Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-28
FACTS IN A FEW LINES

titled My Hydropathic Cure over
400, 600 copies We're sold in eight years
The annual production of salt in the
United States, according TO the most re-
cent figures. is about / 4, 600, 900 barrels
of ESQ pounds each
Addington park, for a century and
until lately the official country place of
the archbishops of Canterbury, has been
sold for 1915. 600 TO new millionaire
from johannesburg.
Electrically operated cabs appear TO
be great success in London At least
the London Electrical Cab company adj
vertises in the public prints there an
increase in capital stock.
Fuller's earth, since its discovery in
Florida in 1894, has been discovered in
paying quantities in Colorado, South
Dakota. Nebraska, New Mexico, Indian
Territory and New York.
The first woman on record who held
a medical diploma was Anna Moranda
Mazzoni, who i'll the middle of the last
century, filled the chair of anatomy in
the University of Bologna.
Trinidad is perhaps the principal
breeding place for sea birds in the south
Atlantic. The deposit of guano is con-
scquently great There are traces of
abundant extinct vegetation
What is probably the most venerable
piece of furniture in existence is now
in the British museum. 1t is the throne
of Queen Hatsu, who reigned i'll the
Nile valley some 1900 years before
Christ.
If Chinaman dies while being tried
for murder, the very fact of his dying is
taken as evidence of his guilt He has
departed, but somebody must suffer, and
his eldest son, if he has one. is sent to
prison for year.
1t has been discovered that the native
African chiefs in the diamond regions
have great quantities of valuable dia-
monds which We're accumulated years
ago. They treasure them as charms aud
are unwilling to sell them.
Among the Phpnicians the wearing
of earrings was a badge of servitude,
the same custom obtaining with the
Hebrews. The latter people said when
Eve was expelled from paradise her ears
were bored as "a sign of slavery.
A new method of applying chemicals
to extinguish fires is being tried in
which a recess is forced in the hose noz-
zle and a solid chemical inserted TO be
dissolved by the water passing over it,
when the chemical substance is removed
One whale will furnish from /, 900 to
5000 pounds of bone. At San Francisco
the bone is split, sorted as tolcolor and
tied in bundles. These split pieces are
called slabs and are three to eight feet
long and weigh from three TO seven
pounds.
The romance of holly is very old
Pliny tells US how a bough of holly
planted near a dwelling house keeps off
lightning, or cast into water makes it
become ice, or thrown at any beas
causes ii to return to the spot where il
is required to be.
British spinster, who cbastised hei
servant merely with "her fists, poker
clothes POLE a stick, hammer and
the arm of "a chair and by COMPRISING
her neck and kicking her." has been
punished by the unusually severe sen
tence of IL months imprisonment
Country roads in China are neves
bounded by fences, but are entirely uu
defined While the farmer has the riCbt
TO pillow up any road passing through his
land, drivers of vehicles have AN equal
right, and they exercise it, TO traverse
any portion of the country at large
Lake Superior is |, COS feet deem. so,
feet of this tcdy of water being aboyt
sea level and 401 feet below it. The hot
tom of this great lake is about 375 feet
deeper down than the channels giving
admittance to New Yc . harbor. Lake
Erie's greatest depth is out 2lo feet.
a south sea islander greets a friend
by fiinging Il jar of water over his head
In Russia 1t Is correct for gentlemen t.
press the foreheads of ladies whom they
know intimately with their lips. and IN
Germany and other continental nations
kissing between men is by no means un-
common.
Projectiles used for the United States
army for its great modern guns cost "a
follows: Solid shot, inch, $50. so each ;
10 inch. SI4i- 80 each: IL inch, 1912
each; I2 inch mortar shells, weighing
500 pounds, STA each. and Is inch
mortar shells, weighing 1000 bounds
Sl95 each
A German military critic says if we
could have all the armies of the CONT
nent on war footing and drawn ND in
one long procession. with Their guns
and ammunition and baggage wagons.
the column would be more than24. 600
miles long, and. marching div and
night, il would take nearly year to
pass given point.
The little white spots which some
times appear ON the finger nails ire due
TO some subtle action of the blood upon
which all the bones, sinews, muscles
and organs IN the body are delendent
for nutrition They sometimes diappear
of their own accord. but there is no
known cure In reality they siaify no
arrangement of the system
Messrs- kynoch of Birmingham have
produced quick firing gun which is
stated to be long way aheaf of any
gun of similar type. 1t fires 90 mag
azine bullets per minute, viii kill at
three miles. and as the barrels made
to swing from right "a left is vii prob
IAL--ue one of the mostdeaaiIy
weapons o. modern warfare.
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