Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-01
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.


The Christian religion is steadily
making headway in Japan.
China's national debt is mere trifie
something like 5000, 600, 900.
The use of serum in diphtheria has
reduced the deaths 90 per cent in Ger
man hospitals
The deaths from alcoholism in Sweden
amount TO 80 per 1000. This is the
highest rate in the world.
Every boy, if in proper health, should
be able to drop off to sleep within five
minutes at most of tumbling into bed.
The line, Pride hath no other glass
to show itself but PRIDE" is from
Shakespeare "Troilus and Cressida, "
act 3.
The japanese despise women who be-
come intoxicated. Consequently it is
rarely that woman of Japan is seen
drunk.
The fastest ship in the world is the
French torpedo catcher Forban, which,
it is said, can steam at the tremendous
rate of about SO miles an hour.
The received pronunciation in the
city and vicinity of Client is Gent, the
G being pronounced hard, as in gable,
but the French write it Gand and pro-
nounce it as Calm.
When humming bird alights near u
flower from which no food can be ex-
tracted, it has been known TO exhibit
wrath by excitedly chattering and tear
ing the flower 10 pieces.
The bridal veil of Japanese young
lady is subsequently used a. her shroud.
Directly after the marriage IL is care
fully put away and reserved until death
makes its use again necessary.
If all the tobacco smoked in the Brit
ish empire last year We're rolled into
rope an inch in diameter, it would form
snakelike roll which, following the
line of the equator, would go 30 times
round the earth
A royal sturgeon which was recently
wall, Upland wood, Carmarthen, South
Wales, measured s feet inches in
length and feet inches in girth and
weighed 500 pounds
AT the battle Of Trafalgar The heavi-
est gun used threw proiectile weigh
ing only 30 pounds, which was GAL
inches in diameter The modern 10
ton gun uses shell weighing 3 600
pounds, Of 1914 inches in diameter.
An anticat league exists III Munster,
Westphalia, The members are pledged
TO kill all the stray cats they see. Last
year they killed I,222 of the felines
and display their tails as evidence of
their work.
John H. Brown of Santa Cruz, Cal.
saw the first American flag raised in
San Franiscco 1t WAS foated in May,
1916, by Captain Watson and some 9th
er officers of the United States warship
Portsmouth.
Hundreds of people visit the Hermit
age, Andrew Jackson's old Tennessee
home, every month, and the income de-
rived from the admission fee of o cents
is very neat source of revenue TO the
association that keeps the house in re-
pair.
Schultz is very common name in
Berlin a wise wag in the crowded
parquet of theater in that city
shouted, "Schultz's house is on fret
All the people of that name quickly
dashed out of the house and soon there
were plenty of vacant seats.
The $50 Mennonite families who set
tied in Manitoba in 1874 have increased
by immigration and natural increase to
2, $50 families, numbering 20, 900 souls
They have $3.50, go acres under cultiva
ton. They own 1000 horses, s, 800
cows and 10, 600 young cattle.
Parisians who went 70 the cars coro-
nation were astounded at the unpaved
condition of Moscow They found that
it would cost l52, 600 600 francs TO pave
the town and that the work would prac-
tically have TO be done over every year
on account Of the effects Of the frost.
An old lady in Brussels who recently
celebrated her one hundredth birthday
relates that when Napoleon passed
through her native village Of Fumay in
1910, peasant having fallen on his
knees to ask favor, the emperor said,
''Get up and never kneel except to
God.
Our ancestors ate much more meat
than we do, says an English writer In
Queen EliZabeth's time her maids of
honor were allowed three rump steaks
for breakfast Mutton was not SO much
used as beef, being looked upon as diet
rather for fastidious appetite than for
woman in good health.
The first English chief justice who act
ed simply as judge was Robert de Brus,
in 1868. In 1880 judges themselves were
found culprits The ermine was stained
with deep corruption. Nearly all the
bench were accused OF illegal practices,
for which motive, but no excuse, may
be found in the smallness of their sal
aries, the lord chief justice receiving
only go marks year.
A Bombay newspaper declares that
the castor oil plant affords means Of
protection against mosquitoes. In Egypt
il is planted about houses to drive the
insects away. In towns Il better plan is
to have the young plants in pots and to
bring them into the house for day or
two at time, but the Palma christi is
a sun loving plant, and therefore must