The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-07-03
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

"io expert swimmers. Inelr
Droad paws operate as paddles
Prussian blue paint is made from the
ashes OF tho burned hoofs Of horses.
III France the women teachers elect
women members on all boards of edu-
cation.
In the United States as states and
territories have given women some form
of suffrage
The ants Of South America have been
known to construct q tunnel three
miles i'll length
India ink is made by some secret proc
ess which is closely guarded by its in
yentors, the Chinese.
one hundred and twenty firemen are
required to feed the furnaces of first
class Atlantic steamer.
In England. Scotland and Wales
women vote ut all elections except for
members of parliament.
The worlds pianos are mostly Ger
man, anu German factories are largely
run with English money.
"A well known restaurant manager in
London says the supply of barmaids is
enormously i'll excess of the demand
In the Dominion of Canada women
nave municipal suffrage in every prov
lnce and also i'll tho northwest terri
tories.
The monkcys of South America seem
TO comprehend the meaning of pictures,
for they often grin with mcrriment, it
is SAID, at Il comic design.
Iceland, in tho north Atlantic, tho
isle Of Man, Between England and Ire
land and Pitcairn island in the south
Pacific have full woman suffrage.
Parisian inventor is endeavoring to
perfect photographic watch. If ho is
successful. the world will soon SEQ -
watch which, by touching spring, will
whisper the time i'll your car.
n se;lwecd of the south Pacific often
grows to be 80 or 40 inches in diameter
and 900 to- 600 feet in length. 1t has
no root i'll tho proper sense, the nourish-
ment being absorbed from the water.
A local history of Cumberland AYERS
that at kirton-le- Moor, in 1877, imam
and his wife, accompanied by 80 chill
dren, might have been seen proceeding
TO church to the christening of the thir-
tyfirst. "
There is church i'll the city of Cork
which Is known for miles around on ac-
count of tho popularity of its stee pie.
The steeple is built Of two different col
ored stones two sides being built i'll
White and the other two III red stone.
So far us is known, snake poison con.
slsts of pcptone, which produces local
ulceration; al unknown virulent sub
stance, which causes infiltration of
blood when injected into the tissues.
and an albumen which is not apparent
ly poisonous.
Spectroscope analysis has been applied
III England to the determination of tho
constituent elements in alloys and their
quantities Tests can thus he applied to
objects made of precious metals without
the injury which would result from n
chemical analysis
The Arabic used in tho Koran differs
as much from the Arabic used in ordi-
nary conversation i'll the east MS tho
Latin differs from tho Italian. The
Koran Arabic is that of tho literary
classes; tho colloquial Arabic that of
the common people.
Among tho more sober physicists of
old, as told by Aristotle, it was believed
that Ill some manner the sun was con-
veyed by night across the northern
regions and that darkness was due to
lofty mountains, which screened off tho
sunbeams during the voyage.
When snake venom is concentrated
by removing the albumen substance and
retaining the other two, what is left
constitutes the most powerful poison
known to toXicology. 1t has been reck-
oned that single thimbleful of it suit
ably applied would be enough to kill
$4,000 people.
1t is said that yellow fever is being
successfully treated i'll Brazil by q re-
migrating process. The patient is
placed i'll box for three days, the tenn
perature of which is only two degrees
above the freezing point, the theory be-
ing that the bacilli of the disease can
not reproduce themselves except at q
high temperature.
n French general has inaugurated IL
plan of permitting and even cncourag-
ing soldiers to sing when OH the march,
privilege which has been strictly de-
MED until recently. 1t has also been ar
ranged that any soldier who can play
on any OF the smaller musical instru-
ments shall be provided with such in
strument at the expense Of the state
The oldest and most celebrated Ro-
man highway is tho Via Appia. 1t was
begun Ill 312 B. @. and ran from Rome
to Brindisi. 1t remains today ono of the
most notable memories of antiquity i'll
or near the Eternal City. Long stretch
CS of tho naYemeut nrn still 1,nrfnct