The Washington bee., 1895-09-21
INTERESTING INFORMATION.

Italy has % crematories.
a floating cannery is new.
France may tax foreigners.
Vermont has 200 creameries.
Yucatan exports hammocks.
An electric gun is announced.
Frisco has $50 manufactures.
A gun fires no shots minute.
Switzerland has watch schools.
California has Japanese miners.
Bosnia has two female physicians.
Paper bicycle tires are announced.
Vermont is first in InarDie output.
Germany still has chimney sweeps.
Une-slXih of Engiands women work.
United States contain 1861 disJil-
lerleS.
John Bull built 81 war ships in
1854.
Norway ships frozen milk to Eng
land.
France has an aluminium torpedo
boat.
One London policeman wears spec
tacles.
London has thirty people whose in
comes are over $500,UvU d year, -
Most of the black pearls in exist
ence come from the oarK-upped oys-
ter of Lower California.
Two thousand patents have been
taken out in this country on the
manufacture Of paper alone.
The largest Bible in the world is IA
manuscript Hebrew Bible in the Vatl
can, weighing $40 pounds.
A cob pipe factory, with daily out
put Of. 5000 pipes, will shortly be pul
il operation in Waverly, Tenn.
The hall porter Of a London club
pleasantly admits that his position
brings him in about $500 year.
The largest sailing ship afloat is
the remodeled Persian Monarch. 1928
tons measurement. Her iron masts are
1S4 feet high from the deck.
The beet root sugar crop cf tbs.
United States is something over 49,
100000 pounds year, OF which Cali
fornia produces 29,000,0O0 pounds.
Car Nicholas has established a
fund Of $250,000 TO relieve journalists
and authors in distress and to pro-
vide for their widows when they Gle.
Wheat can be grown in the Alps
at an elevation Of $500 feet; in Brazil
at 5000; in the Caucasus az 5000; in
AbySsinia al 10000; in Peru and b.
ivia, at 11,000.
Out Of &c saloons in kokomo. Ind,
II have decided 10 close. as they see
no prospect of making money owing
10 the stringency Of the recently-en
acted temperance laws.
The municipal elections held April
2 throughout the State Of Nebraska.
where the license question was in
volved. resulted in 80 per cent Of the
towns declaring in favor of license.
Twenty million dollars worth OF
bank notes leave the Bank of England
daily; while sixty fclio volumes or
ledgers are filled with writing in keep
ing the accounts of sngle day.
The French camps in Madagascar
will be surrounded with electrical cur
rents so arranged that the approach
of any one will be automatically sig
nailed, even if the sentinels are asleep.
A bill has been introduced in the
Minnesota Senate by Mr.. Brainerd
providing for the application of the
Australian ballot system to the grant
ing of licenses to sell intoxicating
liquor.
The new cable voca bulary of 250,000
words makes large book. There is
no word in it that contains more than
ten letters. and every word differs in
at least two letters from every other
word.
One of the proposed two-wheel or
bicycle" railways from New York to
Washington promises a speed of 120
miles an hour as a result of the use
of electricity and the minimizing of
friction.
From the Patent Office at Wash
ington comes the report that in the
eleven years since the type-writing
machine was first put upon the mar
get the sales have amounted to near
ly S30000.000.
1t is said that most Of the 5000
horses shipped from America to Eu-
rope recently We're intended for
slaughter as food Electricians think
this a sign Of the coming triumph of
electricity as a motGg.