The herald., 1895-04-02
OUT=OF-T -THE=WAY FACTS

Ammonia is extracted from the Thames
mud and the resdum after the opera
ton is mixed with iron ore and made
into brown paper
The taxes on piece OF property owned
by a lady in Columbus, Mo-. are consid-
cred so high that she has brought suit
against her husband. the county treas
urer, to compel him to reduce them.
Billiard balls OF cast steel have been
made and used successfully in Stock holm.
! They are hollow and weigh about as much
as the ordinary ivory balls. a lathe is
used to turn them to perfect smoothness.
The Chinese Empire is divided into
eighteen grand provinces. representing an
average area each of 248, 600 square miles.
| The German Empire contains 2ll, 200
| square miles the French republic 240, 900
and the British Isles 12l, coo.
The shipping of all nations is of the
approximate value of 81. 100, 900, 900, while
! the 110, 900 locomotives at work represent
a value of 81, 600 900, 600. The railways
give employment to 1894, 600 people,
while shipping employs only 705,000.
The emblems OF royalty of the Queen
| of Madagascar consist of iour scarlet UNI
brelas. which are held over her majesty
/ when she sits in her palanquin OF state
! this latter q present oddly enough, from
the late Emperor OF the French.
The Russian war Office has decided to
use henceforth exclusively gray horses
for artillery purposes the reason given
for the innovation being that animals of
this color have been found by experience
to be stronger and more enduring than
the brown ones now used.
Here is a curious state OF facts revealed
in New York court record: a man who
testifies in court that he made fortune
from the manufacture of religious tracts
is SUNG another in court for diVerting Il
norton Of it, with which they were to
Speculate in whisky on jont account
The advance of natural history within
the last 100 years has been SO great that
the science is practically product OF the
| century. Even as great a naturalist as
| lnnucus thought that swallows pass the
winter under the ice and held other be-
liels which may now seem equally absurd.
Glasgow, in Scotland, Moscow in Russia,
and Alan on the Pacific Coast OF Asia,
are at about the same distance north OF
the equator, but the average winter temp
zero, of Moscow 14.7 above, and of Alan
| IL degrees below. Vet many still cling
! TO the idea that the coldness of winter
weather depends chiefly on distance
north or south OF the equator
An international congress on childhood
will be held in Florence in the spring of
1898. Among the questions TO be dis
cussed are the physical, moral and
mental elevation OF children, children s
! hospitals, the care of deaf NUT and blind
children up to the time OF their admission
into an educational institution, care of
! poor and abandoned children, reforma-
! tories and vagabondage in relation to
childhood.
Washington saw perihelion at s
o'clock the other day. This phenomenon
! in usual parlance is called a sundog, and
! is peculiar to more northery ATTITUDES
-rhan that of Washington. The perhelion
| in question was exceedingly brilliant and
was observed by thousands of people. The
sky was hazed and presented a dun,
milky appearance. The outer circle had
/ a radius OF about thitry degrees the sun
! occupying the center OF the circle. The
inner edge of the circle was red and well
defined. The sky within the halo was
much darker than it was for distance OF
several degrees without the halo. The
light, as is always the case in periehelia,
was poarzed in the direction of a tan
gent to the circumference. proving that
! the light had suffered refraction. This
halo was formed by the refraction of the
light of the sun through the crystals OF
ice floating in the atmosphere