Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-04-11
FACTS FOR GLOBE TRorrERs.
Things Of General Interest Not General
Known to Tourists.

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Known to Tourists
The German military budget con-
taing an item of 81, $50 for the breed
ing, training, and maintenance of car
rier pigeons.
From Russia it is reported that me-
teoric stone which recently dropped
from the heavens contained a number
of diamonds.
Three Englishmen now have statues
in France-Lord Brougham at Cannes,
Jenner at Boulogne-sur-Mer, and
Shakespeare in Paris.
1t is worthy of note that one-eighth of
all classes of blindness in Russia are
due to smallpox, and one-half only to
direct eve diseases.
The deposits in the French Savings
Bank in 1888 increased from lis, $685.
976 francs to 129, 949, 900 francs. The
depositors increased from "a, 1893 to
sci, $40.
1t is stated that more than 1000, 900
glass eyes are made every year in Ger
many and Switzerland, while one
French house manufactures 5000
of them annually.
| Licensed houses have decreased in
Holland during recent years by nearly
one-fourth, no fewer than 1900 out Of
its former 1900 public houses have
been closed by the State.
Archdeacon Philpot, of Nina Lodge,
Oak Hill, Surbiton, is the Oldest living
clergyman in the Church of England.
He is in his Tooth year. He graduated
as far back as 1872
According to the annual report of the
Salvation Army, in the United King
dom they use 1,575 buildings, with
seating accommodation for 700, 500 per-
sons, the rent roll being f100,000
In France no novel, however popular
the author, is published at higher
price than three shillings, and it is only
when book has made a hit that it is
brought out at an enhanced charge.
A monster blast has Just taken place
in granite quarry on the Duke of Ar
| gylls Scotch estate. Five tons of gun
powder were deposited in an excavated
chamber, and when fired displaced 49,
900 tons of granite.
England has more than half the cot
ton spindles of the world, and uses
more than half the cotton worked by
them, while English spinning is I'M
rivalled in the excellence of its produc-
ton and the cheapness of its price.
The firm of Bass is said to have ESQ.,
900 invested in casks, uses hundred
tons of hops a week at a cost of from
ten to thirty guineas hundredweight.
and has three breweries in the town of
Burton, one of which alone cost eos, 900
to build.
An extraordinary collection was
made in Blackburn the other day, when
sermons were preached at the st.
Georges Presbyterian Church in that
town. The sum of 81, 900 was asked
for, but over 81 ,222 were collected at
the three services.
There is, perhaps, not city in Eu-
rope where more drink is consumed
than in st. Petersburg. The popula-
ton is considerably short of one million,
yet they drink every day 10000 bottles
of wine, 100000 pints of ale, and
100000 glasses of vile spirituous
liquor known in the country by the
name of vodki.
Of the 10000 or 100000 foreigners
believed to be in Paris, ITO, 262 have
made the necessary declaration of resi-
dence. OF these 2,302 are Americans,
1865 English, 26, 100 Germans, 43, III
Belgians, 21,144 Swiss, SASS Russians,
5,75S Austrians, 2,763 Spaniards, and
"a, IT'S Italians. Forty-nine different
nationalities are represented, the list
containing natives of even such distant
countries as Dehomey, Paraguay, Persia,
Siam, and Nubia.