Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1898-06-25
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

little smaller than Texas.
Scarlet is the mourning color for un.
married women in Brazil.
The empire of Charlemagne covered
about 600, 600 square miles.
In all countries more marriages take
place in June than in any other Month.
The death rate of tho sailors in the
mercantile marine is II per ! 900, low
er than on land.
There are several counties in the
great western states considerably larger
than Massachusetts.
All species of shellfish draw the car
Donate of lime of which their shells are
formed from the sea.
You cannot enter or leave city or
town in Russia without reporting your
self to the police like a ticket of leave
man.
The empire of the Spaniards founded
in this country just after the discovery
comprised about :, 900, 900 square miles
of territory.
Italy has H. 600 square miles, 900
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combined area of Kansas and tho Indi-
an Territory.
The voice of a woman is audible in
balloon at the height of about two
miles, while that of man never reach
es higher than mile.
The University of Calcutta is said to
be the largest educational corporation i'll
the world. 1t examines more than TO-
600 students annually.
Good champagne should not be iced
before being served, says the London
Daily Mail, but should be warmed
bring out the flavor.
The Japanese are very much alike
physically. Recent measurements taken
of an infantry regiment showed no va
ration except two inches i'll height or
20 pounds in weight.
Sir John Herschel's opinion of great
novels was put into these words: 'The
novel in its best form | regard as one
of the most powerful engines of civil
cation ever invented"
An S0-year-old elephant whose life
has hitherto been devoted to crushing
the life out of condemned criminals in
India has been acquired by a Hamburg
dealer for a Berlin menagerie.
Lord Charles Beresford, M. P, was
summoned before a police court lately
for not muzzling his dog. He pleaded
that he was sorry and that the dog had
died since, but was fined 10 shillings.
There are 30 palaces belonging to the
imperial family i'll various parts of ia
pan, but the present emperor has never
occupied more than three or four of
them, and some of them he has never
seen.
Very young children are not sensitive
to pain to any great extent A doctor
calculates that sensibility is seldom
clearly shown in less than four or five
weeks after birth, and before that time
infants do not shed tears.
When the Gordon highlanders went
into action at Dargai, it appears from
the confession of one of the wounded
pipers that each of the six pipers sent
ahead played a different tune. In spite
of this the Gordons followed them.
No less than five systems of law are
in use in Germany. In moving from one
place to another tourists are often great
ly puzzled when they find that an act
perfectly allowable in one state is IA
crime in another. A still greater confu-
sion often results when the right of
property is considered.
Human beings have six muscles to
each eye, that they may move it on Ell
Their side, but horses, COWS, sheep and
other quadrupeds, which habitually in
cline their heads to the earth in search
of food, have a muscle by which their
eyelids are suspended and supported
and which we do not need.
1t has hitherto been the custom of the
children attending the public schools in
Austria and Hungary to kiss the hands
OF their teachers on arrival and depar-
ture This has been forbidden by a ulsase
issued by the imperial board of educa-
ton, which bases its decision on dec
laration of the sanitary council.
In France there exists an order of
merit founded by the Society For the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of
which the members are dogs which
have distinguished themselves by deeds
of bravery. A tastefully designed "col-
lar of honor" is awarded to the dog
considered worthy of distinction.
A regular slave mart still exists in
many country districts of Finland. Once
year such paupers, lunatics and aged
people of each parish as cannot support
themselves are put up at public auction
and consigned to those families or farm
ers who will board them at the lowest
price offered by the parish authorities.
''To kick the bucket is believed to
have originated III the time of Queen
Elizabeth, when a shoemaker named
Hawkins committed suicide i'll peculiar
circumstances, placing bucket on a
table in order to raise himself high
enough to reach rafter above, then
kicking away the bucket on which he
stood.
Tricycle. cabs are now used in Berlin.
In these the driver works the treadles
at the rear, and the passenger sits be.
tween the two front wheels. 1t is rath
or an old idea, but the modern device
seems to have met with appreciation
and it is stated that there are now SOC
of these tricycle. cabs in the German
capital.
Some joker or lunatic, the people
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