Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-03-01

sugar. VI It's plouuNAS IA thS Chllcu
Kingdom.
Intemperance made 534 New York
ers insane the past year; love, ii men
and 50 women.
Asparagus promotes the appetite,
while furnishing little nourishment.
and is good substitute for clans.
Buffalo is to have an immense new
factory for automobiles. in which the
electrical power Of Niagara falls will
be utilized.
A cigarette smoker sends into the air
about 4.00O,000O00 particles of dust at.
every pull. according to DR.. Atkins in
vestigationS
For the four hundredth time in their
history the Christian inhabitants of
Armenia have risen in revolt against
their Turkish oppressors.
Analyses of sorghum grown in vari-
Gus parts of Oregon show a sugar con-
tent twice as large as the minimum
for profitable manufacture.
An English brewing firm in Birming-
ham and other towns has offered to
the war office 1000 barrels of best
stout for the use of the troops in South
Africa
OF the G0,000 population of Palestine
10000 are Hebrews, 1900 are Chris
tians and 5000 are Mohammedans,
who. although numerically in the mi
nority, are in authority.
Safety from lightning is easily Sc
cured. according TO The Scientific
American. simply put on rubbers,"
it says. land stand up SO that your
clothes won't touch anywhere"
The Franco Prussian war cost the
bellgerents $316,O0O.000 and 311,000
killed and wounded out of the 1,713,000
men engaged. Altogether S17.751 men
were put out of action, although this
total includes 100000 French prisoners.
a marked popularity of the Indiana
coalfelds is the slight depth at which
coal is found. An area of $500 square
miles. or nearly one-ffth Of the total
area of the state, is known to be under
laid with coal ut an average of so feet
below the surface.
The woman's board of missions of
the congregational church has under
its control about 100 missionaries, over
80 girls boarding schools, nearly 300
day schools and about 10 Bible WON
en-. The total contributions last year
amounted TO $4,000.
Medicinal powders can be rapidly put
up in papers by new apparatus hav-
ing a hopper for the powder, with a
slotted bar sliding underneath. which
receives the proper amount of powder
and is pushed along to deposit it on a
paper spread out for the purpose.
The special expert sent abroad by
the agricultural department in search
of new seeds and edible plants has
brought back an ever bearing straw
| berry" 1t is said to produce fruit for
months on the same plants. and a
small patch will supply family table
whole season.
People marvel at the mechanism of
the human body. with its 492 bones and
GO arteries. But man is simple in this
respect compared with the carp. That
remarkable fish moves no fewer than
4,3S6 bones and muscles every time it
breathes. 1t has 1920 veins, to say
nothing of its 90 muscles.
Although adders are comparatively
rare in most parts of England, there
are people. hardly past middle age,
who remember when they were so
common on the south side Of Chaplain
common. London. that 1t was neccssa-
ry to put up warning TO children that
1t was not safe to play on thatAot.
A Paris gymnasium instructor claims
the record for long tramps, having
walked about $4,000 miles on ordinary
roads. Among his trips were Paris to
st. Petersburg in 80 days. Paris Gene
va-Venice and Paris Berlin. He tried
to walk to Madrid. but was stopped by
the Spanish authorities when he reach
ed Barcelona.
The government of New Zealand now
sends communications by carrier pi-
geons between Auckland and Great
Britain island, a distance across the
water of 80 miles. The service Is con-
trolled by the postotiice department.
The fee for single message is
shilling. and n stamp for this amount
has to be bought at the postoffice.
New York has a new evening theo-
logical school. undenominational, to fit
young men and women for more eff
cient work in their respective church
es. to prepare students for the minis
try. to make more proficient Sunday
school teachers. to train deaconesses,
to give instruction about missions and
to cultivate a Christian spirit among
the denominations.
Some historical trees have lately
come into the New York lumber mar
ket from the Wilderness battlefield OF
the civil war. The bills Of lnding show
ed that the trees had been felled and
the lumber sawed there. In some of
the planks the mimic balls can be seen
plainly. the wood directly adjacent to
the bullets being dscolored or rotten,
but not enough 10 damage the lumber.
The wise man knows enouge to con-
ceal what he dosn't know.