Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-04-08
News in Brief.
Bicycles are taxed in France.

a pound OF PHOSPHORUS heads
200, 900 matches.
There are over 1900 miles of
railways in operation in Japan.
Only seventeen towns in Massa-
chusetts. are without public librar-
les.
The British Mint coined IN 1896
5000, 900 more pieces than during
1895.
Bulgaria has only seven high
school for girls, with STAG pupils
and 1S5 teachers.
The Isle of Man possesses many
privileges and uniqne features. 1t
has music all 1t own.
The ancients knew how to cheat.
Loaded dice have been found in the
ruins of Herculaneum.
White quartz with a great deal of
free gold has been struck near Hill
City, in the Black Hills.
The banks of Newfoundland are
made by the sand, ice and stone
brought from the north by the ice-
bergs.
Twenty years ago there were only
32S miles of railroad open in South
Africa; now there are $500 miles.
At Salem, Mass, the Roentgen
ray discovery is asserted to have
caused hair to grow on a baldhead.
The sea has no berbivorous ami
NAL. 1t is great slaughter house,
where all the inhabitants prey on
each other.
Salicylic acid, boric acid, borax
and formaldehyde are some of the
chemical added to prevent milk
from souring.
A proposition to reorganize forty
counties in Western Kansas in four
large ones is being agitated in that
State.
st. Louis, No., is the largest
street car manufacturing city in the
world. The output last year was
about 5000 cars.
Light requires eight minutes and
eighteen seconds to pass from the
sun to the earth when at its mean
distance.
A Russian landowner at Bataum
during the big oil strike there had
an income of about $50, 900 a day
from his wells.
A fish with nine mouths was cap
tured in California recently, and
ichthyologist are in doubt what to
name it.
Nikola Tesla, the electrical ex-
pert and inventor, has recently sug-
gested the possibility Of employing
electricity as fertilizing agent for
the soil.
Eagles do not have different
mates every season as do birds gen
orally; they pair for life, and some
times occupy the same nest for
many years.
The sanitary condition of Madrid
Spain, leaves much to be desired.
During the week from January 3 to
9 the births were 3O2, the deaths
437,
Spain's agricultural implements
are the same as those used in the
time of Caesar. This is one resson
to account for that conntry's
wretched condition.
Most British Biologists are now
prepared to admit that the earth
has passed through several glacial
periods, instead of only one, as is
commonly supposed.
A London scientist has invented
a mirror of celluloid which accn-
rately reflects every object. The
celluloid mirror is un breakable, and
is cheaper than glass and lighter.
The Kissing sound produced by
serpents IS greatly exaggerated, as
the quantity of air contained in a
snakes lungs is too small to pro-
duce loud sound when elected.
| In the opinion of Crispi, former
prime minister of Italy. Ameri.
cans are working to prepare fu.
ture for the peoples of the Old
World which is not an agreeable
one.
Hunters in Kansas earn about g
a day staying jack rabbits. The
skins are sold for three cents each
to Eastern hatters, who use the
hair in the manufacture of soft
hats.
In the mountains of Sweden
Norway and Lapland all vegetation