Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-01-31
FACTS IN A FEW -.

or both legs.
In Mexico schoolteachers usually
have a cigar In their mouth Ever
criminals before the bar are allowed
to smoke.
Common laborers in Spain get from
80 TO 40 cents per day IN the larger
towns and from 20 to 30 cents In the
rural districts.
An Egyptian contemporary says: "Oul
whole island is now grdled with goli
courses. All the world Is no longer u
stage, but golf links
The British museum authors cata
logue is now completed after 90 years
labor and has cost 100000 1t con.
sists Of 400 volumes and 40 supple
ments.
The eruption of vesuyius Is gradual.
ly increasing in intensity, and the au-
thorities are taking the usual precau.
tons to prevent imprudent tourists
from approaching too near the crater.
An Australian volunteer Is carrying
q bullet I'm his brain. Embedded toe
declares that but for the knowledge OF
the fact he never felt better in his life
In England during the past few
years, II is claimed. 140,320 farm la.
borers have been displaced by ma.
chinery, while the making of the lat
ter. ii Is asserted. required only the
labor of 1900 men for one year
Kerschdorf, near Heidelberg. has a
lively 9l-year-old blacksmith and
churchwarden who recently climbed
to the top of the church steeple and
tied new rope to the bell after the
younger men in the village had refused
to risk themselves.
Comfort powders are beautiful little
stanzas or verses of courage and good
cheer, written on small papers and roll.
ed up like powdered medicines. One Is
to be unrolled. read and enjoyed each
morning. Each one is a mystery until
its turn comes. And the surprise is q
part Of the pleasure.
The Hambledon cricket legend,
which makes England's national game
take its rise in the little Surrey vii
lage scarcely more than 100 years ago.
has long since been exploded. The
game was played by the vikings and is
certainly identical also with the club
BALI of the fourteenth century
Switzerland has not until now been
noted as a center for steel production.
though her engineers have long held a
high position in the mechanical world
Recently, however, company has
been formed 10 work the great deposits
in the Bernese Overland, where there
are many million tons OF ore available
averaging 30 per cent of iron.
About all that a Chinese gentleman
wants TO practice the profession of
medicine is to declare himself a doctor
and go TO work curing or killing people,
as the case may be, at the rate of about
cents per visit. If patient persists
In dying In spite of the drugs and in
carnations presented by his Celestial
physician. IL is no fault Of the doctor.
South Carolina negroes have started
a new industry by the hand picking Of
phosphate rock. During the summer
they anchor boats on the Coosaw riv-
er, which is from II to % feet deep
and dive for the fertilizing rock. some
times bringing up fragment weighing
100 pounds. The phosphate from the
river bed is the most valuable known.
People In Honolulu indulge in bev.
erage known as "swipes." 1t is the ma
tive beer Of Hawaii and is n dangerous
concoction. The principal articles used
in its manufacture are sugar, corn.
pineapple root and Chinese ginger.
bran. Irish potatoes and sliced pineap-
pies. 1t is fermented after standing
four or five days. and then it is ready
for use.
Beds are comparatively scarce in
Russia, and many well TO do houses
are still unprovided with them. Peas
ants sleep on the tops of their ovens,
middle class people and servants roll
themselves up in sheepskins and lay
down near stoves. soldiers rest upon
wooden cots without bedding. and it is
only within the last few years that
students in schools have been allowed
beds.
Berlin last year for the first time
registered over 100000 strangers who
had visited the city. Vienna, which
formerly had more visitors than Der.
lin, counted only n few over 100000
in 1899 and was surpassed by Munich
with 100000. Dresden had over half
million visitors. Hamburg. Leipsic
and Zurich each about 100000 and
Stuttgart. Basel and Dusseldorf each
over quarter of million.
Passengers on far western railroads
are being advised TO carry guns with
them and not to slumber at night.
There is no telling when a lone holder
up" may begin operations in a sleeping
car If one good. wide awake man
with his wits, accompanied by first
class six shooter, about him should as
sert himself. the highwayman would
not be apt to leave the train unless he
went feet first on a stretcher.
What might have proved a very seri-
Gus accident on the Grand Rapids and
Indiana railroad was averted by the
smallest incident during a recent heavy