The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-06-16
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

eight years.
Addington park, for a century and
until lately the official country place
of the archbishops of Canturbery, has
been sold for $375,ooo to new
millionaire from Johannesburg.
Electrically operated cabs appear
to be a great success in london. AT
least the London Electrical Cab CON-
pany advertises in the public prints
there an increase in capital stock.
Fuller's earth, since its discovery in
Floriday in 1894, has been discover
ed in paying quantities in Colorado,
South Dakota, Nebraska, New Mexi-
co, Indian Territory and New York.
The first woman on record who
held medical diploma was Anna
Moranda Mazzoni, who, in 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 i'll the
south Atlantic. The deposit of
guano is consequently great. There
are traces of abundant extinct vegeta-
ton.
What is probably the most venera-
bic piece of furniture in existence is
now in the British museum. 1t is the
throne of Queen Haten, who reigned
in the Nile valley some 1000 years
before Christ.
If a 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 a year.
1t has been discovered that the ma
tive African chiefs in the diamond
regions have great quantities of valu-
able diamonds which were accumulat-
ed years ago. They treasure them as
charms and are unwilling to sell them.
One whale will furnish from 1000
to 5000 pounds of bone. At San
Francisco the bone is split, sorted as
TO color and tied in bundles. These
split pieces are called slabs and are
three to eight feet long and weigh
from three to seven pounds.
a British spinster, who chastised
her servant merely with ''her fists,
poker, clothes pole, tack, a ham
mer and the arm of chair and by
COMPRISING her neck and kicking her,"
has been punished by the unusually
severe sentence of twelve months i'm
prisonment.
Country roads in Chipa are never
bounded by fences, but are entirely
underlined. While the farmer has the
right to plow up any road passing
through his land, drivers of vehicles
have an equal right, and they exercise
it, to traverse any portion of the coun-
try at large.
Lake Superior is 1908 feet deep,
Col feet of this body of water being
above sea level and 4o7 feet below
it. The bottom of this great lake is
about SIS feet deeper down than the
channels giving admittance to New
York harbor. Lake Erie's greatest
depth is but 21o feet.
A South sea islander greets a friend
by flinging jar of water over his
head. In Russia it is correct for
gentlemen to press the foreheads of
ladies whom they know intimately
with their lips, and in G ermany and
other continental nations kissing be-
tween men is by no means uncommon.
Projectiles used for the United
States army for its great modern guns
cost as follows Sold shot, 8 inch,
$69.So each 10 inch, $144.2o each;
IL inch, Sara each I2 inch mortar
shells, weighing 500 pounds, STA
each, and 12 inch mortar shells,
weighing 1000 pounds, $1e5 each.
A German military critic says if we
could have all the armies of the con-
tinent on war footing and drawn up
in one long procession, with their
guns and ammunition and baggage
wagons, the column would be more
than $4,000 miles long, and, march
ing day and night, it would take near
ly a year to pass given point.
The little white spots which some
times appear on the finger nails are
due to some subtle action of the
blood, upon which all the bones,
sinews, muscles and organs in the
body are dependent for nutrition.
They sometimes disappear of their
own accord, but there is no known
cure. In reality they signify no de-
rangement of the system.
Messrs. Knoch OF Birmingham have
produced quick firing gun which Is
stated to be long way ahead of any
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