The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-10
FACTS IN FEW LINES

The ST. Gothard tunnel cost S7GO per
square yard.
It is stated that the shah's jewels are
valued at $5OO00,0O0.
The imports to this country Of trop.
ical and subtroplcal products will
amount this year TO at least $6O0000,-
coo.
Mayor Morrow Of Benton Harbor,
Mich, threw the key of his grocery
store into the canal five years ago. and
the place has not been locked since.
A tramp saved a child of John Schuy.
ler near Lakewood, y. j., from icy wa
ter and surprised Schuyler 10y accept
ing work rather than money as his re-
ward.
Calcium chloride never should he
used I'm an antfreeHing solution If IT be
liable to come in contact with alumni
ium, as It Is almost certain to corrode
the metal.
A red haired girl went to Duluth
masquerade wrapped from neck to an
lilcs in white linen ana with her head
bare She said she represented light
ed cigarette
The measures and weights which
were in vogue in the reign Of Kang Iii.
early in the present dynasty, are again
to be put i'm force in China with slight
notifications.
The tunnels under the Hudson river
connecting New York and New Jersey
were opened to the public Feb 25,
President Roosevelt touching a button
in the White House.
The telephoto attachment has proved
splendid addition 70 the use of n
camera 1t was designed TO enable the
photographer to obtain magnihed pic
lures of scenery and buildings at n
considerable distance
The vault in the churchyard of st.
Puul's ct Brooklyn has been sealed all
the places in it having been filed with
the remains of men and women who
were pioneers in establishing the Cath
olic faith on Long Island.
In remote villages Of the Salzkam.
mcrgut, Hungary, the mania for things
English is so strong that the postboys
frequently remove English stamps from
letters and substitute hungarian, thus
delaying the delivery Of the letters.
In the stomach of steer recently
slaughtered in Chicago there were
found four cigarettes, silk undcrycst
two pages of Robert Browning, a small
aerOplane model three columns of
stock quotations ana q map OF Paris.
OF strictly military schools there are
lT5 throughout the land. Nearly every
state has Mt least one, New York has
thlrty-two, New Jersey nine Pennsyl
vania eleven. North Carolina seven
Texas nine, Wisconsin four. California
nine and Illinois five.
Tools of stone used by the Indians OF
the north shore three and -four contu
ries and more ago have been gathered
by Joseph +. Andrews of North Bever
ly, Mass, into one Of the best private
collections of relics of the stone age
He picked up most all OF the stone tool.
on his farm.
The production of gold in the Unltcj
States fell Off $l7534O1 in 1907 rs
against 1906, whereas the amount o.
silver produced was increased by owe
l,00000O fine ounces. Alaska's golr
production fell Off a little more than
$3,000,00o, according to the report o
the director Of the mint.
Emperor William OF Germany com
mends the English dwelling house sya
tenn as against the fat systcm pvcya
lent in Berlin ana other German cities
The houses even of the poorest work
men, said the emperor have a com
Portable, homClikc atmosphere, with IA
abundance Of flowers inside and out
side.
Sir Caspar Purdon Clarke recent.
charged New York with having few o
no satisfactory buildings. What Tn
city had, he said, were pieces of seen
cry instead Of buildings that is, the.
were structures having elaborate fl
cades OF stone ana backs of plain brick
Front and back bore no correspondence
to each other.
DR. Sven IIcdin, the Swedish cX
plorer, states that he has discovers
| lut lIut SuulifN VI lllt pIullllUplll
and Indus. The Brahmaputra, h
says, Is the kubitsampso, which rise
from an enormous glacier on the north
, ern side OF the northernmost parable
range of the Uimalayas. TheNIarum
chu, which has hitherto been regardc
! as the source is merely u small tribu
tary flowing in from the west.
: The island Of Cclebes, nearly half q
which is stil almost unknown, ha
now been conncclcd by cable with tn
| ncighbor.nS island OF Borneo and ais
with the American island Of Guam
far to the north. 1t has thus bee
brought into close touch with the res
of the world, for it is Joined to a
parts of tho eastern hemisphcr
through Borneo ana to the wcster
hemisphere through Guam and Sa
/ Francisco
The Countess Of Warwick, the S.
ciaIist pceress, Is busily engaged /
writing her memoirs, which she hope
to see published within the next fe'
months. Although she is comparatlyel
young (her Age is forty-siX), Lady Wa
Nvialy Itt1insy tin, lost txVanIv ,,oorq br