Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-04-11
FACTS IN AFEWLINES

A century ago the potato was a new
and unpopular article of food IN
France.
| The bookkeepers of Cincinnati have
an organization and hold regular
monthly meetings.
England has no journal Of forestry.
Germany has several one Of which Is
in its seyenty-sixth year.
Deaths of children under years OF
age in Boston last year were PA per
cent of the total mortality.
The total number of icehouses along
the Hudson is 445. with total ton
mage capacity of 3, I6S,OoO.
In 1901 there were only 5000 Italian
speaking people in the United States.
Now there are over 100000.
Last year the farmers Of the United
States received S1S5,OOo,000 more for
their products than in 1899.
The baton now carried by German
field marshals while performing duties
of distinction resembles riding whip.
Ohio had the largest number of small
pox cases last year, l,GG6 Tennessee
coming next with 1893 and Minnesota
with ST5.
The daily circulation of newspapers
in the United Kingdom rose from co.
900 copies in 1901 to 100000 in 1850
and now reaches S,5OO,0OO.
Hamburg's naval observatory will be
removed to the village of Bergersdorf,
as the smoke and Earring of the city in
terfere with the observations.
Steeple Clayton, in North Bucks,
England. cIs inns the distinction of be-
ing the first parish to adopt the public
libraries act in the reign of King Ed
ward VII.
During the year 1900 the Berlin cleo
trio trans caused 2,652 accidents. in
volving the loss Of 90 lives, while 134
persons were severely and 1902 slight
ly injured
The biggest and most costly hotel in
Boston is to 90 up this season on the
site Of the Brunswick. 1t is to be in
elegance rival of New York's Wal
dorf- Astoria.
Seattle proposes to build n canal
eight miles long from Puget sound to
Lake Washington. which Is 20 miles
long and 200 feet deep and will make
an ideal harbor
Municipal ownership of electric
plants is on the increase in Canada.
Woodstock and Kingston, Ont, are the
latest to acquire the electric plants as
municipal property.
Some 20 different varieties of olives
are now grown in California. There is
no specific variety known as the
queen" olive, but any large variety
may be thus designated
An expert claims that the eastern
slope Of the Andes in South America
is richer in gold than the Klondke
country and gold can be taken with
much less work and privation.
Somewhat Of the going TO and fro Of
the people may be guessed at when it
is known that 2.O00,000.000 passengers
and 9JO.0OO.000 tons of goods are car
ried in a year on the worlds railways.
The rivers of the Emerald Isle have
generally a dark color owing to the
fact that most of them ut some point
i'm their course flow through peat
marshes or beds which impart n dark
hue to the water
The new law in South Carolina
against the pistol carrying habit makes
it unlawful for any person except a
peace officer to carry deadly weapon
less than 20 inches in length or four
pounds in weight.
The habits of wasps were closely
studied by Reaumur, who placed the
insects under glass hives and so do
mesticated them as to be able to OBJ
serve all the operations carried on
within their nests.
An English writer who has been in
vestigating the production of butter
and cheese in all countries says that
the largest creamery in the world is
at Lincoln. Neb. 1t has a capacity of
10000 pounds of butter per day and
an average daily output of 1900
pounds.
Among the Sioux Indians there are
now % churches, constituting the Da-
kota Indian presbytery. These are in
North and South Dakota, Nebraska
land Montana. Three years ago there
were / .33l members of these churches,
with Is native ministers, one lay
ipreacher and two assistants.
a prominent American firm of gaso-
line automobile builders has shipped
three postal wagons to the government
Of New South Wales. They are of nine
horsepower each and capable of carry
Ing 900 pounds of mail. The contract
was secured i'm competition with sever
nj English firms.
We have I'm America two great states
the areas of which have probably new
er been traversed. These are Maine in
the north and Texas i'm the south,
where immense treasures i'm woods,
minerals. game and other articles Of
substantial profit are worth all the SEN
timent inspired by practically valueless
expeditions 10 frigid zones.
The output of watches in Switzerland
last year was the largest ever recorded.
According to statistics just published
the total export amounted to 2,3G6 42G
nickel watches. valued at S4.06i. 900;