Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-05-18
FACTS IN FEW LINES

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 q mining tunnel.
and the tunnel makes a roomy and Sc
cure %calaboose.
Greeks to the number Of 1900 a
mont land in New York city. A ma
!orlty 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.
lance, or kill a man after passing
through the trunk Of a thick tree.
SigRor Garofalo, the Italian criminol-
og1st, reckons that throughout Europe
10000 persons are annually condemned
for murder and that only n 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 i'm the western city
talks daily with it's representatives In
Boston.
| Upon the spot where the Grand Duke
Sergius was killed was found a 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 additionally 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 Lyle creek into San
B~ernardino, CAL, for building purposes
yielded SIS worth Of gold to a pros
pector, whose experienced eye had not
ed The metals glitter as he was pass
ing it.
One Of the strangest Of the many
strange finds in the famous opal fields
in New South Wales was unearthed re-
Gently. 1t was a 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
his trade had been ruined by the adj
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
620 in 1904. This is about 80 for ev-
| cry 100000 inhabitants. Paris has 26.
Vienna %, Rome IS and London 10.
Out Of 1884 girls who have grad
uated from the University Of Michi-
gan since 1870, when it became a 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.
A recent statement that the present
ivory consumption represents the an
nual slaughter Of 10000 elephants is
denied. At least IS per cent Of market
ed ivory comes from the cemeteries to
| which the elephants have long resorted,
and much Of it may be hundreds Of
years old.
Pere Chapel, who recently died at
Liege, Belgium, made a good living by
coloring meerschaum pipes. His secret
was to smoke regularly but very slow
ly, never to allow the pipe to get foul
or to be subject to drafts or sudden
changes Of temperature and to
smoke out Of doors.
The maintenance Of safety III the ru-
raj districts Of Cuba and along high
ways is intrusted to the care Of the ru-
raj guard Of Cuba, a body Of excellent
men, we'll mounted and equipped, num-
boring q chief, 1853 officers and 1856
men. 1t is intended to increase the
number Of men to 1000.
Our heaviest import for 1904 was cot
fee, valued at $s7,427, O99, followed by
sugar (Which has hitherto been first in
value), hides, vegetable fibers, wool,
lumber, fruit, tea, tobacco and oils, no
other product going over the $10,O00,-
900 mark, although a number, includ-
ing cocoa and chocolate, came close.
The postmaster general of Great
Britain has a staff under his control
bigger than the standing British army.
The postal system keeps busy from
100000 to 100000 men and women. The
postottice is among the most profitable
enterprises in England. With an outlay
Of f1O,OO0,OOO it makes a profit Of near
ly t 1000, 900 sterling.
1t appears that the Turks did not OBJ
ject to the sale of Bibles in Macedonia
or Argentina, feeling quite sure they
will convert no Mussulmans. but they
objected to the distribution Of Bibles
with inserted pages Of revolutionary
and seditious matter. All the porte re-
uuires Is that the Bibles shall be gen
nine from cover to cover.