Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-05-05
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

20, 900 are in Germany.
Six thousand people sleep in the open
air in London every night.
There are nearly 270 different re-
ligions in the United Kingdom.
Scientists assert that the fly can make
600 strokes second with its wings
Taking all the year round, the coolest
hour of the "a is o clock in the morn
ing.
The first large iron bridge in the
world was built over the Severn in
1777.
The bones and muscles of the human
body are capable of over 200 different
movements.
Moscows orphan asylum, founded by
Catherine III, is supported by a tax on
playing cards
The tunnels of the world are estimat
ed to number about /, 142, with "a total
length of 5l4 miles.
Nearly $4,000 900 worth of patent
medicines are exported from the United
Kingdom each year.
The number Of visitors admitted to
the state apartments at Windsor castle
last year was "a, 775.
HOLSTERS have a great dread of thun-
der and when peaIs are very loud will
swim to deeper water.
The Visitor states that the new Cath
Ollie cathedral in London will be COM
p1atpd NV tho wear 1000
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 20 or 30 years.
The bell Of Big Ben, London, weighs
If tons the bell of St Paul s cathedral
new clock has a weight of tons.
The German navy has only been i'll
existence half century, the first naval
officer having been appointed in lS47.
London has 5000 miles of sewers,
81 600 miles Of telegraph wires, 3, 200
miles of gas pipes and A, 800 miles Of
water mains.
Acoordions were invented in 1929 by
Mr.. Damain of Vienna, and a single
German firm now manufactures over
H. 600 year.
Every week 5000, 900 oysters are
swallowed by the people of London.
Half of the shells are broken up and
used for asphalt paving.
The number Of people who have lived
upon this earth since the time of Adam
is calculated to be somewhere about
36, 627, S44, 600, 600, 900.
The first printers used to print only
on one side of page and then pasted
together the two blank pages to give
the impression Of one leaf.
In 1894 the habitual users of the
English language did not number more
than 30, 600, 600. In 1897 their number
was estimated at 110, 900, 600.
Whenever Queen Victoria goes abroad,
she always has a 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 "a peculiar
formation in its throat which causes it
to whistle when in an excited state.
The busiest time on the Atlantic ca
BILE is between the hours of 10 and IL
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 oo-
casion of a burial is based on the old
pagan custom of banging gongs when a
body was 10 be inferred in order TO scare
away the bad spirits.
Germany and Austria have about 100
cooking schools. A four years course is
necessary before the student obtains a
! 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 i'll that
condition has now been reduced to per
cent.
The sale Of salt is government mo-
nopoly in China which yields yearly
revenue of $l1, 900, 600, as the annual
consumption is 3, 300, 900, 600 pounds
and the importation of foreign salt is
strictly prohibited. a license to sell salt
costs 50, 600 in gold.
The origin of the custom of widows
wearing caps is extremely ancient. 1t
may be traced back to the Egyptian and
Grecian practice Of shaving off the hair
in periods of mourning. But as without
hair there was danger of catching
cold, the men wore wigs upon their
bald crowns and the women caps.
A French scientific journal says the
consumption of tobacco is decreasing in
that country, being at the present time
about 2 pounds head Of the popula-
ton annually, whereas in Holland it is
2 pounds, in the United States pounds,
in Belgium and Germany 3 pounds,
in Austria Hungary pa pounds and in
Canada 2la pounds.
A manufacturer Of chatting dishes re-
Gently made the statement that he be-
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