The Dickinson press., 1897-06-05
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

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Water alone has been known to sus.
tain life for b5 days.
Scotch broth is greatly improved hy
the addition Of dessert spoonful Of
sugar. s .@
The silver half dollar was authorised
April 3, 1792, and coinage was begun
In 1904. s.
Tho nickel cent was authorized Feb.
81, 1857, aud its coinage was begun the
same year.
The 2 cent bronze piece is composed
Of 95 per cent copper and 8 per cent Of
tin and zinc.
The cent bronze piece is composed
Of 95 per cent Of copper and 8 per cent
Of tin and zinc. @
The 10 cent silver piece was author
lied by congress in 1899, and its coin.
age was begun in 1895.
The library Of Gottingen has q Bible
written on palm leaves. There are 6,878
pages. each made Of q single leaf.
The Krupp foundries at Essen, nea,
Dusseldorf, employ 27,155 persons,
whose families amount to 81, ,6e7 per.
sons. +,
Since the beginning Of operations in
the Torres straits fisheries, in the seven.
ties, all the pearls have gone to England
or the continent
Among the Chinese GLOW old are
you?" is neither more nor less than q
formula Of etiquette like Chow do you
do?" in English.
An Orange City Ola. woman has a
rose bush 8 feet tall, with spread Of 8
feet, and on which has been grated OF
budded more than score Of varietiee
from deep red to pure white.
No fewer than 80 specimens have
been added to the reptile house Of the
London geological gardens during the
last few weeks, several Of which are
new to the collection. The chief Of these
is an Indian python.
The popularity Of the bicycle as q
means Of exercise, sport and pleasure is
fully established in France. The full
extent Of the use Of this machine has
recently been brought before the public
in the national tax collectors report.
In the Russian army two days week
are observed as fasts, Wednesdays and
Fridays, on which days all the soldier
gets in way of food is lentil soup and
black bread and drink consisting of
water in which rye bread has been alb
sorbed.
Between Jan. Of the year 1887 and
Jan. l, 1896, over 100000 persons
perished in earthquakes. The greatest
mortality in any one shock or series of
shocks was at Yeddo, Japan, in 1908,
when 191 900 persons perished in three
days and nights.
The amount of sulphurous acid in
town air in heavy weather is 10 to 20
times that in bright, clear weather, and
in fog the proportion is etill greater.
Freshly fallen rain collected in Man
chester showed as much as 70 parts per
1000, 900 Of sulphurous acid.
"Crappit heads'' is Scottish dish, Of
which the name signifies stuffed heads.
It consists Of the heads of haddocks,
stuffed with mixture of oatmeal and
salt, favored with onions chopped small,
and pepper, to which the roes Of the
haddocks are sometimes added.
Pins are first mentioned in an act Of
Edward Nv, which forbade their impor.
tation, with view to protecting the
home made article, in 1853. John Til
ney Of Bristol first established their
manufacture in Gloucester in 1926, and
there it f1ourished for two centuries.
An experimental line was constructed
on the High peak in Derbyshire, in
1864. The outcome Of this was the
Mont Gents line, on which the trial trip
was made in August, 1867. The earliest
American mountain railway is that on
Mount Washington, in New Hampshire.
Twas opened In 1859. q 5F
In Worcester, England, the glove.
making trade is largely, if not entirely,
dependent ON female labor, and in that
city alone nearly $4,000 women are
employed by the various firms. The
great lace industry, covering many
cities and districts Of Europe. lies large
~, If not entirely, in the hands Of Wo-
men.
The allowance Of lawyers to popula-
tion in this country is rather more lib.
eral than that Of preachers. There are
80, 422 men and 208 women engaged in
the legal profession, and, supposing
each to have an average Of ten suits on
hand, the litigation going on at one
time in the United States would foot up
to SOC, 300 cases.