The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-10-20
SHORT ITEMS OF INTEREST.

MRS, HDWdfd GDulu mas YlOO,OOO
fan.
The worlds largest stove factory
is IN Detrblt.
Oriental physicians practiced vac
cination over 600 years ago.
The Tartar alphabet contains POP
letters, being the longest in tue
world.
A Vienna scientist has written n
learned article to prove that dogs
laugh.
Danish lighthouses are supplied
with oil to pumpOn the waves during
storm.
In the United States 800 600 cubic
feet of pine is used annually in
making matches.
The price of fuel at Shanghai
China, is seldom more than about
$40 per ton for foreign coal.
When chameleon is blindfolded
it lOOses all power of changing its
color and its entire body remains OF
a uniform tint.
There Is rosary in the British
snakes backbone. Another is COM
posed of rats teeth.
German production of pig iron in
the frs half of the current year was
1000 600 more than in the same time
IN 1898
OF the Vatican's IL 600 rooms Pope
Leo has reserved for his personal
| n thrnn-u "a
| little dining-room and bedroom.
American farmers own cows to
the value of 1869 239 1893, a sum equal
to more than one-halt of the capital
of all the national banks in the
United States.
A sheiifish known as the pianna
in the Mediterranean has the curl
Gus power of spinning viscid silk,
which is made in Italy into regu
lar fabric.
At a recent meeting of the Russian
Acadamy of Sciences Professor Dills
advocated the use of Engl ish as a
universal language for men of
science.
Jerusalem is now nothing but a
shadow of the magnificent city of
ancient times. 1t is about three
miles in circumference and is situat-
ed on rocky mountain.
The spruce gum crop of Maine,
the largest in the States history, in
the neighbOrhOod of thirty tons,
worth about $685. 900 has been harvest
ed and sent to market.
The number of accidents to auto
mobilists in France Is constantly
| large number of them cannot be
traced to any we'll defined cause.
No fewer than seventeen we'll
ide. titled diamonds, varying in
weight from onc-half to more than
twenty one carats, have been dis
covered in the region of the Great
Lakes.
The entire population Of the globe
is upward of l,400,000,000, of whom
35 2l4,0O0 die every year, So 480 every
day, 4 ,020 every hour, 1877 every min
ute, and one and fraction every sec
ond.
Canada lacks but 237 900 square
miles to be as large as the whole
Continent of Europe; it is nearly
thirty times as large as Great Britain
and ireland, and is 300 600 square
miles larger than the United States,
The inhabitants of Bischofsbulg.
Prussia, had never seen a ballet an
til recently. AS soon as the dancers
appeared on the stage all the women
in the audience left the house.
There now remains but one people
and one little valley south of the
equator in Africa that has not been
claimed bv some European Power.
1t is the Valley of Barotse, fifty or
sixty miles wide, north of Lialui,
in South Africa.
The better-class japanese do not
live in the treaty ports of Japan,
which are frequented by the casual
traveller. Life in these towns is SO
different from the real life of Japan
that it is impossible to get an idea
of the country from them.
A rather singular feature was
developed in the examination for a
pension of Frank Mitchell the other
day in Kansas. Mitchell is bach
elor, who, so far as he has been able
to find out, has not a relative, neal
or more remote, on earth.
1t has became reconized custom
for a royal parsonage, when travelling
beyond the boundary of his owl
country, to adopt for the time being
such a title as be may select, Of {
lower rank than that which by brit
he has the right to hold.
While the learned of Europe wer,
forbidden, as heresy, the doctrin,
ofthe gObular figure of the earth, thu
Caliph AL MaimOn was measuring
the length of a degree along TIN
shores of the Red Sea. He and IN
successors repeatedly determined
the obliquity of the ecliptic.
France in war has 900 soldiers t.
10, 407 inhabitants; Germany in wa
has 1000 soldiers to 17,427 inhabi
tants; Great Britain in war has 90
! soldiers to y, Alb inhabitants, Will
] under the house bill, during tn
late war, the United States provide
for only 1000 soldiers to abou
79l GOO inhabitants.
A Belgian has designed an appa
j ratus for racing autOmatOn figure
! across a stage on bicycles, cOnsistin
I of endless chains carried by pulley
under the tracks, the latter havin
I central slots through which a con
2 I Daptipn il DnaIa with tho hiovol.