The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-05
ouT-or-THE-wAY FACTS
Chicago has 5000 police.
Illinois has so, 900 Swedes.
Utah exnorts -four to China.

Illinois has so, 600 Swedes
Utah exports -four to China.
| Germany has so, OBS distilleries.
Canada has thrty-nine banks.
| Only one firm in the United States is
making slate pencils from native slate.
In China the hands OF clocks stand
still, while the dials are made to move
| around.
A young woman has applied for the
| place of public executioner, now vacant
at Vienna.
At sale of relics in England in the
year 1916 tooth CT Sir Isaac Newton was
sold for sum equal to $1,000
A new rife, in use by the Italian army,
sends bullet through five inches OF solid
oak at distance OF 1000 feet.
A craze for skirt dancing has appeared
among the pupils of some of the private
schools for boys in Brooklyn.
/ People smell better with their mouths
| shut, because all the air for the use OF
! the lungs must then be drawn through the
| nose.
The smallest measure of weight in use,
| the grain, took it's name from being or
| iginally the weight of well-dried grain
of wheat.
Terra Gotta sleepers are. in use on Japan
railroads. The incre ased cost is compen-
stated for by the greater resistance to
decay.
Brazil grows a miniature corn, the ears
of which are as large as a mans little
flnger and the grains are of the size OF
mustard seed. NJ t.ta5
In all particulars, save size, the Vene-
tan gondola, the Siamese barge and the
i old Scandinavian viking ship are very
much alike.
| In Zante, one of the Ionian Isles, there
IS a petroleum spring that is mentioned
by Herodotus. 1t has been known for
| nearly 5000 years.
A frying pan with legs about six inches
long is among the curios recovered at
Herculaneum. 1t belonged to Docilla,
who had scratched her name on the
handle.
Peat enjoys certain antseptic qualities.
A dead body that was buried in peat for
over 100 years was found in a state OF
good preservation.
Several sacrifcal knives have been re-
covered from the Mexican pyramids.
they are pieces of flint, fashioned in
the shape of a butcher knife.
Buenos Ayres will soon witness the
completion of the largest opera house in
the world. 1t will seat 5000 persons and
the stage will hold 800 people.
Over 1000 yards of linen cloth have been
unrolled from one mummy The cloth in
texture resembles the cheese cloth of the
present somewhat. 1t is finer in quality.
In Switzerland there is a law by which
railway and steamboat companies, factory
establishments, etc., are liable to indem-
nify, their employees in case OF accidents,
or their widows and children in case of
DEATH
Belgian inventor has devised an i'm
men mense lamp such as has probably never
been seen before. 1t is six feet high and
measures seven feet ten inches in diam
eter. 1t is fed with lard oil and the con-
sumption is said to be very small.
park is to be laid out around the
Lincoln homestead, in Larue county,
Kentucky, where Abraham Lincoln was
born An electric railway will convey Wis
itors to the park from Hodgensville, two
and half miles distant.
The farmers in Western Michigan are
coming to the conclusion that there is no
money in trying to compete with the
Argentine, Russian and India wheat
growers, and are going into fruit grow
ing on larger scale than ever.
An ingenious Scotchman has devised a
thread spinning apparatus that is operated
by two trained mice. In driving the little
mill with their paws the animals daily
perform work equivalent to travelling a
distance of ten and one-half miles.
When a prince of the Austrian royal
family dies, his horse follows the funeral
covered with a black cloth and lame in
one hoof. The lameness is produced by
driving a nail through the horseshoe.
This is the sign of the deepest possible
mourning.
Even the betting books are among the
thousand and one things that are cum
bered with gold and silver mountings.
They may be had in silver for less than
S. to more than $50. and in gold from
about $40 to 500 Special designs may cost
double or treble these prices.