Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-12
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

/ New Jersey was the first state per-
uniting the right of suffrage to women
/ Marigolds and camomiles in north
Africa reach height of four or i've
feet
/ Four steamers are especially engaged
in the expectation Of onions from Egypt
70 England.
| Sculptors say that the perfectly pro-
portioned mouth is three-quarters Of the
length of the nose.
The London Times spends about
e., 600, 600 year. Its receipts for ad-
vertising average So, 900 day.
| According to The Publishers Weekly.
the number Of books printed in 1897
was 4, 92s as against 5. 7o3 in 1896.
| Laboring men have 3i2 working days
year in Hungary, sos in the United
States. 278 in England and 267 in Rus
STA.
Japan was originally civilized by way
| of China. Today Japan sends scholars
and men of science to instruct the
Chinese.
Java is seid TO be the region of the
globe where it thunders oftenest, hav-
L
days of the year.
A good horse can travel 400 yards in
AZ minutes at a walk, 400 yards in 2
| minutes in a trot and 400 yards in
minute at gallop
There are something like 40 600 pub
lie schools in Japan. The buildings are
we'll built and very comfortable, educa-
| ton being compulsory.
A writer in The Arena declares that
500, 900 men now do the work, with the
| aid of machinery, which needed Is. 600, :
900 persons to do few years ago.
According to Sir Henry Irving, the
tbeaters and music halls of the naetropo-
lis give employment to 100, 900 people
and represent a capital of e3, 900, 900.
In London each day 400 children are
born, 900 enter school for the first time,
200 begin their apprenticeship, $50 per-
sops enter married life and 200 persons
die
Porous glass is one of the latest nov
elites. The holes are so small that
neither dust nor draft follows its use,
and yet the ventilation is said to be ex-
cellent.
In the leading navies of the world the
cost of building typical ironclads per
ton is as follows: United Kingdom, $50;
United States, cts; France and Ger
many. eS7 to 500.
Meteors rush through space at the
rate of 20 miles second. They are not
usually larger than a pebble, and on
striking the earth's atmosphere they
Immediately dissolve into gas.
The culver of the aspen leaves is due
to the fact of the leaf stalk being fiat
on the sides and SO thin about the mid
die that the slightest breath of wind
sets all the leaves wagging horizontally.
1t has been demonstrated that African
elephants can be domesticated. They
make valuable beasts of burden. as they
climb mountains with remarkable ease,
are sure footed and can swim swollen
streams.
The largest proportion of single per-
sons is found in Ireland and Scotland
and the smallest in the United States.
In Ireland 81 per cent, in Scotland 60
per cent, but in the United States only
90 per cent are in that condition.
Hartland, in Devonshire, has had
only three Wears since 1860 The pres
ent vicar has held the place since 1859,
his predecessor held it for 90 years, hav
| ing served as curate for ten years before
and succeeding an incumbent who serv-
| ed 81 years.
Three miles an hour is about the
! average speed of the gulf stream. At
certain places, however, it attains a
speed of 81 miles an hour, the rapidity
L - 81 he no,
| the sun is shining, the appearance of a
sheet of fire.
The Norwegian corps of skaters, a
| force peculiar to the army of that coun
| try is body of soldiers armed with
rifles who can be unanswered upon ice
| or over the snowfields Of the mountains
| with a rapidity equal to that of the
| lest trained cavalry.
In the West Indies lemon bath is
almost daily luxury. Three or four
lines or lemons are sliced into the wa
| ter and allowed to lie for half an hour
| in order that the juice may be extract
ed. A remarkable sense of freshness and
cleanliness is given to the skin.
For 30 years after the completion of
| the railroad line across the isthmus of
| Panama the fare charged was so cents
| per mile, or $25 for the trip from ter
| miual to terminal. This is said to have
| been the highest regular rate ever de-
manded by a road in this hemisphere.
| In one of the Canary islands there is
/ tree of the laurel family that occasion
| ally rains down in the early evening
| quite copious shower of water drops
| from its tufted foliage. The water
| comes ont through innumerable little