The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-01-18
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The deepest coal mine is in Belgium,
4,542 feet.
Drunkness is the most common ohsn.e
In Russia.
The most frequent crime in California
is burglary.
Dublin, with population of $50, 900,
has l, JAG police.
The oldest collection of poetry is the
book of Psalms.
California convicts each cost the
state 32 cents day.
The deepest artesian we'll is at Pots
dam, $500 feet deep.
Spirits of ammonia inhaled will often
relieve a severe headache.
Last year there were In Vienna 316
suicides and 33s attempts.
A little ammonia In tepid water will
soften and cleanse the skin.
Iron and steel are made by native
tribes in the interior of Africa.
Jupiter has a red spot and white
spot, and both puzzle astronomers.
Idaho has 1872 convicts, all males:
Michigan has 563 convicts, all males.
The first electric machine, globe of
sulphur, was made by Guericke in 1875
A 17-year-old giant in Australia
measures feet 3 inches and weighs
300 pounds.
Glass globes for generating electricity
were used by Newton and others
about 1915.
Money owes its name to Moneta, a.
liliC VI JunOi III WuOoC lcmpIe money
was first coined.
The Russian authorities have forbid
den the publication of marriage offers
In the newspapers.
Bogus was the last name of Alexander
Fl. Bogus, who many years ago perpe-
trated a celebrated swindle.
Vixen Is corruption of token, the
female fox, being noted for fierceness
when fighting for her cubs.
Sierra means saw, and its applica-
tion to range of pointed mountain
peaks is very apt and poetical.
The list of the worlds battles com
prises 1,527 engagements whose names
are given as worthy of record.
During the last few months of our
civil war the expenses of the govern
ment exceeded S3,ooO,OoO day.
The average cost of building an Eng
fish ironclad is $24O per ton; French,
$275; Italian, Sss5; German, $500.
The principal nations of the sorldi
have 9,291 war ships, mounting 1883
guns, mostly of very heavy callber
After the siege of Sabastapol three
fourths of the cannons used by the be-
siegers were condemned as useless.
During the Mexican war the United
states pat 9o,100 men in the field, of
whom 1850 died of wounds and disease.
AT Gettysburg 100000 men fought ON
the union and confederate sides, of
whom 5000 were placed hors du combat.
Deer are said to be becoming a great
annoyance to farmers in northwestern
Maine whose farms are adjacent to the
large forests.
Delaware has no state prison. State
convicts are sent to three county pris-
ons' or to the Maryland penitentiary at
Baltimore.
In thirty-six state prisons In this
country solitary confinement is used as
punishment, and In twenty the prison
er Is handcuffed to the wall.
Four state prisons, those of Connec-
ticut' Michigan, Montana and Washing
ton' use deprivation of religious prlyi-
lsges as punishment.
Constantinople has 1,Ooo, 200 peonIs
VINO are kept In order by 1000 police
men, In 1890 only 5000 arrests were
made; but fifty for drunkenness.
Germany has the greatest uumber ~
oepositors In the savings banks, over
$4,000 900, but the aggregate of their de.
posts Is not given In the government
report.
In Switzerland 800 inhabitan,. in m,
l'ooo have money on deposit in the ,ar.
| ings banks In Germany. 1sa. 1, No..