Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-04

Wales furnished 2, ,4SO ,SSO Scotland, 323,- 4,508, 12S.
 St. James, L. l., has the highest wind mill in the world-15O feet.
 It costa England $50, 1000 to build 13R inch breech loading cannon.
 The Hawaiian candle nut furnishes the natives with light and medicine.
 Giants between 12 and Is feet tall have lived in China within the last 800 years.
 Benzine is liable to spontaneous combus- tion by electricity in dry cold weather.
 Without dust there would be neither fog, clouds, rain, snow nor brilliant sunsets.
 The smallest and least valuable coin is the Greek leDton, worth one-tenth of a cent.
 The largest warships in the world are the Italia and the Lepanto of the Italian navy.
 A flying locomotive was exhibited in England in 1868. It seemedto give prom ise of success.
 Ancient Mojave Indians believed that all who died and were not cremated turned into owls.
 Horny excrescences growing out of the human head have been frequently reported by surgeons.
 Sir Robert Ball, the astronomer, says the sun cannot hold out more than 10, 900 ,000 years longer,
 A French savant claims to read character by observing old shoes worn by the person under scrutiny.
 A resident of Gardiner, Me-, never saw an elephant until last summer. He says he is now ready to die.
 A large stone mansion on Euclid ave- nue, Cleveland, is to be raised, basement and all, and moved 60 feet.
 A tree can be felled with an electric wire in one eighth of the time it would require to saw it down.
 Irritability is ot characteristic of few plants, but is quality of all, according to German biologist.
 More than one-fifth of the inhabitants of St. Etienne, France, which is as large as Allegheny, are weavers.
 Germans have built in Asia Minor rail road entirely of iron, including bridges, ties and telegraph poles.
 In ofden times, whenever a new dynasty began to rule in China, the name of that country was changed.
 The largest New England pie factory is located in an old Boston church building. Its product is 10, ,000 pies day.
 South North Carolina is the best equipped southern community in the matter of edu- cational advantages.
 Flexible sandstones can be bent with less pressure than that required to bend piece of wet leather of the same size.
 A species of sunfower grows out of the frozen soil ot northern Siberia. Each plant remains in bloom but for one day.
 The great artesian well at Grenelle, France, has been flowing steadily without dimin ution of volume for fifty-tw years.
 The finding Of gold in the gzzard of a chicken at santa Rosa, Cal., has started the biggest kind of gold mining excite ment.
 The swiftest regular railroad train in the world is the West Coast Edin burgh express of Prifo oir z0-tf,f ia- hn1 nAd is of daily occurrence.
 There is a man living near Belmont, in Massach usetts, who for fifty years has been engaged in catching and selling frogs, with which he supplies hotels and restaurants, and also ships them to scientific men in Europe.
 The oldest mathematical book, written in Egypt 4000 years ago, contains rule for squaring the circle: Shorten the diameter by ninth, and on the line so obtained construct square. Though far from being exact, this rule is accurate enough for most practical purposes.