The advocate., 1897-09-01
Advocate Museum.

port glucose works.
An Angora cat which by accident
was locked in trunk under some
clothing at Tullahoma, Tenn, re-
NAMED there for seven days and re-
ViVed when taken out.
asmuch as the center of gravity would
have to move some fifteen feet before
getting outside the base of support,
and it in reality moves only several
inches, there is little danger that the
monument ever will fall.
At the battle of Trafalgar, the heavi-
est gun used threw projectile weigh
ing only thirty-twO pounds, which was
6.41 inches in diameter; the modern
110-ton gun uses a shell weighing 1000
pounds Of 16 inches diameter.
The longest time during which a note
has remained outside the Bank of Eng
land is Ill years. It'wa for G25, and
it is computed that the compound in
terest during that long period
amounted to no less than $4,000.
Bank of England notes are made
from new white linen cuttings-never
from anything that has been worn. So
carefully is the paper prepared that
even the number of dips into the pulp
made by each workman is registered
on dial by machinery.
National flowers have been adopted
in various countries as follows: Greece,
violet; Canada, sugar maple; Egypt,
lOtus England, rose; France, feur-de-
lis; Germany, corn flower; Ireland,
shamrock; Italy, lily; Prussia, linden;
Saxony, mignOnette; Scotland, thistle;
Spain, pomegranate; Wales leek.
The total number of copies Of news
papers printed throughout the world
in one year is 100000, 900. To print
these requires 7S1, ,240 tons Of paper, or
1862, 100000 pounds, while it would
take the fastest single press 1888 years
to print a single years edition, which
would produce stack Of papers nearly
fifty miles high.
Japans new battle-ship Yashima,
built in England, is reported the fastest
battIe-ship aloat, and, it is claimed,
from the showing made on her trial
trip, that she is one Of the greatest
fighting machines ever built. She is
972 feet long, with 73 feet beam and
1868 feet draft, and has 12,4OO tons dis
placement She has the very best
armOr, ranging in thickness from 18
to IA inches.
A missionary writes: "There is prac-
tically no such thing as freedom of the
press in Japan. Whenever a news
paper publishes something unfriendly
to the government it is suppressed, and
the editor is sent to prison. The real
editor is never imprisoned, though.
Every newspaper has what the Japan
ese call dummy editor and it is his
sole duty to go to Jail every time the
paper is suppressed for offending the
MikadO. Then the real editor changes
the name of the paper, and keeps on
publishing it. Dummy editors spend
most of their time in prison"
Only two mines-shafts in the Lake
Superior districts reaching 4,900 and
4,450 feet espectively-have yet been
sunk below 1000 feet; but four mines
in Germany, two in Belgium and one in
Austria-Hungary range between $500
and 1000 feet in depth. The deepest
British mine-Pendleton, near Man
chester-is 3,474 feet deep; the deepest
in ScOtland-the Niddrie, at Porto
Beliefs 2,110. Steel cables hoist loads
of six tons at rate of mile in min
ute and half at the deep mines of
Calumet, and in England the speed has
reached fifty-seven miles an hour.
In the village of Apraximo, in the
Orel district Of Russia, the peasants
addressed the VOlost fthe oldest land