Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1897-10-21
FACTS N A FEW LINES.

on his wheel ON metallic plate
The Boston Herald shows that troll
ley ride of l24 miles may be taken from
Fairhaven, Mass, to Nashua, N. III.
Within few years 200 artesian wells
have been opened in Queensland, yield
ing 1876, 900, 900 gallons Of water day
captive bee. striving to escape.
has been made To record as many as To-,
$40 wing strokes per minute in recent
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Polygamy is still the prevailing form
Of marriage among the natives Of Natal
and is recognized by the British author
tiles.
In Sweden women vote for all elect
i've officers except representatives; also
indirectly for members of the house of
lords.
The proportional number Of unmar-
ried women is greater in England than
in Germany and the age of marriage
higher.
In Boston court a few days ago
man engaged in manual labor testified
that he was obliged to work 81 hours
out of the "a.
One-twelfth of the population of Eng
land suffer from govt. A Berlin ply
stefan, DIR. Feahlner, says that this NAL
ady is often due to the excessive use of
meat.
Spain has more sunshine than any
other country in Europe. The yearly
average in Spain is 5000 hours; that
of Italy, 2 1900; Germany, l,700; Eng
land, l,400.
Holy Hill, in Wisconsin, is Roman
Catholic shrine which is visited by
about 20, 900 pilgrims every year, many
of whom say that they are cured of
their ailments
healthy babe should cry three or
four times day to give its lungs need
ed exercise. So asserts medical au-
thority, but he doesn't say how long
each cry should last.
1t is asserted by Lyell, the geologist,
that at a period comparatively recent
all that portion of the United States
south of the Black Hills was under from
500 to 900 feet of water.
With the assistance of the latest ma
chimes piece of leather can be trans
formed into pair of boots in "a min
utes, in which time it passes through
the hands Of 90 people and through 10
machines.
The salary Of the queens chief but
Ter, who looks after the beer, wines and
spirits, is $500 year. This function
airy must have palate of exquisite deli
cacy, as in him is vested the purchase
of the wines drunk by royalty.
Chemical names are occasionally Gu
rious and long as every one knows to
his cost. Here is another TO be added to
the list, iparaossiacetopheno
piperaZine. 1t has been given by an kal-
ian chemist to new compound which
he has discovered.
Another tribute to American manu-
featuring superiority is conveyed III the
announcement that Japan is about to
abandon the English steel rail on her
imperial railway and substitute for it
the heavier American rail, known as
the Pennsylvania standard
Eagle, Wis, is infested with an en-
tirely new species of bug, resembling a
large bee, that preys upon growing
corn, destroying crops by the acre in a
very short time, leaving the cobs clean
shelled on the stalk. No remedy has
yet been found for the ravages of the
pest
The Rhind manuscript, deciphered
some 80 years ago, hieratic papyrus
now in the British museum, written by
an Egyptian priest, Ahmes, about 1900
B. c., is the oldest ineligible mathe-
NAUTICAL work extant. Another and older
roll on mathematical subject exists,
but has not been deciphered
On an average two false coins are re-
ceived every day for examination at the
Paris mint. Those that are not too
greatly spoiled in testing are added to
a collection in the museum of the mint.
This collection is said to be very large
and very curious, but access to the mu-
scum is prohibited to the public
Many Indian mounds have been dis
covered in southern Indiana and have
yielded valuable finds Stone axes were
formerly plentiful in the farming dis
tricts of that state and were used for
door props but they have now almost
disappeared Arrowheads are the only
relics that are even fairly plentiful.
The following item is reported in the
southern correspondence of The Eleo-
trical World "A curious thing is re-
ported from Staunton, Va. The tele-
phone people, whose experience with
pretty telephone girls has not been alto
gether satisfactory advertised for ugly
girls, and there were % applicants. "
The Lombardy poplar tree, it is said,
forms a splendid natural lightning con-
ductor, its great height and lack of
spreading branches enabling it to con-
duct a lightning stroke straight down
ward. No house by which one of these
trees has been reared as yet has been
known to suffer from the severest storm.
Paris has, apart from two places
where paupers can spend the night, IA
asylums for the homeless. which last
year lodged LA, OBJ persons, of whom
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