Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-01-15
FACTS IN FEW LINES

japan.
There are $500 boys In the British
navy. including GOO under training.
Millions Of mussels have recently
been, washed ashore near Swansea,
Wales
In Berlin S33 public buildings are
owned by the state and 497 by The
municipality.
Bicycles are taxed In Vancouver, Il.
c., the municipal revenue from that
source last year being f557.
Penrith. Cumberland. England, Is TO
be lighted By electricity. power being
obtained from the river lamont
Wire screens are now placed in the
tramway cars AT New Orleans to sepa,
rate negroes from white passengers.
While 1880 coal cutting machines are
used In United States mines there are
less than 40o such machines in British
eollierics.
Her puppy having died fox terrier
X at Twickenllam Is now contentedly act
Ing as foster mother to couple of
young kittens.
Under light anRsthesia ammonia ap-
piled TO cats nose will cause car
I diO inhibition and rise of blood pres
sure In rabbits the effect is the same
Bullets shot in military target prac-
tice nowadays are caught OH an in
clined surface made of sheet iron back
\ Of the target. are remelted and become
bullets again.
In Worcestershire. England. 400 VIC
men are engaged making anchors,
while 703 others make needles and
LOLA nails Nearly all are married wo
men or widows
By order of the Japanese empress
wooden legs have just been distributed
to the seven manned survivors of the
Aomori disaster, when 300 Japanese
soldiers were frozen to death.
Reports flom Manitoba show an i'm.
mense Increase in the production of
wheat In that section. This must to n
greater or lesser extent affect the pro.
duction of this grain i'm the United
States
The decision OF the directors of the
theater ut Halle, i'm Germany, to, dis
tinguish by means of red and white
advertising posters between plays that
are ft for young persons to witness
and those that are not is causing some
amusement
AS model Munich sculptor has
| hired full grown lion from menag.
erie. The ;rimal eats twelve pounds
I0f InD, 1,.;r
Ions OF milk. The cost of it's food and
its keepers pay is so n day The
menagerie is to receive $1,000 If the
lion dies.
According to the statistical register
of South Australia. Germany supplies
considerably more than half of the for
eigDers who take out papers of natu.
ralization. Out of a total of 3.7G3 the
Germans numbered 2,604. China came
next, with PSI then Scandinavia. 27O.
and Austria. Is.
An international agreement for the
protection &c birds that are useful to
agriculture was signed at Paris this
year by representatives of Belgium,
France. Switzerland. Sweden. Spain,
Portugal. ustria-Hungary. Greece and
the principalities of Monaco. Lichtcn
stein and Luxembourg.
The kaiser has had carriage built
from his own designs for use for his
correspondence on the field 1t is
drawn by six horses and is always near
at hand. Writing material is stored in
drawers, ard by letting down a panel
a convenient writing table is formed
1t has Il roof and canvas sides. permit.
ting its use i'm all weathers.
A typewriter for the pocket is one Of
the latest bits of American ingenuity
specially designed To meet the require
ments of journalists and authors who
need to take notes under conditions
where pencil and paper would not be
convenient. 1t may be worked without
removing the hands from the pocket
1t Is four inches long by three inches
wide
In a dispatch from Moscow the cor.
respondent OF the London DAILY Mail
says that DR.. KOulatke has succeeded
in his experiments In terminating the
heart of al infant which he had ex-
tracted from child who had died
twenty-four hours previously The
heart beat with normal regularity for
one hour. DR.. Koulatke hopes that his
discovery will assist in termination in
cases of death by drowning.
1t has been suggested that memo
rial window be- placed IN Westminster
abbey In lonCr of the late Duke OF
Westminster Considerable indignant
protest is being heard on the ground
that such honor should he reserved for
really great men. One critic says: "He
was merely II good average duke Of a
kind that we breed as easily as we
breed good average grocers 1t is in
tolerable that Westminster abbey
should be spoiled To do him postum
nous honor"
The bulk Of the British preserves is
made in London. \ reliable estimate
gives the weekly output by London
makers as 800 to GOO tons. and this out
put Is annually increasing. Taking the
average net profit AT $50 per ton. the
total profit amounts " about $1,000 |