Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-10-28
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OF TOO small hands.
The Philippine islands export more
than 100, 900 cigars annually. almost
5000 tons Of coffee and 22O, 900 tons Of
sugar.
Assuming the working age to be
from 20 to so years, and counting only
male workers, 440 persons in this couD-
try live on the labor Of every 100
workers.
In Bengal, India, there are three
harvests reaped every year; peas and
oil seeds in April. the early rice crop
in September and the great rice crop
in December.
During the cholera plague Of 1865
the greatest mortality at Rome and
Madrid was on sundays; at London
and Berlin on Wednesdays; at Paris
on Saturdays.
Naltkenhoff. of Geneva, saws there
are $1,000 blind persons in Europe.
mostly from fuvers. and tF,t IS per
cent would have kept their sight had
they been properly treated.
The marriage rate of Germany rose
10 per cent in the year following the
Franco-Prussian war. The same phe-
nomenon was observed after the
French war which ended in 1915.
Alcoholic insanity is twice as com
mon in France now as fifteen wears
ago, aud the number Of persons placed
under restraint on account of it has
increased % per cent in the last three
years
In the cast-iron water pipe of Paris,
which forms a continuous tube with
only two slight crooks, the lowest
whisper at one end may be distinctly
heard at the other, although the pipe
is 1920 feet long.
There are forty-seven Chinese tenn
pies in the United States, valued at
$62, 900, claiming 5000 worshipers.
Forty of these temples are in Califor-
MIA, four in New York, two in Idaho
and one in Oregon.
Impartial writer's say that the gold
contained in the medals, vessels, chains
and other objects preserved in the
vatican would make more gold coins
than the whole of the present European
circulation.
The normal temperature Of man is
about 98.5 degrees; of the snail, rs de-
grees; oyster, 81 degrees; porpOise,
100 degrees; rat, cat and OK, 102 de-
grees; sheep, 104 degrees; hog, 105
degrees; chicken, III degrees.
Some one of a curiously mathemati-
cal turn has calculated that a pound
of spiders webbing uuwound would
be long enough to reach around the
world, with enough left over to reach
from New York to San FraHcisco.
The British securities, a Grst called
exchequcr bills, were invented by
Montague, aflerward Earl Of Halifax,
and first issued in 1897. They were
really the governments accommoda-
dation notes, issued in anticipation
of taxes and neing receivable for
taxes.
The English Derby is not considered
a ladies' race and the noblewomeu who
do attend it always dress quietly TO
avoid attracting attention. Ascot is
the course which belongs to the world
Of fashion, and there are seen the
most dashing costumes which can be
devised.
in 10 years after the death of Christ
the whole bible has been translated in
to Latin by some unknown author in
to what is known as the old ltaliG
version. By the year 200 it VAS eN'
tant in Greek. Syriac and Latin. and
by the ninth century in thirteen IAN
guages.
The shah Of Persia has five sons and
thirteen daughters. His three mar.
rjed sons have twenty-one children.
Ths Persian official year book men
tions in the royal family three broth
ers and two sisters of the shah, while
the u%ncles, sreat-uncles and cousins
number 14O.
When the survivors of the war steam
ship Sultana, which blew up in the
Mississippi in 1868, with the loss Of
over 1900 lives, held their annual re-
union at Maryville, Tenn, a few days
ago, James Lawton, who was supposed
to have been drowned in The disaster,
appeared, much to the surprise OF eV~
eryhody.
OF every 1000 clergymen between
the AGES of As and 65 it is found that
only 1898 die annually. But of every
1000 doctors between the ages OF 10
and IS no fewer than 28.O2 die every
year. That is to say, the mortality OF
medical men is almost double that OF
clergvrIen and the rate is increasing
At a recent meeting of the British
ROYAL society one Of the members eX-
hibited some curious photographs pro-
duced by placing coins or medals up
on a sensitized plate. An electric cur
rent was turned through the OBJECT
and a developer applied to the MN,
when perfect images Of the objects
were obtained.
A large promoutory in the Egean
sea. known as Haydn Horoo, extends
5000 feet above the level of the water
As Tue sun swings around the shade"
of This mountain touches one hE oae
q cigcleoi ISLANDS. separated by rag"-
lar intervals, which act rs hour maFh5'
1t is the largest sun dial in the world
Signing with the cross was 5rst
practiced by Christians TO distinguish
themselves from the pagans. In an
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