Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1902-04-03

Chicago prohibits the gathering OF
cigar butts.
Cranberries are grown ia boys that
cost from $500 to $500 an acre.
The appropriation for the care of
Grants tomb for 1902 is $4,000.
Paper Irvine stockings at 3 cents
pair are the latest thing in hosiery.
There were 3,5l6 immigrants refused
admission to the United States last
year.
or all the newspapers published in
the world 6S per cent are in the Eng
lish language.
Russia Will throw open the peninsula
extending into the Siberian sea to pros
pect for gold in April.
Rock salt Is mined and prepared for
use in the states Of New York. Kansas.
Louisiana and California.
The per capita consumption of spirits
in the United States is smaller than in
any other OF the great nations.
Europe has five relgning princes who
are over eighty years old and nine 9th
ers who are more than seventy.
A Kansas man has celebrated two
silver weddings, having lived twenty
five years with each of his two wives.
A sugar company in Hawaii will get
an average OF five tons of sugar per
acre for its whole tract of 1900 acres.
by the use of process invented at
Bridgeport, Conn, wooden doors are
being electroplated with copper or
brass.
The Iucatan mahogany and logwood
forests are to be exploited by com
pany which will build 275 miles of
railway.
Russia has planned a deep canal
from Riga. on the Baltic, to Kherson,
on the Black sea, near the mouth Of
the Dnieper.
Isaac S. Taylor Of ST. Louis proposes
to make midair observations in a bal
loon OF the construction work on the
worlds fair site in that city.
A wine cask which holds $1,000 gal
Ions and is the largest ever built may
be seen at Maltermoro. Cal. The steel
hoops around it weigh 10000 pounds.
The increase in population in Venice
has been not less than 10000. during
the last twenty-five years. During the
last ten years it has been nearly 1900.
When Johns Hopkins left his great
fortune i'm Baltimore and Ohio stocks
for the university that bears his name,
the stock was worth almost 5000 a
share. 1t afterward fell to about $15.
There are in the leper home in Lou
isiana thirty-six inmates - nineteen
males and seventeen females. Five
sisters of charity nurse these unfortu-
, mates The leper colony is a state in
stitution.
France, with upward of 100000 of
population. has but one really large
city, Paris. with 2,715,000 inhabitants.
The two next largest are Marseilles,
with 494. 100, and Lyons. with 453, 245
inhabitants.
| In n recent book OF travels in China
| special point is made of the general
honesty Of the people, as illustrated by
the numerous stalls and shops that are
left TO look after themselves without
danger Of theft
California leads the country in the
development OF electrical power from
water. She has the three largest pow
err transmission lines in the world
The first successful experiment in that
line in this country was made in Po-
mona In 1891.
Hungary hopes to be able to raise
cotton. although the warm season is
only five months long and the plant
requires seven months TO ripen. The
difficulty is to be overcome by special
preparation of the seed and by adding
certain ingredients to the soil.
Since its doors were thrown open on
Oct. /. 1897. there has been n daily av-
erage of 300 visitors TO the Congress
sional library. making an aggregate
with the omission of Sundays and sec
ular holidays of G7G.Go0 persons from
all parts of the country whose feet
have trod its tesselated corridors.
II is said that in France SS000.000
picture postcards pass through the
postofiices annually. That country
takes the lead Of all others. Austria
Hungary coming next, with 31,000,000
The total in circulation throughout the
world in one year is said by experts
to be 2,360,000000
st. Louis has Il peculiar sect in the
shape of community of sand eaters,
composed of seventy-tive men and wo-
men. The sand eaters take every day
spoonful Of sand They believe that
grit is necessary i'm every animal and
that many stomach troubles are due
to the absence Of grit in the stomach.
At lannon's heading, on the Colorado
river. just above the international line,
OH the California side of the river, a
headgate is about 10 be constructed
which will make possible the irriga-
Itign Of 100000 acres in California and
100000 acres in Lower California. II
Is expected that within two years this
whole area. which Is now a desert. will
be brought into cultivation.
The Berlin electric tramway conduct
IRIS, or "wattmpn." as they are called
Oh the continent. are subject to special