The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-03-15
BITS OF INFORMATION.

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There are no snakes in Iceland.
The European locomotives have no head.
lights.
Buddhism claims 80. 900 adherents in
A leeoh has three jaws, which form o
triangle.
1896 will DO a leap year; 1900 will contain
only a65 days.
Tho American mile is 1,760 yards; the
Swiss. 9.153 yards.
C%annibalism ia still practiced in fourteen
places in the world.
Pigeons have boon used al mail carriers
for about 700 years.
Bottle beer IL much stronger in alcohol
than boer on draught.
Tho average daily attendance at the CEN
tennial exhibition was 81. 333.
In Shakespears's time wits. critics and
noblemen were given seats on the stage.
The planet Neptune has the Ion gest year.
consisting of more than &c, 00o Of our days.
A body weighing 10000 pounds at the
equator would weigh 10, 034 pounds in Lon
don.
The Mormon tabernacle in Salt Lake
City Is the most perfect Whispering gallery
in the world.
1t is said the city OF Pittsburg now stands
on ground once given in exchange for u
violin.
Astronomers claim that the temperature
of the planet NEPTUNE reaches 900 degrees
below zero.
Hail Columbia" was written in the
spring of 170S. when war with France
seemed inevitable.
The face on the silver dollar is that of
Miss ma w. Williams, a Philadelphia
school teacher.
The lungs contain one hundred and sew
Rntv-fya million colIo This 10 what yNa Gos
man q practical joker.
All the gold in the world could be stored
in a room twenty-four feet square and
twenty-four feet deep.
! Mr.. Stevenson, an Edinbur9 actuary,
says that forty out of 100 people who reach
seventy years are farmers.
or the entire human race 500. 900. 900 are
we'll clothed, 100. 900 cover oply a portion OF
the body, and 100000. 900 90 entirely naked.
A charming novelty in household deco a.
tion is the GAS log, which is entwined with
green snakes. from the open jaws OF which
issue jets of fire.
Franceville. one of the new Hebrides
islauds, is said TO be the smallest republic
in the world. 1ts reputation comprises
forty whites and about 500 natives.
In Hawaii the climate is said to be SO re-
markably equable that the Hawaiian Ian
GuaGe has no word to express the general
idea OF weather.-Albany Press.
The Youngest English bride on record
was two years old. She was the daughter
of Sir William Brereton. in tho sixteenth
century, and her hubby was only a year her
senior.
In the recent expedition to the frozen
north Lieut.. Peary reached thy northwest
coast of Greenland, aud by a survey of the
coast established as q fact that Greenland
is An island.
The biggest idol in the world ia Dia-
Butsn, the Japan god. which is over sixty
feet high. The image is made of copper,
tin, mercury and gold. and has been wo5-
shipped fox more than twelve centuries.
Sitka, the capital of Alaska, is the most
northern city in North America. 1t is not
a very large city. however. The most
northerly city in Europe is Hammerfest in
Norway, far inside Of the Arctic circle. In
fact. Hammerfest is the most northerly
city IN the world.
Il is probably not known to the general
public that all the names placed before
Chinese shops and laundries are false.
Every Chinaman in business has q shop
name and n private narne.' and BY the
latter he 10 known only to his family and
intimate sequalntances.-New York Sun.
The planets arranged in the order of
their nearness to the sun are: Mercury.
81. S92, 900 miles distant; Venus. sc. 1874, 900
miles distant; the earth, 91.43O, 600 mics;
Mars, l3l.311,0U miles; Jupiter, 475 500, 600
miles; Saturn. s72, 49, 600 miles; Uranus,
1,753, 1863, 900 miles. and Neptune, 2, 749, $685.
OGO miles.
There are no venomous serpents in Ire
land, neither are there any in Great Brit
ain. But out of the tradition. and the fact
that snakes are not plentiful in Ireland, has
grown the idea that Ireland is destitute of
snakes: whom as u mattsr of fact harmless
reptiles of this character are occasionally
seen in tho Green Isle.