Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-06-29
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The Simplon tunnel through the Alps
has cost $40 for each of it's 774,73G
inches.
On the continent of Europe the lon
gest telephone line is 742 miles In length
and runs between Berlin and Paris.
The government of New South Wales
has sanctioned the erection of two
state institutions for the treatment Of
lnebriates without means.
The town Of Kenneth, CAL, has no
jail building, so it has put an iron
door at the mouth of mining tunnel,
and the tunnel makes q roomy and Sc
cure calaboose.
Greeks to the number of 1900 a
month land in New York city. A ma
jority Of them make their homes there,
superseding, or at least rivaling, the
Italians In many minor trades.
The modern bullet will pierce the
carcasses Of three horses in succession
at $50 yards, Of four at half the dis
tance, or kill man after passing
| through the trunk of thick tree.
Sigacr Garofalo, the Italian criminol-
ogist, reckons that throughout Europe
10000 persons are annually condemned
for murder and that only one criminal
out Of three is brought to justice
The longest distance over which
speech is regularly transmitted is be-
tween Boston and Omaha, 1000 miles.
| A business house In the western city
talks daily with it's representatives in
Boston.
Upon the spot where the Grand Duke
sergius was killed was found q large
sapphire that had been torn by the ex-
plosion out Of a ring he was wearing.
The flames Of the bomb had turned the
sapphire black.
The new railway that is being built
in Arabia will pass close to the rock
hewn tomb traditionally believed to be
Aaron's burial place. A buried and
long forgotten city was discovered re-
Gently near by.
The remains Of some sand that had
been carted from Lytle creek into San
Bernardino, CAL, for building purposes
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pector, whose experienced eye had not
ed the metals glitter as he was pass
Ing 1t.
One of the strangest Of the many
strange finds in the famous opal fields
In New South Wales was unearthed re-
Gently 1t was fossil shark that had
became opalized. The fossil is over
three feet long and eighteen inches In
circumference.
A bankrupt wooden box maker re-
Gently stated in a London court that
bis trade had been ruined by the ad-
vance in the price Of sugar. Confec-
toners and candy manufacturers were
economizing by doing without wooden
boxes and cases.
There are more suicides in Berlin
every year than in any other Euro
pean city, and the figures show steady
increase, growing from 434 in 1900 to
62O in 1904. This is about 80 for ev-
cry 100000 inhabitants. Paris has 26,
Vienna %, Rome 1S and London 13.
Out of 1854 girls who have grad
uated from the University Of Michi-
gan since 1870, when it became CO.
educational! institution, only sixty-fve
have died. The census death rate for
womankind In general for the same pc
Rod Of time is 22s out of every 1000.
AS the result OF severe illness Mrs.
John J. Gruber Of Norristown, Pa, lost
her voice over year ago. The other
day she was startled to see neighbor
! rush past her house whose dress was
, in flames. Without the least delay
| Mrs Gruber rushed to an open windov
, and called loudly for help. She has
been able to speak ever since.
The Irish corporations have not been
forgetful Of the press. The mayor Of
: Cork is the proprietor Of a newspaper
/ the proprietors and editors Of the Xii
kenny Journal, Drogheda Argus, Tip
f perary Free Press and Sligo Champion
, have seats in their respective corpora
8 tions, and the editors Of the Freeman
Register and Nation are In the Dublin