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and never came to any practical
use.
One firm in Germany has made
and sold three million thermome-
tcrs during the last five years, and
the temperature is just as variable
as ever.
At present 100000 acres of to-
bacco are cultivated in the Z. S.,
producing 6OO,OOO,OO0 pounds per
annum. Kentucky is the banner
tobacco state-Yirgima next in or
der.
! California ostrich feathers arc
said to be very much finer than
those plucked from the birds IN
Africa, while the yield per bird is
greater.
Senator Edmunds Is said to be
losing flesh. Kicking at a man en-.
tirely beyound ones reach isn't
exactly the most fattening occupa.
tion.-Charleston News and Cour-
Ter.
The Senate could have done so
much solid good rejecting bad
nominations that it is more and
more amazing that they ran off at
ter party moonshlne.-Springfeld
Republican, Ind.
Pennsylvania has u standing
army OF ignoranee-325,O 900 chill
dren who do not attend the public
schools. Lack of proper accom-
mediation, as we'll as disinclination
on the part of the children is said
to be the cause.
A London correspondent says:
GAS much as the English affect to
dispise American literature they
acknowledge that they are COM
PEELED to seek the writings of
American humorlsts when they
want fun"
About per cent. of all deaths
are classed as sudden. Of these
four out of five are referabIe to
causes acting directly on the brain
and its appendages; one in seven
to the heart, and one in seventy
five to the lungs.
The object of the American Ex-
hibItion to be opened in London
next May, is to place before the
British purchaser the products of
the American manufacturers. The
British Colonial Exhibition will
be in progress at the same time.
1t has boon estimated that an
IRON car wheel will travel some
10000 miles while steel tire
will run the enormous distance of
100000 miles before wearing out;
thus, though costing so much more,
steel has greatly the advantage.
Every once in u while we hear
of a California woman killing a
bear. This is all right. But we
challenge tho world TO ransack the
pages of history and show where !
woman has ever got away with a /
mouse.
A lions cub born in England and I
sucked by n dog grew strong and
lusty, loved Its foster-mother and |
now refuses to eat meat. Cooked !
meat it downs with avidity. Many
of its natural characteristics seem
to have been materially modified
by Its carly dict.
The Mormon women vigorously |
assert that is is their InalIenable
right to marry and vote as often as
they please. Their right 10 assert
this cannot be denied, but the penis
tertiary door yawns for those who
pass from words to provable acts
of the character referred to.-Na-
tional Republican.
The Rome GA Courier reports
a tremendous landslide. A few
days ago about one mile of the
north side of Seraper mountain,
five miles from Sterling, slid down
into the valley, choking up the
Chattanooga river. The noise of the
avalanche was heard distance OF
ten miles.
Since the new Pennsylvania
marriage law went into effect there
has been a falling off in marriages
of about three hundred in four
months, as compared with the
same period of year ago. The
chief reason soems to be the re-
quirement of the consent of pa
rents or guardians.
There are 2S5, 100000 acres oflm-
proved land in the United States,
450, 900, 900 of forest, and 100000
600 acres OF unimproyed and waste
untimbered land. Forests are dis
appearing at the rate of 25,000,-
900 acres each year. The forest
product during the last census
year was $4,000, 100000 teet board
measure q year ago it was 2S,-
900, 900 feet.
In New York a few nights ago a
sad-faced woman had 4 variants
sued, as last resort, IN the hopo
of checking her sons dissipation.
She was on her way home, accom-
panied by an officer, when she sud
denly paused, mOaned, "Oh, my
God, my heart is breaking" sunk
to the sidewalk, and was soon dead.
William X. VanderbIlts yacht.
which the Harlan & Hollingsworth
Company have the contract for
building, is to cost S35O,OQ0, The
engine will DO Of compound burtace
condenslng type. The saloon will
be forward, where the least motion
is. The yacht will be lighted by
electricity and built more for COM
fort than speed.
Times-Demccrat: The Frankfort
nv conan has suspended pub
LEGATION. The Yeoman was first
published in 1910. 1t was really q
rlvival of the Argus of Western
America, which was founded in
1903, and edited by Amos Kendall