during a bursy time the twenty leading hotels in london landon accommodate about guests every aery night the female brain commences cora to decline in weight after the age of thirty the male not till ten yeara years inter later ii ao 10 madagascar silk Is the only fabric used in the manufacture of clot clothing bins it Is cheaper than linen in ireland some scientists asbert that the purest air in cities Is found about twenty five feet above the street surface another wireless telegraph instrument has been successfully used over distance of four miles at budapest A couple at Lange in friesland have just celebrated the seventy third anniversary of their wedding king leopold of belgium has ordered a new now motor car which is to have a speed of civo mile miles an hour phosphate rock mined in south carolina la in 1901 amounted to tone tons 4 ae as compared with tons in 1900 the shipyards of great britain all working together could turn out a big steamship every day of the year korea as well as china Is going to have her army reorganized and a british officer hns already taken charge the ameer has forbidden forbid dea all cock and quail fighting in afghanistan and the order has displeased die pleased hia his subjects connecticut has peach ti hiees ees massachusetts rhode island ind southern new hampshire french hallwa companies paid last year in compensation for boods and baggage lost in transit on their lines more than 2000 people make a living in paris by fortune telling their total yearly earnings being estimated at the largest single room office in the world Is that ot the union stock yards at chicago in which clerks have desks miss helen stone the missionary and her adventures with turkish brigands have been made the subject of a melodrama germany now leads in the export of 0 scientific instruments fourteen thousand wage earners are employed in that industry the making of a tin bucket Is not a simple process for ten different machines are called into service before one Is finished we are the best beat painted people on earth more than gallons of paint birre spread upon urna tha the united states during 1901 the I 1 that london tailors and lond london un men combine to produce the best 01 hessed eased men in ahti tb 0 world says town topics dies hard british columbia grew grev the worlds record apple last year it waa sixteen inches in circumference and weighed one pound patina and three ounces dr maddox who invented the gel bromide of silver photograph plate lute which camo into use in 1885 1985 Is dead in southampton england the longest run without stopping on an record for a passenger train Is that recently made over the miles between buffalo and new now york ity of the fourteen women who took doctors at onu ona or r other of the german universities last year eight were americana americans and six germans the stairway leading to the tower of the philadelphia city hall contains steps and Is said to be the tallest continuous stairway in the world president loubet during his allt to st petersburg gave tor for distribution among ebarita charitable bla institutions in st petersburg and peterhof Pe in manitoba and there are CO acres of rich arable land which could support persons the present population Is the estimated wealth of 01 the united states Is approximately or an average of 1300 for each man woman and child of its population the late amos J cummings was the champion of the birds in congress and some of his most brilliant speeches were in behalf of his feathered friends moscow has the largest hospital in europe with beds there arc are ninety six physicians and nurses and about 15 pat patients tents are cared for annually the police stations of london have no telephone connection either with central or with each other all 1 roligh a telephone system Is owned by tho government both branches of the manx legislature have passed the juvenile smokers bill which prohibits the sale of tobacco in any form to bos under 14 year years of ege in the the deaths from plague pingue average nearly mon monthly bly the squirrels at elasan Hi ssan mysore caught taught the disease and have been completely y wiped out in the elementary schools of france more than thlin 24 p pr r cent of the ra F afe are nearsighted in those of Oe 35 per cent in those of he the united kingdom 20 per cent 6 I 1 england Is nut so fearful now as she was mas thirty years ago that her coal supply was about ot at the point of exhaustion still she Is looking aberly for 0 some substitute for coal population Is 1 the smallest n europe compared with her alon each of her inhabitants could ha ba I 1 forty acres of land while the briton m have to be content with less than an acre A L rotch who haa has been st the german scientific mathous of 0 k observations in the upper air says amt everywhere ho he found the alue bill hite ito had been adopted by the german observers one of the most important industries attaching to tho the cheap power noy produced by niagara la Is the electrical tearing apart of the molecule of common bait salt resulting in the formation of caustic soda and bleaching powder in santa clara cal there in I 1 a church constructed from the wood A of a single oak tree the building Is thirty feet wide and seventy feet deep yet when its construction was completed 1200 feet of lumber remained unused A company haa has been formed at seattle for mining platinum in tho the tula raben river and granite creek deposits here ChInat nen have been earning I 1 living wages tor fifteen years in recovering platinum from tho placer deposits coral Is in being made up into various forma forms la in the italian shops where I 1 much of it Is to bo be seen one of the new ways in which it Is to bo be used tired in 1 in the form of a turtle with gold head and legs and it also forms tho the bodle for 41 large insects mr A 0 G R n foulerton of tho the pathological society of london has reported a case of a sheep afflicted with tuberculosis this Is not the first by any means but it has been the popular idea that sheep were immune from this drad disease great britain has 9 square miles of coal fields while the united slates states hie square miles in english minca mines their veins aro are often betoken and in some the lip dip is as high as 33 per cent while in american mines a dip of 5 per cent Is unusual toe importation impartation of rubber by the united states has grown in thirty yearn f from rom 3 to per annum fruits and nuts from to OK coffee from to whilo while tea has fallen from to MW ss w |
