The herald., 1895-04-06
OUT-OF- FACTS

Parisian cabmen are not allowed to
smoke pipes while driving.
A ton of good coal is said to yield about
5000 feet of purified gas.
| Forty eight English pennies weigh as
nearly as possible one pound.
Half of the worlds product of quinine
is used in the United States.
The feeding expenses of the animals in
| the London Zoo are $500 weekly.
The worlds population increases at the
rate of one per cent per annun.
| few grains of borax put into milk
| will prevent it from becoming sour.
| Fifteen of the forty-tive pensioners of
| the war of 1912 are over 100 years old.
The field of Waterloo is covered with
crop of crimson poppies every year.
According to Marie Tempest the finest
opera house in the world is at Duluth.
A lady IN Atchson has a poodle dog
which has just been fitted with glass
eye.
About 2000 soldiers are discharged year
ly from the English army for bad con-
duct.
Scientists predict that in century's
time there will be no disease that is not
durable.
The engine of an express train con-
sumes twelve gallons OF water for each
mile travelled.
Coal is dearer in South Africa than in
any other part of the world it is cheapest
in China.
The Oldest national flag in the world is
that of Denmark, which has been in use
since tn year 1919
One-fourth of the visitors to New
York Metropolitan art museum during
1894 congregated there on Sundays.
The Bank of England has $40. 900
of private deposits intrusted to It's care,
as well as $26, 600, 600 OF public money
Barrels OF wine. anchors, scythes-in
fact all kinds of merchandise-are con-
veyed by the Swiss postoffice department..
The time required by the stomach to
digest turkey is two hours and thirty
minutes Chickens require four hours
and ducks four hours and a half.
Upon the meeting of the fifty fourth
congress each member will find on his
desk button pressure upon which will
be promptly answered by page
One of the most striking things in the
truly remarkable eastern war the sue
cess of the medical and surgical treatment
of the Japanese troops. The surgeons
general report d ath rate of only per
cent among the wounded who were
brought under the care OF the surgeons.
1t is proposed to name new street in
New York city Parkhurst avenue, even
if it does break the rule that honors of
this sort shall be conferred only upon
people who are dead.
President Clark of the New York. New
Haven and Hartford railroad testities to
the fact that business is improving
nnt,r nd
tradesmen are doing an increased busi-
ness.
Twenty per cent of the inmates of the
state prison at Charlestown. Mass, are
habitual opium eaters, and Warde Bridges
SAYS it is next to impossible to prevent
the smuggling of this drug into the
prison.
The most elaborate pipes are those of
the Turks and Persians. The bowls are
large and heavy. not intended to be car
lied about and the stems are several feet
long and flexible. Some OF these pipes
cost $1,000 each.
In lecture on the effects of rifles, Pro-
fessor Horsley of London having showed
some photographs of bullets in tlight dem
onstrated that in front OF every bullet is
parabolc curve of compressed air, while
behind it there are series of little eddles
of air rushing into the vacuum created
by the flight of the missile.
The moons light has been found to be
about 800, 600 times less than that of the
sun and, according to Professor You ng,
a sky completely covered with full moons
would give only one-tepth the light we
get from the sun. 1t thus seems improb-
able that the moon has any appreciable
meteorological influence.
At the opening of the Wayne county
circuit court in Lyons, n. Y, Judge
Adams instructed the grand jury to in
dict all persons who allowed nickel-inthe
slot machines to be operated upon their
premises also church members and all
others who conducted for whatever pur-
pose lotteries and drawings.
A comparison of the maximum tenn
perature in different parts of the world
shows that the great desert of Africa is
by far the hottest. This vast plain which
extends 2000 miles from east to west and
1000 miles from north to south, is said
t. have a temperature of $50 degrees Fab
renheit in the hottest days OF summer.
New Zealand has invented an unique
method for the prevention of intemper-
ance. 1t proposes to pass law to the
effect that any person convicted of being
a habitual drunkard shall be photograph
ed at his own expense and a copy of it be
supplied to every saloon keeper in the
district. The dealer supplying liqour to