Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-09-15

are annually consumed throughout the
world.
The washing of clothes for the queens
household costs more than $4,000 per
annum.
Fashionable Japanese young ladies,
when they desire to look attractive, gid
their lips.
A monster sewing machine, weighing
81 tons, is in use in Leeds. 1t sews
cotton betting
The London and Northwestern Rail
railway tickets.
There are /, 600 submarine cables in
use all over the world, which have cost
about 800, 900, 900.
The London fire brigade is called out
more frequently on Saturday than on
any other day of the week.
Among every 1000 bachelors there
are 3S criminals Among married men
the ratio is only Is per 1000.
The delivery to the house of commons
postoffice is said to amount to between {
1000 and 10, 900 letters daily
Thirty years ago there were only two
dozen explosive compounds known to
chemists; now there are over 1, 900.
The eyelashes are placed in front Of
the eyes to protect those delicate organs
from the light and from the entrance
of foreign objects.
From China $3.50, 600 worth of hui
man hair is exported annually 1t comes
mostly from the heads of malefactors,
paupers and dead people.
The most costly tomb in existence Is
that which was erected to the memory
Of Mohammed. The diamonds and ru-
bies used in the decorations are worth
$40, 600, 600.
Tue Victoria lily of Guiana has cir
cular leaf, from feet to IL feet in di-
ameter 1t Is turned up at the edge like
tray, and can support, according to
it's size, from 100 to 300 pounds.
Public drinking troughs for horses
are condemned Ivy the ex-president Of
the Royal College of Veterinary Sur
geons, on the ground that they propa-
gate certain diseases peculiar to horses.
There is one Christian minister for
every 500 Of the population in Great
| Britain; enc in every II, 900 in Japan,
one in 1G5, $50 in India, one in 222, 900
in Africa, and one in 437, 900 in the
Chinese empire.
a feature of the population statistics
Of Western Australia is the large pro-
portion of males to females. The dis
| parity is maintained in the arrivals by
sea. At present there are 40 females to
every 100 males.
In the island of Minora, one Of the
Philippines, the humming birds are
pugnacious little creatures. Thousands
of them frequently attack huntsmen
without the slightest provocation, in
| ficting sometimes serious wounds on
the face and neck.
Melbourne, which consisted of Is
huts and was known as Beargrass at the
time of Queen Victoria's accession, is
now classed as the seventh city of the
British empire, coming in after Lon
don, Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester,
Birmingham and Calcutta.
Mortality among hospital nurses is
startling. 1t has been ascertained that
| healthy girl of IL, devoting herself to
hospital nursing dies on an average 81
years sooner than girl of the same age
moving among the general population.
! A hospital nurse ut the age Of 30 has
the Same expectation of life as person
at the age of SO in the ordinary COM
munity
faint idea may be formed of the
extent to which Sevastopol was fired
upon bysthe allied armies and fleets
when it is stated that from tax of six
pence per hundredweight, which the
Russian government levied upon the
proceeds of the sales of old iron, shot
and shell picked up and sold by the
people, sum of nearly 9l5, 900 was
realized.
a Roman road, "a feet wide, paved
with gray granite, i'll some places of
great thickness and resting on bed of
concrete, has been discovered at Lyons
Near it is a subterranean passage, the
roof of which has fallen in. 1t seems to
have connected the governors palace
with the amphitheater of which re-
mains have been found in field The
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Turks make very poor miners, and
nearly all the mines in the Ottoman
empire are worked under concessions
granted by the government to foreign
ers. French and English companies
hold the greater part of these privi-
leges, for which they pay high rates.
Manganese ore is the chief mineral
product of Turkey, but Ignite, boracide
and copper are also found in large guam
titles.
Warrens hall, in Freeport, Me-, has
drop curtain which was painted by
an unknown tramp When the hall was
being built. tramp applied to the pro-
prietor for something to eat and was set
to do some painting to pay for it. The
owner wanted some fancy decorating
done, and the tramp was allowed To try
his hand at it and succeeded so well
that his work was accepted, and now
remains as a testimony of the skill of
All unknown wandering genius