Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-07-15
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

There are 9,742 locks and keys III the
Grand Opera House, Paris.
The robin and the wren are the only
birds that sing all the year.
London, in monetary value, is worth
40 times as much as Paris.
Holland is the only country in Europe
that admits coffee free of duty.
England had, in 1895, LII cooper
alive societies, with ! Ala, 5lS members.
New Zealand is more productive than
New South Wales, yielding 26.5 bushels
per acre.
The most troublesome weeds in wheat
fields in thus country are the cookie and
the chess.
The value of the British ships and
cargoes lost every year at sea is about
81, 900, 000
Smut may be killed by wetting the
sulphate of copper.
Drunkenness is rapidly on the in
crease in the French towns and villages,
particularly in the latter.
China pigs are harnessed to small wag-
ons and made to draw them.
The marriage rate i'm Great Britain,
which has been steadily declining in
recent years, is again on the increase.
California. with her 90, 900, 900 acres
of magnificent timber, owns but little,
if any, of the land upon which it stands
The first theater in this country to be
Lighted with gas was theater at Phil
adelphia, which put in gas pipes in 1915.
The first newspaper is said to have
been the Boston News Letter, first issued
i'll 1904. 1t was half sheet, IL by 10
inches
The first submarine telegraph wire
in this country was from Governors is
land to the Battery in New York, laid
in 1912.
The letter 81" in the Chinese Ian
guage has lao ways Of being pronounced,
and each pronunciation has different
meaning.
The first city incorporated in this
country with charter and privileges
was New York, which was granted its
papers in 1864.
The first visit of pestilential fever to
this country was in 1902. 1t was brought
from the West Indies to New York by
trading vessels.
The first American college was Har-
ward, which was opened to receive stu
dents in 1858, at Newton, Mass, now
called Cambridge.
The first cotton mill in this country
was established in Beverly, Mass, in
1887. 1t was designed to manufacture
cord and bedticking.
The great bell of st. Paul is only toll
ed when the death takes place of an
archbishop OF Canterbury "a bishop Of
London or "a dean of St Paul's.
The largest fund expended yearly by
any country Cn behalf of its army is
that of Russia, the latest military budg-
ct of which amounted to G42, 800, 900.
One hundred and nine thousand loco
motives are now running in various
countries Europe has $4,000, Asia
$500, Australia 1000 ard Africa 700.
Ventilation of living rooms is of great
importance at all times, but the supply
of an ample amount of fresh air to
sleeping rooms is doubly important dur
ing the hours Of sleep.
The Crystal palace at Sydenham is
capable of holding greater number of
people than any other building in the
world. More than 100, 900 can be ac-
commodatpd within its walls
The jet mines of England seem to
yield less and less of that mineral. Ten
years ago as much az 4,670 pounds was
raised. Last year only 1853 pounds form
ed the total of the production.
The longest period, during which
there have been three contemporary
queens is from 1887 to 1853, when, be-
sides Queen Victoria, Isabella ruled in
Spain and Maria ola Gloria i'll Portugal.
A tomato is always at its best as to
quality when it is fully ripened on the
plant. 1t may look as well or even bet
ter if picked before fully ripe and ripen-
ed off the vine, but such fruit lacks in
quality.
A society which is DESTROYS of pro-
tecting small birds from their natural
enemies cats - has been formed in
Munster, Prussia. In Westphalia no
less than 2, 800 members of the feline
race were accounted for in IL months.
The rent of good deer forest often
runs into thousands year. A very
heavy expenditure is entailed by the
necessity Of keeping fences in order. re-
stocking and maintaining large num-
bers of keepers, beaters and other de-
pendents
Cryostaise, discovered by German
chemist, solidifies under the influence
of heat and becomes liquid at temper
atures under freezing. 1t is compound
substance said to consist of equal parts
of phenol, camphor and sapoline, to
which is added rather smaller quanti-
ty of turpentine or the essence of ire
benthine.