Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-08-02
FACTS IN a FEW LINES.

forbidden by the Des Mones council.
600 acres each will soon be started in
the south.
A sign outside Lombard street
philadelphia restaurant reads: Pigs
Feet. Walk In"
| The Russian government proposes to
carry on extensive dredging operations
on the Amoor river.
The mortality in Rome has been re-
duced within a few years from % per
1000 to 10 per 1000.
Floors of rubber, claimed to he as
durable as asphalt and cheaper, are
being tried in Germany.
Five cantons of Switzerland have adj
mitted women to the business schools
and reported good results.
The National Sabbath alliance is
working to abolish the Sunday delivery
of ice cream in New York.
At the summer and winter races in
Moscow and ST. Petersburg SG6 ZOO
rubles are offered in prizes.
1t has been decided to open perma-
nent international motor car exhibition
in Berlin, where complete vehicles and
all their parts and accessories will be
shown.
The deer in public park in Balti-
more have the free run of the grounds.
So many of them had been injured in
trying to jump the fence that it was
removed.
In poll of New York Presbyterian
ministers taken by New York paper
over 60 per cent favored revision Of
the creed and about - per cent were
noncommittal.
Although the Prussian government
authorizes many lotteries every year, a
poor laborer was fined in Frankfort-on-
the-Main the other day for railing a
few articles at a country inn.
Verified figures show that a city Of
100000 inhabitants could be built from
the annual output Of stone, clay, lime
and gravel found within "A dozen miles
of the city hall in Philadelphia.
Senior Silvela, president of the coun-
ell and Spanish minister Of marine, in
tends to ask the people of Spain to
make great financial sacrifice with a
view Of constructing a new navy.
The Nova Scotia Southern railway.
now being built will be III miles long,
including New Germany to Shelburne,
II miles; Indian Gardens TO Liverpool,
20 miles Sable River to Lockport, 20
miles.
SiXty-three years have passed since
the queen of England, after her Access
sion, first took up her residence at
Buckingham palace, mansion which
was built in 1928 at cost OF over 81
100000.
In the United States there is one
church for every 337 people. Boston
has one for every 1000. Minneapolis
one for every 1,054. Twenty-four mil
lion people attend church in the United
States every Sunday.
A flower known as the laughing
plant. which grows in Arabia, is SO
called because its seeds produce effects
like those produced by laughing gas.
The flowers are of a bright yellow.
while the seeds resemble small black
beans.
The married and unmarried women
of the United States of Colombia,
South America. are designated by the
manner in which they wear flowers in
their hair. the senoras wearing them
! on the right side and the senoritas on
the left.
From Manila to Australia is like
going down a river, for one is out OF
sight of land only two days" The
voyage lasts u days. but the course is
through the south sea islands, which
accounts for its resemblance to river
navigation.
American tourists who usually take
their pet dogs with them cannot bring
them into Britain this year. The board
of agriculture has put into rigid en-
forcement an old order forbidding the
temporary entrance into England Of
| foreign dogs.
A tablet i'm honor of the heroes of the
American Revolution has been placed
In the vestry of the Dutch Reformed
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and Forty eighth street, 1t was the
gift of the New York State Daughters
of the Revolution.
Wood pulp paper as military clothing
Is used by the Japanese troops. 1t is
marvelously tough and has an appear
ance that might well be regarded with
satisfaction for summer wear. 1t holds
stitching uncommonly well, while its
warmth Is undoubted.
The two leading agricultural societies
In Britain, the Royal Agricultural and
the Highland and Agricultural, have
united their forces and are henceforth
TO have a national agricultural exami-
nation board and to grant prizes and
diplomas To farmers after examination.
The new twin screw steamship liver
MIA of the Cunard line is one OF the
largest steamers afloat She is exactly
three times the length of the first Gu
nard steamer, the Britannia, Of 1910.
Of double speed and will carry ten
times the number of passengers and
80 times the amount of cargo.
To utilize the power of flowing water
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