The herald., 1895-02-20
OUT OF THE WAY FACTS
Missouri has 365 coal mines.
China leyies a tax on beggars.

Missouri has 365 coal mines.
China levies tax on beggars.
Cuba makes 1, O00, 900 cigars daily. Il
The total length of the Erie Canal is 5M
miles.
New York spent $40, 900, 900 for charity
| last winter. ~
The population of the earth is said t
be 1,479, 729 400. In
+: The longest telephone line is that from
Boston to Milwaukee, M
Oxen and sheep fatten better in COM
pany than when kept alone. M
According to Chinese law, a wife whosis
too talkative may be divorced. m
i lis estimated that there are 5000 mar
riages day throughout the world. E
The longest bridge in the world is that
over the River Tay, at Dundee, Scotland.
The humming bird of Mexico lays an
egg that is not much larger than a pins
head.
A Boston electrician asserts that the
common poplar tree is a natural light
ning-rod. 0@
Some of the insurance companies of
Paris refuse to insure people who dye
their hair. IT
The name Monterey means Kings
mountain, named in 1902 in honor of
Count de Monterey.
semi-centennial anniversary of her ad-
mission into the union. X
Sixty-four. old merchants are supported
by the merchants fund of Philadelphia.
Their ages range from go to SO. ".
| Members of the Australian legislature
are phenomenal reformers. They have
actually reduced their own salaries.
TheSfattening of live stock on cotton
seed hulls and meal is becoming an i'm
| portant feature in the South. rs
| A Maine woodchopper recently cut
down a tree containing peck of buck
wheat which had been stored by mice. =
A public monument has been put up in
| Louvain-his birthplace-to the memory
of Father Damien, the priest of the lep-
| ers.
| The annual fire loss from incendiarism
| in the United States and Canada is $780,
| OJ0, 600, according to conservative esti-
| mates. 9%
Over one-half of the sand of every shore
is composed of minute shells, each Of
which was once the home of a living
creature.
All ancient music was in the minor key,
without harmony or counterpoint, and
entirely vocal and rhythmical, like our
rccitative. i#
Curiously enough, huge statue OF Ii
Hung Chang, ordered and paid for in his
ished in Germany. ~
The Sahara is crossed by mountainS
sufficiently high to be at times snow
covered, while in other parts it is much
below the sea level. -
West Virginia has a girl hunter whose
aim is death to bears. She has record
of seven large members of the bruin FAM
lily during the past year. ID
A chaser" that is shot from a rocket,
,lx. c., f,.11~
ten minutes, has been invented by man
in Victoria, Australia. slta
No less than dozen Tennessee men
are at work on flying machines. One OF
them hopes to be able to give trial trip
at the Atlanta exposition.
The first passenger train drawn by loco
motive was run by George Stephenson,
September 1925, on the Stockton and
Darlington railway, England.
from height landing upon and seri-
ously injurng spectator. The spectator
sued the manager and received SoUJ.
A Georgia raccoon, supposed to be tame
a farmers gf"B Bouse, a recently Killed five cats
and severely wounded three fine dogs. .
Margaret Allen fell overheard at New
York and would have drowned had not
an intelligent pig on board. the same
schooner raj ,ed an alarm that saved her.
Dead bodies, when. taken as cargo on
shin, are always described as either
statuary or natural history specimens,
owing chiefly to the superstition Of
sailors
The French industry of icing milk il
an original departure in timed commo-
dities The milk is frozen and placed in
block form into tins and requires to be
melted previous to use. S.
Lizard wine is said to be tonic, andss
cure for diseases of the eye. For the
brewing of this decocton more than 10Qsc
600 dried lizards are annually exported
from Pakhoi, in Chiua. a.
The Salvation Army was inaugurated
July 5, 1865, at Mile End, London, by the
Rev. William Booth, formerly minister
of the Methodist New Connection. II
name was originally the Christian Mis-
sion.