The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-02-23
ACTS IN A FEW LINES.

One sailor in 256 is lost at sea.
Lotteries originated in ancient Rome.
Bullets Of stone were used as late as
1914
Under William III a tax was laid on
burials.
There are AZ Chinese temples in the
United States.
Brooches among the Greeks were
sign Of slavery.
Chloroform was discovered by Samuel
Guthrie in 1881.
London streets were first lighted by
oil lamps in 1851.
Of horned cattle only the buffalo is
native of America.
Skates were first made Of bones by
the Scandinavian nations.
Until 1880 the tomato was called love
apple in the United States.
The kaleidoscope was devised by Sir
David Brewster in Edinburgh
Whistling is regarded as a violation
of the divine law by Icelanders.
The topaz was the second stone in the
breastplate of the Hebrew high priests.
Muslins are so called because first
brought from the city Of Maussaul in
India.
Cinchona, from which quinine is
made, was called ''Jesuits' bark by the
Spaniards.
Clans are said to have arisen in Scot
land in the reign Of King Malcolm.
about 1908
Algeria is the only country in the
world where the horses outnumber the
human beings.
The grave of an unmarried woman
in Turkey is often indicated by a rose
carved in stone.
The largest building is the Coliseum
at Rome, 615 feet in greatest diameter
and 1870 feet high.
The first coalfelds discovered in
America were the bituminous ones at
Richmond in 1850.
Every other Austrian household and
every third italian family contributes
one member to the national army.
AS Duke of Rothesay the Prince of
Wales is the holder of the first duke
dom created in Scotland 500 years ago.
The earliest complete clock Of which
there is any record was made by a Sar-
aeon Mechanic in the thirteenth century.
/ There is a rosary in the British mu-
scum made of the vertebrB Of q snake s
backbone. Another is composed of rats
teeth.
Snuftaking originated in England
from the capture of vast quantities of
snuff by Sir George Rockies expedition
to Viego in 1884.
Muskets were first used in 1414, dur
ing the siege of Arras. They finally re-
ish soldier in 1921.
| A man who went through the Cri-
mean war and the Indian mutiny was
killed by a van while selling boot laces
in the streets of Tottenham.
In addition to the many reformatories
ON land Great Britain has three reform
atory ships, where hundreds of way
ward youths are sent every year.
Vanillin, an artificial substitute fol-
vanilla, is made from the sap Of the
Scotch pine, while kind Of rubber has
been obtained from the common birch.
The ink plant of New Granada is g
curiosity. The juice of it can be used as
ink without any preparation. At frst
the writing is red, but after a few
hours it changes to black.
The town of Wildbad in Wurttem
berg probably beats the record in re
gard to water facilities. The supply
would suffice to provide every inhabit
ant with 200 quarts a day.
The sailor is lighted on his way
round the world by 335 lighthouses, O.
which number Sc are scattered round
England's rocky coast, some Of thu
, lights being so powerful that they ar
visible 90 miles out at sea-
An English journal advocates as
needed innovation the employment O
; automobile funeral cars, insisting tina
the display of black horses, plumes anC
other phylacteries Of unreasonint
mourning is but the survival of the an
; tiquated and barbarous custom of slay
ing horses at the grave Of their owner
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Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets re
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each Tablet 25c. DIV