People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-09-01
GENERAL NOTES.

London uses 10000 cabs.
A wagon is run by benzina
Italy yields he finest coral.
The most used letter Is "E.n
Bricks ale made OF sawdust.
A pony cost $3.50 in Oregon.
Iceland has an elder duck farm.
Germans are colonizing in Texas.
Arkansas reports smokeless coal.
Pompeii iginated canned goods.
American firemen lead the world.
A Texas family owns 5000, 600 acres.
Lace employs 1900 girls in Ire and
Siberia reports exbaustless petroleum.
A Pullman sleeper weighs $4,000
pounds.
Emperor William paid $4,000 for a
toy fort.
vanderbilts own $4,000 acres in North
Carolina
Michigan yields half our oil Of pepper
mint.
The Great Mogul diamond weighed 79S
carats.
Nearly every bank can stand home
better than o cashiers run to Canada.
The United States acreage in grain is
greater than the entire erea Of the Ger
man empire.
Paris has an insurance company that
refuses to insure the life Of any oDe who
uses hair dye.
Southern Pacific locomotives will soon
use for fuel bricks made OF coal dust and
asphaltum.
Twelve years ago one sailor in every
lO6 who went to sea lost his life. Now
only one in 25G is lost
The theorists have had the floor for
some time. Now give the statesmen a
chance.
The Navy Department buys annually
about 1875 900 pounds Of pure natural Leaf
tobacco for Jack Tar.
A hive Of 5000 Lees should produce SO
pounds OF honey every year and multiply
ten-fold In five years.
Bohemia has nearly 40, 900 separat,
manufactures, more than there are in any
other province in Austria.
The Standard Oil Company viii real
the benefit OF the high tariff which keep,
Russian oil out Of Germany.
Trolleycuted is O word that the Brook
Ign Coroner will soon be- compelled 4
add to his official yc, abulary.
What the free silver men are really
clamoiing for is the privilege of payinl
for the pig they have borrowed with 1
pup
The Mayor OF Shepherdtown, W. Va
recently fined himself for letting his COW
run at large, violation Of the town
ordinance
A Western geologist says that Kansal
can raise wheat for another 1000 year
before exhausting the necessary proper
ties Of the soil.
The Republican newspapers that ar,
doing their best to increase fir ancia
T stringency and business depression, ar,
public enemies.
"A man may clothe himself in righteous
ness, but he will have to wear also som,
more modern sty.e Of apparel II be seek
a well paying job
A shiugle was removed last October
from the roof Of the Congregations
Church, at Pennington, Conn, where /
had been since I'LL.
The man who hides his money in
stocking instea Of putting it into
bank, may have lots OF caution. but will
never be arrested for being too sensible
1t Is seldom that wood which has grow
more than 1000 years before the Chris
tian era is used in the construction OF
present day residence, and yet this reall,
happened recently in Edinburg, where
mantelpiece was fashioned from WOO,
said to be 5000 years old.
The value of Southern ciops this yea
is over one thousand million dollars; tn
smallest item is rice, worth ten million
cotton is worth 232 millions; cereals 3sl
millions. The South Is making wonder
full progress in agricultural. manufactur
ing and mining. At the present rate o
progress it will be the wealthiest section
of the country in ten years from now.