The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-03-06
FACTS IN FEW LINES

| lutTe are dbout o,OOo WclncH slcuOS-
raphers in Pittsburg.
A German has invented an electric
sand pump for cleaning stone buildings.
The largest church. in the world is
st. Peters. at Rome, accommodating
$4,000 persons.
Theatrical stage employees have
ninety local unions and more than
| 1000 members.
Galway, Ireland, wants to be made
the home terminal port of the proposed
new Canadian mail route
The Womens Butchers union at the
| Chicago stockyards has GOO members
| st. Louis has q similar union.
General Joubert's silver fitted jaunt
ing car, which was captured in South
Africa, is now at Woolwich arsenal
| There are about $4,000 convicts in
the prisons of England, whose main
| tenance costs about $3,000,000 year.
Clusters of filberts containing twen-
| ty-nine separate nuts have been
plucked at Templecombe. Somerset
| England.
Copper in certain druggists supplies
has been traced to copper rivets used in
| the driving belts of the manufacturing
machinery.
| In fortnight's fishing on Oulton
Broad, Suffolk, England, a lady and
her husband landed 1853 roach be-
tween them.
About 100000 tons of freight are
annually carried on the Ohio river,
which has length of 1000 miles from
Pittsburg to Cairo.
A belief in witchcraft still prevails
In parts of Lancashire, England; also
in the Isle of Man and still more
strongly in the Hebrides.
1t is announced that the British mu-
scum has purchased the ten pound
aerolite which fell recently at Crum-
lin, County Antrim, Ireland.
Authorities of British Columbia have
established travelling Libraries for the
benefit Of the numerous lumber and
mining camps in that province.
Endeavors are being made to amalga-
mate the Austrian, French and Swiss
Alpine clubs for the purpose Of secur-
ing more control over the guides.
In cemetery in Middlebury, VT, is
a stone erected by widow to her low
ing husband bearing this inscription:
REST in peace-until we meet again"
Six monster apples gathered at Pull
ham, Norfolk, England, measured thir-
teen inches in circumference and
weighed together three pounds and
two ounces.
Turkish women do not come into con-
troll of their private fortunes until
after marriage. After that they can
dispose of one-third Of it without the
husbands consent.
The most prominent Austrian trade
union, the Gewerbe Verein Of Lower
Austria, has decided to send deputa-
ton to the United States in 1904 to
visit the st. Louis exposition.
The Russian naval estimates for 1908
call for the expenditure of 104, 417,7S1
rubles as compared with 9S,31S,9Si
rubles in 1902. OF this sum &C, HOGS
rubles are for new construction and re-
pairs.
The premier of New South Wales
has been urged by deputation of la
dies to institute the curfew bell, pro
hibit the employment Of barmaids and
prevent the sale of cigarettes to young
children.
At present the proportion of working
time is Smaller in Britain than in any
other nation. The assertion Is true alike
in respect of agriculture, of industry, Of
shopkeeping, Of commerce and of the
professions.
The white marked tussock moth is a
native of North America. 1t ranges the
territory east of the Rocky mountains
and attacks almost every variety of
shade, fruit and ornamental trees, with
the exception Of the conifers.
A soldier named Meyerhofer has been
sentenced at Zurich by the Swiss mill
tary authorities to three months at
hard labor for refusing to obey orders.
The soldier refused to serve on a Sat-
urday as it was the Jewish Sabbath.
The old locomotives of the elevated
railroads in New York city are being
sold throughout the country as fast as
they are displaced by electric motor
cars. They are bought as rule by
branch roads at prices ranging from
81 200 to $4,000.
Napkins became popular In France
sooner than in England. At one time
it was customary at great French din
ners to change the napkins at every
course, to perfume them with rosewa-
ter and to have them folded q different
way for each guest.
Hot Springs, Ark, will be represented
at the worlds fair by grotto lined
with Hot Springs crystals and lighted
by electricity. The grotto will contain
reproductions of some of the hot
springs. kaleidoscope views of bath
houses interiors will be shown.
AS a memorial to those members Of
the Bachelors club who were killed or
died Of wounds OF disease in the South
African war bed is to be endowed in
London, tablet being placed over the
bed stating that it is In memory of the
thirty members of the club who fell
in the war.
Two years ago the German Colonial
society offered n priZe for the finding