The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-03
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.


SonS in London.
Belfast is the great tea drinking city
Of tho United Kingdom.
France contains / ,027, 900 foreigners,
decrease of $4,000 in five years
Tho piano manufactures of Germany
turn out over 1900 pianos a week.
A good railway engine will travel
1000, 600 miles before it wears ont.
Roughly speaking, there are in South
Africa 750, 600 Europeans and 8. 600. 600
colored people.
In tho United Kingdom 687 900 per-
sons are engaged in coal mining and
10000 in iron mining
The yearly importation of pearls to
London reaches 100000. Most of
them come from Bombay
a man can hire horse in .Japau.
keep two servants and live OH the fat
of the land for about $50 month.
Missouri ranks first among tho states
i'll the production of poultry and second
only to Ohio i'll the extent of its egg
product.
Every ton of Atlantic water when
evaporated yields 81 pounds of salt; Pa
cific water, 10 pounds; Dead sea water.
1877 pounds.
The British isles comprise no fewer
than 1000 separate islands and islets,
without counting mere jutting rocks or
isolated pinnacles.
Penn Yam, N. Y, was settled by
Pennsylvanians and Yankees, and its
namo is Il combination of the names of
those two classes of settlers
1t is estimated that tho milk from
5000, 600 COWS is annually consumed III
the United States, an average of 25ls
gallons per year to each person.
Every religion indigenous to India,
including the Hindu, Mussulman, Bud
dhist, Jain and Sikh, absolutely forbids
the use of Intoxicating liquors
On every shilling turned out the
British mint makes profit of nearly 3
pence. On every ton of penny pieces
taken out from tho mint there is q
profit of G3S2
The Armenians claim direct descent
from Noah, rs no settled in their coun-
try after tho flood. Their country has
been conquered successfully by AZ diff
ferent nations.
General Booth thinks Lots wife must
have had some Scottish blood in her
veins, judging from her reluctance to
pack up and leave her native city with
out thinking over the matter.
If the entire population of the world
is considered to DO AGO. 100000, the
brains nf tbiS bor of
would weigh 1,022, 7l2 tons, or as much
as 9G ironclads of the ordinary size
An Italian peddler from whom a New
York policeman demanded O license
showed confidently certificate of dis
charge from Sing Sing prison, which
he said he bought, believing it was ii
license.
Southern California has 5000, 600
orange trees, 100000 apricot trees,
1000, 900 peach trees. 1850, 600 pruno
trees, 200 lemon trees and 40, 600
olive trees, most Of them not yet ut tho
bearing age.
Cats can smell even during sleep.
When piece of meat is placed immc-
diately i'll front Of a sleeping cats nose
the nostrils begin to work as the scent
is received, and an instant later the cat
will wake up.
The BARRIERS of Nortlhausen, Saxonv,
are compelled by law to cleanse and
disinfect their brushes combs and "a
Zors immediately after use and before
they are applied TO tho hair or beard CT
another customer
There are $50 authorized guides in
the Alps; 104 of them have taken a reg
ular course of instruction in their pro-
fcssion and have received diplomas; 30
of them are between 60 and 20 years of
age, and are over 70.
Stockport, England, boasts tho larg-
est Sunday school i'll tho world. The
total number of scholars ut present OH
the books is no few or than 4 1874, while
there are 1888 MI le and 100 female
teachers-a grand ;.rmy Of over 1000.
There are moro breweries in Califor
MIA than there are i'll Illinois, more
distillerics i'll Massachusetts, than there
are i'll Kentucky, and moro cigarettes
manufactured in New York state than
i'll all the other states of tho county
combined.
In tho ioug arctic nights there "a u
constant difficulty i'll keeping awake.
Greedy had to make very strict rules to
keep his men awake during the long
arctic night. Beds were not allowed 10
be made, and the men were compelled
to get up and move about
A gentleman travelling in Persia says
no has been i'll town where the bells
ring for prayer five times day. and
business men rush out of their offices to
the churches, leaving their places of