Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-10-01
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

a peer cannot resign his peerage.
Queen Elizabeth created seven pscrs.
There are 10, 00C Germans in London.
Monkeys are worshiped in parts OF
Africa.
American railways employ nearl,
,, co., 600 men
Butter fetched $3.50 pound during
tie siege of Paris
Nearly quarter of all cases of insan
i;y are hereditary.
Germany imports poultry to the value
of s26, 900. 600 gear.
needle passes through $50 opera
tons IN its manufacture
Westmorland is the most sparsely
populated English county
There are nearly :, 900 stitches in a
Pair of hand se,ged boots
There are over 3. coo animals in the
London Geological gardens
The first nugget of California gold
discovered weishe - pounds.
Tnere were more than 100 collisions
ON japanese railways last year
Five feet is the minimum height Of
the Russian ard French conscript
Charity organizations existed in Eg~,
$500 and in China 1900 years ago. I
Electric omnibuses now ply betyeB
the French cities Milan and Meau3
The Denmark bikes have stood4he |
storms of more than seven centuries
In Japan coins are generally of on |
and in Siam they are chiefly of HRe |
lain. q
Great Britain's territory in Ana
amounts TO nearly 5000, GOO s4fe
miles
There are more public holidaysin
Sandwich. in Kent, was once 4a
port, though it is now two miles H.,
the shore.
The ancient Mexicans used woosvI
swords in war that they might not bI
their enemies.
The law court records show that t:le
defendant wins his case in ~ out of ev
cry 100 cases tried.
Among the 575 periodicals now pub,
lished in Japan III are scientific, IS
medical and 30 legal.
Tea is very cheap in China. In one
province of the empire good tea is sold
at 2 y cents a pound.
Italy produces annually 20, 900. 600
gallons of olive oil, the market value of
which is e24. 600, 600.
a first class locomotive carries from
three to five tons of coal and from 2,OOe1
70 5, 600 gallons of water /
London has 10, 564 policemen. or 10 4
to every one of its 6SS square miles 4
Sixty per cent of them do night duV.
Porto Rico ranks fourth in the Crater
Antilles, having first place, however, [
n density of population and general I
/,
The University of Wurzburg has a /.
collection OF 800, 600 boots, forming, |,
'fter that of Munich, the largest library Ii
Il Bavaria
More than 5000 species Of plants ar,
and most of these have been
lroken up into varied forms by the
land of man.
Queen Nictoria's private apar -ments |
re hung VII a series of paintings rep
esentlng incidents IN her domestic life |
ince the time of her marriage.
a Niennese physician has compiled
CURES which show that the death rate |
iaong physicians is 6. &c. as contrasted |
18th 5. 2l among lawyers and 8. SO 70,
be clergy.
In Gothic sculpture and tracery angel |
re sometimes portrayed practicing On
ie bagpipes The pipes were occasion
ly used in churches before the intro
action Of the organ, early in the IF
enth century.
About 10, 600 pounds of eiderdown Is
Elected annually in Iceland, 1000 be-
z exported to foreign countries. For ,
erly the pHasants used to receive over
:. per pound for it, but the price has
lien 70 half that amount.
The fact that skeleton remnants Of
ephants are SO rarely found in anv
It Of Africa is explained by an ex |
5Ter, who states that az soon as the | Z
les have become brittle from climatic '
iuences tLey are eaten in lieu of sal, i
various rUminant animals. q
The human heart is 6 inches in Ienrtb I
inches il diameter and beats on an ! 4
erage q 40 times a minute. 500 | @
les an hour, 100, 600 times a day anf. |
192, COO times in the course of a wear il
that the heart of an ordinary man So il
Is II age mas beaten 5, 600. 600. 600 | f
.es- v
laris policemen have been supulie,i Z
q electric dark lanterns, bv mean q
whlea they can see $50 feet away Is
~ are employed 50 successfulIv =, p
/ IN tie Bois de Boulosne ON the Il
aeless persons who sleep there II
ht that =. Cloud, Sevres. and viz. q
.Yray are overrun with Migrants. OF
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