The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1910-02-15
FACTS IN FEW LINES

Barcelona has a colony OF some
5000 Latin American residents.
England sends many of her orphan
| and deserted children TO Canada.
In Australia there are practically no
women in business or public offices.
In most of the criminal courts of In
dia the presiding magistrates are In
dams.
At the beginning of 1909 there were
4,T56 miles of telegraph lines IN Vene-
zuela. with 1G9 Offices.
Gasllghting has recently been boom.
ed in Japan. and some ten new com
| panies are to be tloated.
The government of Venezuela has
given to a company a lease of the salt
monopoly for four years.
In the United Kingdom 100000
tons of coal and G0.000,000 gallons Of
oil are used annually in gas making.
The American red gum is entering
largely into the manufacture of furni-
ture. Early objections to its use have
been overcome,
Metal melts more rapidly IN cupola
on cold day because the draft from
the blower generally comes from out
Of doors. where the moisture has been
frozen out of the air.
A monument recently was erected
in Nuremberg, Germany. to the men,
ory Of Peter Henlien. who first substi-
tuted springs for weights in the clock
and made the watch possible.
The Bank of Spain is about to aban-
don its policy of combining its banking
relations to the Spanish peninsula.
Branches are to be established in the
principal Latin-American certers.
! A committee of German aviators has
figured that 1t wGjld cost 100000 to
build dirlgibc balloon big enough to
carry eighteen Passengers In addition
to its crew and 1915 day to operate
it.
New York tradesmen find that ex
tremes meet when they have theii
greatest trouble in collecting money
Y from customers who have no money
3 and from customers who have the
, most money.
North Queensland diocese has al
area of 100000 square miles and {
population of 100000, but only fifteer
clergymen. said the bishop of LondoI
in a missionary appeal at the churcl
house, Westminster.
At twenty-one Alexander stood a
the head of his army on the plains o
Thessay, Wilberforce entered parla
nd Ia m "a
poem, Jerusalem Delivered" whlcl
took ten years to complete.
China's ministry of the interior ha'
decided on the period from the sey
enth TO the sixteenth year as the ag
Of minority and study and has decree
that from the sixteenth to the forfeit
:, year shall be the age of manhood fo
; Chinese peopre,
In the antarctic regions Lieutenan
/ Shackleton discovered rotifers. o
Z wheel anlmalcules. In n temperature
y of 80 to GO degrees below zero. The,
l. were brought home and subjected t.
n temperature of 200 degrees f. AM
n are still alive and producing families.
It After about eighty shots the rifiin
-, Of the present twelve inch gun of $50
foot seconds velocity becomes so bad
ly worn as to destroy the accuracy.
- the case OF the new fourteen inch gu
y the erosion is much less. and the gu
will be serviceable for about 300 dh
\. charges.
h, 1t has been calculated that rain
st day makes difference OF over $500
n 600 to shopkeepers In the west end Q
= London alone. While nearly all classe
OF tradesmen are grumbllng and groar
ing, the tobacconist, however. cheel
fully rubs his hands. The rain II
ii creases his takings by about 10 pc
At cent.
lie Fourteen young women have bee
lie established as ticket sellers at til
e, subway stations of the Hudson rive
tunnel system. The general manage
y, of the system Is reported to have sal
that these young ticket sellers are pal
, at the same rate as men and al
- quicker In giving change and MOI
III courteous.
of The distance between Damascus an
le Pagdad, the largest cities In Turkey
Asia, Is less than 500 miles again
n 1900 miles between Port Said an
,e Bagdad by sea and river. Damascl
&c Is slxty-hve miles inland from Il
). Mediterranean coast and may Co
" veniently be reached from Suedla,
is the mouth OF the Orontes, or fro
rt Haifa.
OIL America was represented by on
twenty delegates at the information
Ill road builders convention in Paris
r. year ago. The next convention W
,k meet In Brussels. beginning on Ju
o. 10, under the patronage of Albert
49, the new Belgian king. He has cause
y invitations to be forwarded to eve
s- state In the Union asking for two d.
egates from each.
O. In answer to deputation from BE
as mia which came to present their
ry spects the Austrian emperor mere
\ do A