The Florence daily tribune., 1898-06-07
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

In Persia cutting the hai- is sign Of
mourning.
The London police are vetoing the
sandwich girls
In Persia the factory hands work
from q. m. to p. m
OF 81, 600 hreweries in the world.
25. 900 are in Germany
Six thousand people sleep in the open
air in London every night
There are nearly 27o different re-
ligions in the United Kingdom.
Scientists assert that the fly can mako
600 strokes n second with its wings
Taking all the year round. tho coldess
hour OF the III is D O'Clock in the morn
ing.
world was built over the Severn in
i777.
The bones and muscles of tho human
body are capable of over ], 400 differen.
movements
Moscow's orphan asylum, founded by
Catherine II. is supported by tax ON
playing cards.
ed to number about /, l4a, with a total
length of OLA miles.
Nearly $1,000. 600 worth of patent
medicines are exported from the United
Kingdom each year
Tho number of visitors admitted to
the state apartments at Windsor castle
last year was 81, 775.
Lobsters have great dread of thun-
der and when peals are very loud will
swim to deeper water.
The Visitor states that tho new Cath
Ollie cathedral in London will be CON-
plotted by the year 1900.
Burnt sienna is really paint made
from the natural earth found in the
neighborhood of Sienna, Italy.
A German professor reports he has
found living bacteria in wine which
had been bottled 25 or 80 years.
The bell of Big Ben, London, weighs
Ia tons; the bell of st. Pauls cathedral
new clock has n weight of 8 tons.
The German navy has only been In
existence half IA century, the first naval
officer having been appointed in lS47.
London has 5000 miles of sewers,
81, 900 miles Of selegraph wires, 3. 400
miles of gas pipes and $500 miles of
water mains.
Acoordions were invented in 1929 by
Mr.. Damain of Vienna. and single
German firm now manufactures over
II, 900 year. ~
Every week 5000. 900 oysters arc
swallowed by the people of London.
Half of the shells are broken mp and
used for asphalt paving. m
The number of people who have lived
upon this earth since the time of Adam
| Is calculated to be somewhere about
SO, 627. s44, 600, 900. 900.
The first printers used to print only
on ono side Of page, and then pasted
together the two blank pages to give
the impression Of one leaf.
In l794 the hahitual users of the
English language did not number more
than 80, 600. 900. In 1897 their number
was estimated at l10, 600. 900.
Whenever Queen Victoria goes abroad,
she always has couple of fire extin-
guishers sent out in advance and fitted
up in the house she is to reside in.
| A remarkable eel has been discovered
in the Fiji islands. 1t has peculiar
| formation in its throat which causes it
to whistle when in an excited state.
The busiest time or the Atlantic ca
BILE is between the hours of 10 and -
in the forenoon. During that time on
an average about 900 messages pass over
| the cable each way.
The tolling of church bells ON the oc-
casion of burial is based on the old
pagan custom of banging gongs when
| body was TO be inferred in order to scare
away the bad spirits.
Germany and Austria have about $50
cooking schools. A four years course is
necessary before the student obtains
| diploma. Most of the hotel chefs have
diplomas from these schools
| The British museum contains the old
est specimen of pure glass which bears
any date. This is little lions head
having on it the name of an Egyptian
king of the eleventh dynasty.
When Queen Victoria assembled the
throne. more than Al per cent of the
people in British islands could not write
their names The proportion in that
condition has now been reduced to per
cent.
The sale Of salt is a government mo-
nopoly in China which yields a yearly
revenue Of sll. 600. 600, as the annual
consumption is 8, 500, 600. 600 pounds.
and the importation of foreign salt is
strictly prohibited. A license to sell salt
costs $1,000 in gold.
The origin of the custom of widows
wearing caps is extremely ancient 1t
may be traced back to the Egyptian and
Greoian practice Of shaving OF the hair
in periods OF mourning. But as without
hair there was danger Of catching
cold, the men wore wigs npon their
bald crowns and the women caps