Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-06-01
FACTS IN A FEW LINES.

this mundane sphere.
Gold coins are in circulation twice
as long as copper coins.
Half of the 1915, COO Scandinavians In
the United States live in Chicago.
Onefourth of the coal used In the
world is mined by American industry.
Pins have been made for 400 years,
but needles have been used for 40 CEN
turtles.
Thursday island, in the Torres strait
exports annually mother of pearl worth
$500, 900.
Experiments to reproduce dead mems
features from their skulls are being
made in Germany.
The cathedral of Mexico City was
commenced in 1878 and completed in
1871 at cost of 50, 900, 000
Hyenas always fight kneeling, the
shank OF the fore leg being the most
vulnerable part of their body.
Bohemia has three graphite mines for
supplying the lead pencil market, which
give employment to over 700 persons.
A Catholic chapel has been built on
the spot where Macmillan Miramon
and Mejia were executed at Queretaro.
There are about 500 species Of hum
ming birds, all natives of America and
most of them confined to Central and
South America.
The earthworm was glorified by OAR
win. 1t Is now asserted that the com
mon earthworm promulgates diseases TO
an alarming extent among animals.
There is a quicksilver mine in Peru
ITO fathoms in circumference and 480
feet deep. In this profound abyss are
streets, squares and chapel where re-
ligious worship is held.
Italy's income from foreign visitors
is estimated at $40, 900, 900 year In
Rome there are three times as many ho-
tells and boarding houses for tourists as
there Were 20 years ago
There IL one portion of the human
body which continues to increase in size
throughout life and does not cease with
the attainment of maturity This is the
crystalline lens of the eye
A physician was acquitted recently in
England for riding bicycle on a side
walk because of an old law that gives
doctor the right to take the shortest cut
when on his way to an urgent case
a black ioness has lately been added
to the collection of animals in the Jar
din des Plantes, in Paris. Lions of this
color are found only in the interior Of
the Sahara, and are scarce even there.
The sultan Of Turkey has ordered the
construction of new central prison in
the immediate vicinity of Constantine
pie. The cost is estimated at $500, 000
The plans have been prepared in Europe
upon the most approved models.
The two cars running on the trolley
line up Mount Tom. Massachusetts, are
connected 10y cable running over a re-
turn sheave, so that the descending car s
weight balances that of the one ascend
ing, and makes less demand on the cleo
trio motor
1t has been pointed out that of the
90, 900, 900 square miles of the whole
world, %, 2SS, 152 are held in colonial
or protectorate form, and that all this
territory has been acquired by Christian
governments since 1900, and the great
er part since 1900.
Mr. Borkedal of Norway announces
that the sun Is burning out more rapid
ly than is usually believed, and that
unless something interferes our grand
children will see its extinction. Mr.
Mohn, also of Norway, has checked Mr.
Borkedal's calculations, and finds them
correct
Turkey has been engaged in war 8S
years of the present century, considera
bly, more than onethird of the time;
Spain comes next with 81 years Of war;
France has had 81 years; Russia, "a;
Italy, %; England 81; Austria, II;
Holland, IA; Germany, 10; Sweden, 10;
Portugal, 10; Denmark, g.
Beds Of mahogany sawdust, which
may be found at almost any mill, and
have heretofore been allowed TO go to
waste, have been discovered to have
value. Successful experiments prove
that it can be used for curing hams.
and experts state that mahogany smoked
hams are of superior flavor.
All doubts as to the burial place of
Turgot, Louis XVI's great minister of
finance, have been removed by the open
ing of the tomb in the chapel attached
to the Laennec hospital, in Paris His
coffin was found, together with those
OF his father and two others of the fam
lily, in excellent preservation.
1t is generally believed that the com
mon house martin, which leaves Eng
land when nesting time is over, spends
the winter in Africa. But, although
millions of the birds disappear from
Europe every autumn, the ornithologist
DIR. Sharpe knows of only one single
authentic instance of the capture Of a
martin in the African continent
On Prince Schwarzenberg's game
preserves in Bohemia 106, GOA wild ami
mails were killed during the last season.