The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-11
FACTS IN FEW LINES

a uTug StOTe III NlOSCOW mas Sluu
of 200 employees.
Alexander the Great when on cam
palgn ate the rations 'of common
soldier.
The passenger traffic over the Eng
lsh channel last year was 41S,4S0, an
increase of 1900 over the preceding
year.
The aggregate value OF Canadian
cheese and butter exports for 1907 was
about 500, 100000, which Is $G,000,000
less than the figure for 1906.
The Times of Ceylon says that the
lottery operated in Colombo and made
attractive by speclous advertising Is n
fraud and warns the public against II.
The stamps at Kalgurll's golden mill,
New South Wales, have produced
gold valued at $16O,0O0 1t costs S2j
to haul cord of sagcbrush. the mis-
erable fuel used Mt the batteries.
Because the clerk OF the license court
had lost the key to his office j. l.. Bar
tholow and Miss Rinn NJ. pedcock OF
Chicago were forced TO climb twen-
ty foot ladder to get inside the house
In order TO get their marriage papers
French business interests in the
western Sudan have grown until the
telephone has become necessity. Hun
dreds OF natives are now engaged In
stringlng telephone wire TO the. Niger
and down that river TO Timbuktu.
All the dramatic critics Of Lugnno.
Switzerland, have gone on strike. They
refuse to attend the theaters unless
they are given three tickets for the
first performance of each new produc-
tion.
A stamp collector. aged flfty-six. at
st. Josse. Belgium, was so overcome
with grief because his album had nc
cldentally been burned that he commit
ted suicide by suifocatlng himself with
the half charred pages of the book
BY the use of steam launches I'm the
rubber industry on the upper Amazon
the town of Iqultos has risen to such
importance that monthly steamship
service has been established between
that town and Liverpool. only rubber
being carried.
Tzu Hsl, the dowager empress of
China, has issued IN edlct giving the
servants of the imperial palace three
months In which 10 abandon opium
smoking. Any one caught using the
drug after that date Is to rcpoive 100
strokes with an iron rod
A gigantic tray OF solid silver wplgh-
Ing more than 10000 ounces has Just
been made by a firm In London for an
oriental potentate. The tray Is aey,J
feet In diameter and IL said 10 ljo the
largest ever executed. II has been In
the hands of workmen for over u year
Conrad Skarstedt. prominent Swcd
lsh hortlcuturist, is In New York. liav-
ing come from Sweden with the o., ,ct
of attempting TO Introduce into Aulerl-
ca the llgnon berry. which IL si3:l'r
to the American cranberry. The berry
is one of the popular fruits of Sweden,
and Mr.. Skarstedt believes that It win
prove no less popular In America.
Colonel Edward II. Fox, who hns rc.
tired as executive clerk TO the governor
OF New Jersey after continuous sery-
ice of more than forty-two years, has
been accorded by the legislature the
unusual privilege of taking with him
into private life the well worn desk at
which he has labored so long and SO
faithfully. A
The Santa Veracruz church, one %
the oldest and most artistic Catholid
temples of Mexico, Is threatening td
collapse rs consequence of the dam.
age caused by the formidable earths
quake of April II last. The church wag
erected between the years 1870 and
1926, nearly 400 years ago, but Its conS
structlon Is superb.
While IL Is estimated that there afa
In British Columbia Approximately
l50000,000 acres of timber lands res
naming unsold and unleased, 1t Is also
true that so far G,500000 acres, CONS
prlslng the most valuable and lccessb
ble portions Cf the whole, have already
been staked and generally are In posS
session OF nonresdents, mostly Amers
leans or syndicates backed by AmerlS
can capital. "a
prcVuehpy uhc IeHi eotute VI lusleru
In New York remind ms that IL o wifo
Of Bishop Henry g. Potter Is womau
Of vast wealth. The latest reporo
shows that she has taken title TO the
entire block on Washington heights
bounded by Broadway and st Nichs
olas avenue, One Hundred and Severn
ty-iirst and One Hundred and 'ventyA
second streets. The block intainn
about fifteen lots. n
"rhe Heavenly Twins is the appeT
latlon attached TO two members Of tha
house. They are james Sherp an on