The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-13
FACTS IN a FEW LINES.

The albatross has been known to fol-
low ship for two months without ever
being seen to alight
Women have colds in tho head less
frequently than men because they are
used to heavy head coverings.
An Irish observer estimates that wasps
captured between 800 and 400 flies on
two of his COWS i'll about 20 minutes.
Gift enterprise by Paris newspapers
have been stopped by the courts rs i'll
Engagements of the government S lottery
monopoly.
The Newfoundland fishery is good,
but the price of fish is the lowest fol
years past owing to the glut in the for
eign market
Who will dare to say there is nothing
III a name since Il man living on Nc
Kinley avenue i'll Joliet has fallen heir
to $4,000. 600?
1t is said that more than 90 Der cent
OF railway passengers in England travel
third class They contribute about SO
per cent of the receipts
y French Algerian court has decided
that any spectator at the thcatcr having
his hat on his head after the rise of the
curtain is subject to arrest
The Germans have adopted q new gun
for their field artillery. 1t is of nickel
steel and fires shrapncl shell five
miles 1t can shoot 10 shells minute.
Tho London geological gardens huvo
now what is thought to be tho largest
land tortoise. 1t is from tho Aldabrl is
lands, i'll the Indian ocean. 1t is very
old, having been kept for over 100 years.
The Parsco is more often than not
unJustly called a fire worshiper Yet to
him fire is but tho emblem of the pow
or OF God whom ho worships rs devout-
ly as Christians do the God of the Bi
BILE.
Some Of the best brier root from
which pipes are made comes from Italy.
In tho mountainous districts of this
country roots are dug up that have
grown for ages and are sometimes larger
than a mans body and weighing sever
al hundredwcight.
What processes to be the smallest re-
corded specimen Of the equine race is
now on view i'll Milan. 1t is tho prop
erty OF the Marchese Carcano and is said
to stand only six hands, or "a inches
high. The smallest Shetlands seldom
arc under eight hands
The Japanese are to have Il superb cg-
hibltlon at Tokyo, the buildings cover
ing some ten acres of ground and the
exhibits numbering over 100, 900. The
collection OF gas and electrical appli-
ances, many of which are of native III
veniioH, will be especially interesting.
PoGue Bluffs, Me-, has citizen who
believes i'll the educational and moral
influence of the press. He has ordered a
good newspaper sent at his expense to
each family i'll the town Pogue Bluffs
promises to become one Of the most en-
lghtened towns of it's size in the coun-
try.
The English war office authorities arc
q good deal troubled over the results of
using cordite for artillery. At recent
practice at Okehamton, out of is guns
of the horse artillery using corditc in
place OF ordinary powder, guns be-
came useless after firing only two
rounds each.
The recent rigorous enforcement of
tho law relating to the declaration of
ones income has had the startling effect
i'll Prussia of raising tho number of
millionaires lin marks) from Is to 30
Of these 23 have an income of $500, 600,
Sof $3.50, 600 to $3.50. 600. 4 of $500, coo
to & 110 600 n vonr