Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-10-23

The processes now In use for collect
ing tin from the waste of sheet tin by
electrolysis Is comparatively costly.
Leeds, England, possesses a factory
chimney modelled on the beautiful cam
panile designed by Giotto at Florence.
Instruction I'm the art OF reading rail
way time tables is now being given TO
his pupils by schoomaster in Silesia
One Australian syndicate has Of
fered General De Wet $3.50 weekly and
expenses for lecturing tour in Aus
tralia.
Seattle's exports to Japan are now
about $5,OOO,0OO per annum, which is
eleven times what they were six years
ago.
Four tons is the weight of Il twenty
foot grampus which has been captured
by the crew of an Irish fishing boat of
Kinsae.
Gaelic is the only language spoken
by 9,442 inhabitants of Galway, 2,45S
Of whom are between three and eight
cen years Of age.
Cheap soft goods made In Belgium
and Switzerland are rapidly oustlng
Manchester England fabrics from the
Mozambique market
Three hundred and fifteen shoals In
various parts of the world were de
clared dangerous TO navigation last
year by British admiralty surveyors.
Dumfries has just revived the an
cient system of shooting for the Siller
gun presented to the trades of the
town by King James VI. of Scotland.
Between 1000 and 5000 packages Of
home grown figs are now being dis
patched every week from Worthing.
which Is the center Of the English fix
growing industry.
Germany furnishes more than one
fourth of the foreign born immigration
to this country. 25.S per cent; Ireland is
next with 1916 per cent and England
follows with 81 per cent.
Notices OF dismissal have been served
on the golfers in the Bochum and
Dortmund districts Westphalia, where
it has been decided to restrict the out
put of coal.
Lectures on the editing and publish.
ing of newspapers will be given at the
High School For Journalists. which Is
to be opened i'm the autumn at the Uni
versity of bern
The spirits monopoly has been ex.
tended throughout the greater part of
central Asia and the northern eau
casus. All efforts to introduce local
option In European Russia have failed.
In its upper reaches the river Rhone
has risen yard in one day. In the
raud canton the snakes which have
been ousted from their holes by the
floods are SO numerous as to constitute
a plague
The commission appointed to reap
portion Oklahoma has announced the
otal population of the territory TO be
100000. with one representative for
every $4,000 people and one senator for
every $4,000
The great advantages that have ac-
crued to California cities from using
oil to lay the dust instead of water
are being recognized by many cities
and especially In those in which the
supply OF water is rather limited.
An "armored waistcoat; price 80
shillings; carriage paid" has been in.
vented by Il French tradesman at
Charleville. who recommends it espe-
cially for the use Of ambassadors and
members of parliament, journalists
and others exposed to danger.
A petition Of Berlin land and house
owners against the new elevated elec
trio railway. on the ground that its
clatter deprecated their property by
driving away tenants. has found no
favor with tho president of police. He
says that Bcrlincrs will get accus.
toned to the innovation.
a thoroughbred Great Dane at a hos
pital near the Washington 700 Is rails
Ing lion cub with the rest Of her lit
ter. Two African lion cubs were born
ut the zoo recently. and after the moth
or Killed one the other was put In with
the Great Danes litter The dog treats
the cub better than its own mother
did.
The Philippines are beginning to use
very largely a curious device to teach
their children TO walk. II Is rough
affair. of course. and Is composed OF !
piece of bamboo that revolyes around
the end OF hard wood pole. a glove
Is fastened To the revolving stick and
the child thus attached has 10 follow
the lead of the machine
Statistics OF the production Of soft
coal In the northern part of Bohemia
for the yer 1901 show yield Of 49,.
2S3,49s tons, an increase OF 922 401
tons, or 5.4 per cent over 1900, when
strike of the miners lasting two
months. materially reduced the out
put and also crippled industries In B.
hemia and neighborlng parts Of Ger
many.