The Washington bee., 1895-09-28
INTERESTING INFORMATION.

Italy has % crematories. tl
A hoatlng cannery is new. !
France may tax foreigners.
/ Vermont has 200 creameries.
Gucatan exports hammocks.
An electric gun is announced.
Frisco has $50 manufactures.
A gun fires 770 shots a minute.
Switzerland has watch schools.
California has japanese miners.
Bosnia has two female physicians.
fdpef bicycle tires are annouDceu.
Vermont is first in marble output
Germany still has chimney Sweeps.
OAe-slNth OF EnglanG's women work
United States contain 1854 dislil
ieries.
Jcnn Bull built 81 war ships il
1854.
Norway ships frozen milk to Eng.
land.
France has an aluminium torpedo
boat
Une London policeman wears spec
tacies.
London has thirty people whose IL
cores are over 100000 d year.
Most of the black pearls in exist
ence come from the tipped u s.
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 a
manuscript Hebrew Bible in the Vati.
can, weighing $40 pounds.
A cob pipe factory, with a daily out
put OIL S,UuO pipes, will shortly ue pun
in operation in Waverly, Tenn.
The hall porter of a London club
pleaSaa,ly admits that has position
brings MIN in about $500 a year.
The largest sailing ship atloat is
the remodeled Persian Monarch, 1873
tons measurement. Her iron masts are
lS4 feet high from the deck.
The beet root sugar crop cf the
United States is something over 10
90OCO0 pounds year, OF which Cali
Car Nicholas has established a
fund of S250,000 to relieve journalists
and authors in distress and to pro-
VIDE fer their widows when they Gle.
Wheat can be grown in the Alns
at an elevation of $500 feet; in Brazil
at 5000; in the Caucasus at 5000: in |
abyssinia at 10000; in Peru and b. |
iiVia, at 11,000.
Out Of &c saloons in Kokomo. Ind. |
IL have decided to 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
throughout the State Of Nebraska.
where the license question was in
'olved. resulted in 80 per cent. of the
owns declaring in favor of license.
Twenty million dollars worth Of
,ank notes leave the Bank Of England
Ially; while sixty fclio volumes or
edgers are filled with writing in keep
ng the accounts of sngle day.
The French camps in Madagascar
VIII be surrounded with electrical cur
ents so arranged that the approach
t any one will be automatically sig
aled, even if the sentinels are asleeD.
A bill has been introduced in the
Minnesota Senate by Mr.. Brainerd
rovlding for the application of the
australian ballot system to the grant
ng OF licenses to sell intoxicating
quor.
The new cable vocabulary of 100000 :
'ords makes a large book. There is g
o word in it that contains more than 3
IN letters, and every word differs in :
least two letters from every other '
ord. 5
One of the proposed two-wheel or a
bicycle railways from New York to q
'ashington promises a speed of 12O a
lies an hour as a result of the use I
electricity and the minimizing of
iction.
From the Patent Office at Wash .
gton comes the report that in the h
even years since the type-writing t
achine was first put upon the mar
II the sales have amounted to near n
$30,000,000. D
1t is said that most of the 5000 $
'rses shipped from America to Eu- L
pc recently were intended for 4
aughter as food. Electricians think 4
is sign Of the coming triumph Of ~
as motor. >