The Dickinson press., 1897-05-15
FACTS IN "a FEW LINES.

G III a FEW. LINES.
An average of 80, 900 letters are post.
cd without addresses in England every
year.
In England and Wales IA per cent Of
males and 1875 per cent Of females die
Of consumption.
Bootblacks in Paris are licensed; do
not run the streets; few stands; no boys
mostly old men.
At the death of Queen Elizabeth 1904
dresses were in her wardrobe, of which
two only were of silk.
Manchester gets the credit Of being
the corporation which is most active in
suppressing the smoke nuisance.
The proposal to reduce the speed Of
the Canadian line of fast Atlantic steam.
ships does not meet with favor in Great
Britain.
The pilesof old London bridge, driven
800 years before, were found to be in
good condition when the new bridge
was erected.
It has been decided in the court of
queens bench that Wales is a district of
England Consequently a child born in
Wales must be English by birth.
"Shut your eyes and breathe deeply
and slowly is a Russiansavant' S recipe
against seasickness. He says it is infal-
lible. At any rate it is inexpensive.
And now it lis claimed that the jaw
bones Of civilized peoples are gradually
becoming attenuated, chiefly owing to
the prolonged use of knives and forks.
Anatural born subject Of her majesty
Is a child born of British parents in any
part Of the world. A child born in Eng
land Of a German father and English
mother Is English by birth.
Dice were developed from knuckle
bones. Ingenious men fled smooth the
rounded, ends, making two faces at top
and two ct bottom, and set numbers Oh
each. Thus q die had no sides.
Youths grow rapidly from their four.
teenth to their eighteenth year and
then more slowly until they are 81 or
%, when they cease to grow in stature,
but not in bulk if we'll fed and healthily
lodged.
Up to the beginning of the fourteenth
century the popes of Rome were content.
ed with a single crown. In 1908 the
first double one was assumed, and in
1864 the present tiara, or triple one,
was adopted. ,
The cost Of building the present Lon
don bridge was $12, 800, 900. 1t was
opened on the LIST of August, 1881, by
King William ~ and Queen Adelaide.
The first stone was laid by tho Duke Of
York on the 18th Of June, 1895.
A Dutch court martial has decided
that 1t is not characterization for a SOL
der to refuse to wash his face when or
dered to do so by his commanding off,
Ger, and the high military court Of the
kingdom has confirmed the decision.
The cinque ports are Dover, Sand
witch, Winchelsea, Rye, Hythe and
Hastings. They were originally these
five (hence the name): Dover, Hastings,
Hythe, Romney and Sandwich. Win
chelsea and Rye were afterward added.
Germany's cotton comes to her in
large quantities from India, Egypt and
the United States. Saxony alone takes
SOC, 900 or 600, 900 bales Of from 400 to
700 pounds each, the weight of each
bale depending on the country whence
itcomes.
Contrary to general belief, the Saba
IA is not a barren and worthless waste.
Some time ago there were 5000, 900
sheep in the Algerian Sahara alone, be-
sides a. 600, 900 goats and 26O, 900 cam
els. On the GASES there are 1900, 900
date palms.
In Wales there exists the "falling
tower" Of Caerphilly castle, which is
~ feet in height and inclines no less
than II feet out Of the perpendicular.
In proportion this is much greater than
the tower Of Pisa, which is 1870 feet
and leans Is feet.
From present indications America
will soon be outdoing France in the
consumption Of frog flesh. The city Of
New York alone consumes 600, 900
'hams'' Of frogs during the year. These
d~elicacies are now sold in tin boxes like
other conserved meats.
It would appear that Madagascar, un-
der the new influences, is rapidly fall
ing back into its old ways. It is report
ed that six members of a trading cara
van (among them were three English
men) were massacred on their way from
the capital to Ambohipiana.
The properties of coal in the produc-
ton OF gas were known by the an
clients and practically used by that won.
derfI people the Chinese, but it was
not until 1899 that a gasometer and an
apparatus for the manufacture were
erected by the inventor, Mr.. ". Muir
doch.
Most yellow or orange colored flowers
are phosphorescent if watched in the
twilight during July and August, when
the atmosphere is highly electric and
not a particle Of moisture is in the air.
The common potato, when decomposing,
gives light enough to read by-a light
90 vivid that once a cellar at Strassburg
was thought to be on fire when shining
with the phosphorescence Of decompos-
ing potatoes.
Bunhill Fields Burying ground, in the
City road, vas opened as a suburban
cemetery in 1865, in the time Of the
great plague, and was a favorite burying
place with the dissenters. There is no
tomb Of artistic pretensions. Here are
buried Daniel De Foe, author Of "Robin-
son ,Orusoe;'' John Bunyan, the author
Of "Pilgrim's Progress;" DR.. Isaac
Watts; Joseph Ritson, the antiquary,
and other notables.
The most ancient labyrinth, accord
ing to Pliny, was that called. the .'laby-
rnth Of Egypt" 1t was existing in his
time. after having stood for 8 900 years.
BE tells us that it was formed by Petes-
Gus or Nthoes. Herodotus, however, as
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