The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-08-20
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.


according 70 it's size
Connecticut has more acres Of wood
land than it had 100 years ago.
In the last 800 years Great Britain
has spent $6.785, 900. 900 in war. =.
Electricity has lately been applied to
cure stammering with complete success.
New York's national guard numbers
1898 men, of whom ~, ITO are in
fantry.
A Sabbath days journey among the
ancient Hebrews was 1,461 yards, l
foot and inches.
A Japanese tailor makes tho lining
to garment first and cuts out the cloth
from it as pattern.
The statistics show that in the last
20 years Kansas has produced S776,-
600, 600 worth of corn.
Tho strongest fortress in European
Russia is Cronstadt. 1t is the Russian
naval depot of tho Baltic sen.
According to the official reports of
the Japanese government, tho island
empire contains Go. $40 teachers.
The singular punishment for bigamy
i'll Hungary is to compel the man to
live with both wives in ono house
Oliver Cromwell had tho largest brain
Oh record. 1t weighed little over 60
ounces, but was found to be diseased.
farm in Mecklenbcrg, Germany, is
provided with all tho electric power it
can use by dynamo driven by water
Mrs. Herring, an English woman,
has silver colored cat named Cham
pion Jimmy which she values at $1O,-
900.
There is no excuse for untidiness i'll
Japan. You can get hot bath for l
cent and laundry work is 10 cents q
dozen.
He'll Chatelain, the traveller in Afri-
ca. says that among the 200, 600. 900 of
people in the dark continent so, 900, 600
are slaves.
Tho average weight Of tho brain of
the despised Chinaman is larger than
that of any other race on tho globe ex-
cept the Scotch.
Roman soldier in marching order
carried 30 pounds weight and was OK
pected to march four miles an hour for
SIX hours day
The keys to Japanese locks turn in
the Opposite way from those of ours,
and the lock is placed upon tho lamb
instead Of the door.
Brazil is Portuguese word signify
ing "a live coal" 1t was given in allu-
sion to the abundance of red dyewood
found i'll tho forests.
Michigan alono has 500, 900. milk
COWS. Enough butter fat goes to waste
by the ordinary methods of butter
making to every year pay tho state tax.
One-third of Michigan's laboring
men belong to fraternal organizations
with life insurance attachment. Only
per cent belong to labor organizations.
The value of the mineral output of
Montana for 1896 is as follows: Coppcr
s22, 400, 600; silver, $1O,725, 600; gold,
$4,000, 600; lead. $675, 900; total, $685.
800, 600
The $50, 600 immigrants landed in
the United States during 1896, added
to the number landed since 1920, foot
up grand total of something over 49,
100000.
The annual consumption of alcohol
III this country amounts to 81 200, O00,-
GOO; OF cigars and tobacco and other
forms, 5000, 900, 900, total of 81, $780,
900. 900
A restaurant in New York displays
tho sign Oysters cooked 100 ways"
and a German in Berlin has written
book Ill which he describes $40 ways to
Geek potatoes
John Simmons, native of Berk-
shire, born without arms or hands,
could write with his mouth, thread q
needle, tic Il knot and shuttle, cut and
deal pack of cards.
Tho Forth bridge is constantly being
repalnted. SO vast is tho structure that
1t takes 90 tons of paint to give il one
coat, and the area dealt with is some
thing like 1870 acres.
The principal fortresses of Austria
hungary are Cracow, Phzemysl, Karls-
burg, Arad, Temesvar, Komorn, Peter
WARDEN, Budapest, Pola and Triest,
the last two naval harbors as we'll.
Mulhall finds that our middle states
arc much more closely populated than
the European continent, the average be-
ing l4O persons to the square mile, or
only little less than that of France.
Daniel Lambert, the famous fat man,
the most noted example of obesity re-
corded i'll medical annals, was born in
ITO and died at the ago of 40 of ex-
cessive fat. His weight was 739 pounds.
Muskrats are only protected within
the limits of the waters of Lake Erie,
Detroit river, River ST. Clair, Lake ST.