Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-02-17
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

The death rate in Glasgow at present.
Is about 81 TO 100.
Maine factories sold $3.50, 900 worth
Of shoe pegs in 1897.
There are 800 birds on one ostrich
farm in California.
Milk is dearer than whisky in Rho
dessa. The price is So. 10 quart.
Eighty cooks are employed in the
kitchen OF the Hotel Cecil, London.
Aberdeen, Scotland. sends eco, 900
worth Of cattle to London in week.
In Belgium no person can vote unless
he pays taxes TO the amount of 40 francs
year.
There are less than 500 persons in
New York city who have permits to
carry pistols.
The average number of visitors to
the London Museum of Sciences and Art
is 5, 600 week.
AT the Strozzi palace in Rome there
is book made of marble, the leaves be-
ing of marvellous thinness.
There are 1859, 900 volumes in the
library of the British museum and more
than 80 miles of shelving.
In the fifteenth century seamen in the
Spanish navy received from 10 to IL
francs month for their services
In Somerville, Mass, women teach.
ers in the primary and grammar schools
get less wages than were paid 90 years
ago.
Arch rock, in San Francisco bay, is
to be blown up by explosives after the
manner of Hell Gate, in New York har-
Dor.
The highest priced American coin is
the Lord Baltimore farthing, a tiny
piece, for which as high as $500 has
been paid.
Coal mined in China is being export.
ed to California, and it is said that in
a few years the Flowery Land will sup
ply the whole Pacific coast
Before 1886 the average number Of
labor strikes of all kinds in this country
was about 800 year. Since that date
the average has been 1900.
In Paris officials look after the well
fare of the trees on the public streets
with all the care that is given the
plants in the botanical gardens
If an Egyptian dies before noon, the
! funeral must take place the same day
! Under no circumstances may the funeral
be delayed longer than "a hours.
An experienced miner has asserted
that there is fair supply of gold with
in three feet Of the surface OH small
estate in Kirkcudbright, Scotland.
The United States consul at Warsaw
states that goods manufactured in Ger
many and stamped American are being
sent into Russia in large quantities.
The plumbers Of Texas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Alabama Georgia, Tennes-
see, Kentucky and Arkansas have formed
league to promote sanitary plumbing
Christopher Columbus who was an
admiral in the Spanish navy at the time
he discovered America, was paid at the
rate of / 900 francs year, which was
about 1888.
Women IL France have just been ac-
corded the right to be legal witnesses to
the registration Of births, marriages and
deaths and TO the signature on legal
documents
1t has recently been claimed that iron
ships fitted with electric plants suffer
rapid deterioration of their pipes hav-
ing direct connection with the sea due
to electrolytic action
There is tobacco store in the Hay
market, London, which has been con-
Quoted i'll the same building without
change and by the same family, son
succeeding father, since the reign of
Charles ii.
The bills of payment of the crews
who composed the caravels of Christie
pher Columbus on his expedition for
the discovery of America were recently
discovered in the archives of the Span
ish navy.
Every public school in Paris has
"canteen" on the premises, where the
children are provided with warm meals
free TO those who are too poor to pay.
The cost of the food which is thus fur
nished is about penny head
Spain is the home of l,S06 mining
companies, among which are represent
ed the following products: Iron, 3,027;
coal, 46l; lead and silver, 81. In these
are employed 81, 96S men, women and
children in the proportion of SO per
cent, IL y per cent and 81 per cent
The decking of churches, houses and
shops with evergreens at Christmas
springs from period far anterior to the
revelation of Christianity and seems APP
proximately to be derived from the GUS
tom prevalent during the saturnalia Of
the inhabitants of Rome ornamenting
their temples and dwellings with green
boughs.
In the immediate future China pro-
poses to construct trunk line from
Picking to Canton, |, 800 miles; line
from Shanghai to the Yangtse valley,
1900 miles, and another, 800 miles
in length, extending west from Canton.
Unless money can be borrowed outside
of China for their construction they
will not be built