The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-02-22
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

rs the time of Pharaoh:
More than 1, 1000, 900 people are treat.
ed in the hospitals of London each year.
The average length Of human life in
the sixteenth century was only IS to 20
years.
An ounce Of vanadium is worth SITS
and can be purchased only by 81 ounces
Of gold.
Tho preparation Of human hair for
the market gives employment to 1000
Parisians.
One of tho great kitchens is that of
the Hotel Cecil, London, where so cooks
arc employed.
In Chile and the Argentine Republic
1t is not an infrequent thing to see wo-
men car conductors
The longest artificial water course in
the world is the Bengal canal, 900
miles; next is the Eric, 1868.
Part of the tombstone over his moth
er's grave fell on Il little child in n
jackson Glenn. cemetery and broke his
leg
Keys of bronze and iron have been
found Ill Greece and Italy dating from
ut least tho seventh century before
Christ.
OF the books taken for perusal from
the public libraries of Paris London
and New York so per cent are works
of fiction
The total revenue Of the charitable
institutions having their headouartcrs
: III London amounted last year to over
eG,000,000
Some sheep We're frightened by dogs
ut Grcnoblc, Franco, and 242 blindly
followed their leader" over precipice
$50 feet high
Last year Italy exported 21, 600 an
tique and modern works of art, valued
at 5000, 600. More than half of them
went to Germany
The Turkish minister of public works
has submitted proposals to the sultan
for the construction Of about 4,50O
miles of new railway lines.
In Finland women havo the right of
suffrage. They usurp mems privileges
and are carpenters, paper hangers
bricklayers and slaughterers
The annual income of the car il
SIT, 800, 000 of the Austrian kaiser 81.
900, 600, of the German kaiser 50. 600.
600 and of the king of Italy 80, 600, 900.
Tho queens bodyguard for Scotland,
the royal company of archcrs, contains
the pink of Scottish nobility, whose cs-
tates are i'll the Lothians or on the bor
tlers
In some parts of New Zealand orange
growing is very profitable industry.
Sometimes tho crop from an aero of
trees amounts i'll valuo to moro than
$1,000.
There are several new trades in Paris.
You find dog doctors, deg dentists dog
barbers and dog drcssmaiers advertised
Ill the newspapers, and they seem to Inc
we'll putronized
In Belgium no person is allowed to
vote unless he is Il taxpayer to the
amount of 40 francs q year. This law
makes the voters only q out of every
900 Of population.
In Paris the trees on the public streets
are treated with as much attention MS
are the plants in botanical gardens
Officials lock after their welfare, and as
result the streets are beautiful and
comfortable.
The daily water supply Of London is
10, li9, iSS gallons, Of which about
30, GOO. 600 gallons are drawn from the
river Thames and Il little over 81. 600.
900 from tho river Lea and from various
artc-ian wells.
There are more women in British
India (l24. coo, OO0) than there arc men.
women and chiltlrcn III Great Britain.
Franco and Germany put together, with
the populations of several minor Euro.
pcan states cast i'll as we'll
The Presunpscot (Mainc) river,
though small III size, is remarkable for
the largo number of lakes which supply
it and for the proportion of its basin
taken up by lake surface. There are 10
oi these lakes, with an area of % square
miles.
The Marquis de Nadaillac, well
known French s;vant, is afraid that in
u few centuries there will be more
mouths than meat fer them. In Russia
alone he thinks there will bc 500, 000.
900 II tho present rate of increase CON.
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