Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-04-24
FACTS IN FEW LINES

pe"huS IT ID pST tthl FUSS "" 49,
standard.
Only 80 per cent of the 1.11OOOO
males over twenty-one in London are
on the register OF voters.
The material used in the great wall
OF China would build 100 such struc'
lures as the pyramid Of Cheops
The Hundred Years club In New
York proposes 10 silence city noises
and stop the adulteration OF food.
The silken thread is spun from two
orifices I'm the nose OF the silEworm,
the two threads being united by ge-
latinous substance.
The largest sum ever spent In i'm
proving one street was $143OO,OOO on
the Rue do Rivoi, Paris. New Cannon
street, London, cost $2,05O,OOO.
So much restitution prevails among
the Moscow university students that
half their number have pettioned to
be excused paying their university
fees.
Hanover. Germany, now has six foot.
ball teams that play the Rugby game.
ivy hlt u INK W Nbiiy WI 80
ser'p order not to use English sporting
terms.
The presence Of the pipe in public In
Paris is not anything like as marked
as in England The French still regard
this mode of consuming tobacco as in
fra dig.
The white convicts employed on the
breakwater ut Cape Town are sending
a loyal address to King Edward pray
ing his clemency on the occasion OF the
approaching coronation.
Ii is estimated that there are nearly
100000 voters in New York city who
decline to become identified with ell.
Their OF the great parties, while there
are even more who take no part i'm
making nominations
Only eight states DO not now require
examination by Il state board Of those
who wish to practice medicine. They
are Arkansas. Colorado, Kentucky,
Michigan. Nebraska. Nevada. South
Dakota and Tennessee.
British railway travellers cannot re-
cover damages If they have their fin
gers in the carriage door when the
porters suddenly close it, "A railway
company" says the judge, cannot act
as dry nurse to every passenger.
Investigation by the state veterina-
rian showed that the high death rate
among horses In Maryland is due TO
cerebro spinal meningitis, The disease
&c q In, - N a N
and generally lnsanitary environment.
The revolver with which President
Mckinley was shot was a 30 caliber.
and since that time dealers have no
ticed an increase in the number Of calls
for weapons Of that caiber and. il is
said. Of the particular make used by
the assassin.
piece Of virgin gold weighing S2.1S
ounces troy was PIT in the melting pot
of the United States assay office at
Helena. Mon. negotiations for its
preservation in nugget form having
failed because of the impossibility of
an exact assay.
In Haiti Il new species of tobacco has
been produced by cross fertilization
which grows from five To seven feet in
height. bearing a leaf twenty five inch
es long by fifteen i'm width. Three or
even four cuttings can be made from
one plant between November and
March.
sell supporting community Of con-
sumptVcs is established near Denver.
backed by Denver business men and
twenty local rhysi, ans The members
Of this community I've in tens and en-
gage in light remunerative occupation.
which keeps the enterprise going and
provides hcalthful employment for the
afflicted
The new English stamps just issued
and which represent the king crowned
with a wreath viii undergo change
Immediately after the cOronation when
the wreath VIII bc replaced 10y crown.
1t was considered Inappropriate to rep
resent the King with IL crown on his
head before The actual coronation had
taken place
The expenses of the New York coro-
ners office do MT decrease as tie de
1 uldtlu lOT the uDDllAibu VI lllt uo
! unnecessary becomes more general.
This years appropriation for the coro-
ners office I'm Manhattan is $6l POO i'm
| Brooklyn 81. 300. I'm the Bronx 81 900.
In Queens S23 600 and in Richmond
SIG $50. total Of $lG5. 100
Among the greatest sufferers from
the Industrial depression in Germany
are the foreign workmen imported in
rush times The demand for them
WAS especially great in tie mining and
building industries and in the textile
| bliShmepts Of southwest Germany
| Circumstances have now greatly
changed. and the native German work
men have raised an outcry against
their employment
In Poland and I.ithuania there Is
very large export from Russia OF old
! galochpS. which are subsequently melt
cd down and uaGe into new galoches
and other India rubber goods. Russia
proper Is the chief exporter OF old Ea-
loches cnly Il comparatively small
| quantity being exported from Poland.
where gnlcclcs IRE ! IS used than in
the rest OF the empire. Most of them
are sent to America for manufacture.
According to the notes published by
the municipal laboratory every year.