The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-02-24
FACTS IN FEW LINES

In LONDON tnere Is one clergyman 70
every 1000 persons.
johannesburg has taxable valua-
tion Of $500, ,O00,0 900 in real estate.
The family wealth in Dutch Guiana
Is put into jewelry, which the wife
wears. VI.
The Bar association, tile most influ-
entail organization of its kind in the
UAiled States. haS membership Of
1914. 81
|FxSseatssB sBritaiAn1ln essAnxsste1 iAxfps.
elgn bonds over- $t5.000 o0o. 600, OF
which $500, 100000 Il, ,ip, AWerlca, not
including Canada. h&VS coim
The largest department store in the
far east was recently opened In Shang-
hal. 1t Is five stories high and Is own,
ed by an English company.
Waiting 10 be operated on in Brus-
sells hospital, young man. became SO
nervous that he went into an empty
! room and hanged himself with his
handkerchief.
Morris Lippman, aged twenty.three
years, of New York laughed SO much
that an attack of heart disease follow
ed, and he died before physician
| could reach him.
! On Eagle island. Maine, off the South
Harpswell shore, Commander Pcary's
Eskimo dogs are enjoying life this
! winter There are twelve Of the Jold
ones and eight puppies.
More than ten years ago Mrs. Sophia
Wilson OF Clayton, n. j., lost silver
thimble. While in the woods the 9TH
or day her daughter found the thimble.
How It got TO the woods is mystery.
Captain George II. Pettls, state seal.
er Of weights, In his annual report
states that there are more than 1000
| coal baskets I'm use in Rhode Island
that are not Of the size required by the
statutes. fi'~r era
The fire commissioners of Flndlay,
O., have declared that small men make
the best fircmen. They have changed
the rules of qualification, for the de-
partment SO that a man FIVE feet six
inches can become member.
Lions are plentiful in Portuguese
East Africa, and that region is para
disc for hunters of big game, In some
sections the authorities offer a reward
for each lions head brought in. and
they permit the hunter to keep the
skin.
Missionary Sarah ]. Bird says that
! learning inhabits the lowly New York
Bowery as well as Morningside
heights. II saw three men bending
over table In lodging house one
night and found they were translating
the Had" she adds. Ses. ~
Nearly nifty men were arralgned in
n New York police court recently for
peddllng without license. Most Of
them were mechanics or tailors who
were forced to peddle on the street be-
cause Of hard times. One cent fine
each was inflicted OIL five of them.
The new, Swiss stamp shows Hepric
holding his fathers cfossbow in one
hand and the arrow pierced apple IN
the other. The other stamp of the Sc
ries depicts Helvetia. the allegorical
impersonation of Switzerland. with the
Alps mountains In the background.
The Cheshire, National bank Of
Keene, n. H., recently received from
gentleman living In Massachusetts
four dollar bill issued by the bank
when 1t was state institution in 1906
This bill completes the file of all the
issues of bills since the bank was char
tered In 1903. 81 s. ~. 4
The Greek naval authorities have de-
cided upon a complete reorganization
of their feet and have requested Ad-
mlral Fournier Of EtAeaA A,reRehg stleet Ito
undertake the supervision of it, 1t Is
very possible that foreign loan will
be floated for the purpose Of providing
funds for the coming reorganization.
In the will of the late banker poet.
Edmund Clarence Stedman. he be-
queathed his chief literary treasures
to the library Of Yale university.
Among the requests are the testators
editions and texts of the Greek IDEAL
lists, his edition of Theocrltus (possibly
the only one In this country and other
rare books.
Herr Bebcl. the Socialist leader Of
the German rcichsiag, has Informed
the American Socialist party that his
visit to the United States must be In
definitely postponed. because the state
OF his health will not permit him to
take on any additional work. He had
planned to deliver series of addresses
in the principal cities. tyl, aa
1t is reported, with entire plausibili-
ty, that practically every one of the
5000 twenty dollar gold pieces that
formed what may he called the first
edition Of the st. Gaudens eagles has
already been withdrawn from clrcula-
tion and, having been carefully laid
away by the coin collectors. will never
again serve as currency.
The Pacific Scientific Institution has
been incorporated at Honolulu for the
purpose OF making full ethnograph-
ical and biological survey of the nu,
merous little known islands of the Pa
cifc ocean. 1t Is said that the enter
prise is to be amply financed and that
1t has the approval of the leading sci
entists Of America and Great Britain.
1t is only few years since butter
wss unknown TO tbe hYlfi9ese, ils Ykepxit