The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-01
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

China has war god with 5000
names
Only TWO English women in every 100
now wear earrings.
Glass brushes are used by the artists
who decorate china.
In Hamburg the authorities tax n dog
according to its size
Muskegon, Mich, is fast becoming a
turtle shipping center.
The average rent of houses in Eng
land is e21 per annum.
The regulation step of the British ar
my is 100 to the minute.
Tho Prussian army contains Init ono
officer raised from the ranks.
In 81 cases out of every 100 tho left
leg is stronger than the right.
Today it costs e1S7, 500, 900 per an
mum to maintain the peace Of Europe.
In 10 marriages out of every 100 ono
of the parties has been married before.
A house we'll built of first class brick
will outlast one constructed of granite
Church bells are tuned by chipping
the edge till tho proper note is obtained.
German sohoolboys study harder and
play less than those of any other nation.
The Danes were the first to abolish
slavery i'll their West Indian possessions.
The waters Of North America are
stocked with 1880 different varieties of
fish,
Nearly GO per cent of premature
deaths can be traced to excess of strong
drink.
To detach n fish bono from the throat
swallow raw egg rs quickly as it can
be obtained.
The average walking pace of a
healthy man or woman is said to be 10
steps minute.
The women of Marocco never cele-
brate their birthdays, and few of them
know their ages.
The most productive lead mine in the
Union is i'll Missouri. It's output is
81, 600 tons year.
Although Berlin is the capital of
Germany, only a third of its Inhabitants
are Germans by birth.
The medical department. of the
queens household costs e2,7OO yearly
and comprises "a persons.
storekeeper in Bath, Me-, says that
rats never gnaw hemlock. He keeps all
his grain i'll hemlock chests
In ancient Egypt it was tho custom
among certain tribe to eat dead
friends as mark of honor
More than 100000 people enjoyed
baths last month ut the free public bath
houses of the city of Boston.
The screw of an Atlantic liner re-
wolves something like G3O, 900 times be-
tween Liverpool and New York.
The most beautiful altar in England
is tho Lady altar at tho Brompton ora
tory, and it is equal to any in Rome.
There are something like 40, 900 pub
lie schools i'll Japan The buildings ara
comfortable, and education is compuI-
sorry.
There seems to be no doubt that, as
far as the British market is concerned.
China teas are gradually becoming ex.
tinct
The estimate of the cost which was
incurred by tho government in the iu
bllee rejoicings amounts, it is said, to
100000
Ono Of the most curious trades extant
is that Of man in Berlin who gets n
living by breeding rats for vivisection
purposes
Tho city of Railway will soon possess
the largest dome in the east 1t is to be
erected over the New Jersey state re-
formatory.
Thirteen thousand gallons of whisky
arc said to be Oh the way to the Klon-
dixie. That will certainly be good To-
callty III which to take the gold cure.
The London Stock Exchange has an
orchestra composed of members of the
exchange, accounted one of the finest
amateur musical organizations in the
city.
Manchester corporation supplies both
gas and electricity. For the year end
ing March last the net profit from the
former was sos, 324 and from the latter
$l6,Sl2.
Russia has 100000 hens laying
against the rest of Europe. They aver
age yearly output of 1000, 600, 900
eggs and beat the French and German
layers by about 500, 100000.
According to writer in Tho indie
pendent, only four of the states of the
Union use officially the term common
wealth, these being Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania. Virginia and Kentucky.
One British carnivorous animal, the
marten, seeks fruit as dainty. In
Sutherlandshiro Mr.. st. John discov-
cred that some animal was stealing his
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