Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1898-05-18
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

The Roman province OF Gaul was
little smaller than Texas.
Scarlet is the mourning color for un-
married women in Brazil.
The empire of Charlemagne covered
about 600, 600 square miles.
In all countries more marriages take
place in June than in any other month.
The death rate of the sailors in the
mercantile marine is l2 per 900, low
er than on land.
There are several counties in the
great western states considerably larger
than Massachusetts.
All species of shellfish draw the car
Donate of lime of which their shells are
formed from the sea.
You cannot enter or leave city or
town in Russia without reporting your
self to the police like ticket of leave
man.
The empire of the Spanards founded
in this country just after the discovery
comprised about 2, 900, 900 square miles
of territory.
Italy has ia, 900 square miles, 1000
miles more than Arizona. or about the
com bined area of Kansas and the Indi-
an Territory.
The voice of a woman is audible in
balloon at the height of about two
miles. while that of a man never reach
es higher than mile.
The University of Calcutta is said to
be the largest educational corporation III
the world. 1t examines more than TO-,
600 students annually.
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Daily Mail, but should be warmed
enough to take the chill off in order to
bring out the flavor.
The japanese are very much alike
physically. Recent measurements taken
of an infantry regiment showed no va
Ration except two inches in height or
90 pounds in weight
Sir John Herschels opinion of great
novels was put into these words: THE
novel in its best form | regard as one
of the most powerful engines of civil
cation ever invented.
An S0-year-cld elephant whose life
has hitherto been devoted to crushing
the life out of condemned criminals in
India has been acquired by Ham burg
dealer for Berlin menagerie.
Lord Charles Beresford, NJ P, was
summoned before police court lately
for not muzzling his dog. He pleaded
that he was sorry and that the dog had
died since, but was fined 10 shillings
There are 80 palaces belonging to the
imperial family in various parts of ia
pan. but the present emperor has never
occupied more than three or four of
them, and some of them he has never
seen.
Very young children are not sensitive
to pain to any great extent \ doctor
calculates shat sensibility is seldom
clearly shown III less than four or five
weeks after birth, and before that time
infants do not shed tears.
When the Gordon bighlanlers went
into action at Dargai, it appears from
the confession of one Of the wounded
pipers that each Of the six pipers sent
ahead played different tune In spite
Of this the Gordous followed them.
No less than FIVE systems of law are
in use in Germany In moving from one
place to another tourists are often great
~ puzzled when they find that AN act
perfectly allowable in one state is a
crime il another. A still greater confu.
sion often results when the right of
property IS considered.
Human beings have six muscles to
each eye. that they may move it on Ell
Their side, but horses. cows, sheep and
other quadrrped which habitually in
cline their heads to the earth in search
of food. have a muscle by which their
ax- 81 Ill
and which We do not need.
II has hitherto been the custom Of the
children attending the public schools in
Austria and Hungary to kiss the hands
of their teachers on arrival and depar-
ture- This has been forbidden by ukase
issued by the imperial board of educa-
ton, which bases its decision on dec
laration Of the sanitary council.
In France there exists an order of
merit founded by the Society For the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, of
which the members are dogs which
have distinguished themselves BY deeds
of bravery. A tastefully designed "coi-
lar Of honor Is awarded to the dog
considered worthy of distinction
4 regular slave mart still exists in
many country G1s1rlcls OF Inland. Once
year such paupers. lunatics and aged
people Of each parish as cannot support |
themselves are put up at public auction |
and consigned to those families or farm |
ers who viii board them at the lowest !
price offered by the parish authorities /
ITO kick the bucket is believed to !
have originated in the time of Queen
Elizabeth, when a shoemaker named
Hawk committed suicide in peculiar
placing a bucket on
table III order 10 raise himself high
enough 10 reach rafter above, then
kicking away the bucket On which he
stood. !;
Tricycle. cabs are now used in Berlin
In these the driver works the treadles
at the tear, and the passenger sits be-