Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-01-15

Five hundred and thirty-two tons or
cigarettes were exported last year from
Egypt.
Great quantities Of cheap American
cigarettes are being smoked by natives
In India
Lectures on advertising are being
given twice a week In the Commercial
college at Prague.
Coke, byproduct In the manufac-
ture Of gas. has increased 200 per cent
In price In five years.
Over $4,000 rabbits have been trapped
during the past year in the municipal
rabbit warren at Torquay.
The only way to tell birdseye maple
tree Is TO cut 1t. There are no outward
signs by which one can Judge
There are 4.33S one room tenements
at Plymouth occupied by families con-
sisting In some cases OF eight persons.
Overworked seamstresses In Berlin
are TO benefit by legacy OF $25O,OOO
left by German bookseller named
Balm.
As the hay crop in Lapland has been
a total failure, the peasants are slaugh
tering their cattle. entire carcasses be-
ing sold for as little as $15.
A French statistician estimates the
number of cows in the civilized world
at 63,SS0,000 and the amount Of butter
they yield at 2,64O,OOO tons a year.
Six thousand cartridges, several RI
fles and number of pompom and IF
teen FOUNDER shells have been dug up
near Klerksdorp. western Transyaal.
First class briquettes are sold in Ber-
lin and Germany generally for $317
ton and this is the highest price known
since they became an article of COM
merce.
Five thousand dollars has been paid
for the drinking glass used by the late
empress OF Austria while taking the
waters at -Schwalbach. near
Wiesbaden
Six employees of Barrow (England)
engineering firm have received prizes
ranging from 50 to $50 for suggestions
tending to the more economical produc-
ton of work.
Recent legislation in some OF the
peach states compels the removal of
the pink tarlatan netting which does
so much to give an attractive color TO
the green and unripe fruit and fool the
buyer
The National museum at Belgrade
has come into possession of a collection
of 6S0OO Roman copper coins recently
unearthed near a Servian village. The
oldest of them were in the time Of Car
acalla.
Experiments conducted in California
and recently reported to the Botanical
Society of America indicate that bees
are active agents in the spread Of pear
blight at the period when the trees are
in bloom.
Seventy sepulchral urns containing
old coin and other relics dating from
the Augustan epoch have been discov-
cred at Aquileia. the ancient Roman
tower near Trest which was destroyed
by Attila.
Treasury figures show deposits in the
banks and trust concerns of the coun-
try aggregating $500, 000, 900, or about
sos per capita. The total of available
cash in the country is something more
than 81, 800, 100000, or less than $50 per
capita.
English firms are trying to secure a
market for soap in India, but up to the
present time that country has remained
practically soapless. Indeed, through
out Hindustan soap is regarded as
rather a curiosity and rarely If ever
kept in stock by the native storekeeper.
Hannibal Mo-, has Tower of Babel.
Fourteen languages are spoken at the
cement plant there Among the work
men are Austrians, Poles, Spaniards.
Italians. Roumanians, Slavs. Greeks
Hungarians, Russians, Frenchmen
Germans, Irishmen. Cinnamon and
| Americans
Germany Is gradually dismantling
her old time fortresses. The old FORTH
cations of Mainz and Of Cologne have
been torn down, and now it is the turn
Of Ulm, in whose old tower the capitu.
lation of 1905 took place. Part of the
walls OF Metz have disappeared, and
at Thionville they are tearing down
Vauban's famous ramparts.
The latest development of screw pro-
pellers is due to Mr.. G. A. Parsons.
The blades are given reduced pitch to-
ward their tips, small vanes being also
provided on the propeller cone, and the
effect is to admit of high speed with
out captivation and to give greater
mean thrust than Is possible with
blades of constant or increasing pitci..
DIR. Calvello, an Italian, has discov-
cred that o per cent of essence OF
thyme and Is per cent of essence Of
geranium make an excellent disinfect-
ant when freely used for the hands Of
medical operators. AS these essences
enter largely into the composition of
eau de cologne, II follows that this
scent is good antiseptic for ordinary
purposes
Outside Stornoway, In the island OF
Lewis Is a farmer who brings his
horse and cart into the town of Storno-
way on market days. Whenever he
reaches the inn quart Of beer in
pewter is placed before his steed. who
drinks ID leisurely without ever SHILLING