Facts In A Few Lines

FACTS IN A FEW LINES

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There are 50,000 Hebrews in Italy.

Poison ivy is one of the menaces to golf.

Peoria distilleries use 40,000 bushels of corn daily.

Only six persons out of a thousand reach the age of 65.

Mormon missions have been established in the Philippines.

The Kongo region exports about 3,000,000 walking sticks a year.

Copenhagen will send a scientific expedition to Siam in the autumn.

The Florists' Hall association of the United States carries $800,000 insurance on hothouses.

Denmark claims that there is not a single person in her domain who cannot read and write.

New York consumption of champagne during the past year was the greatest ever known.

A resident of New Zealand has patented a liquid for branding cattle which can be applied with a brush.

In Surrey, England, there is a great poultry fattening establishment, which annually sends about 36,000 fowls to London.

German commercial men traveling in Russia are obliged to pay a tax of 500 rubles, in default of which a fine of 1,500 rubles is imposed.

Women have a more favorable chance of life before reaching their fiftieth year than men, but a less favorable one after that period.

A New York man claims to have shot a crane up in the Adirondacks that had 45 trout in its stomach, none of which weighed leas than a pound.

One of the minor, but yet very considerable, demands for iron and steel of recent origin is that entailed by the use of metal tubing in mine shafts.

In a single year the value of canaries raised in Germany is estimated at $250,000, and the greater part of this sum goes into the pockets of the very poor.

Ecuador produces nearly one-third of the entire cacao used In the world. The total is estimated at 75,000 tons. The average crop of Ecuador is about 22,000 tons. ._..._.. _