Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1901-12-05
FACTS IN FEW LINES

In Prussia 500 men and 1,349 wo.
men committed suicide in 1899.
The retail price of meats In Chicago
is higher than 1t has been for years.
Large quantities Of American coal
are called for in the region of Pales-
tine.
The native Indian tribes OF Alaska
number 29,536. gain Of 4.1S2 In ten
years.
Manchester, England, has more pub
lie houses than any other city In the
kingdom.
There are 10000 Britons living In
the United Kingdom ut present who
were born In the colonies.
Recent Investigations enable New
York city to point to her asphalt paw
ing as the costliest on earth.
Malaria continues to be a greater
scourge of the British army In India
than any other fatal disease.
The census Of 1900 shows that there
are 1897 negroes to every 100000
whites compared with 1855 in 1890.
The total value of the manufacture
of bricks and tiles in the United States
In 1900 was $76.336,S71 and of pottery
$40, 76S,670
Japanese cotton mills have no advan-
tage over American mills, despite the
fact that the average daily wages for
men Is 10 cents and women 91a cents.
No fewer than 1000 Paris landlords
have refused to provide proper drain
age system In their houses in accord
ance with the new sanitary regulations.
The worlds national Indebtedness Is
estimated at S31 POI, 749, PA, ten times
as great as the worlds national debts
amounted to during the Napoleonic
wars.
Ten thousand English sovereigns,
after lying for nearly 125 years at the
bottom of East bay, Lake Champlain,
have been recovered and are now de
posted In the Allen National bank in
Fairhaven.
The gas accounts Of the city Of Glas
Cow show a total revenue for the past
year of $780, and expenditure Of
Iot-,t-O ue vi Sdo hiuuS
was 6121 1867, 800 cubic feet and the
quantity sold $40 $4,000 feet.
The city OF Philadelphia has In It's
treasury more than $4,000 belonging
to persons who never called for II when
their bonds, registered and nonregis
tered. matured and became payable or
who left uncollected coupons on their
bonds.
The newest floral wonder Is the Shas
ia daisy. originated by a flower grower
of California. 1t measures a foot In
circumference and when one was ex-
hlbited recently in florists window
in San Francisco people literally flock
ed TO see 1t.
Deer forests are much more expen-
sive In Scotland than grouse moors
They range from $1,000 to $4,000 or
even $4,000 for the season, according
to the sport obtained and whether the
place gives salmon fishing and grouse
shooting as well as Devastating.
Last year 1856 tons Of cigarettes. val
ued at 81, 1874 900, or fully five times as
many as ten years ago, were consumed
in Germany. These cigarettes came
from France. Austria Hungary, Rus
STA, Turkey, Egypt, Algeria and the
United States, 60 per cent coming
from Egypt.
A good portion Of the money invested
In Hawaii is owned by residents Of the
islands, but some comes from the Unit
ed States. Not long ago a loan Of a
quarter of n million dollars on the es-
tates inherited by Prince David and
Prince Cupid was taken up by San
Francisco capital.
The great iron ore companies Of
Spain have combined under English
capital. and fifteen immense and mod
ern blast furnaces will be built as
quickly. as the material can be fur
nished. England must have cheap steel
to meet American competition, and this
is the only way to get it.
Two large German iron concerns, the
Hasper and the Baroper, which paid
respectively 80 per cent and 10 per cent
dividends last year, have passed their
1901 dividends. The Hasper carries
forward its entire net earnings as a spe-
cial reserve against possible losses on
the company's accumulated stock Of
iron.
An arrangement has just been made
whereby the Berlin gas lamps In the
streets will be lighted automatically
and simultaneously by means Of an
electric attachment. The current will
be switched on from the central sta
ton, and a spark will ignite the gas,
which will be turned on by a special
apparatus.
Paris is only just beginning to realize
the priceless treasures which 1t has Sc
cured by the late Baron Adolph Roths-
child's bequest Of medieval gold and
silver smiths work to the Louvre. 1t
will all go into one room, which is now
being prepared for 1t, but It will repre-
sent value of 100000. Most of the
objects are connected with religion.
In st. Louis the nutcracking indus
Dry gives employment to considera-
BILE number of persons, there being
three plants In the city. The nut
crackers are driven by electricity, each
nut being fed individually into the