Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1895-11-08
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lin England one man out of each 500
gets Il collegiate education; i'm America
one out of each 200.
There are 700 golf clubs at present
in Great Britain, with about $4,000
players. American.
An order has been enacted by the
city council of Charlotte, n. c., filming
a minor S25 on being found in saloon.
A connisseur of cats, living i'm
| Westfield, Mass, has twenty-three eats
in his house. One he values at 81 900.
Mr.. Giffin, the statician, says that
in Great Britain the average wages per
annum for men is 1896 and for women
Sl25.
In the twenty-siX weeks of Pa
derewski's second American tour the
receipts for admission to his concerts
were SlS0,000.
The Venetian government was the
first civilized power to use powder, and
they employed the first cannon in the
battle of Chioz, in 1918.
Z Letters received from whaling ships
in the Pacific Arctic say that the ice
has formed earlier and HEAVIER this year
than ever known before.
The sundews are carnivorouS plants.
When an insect touches the liquid on
the leaves it Is held while the leaf
| covers over it, smothering it.
School teachers under contract with
the school board of Chehalis, Wash,
are prohibited, by an order issued by
the board from dancing or playing
cards.
Z Neah Bay, Washington, is the
wettest place in all that wet state, and
perhaps the rainiest spot in the whole
country. The average annual rainfall
there is l23 inches.
Z A telephone wire is carried mile
and half without support over Lake
Wallen, between Quinten and Murg,
in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzer-
land.-Scientific American.
The wife of George Rhode, an en-
ploye of the Lockport Paper Company,
recently gave birth to a triplet, two boys
and girl. The father of the children
is a German, and the mother English.
Three boys and girl were born to
Mrs. Amanda Webster at Bethel, Del,
one day last week. The mother is
twenty and the husband tifty-two years
old. All the children were doing well
at last accounts.
The largest flower in the world
grows in Sumatra. 1t is called the
ratfiesia arnold and some of the speci-
mems are each thirty-nine inches in
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six quarts of water.
From the fact that during the first
week of the open season fines aggregat-
ing $500 were imposed in Southern New
Hampshire on Overenthusiastic sports
men, it is inferred that the hunters are
having lots of fun up there.
The night blooming jessamine
shows no special charm through the
day, but at the approach of evening
a picture of singular beauty, while they
I'LL the whole air with their fragrance.
Z A woman drummer for cigar fac
tory appeared in Valdosta, Ga, q few
days ago, and surprised the merchants
She further surprised them later by
proving that she was an expert i'm
handling cigars and understood her
business thoroughly.
3 The rising generation of the new
woman is rapidly coming to the front
in the West. Last week the girls at
the high school in Pontiac, Mich,
organized foot ball team, and about
the same time the girls in the Helena,
Mont, high school organized a military
company.
An Albany grape grower says that
in the packing houses children eat
grapes all day at any time they like,
and never saw one of them separate the
seeds from the pulp. He swallowed
the seeds himself and in twenty years
he has never heard of case of APP
pendicitis.
Michigan, the chief center of the sect,
are proposing to discard the present
names of the days OF the week, because
of their heather origin. They will
designate them by number, as is done
in the Bible, except that they will, of
course, call Saturday the Sabbath.
Careful observations of heat were
taken in a 1,650-fOot boring recently
made near Mulhausen, in Alsace. At
the lowest depth the temperature was
1000 Fahrenheit, and at no feet it was
6430; from that point down the increase
was regular, amounting TO one degree
Fahrenheit for every twenty-five feet
bored.
The best estimate of the population |
of the world gives it as 100000 900. |
Of this number, the males constitute |
about 40 per cent, although this varies |
greatly in different countries. In the |
United States, for instance, the males |
constituted 5l.2l per cent of the total |
population of 1890, this excess of males |
being due to immigration.
Z One of the most remarkable inks |
known to the chemist is made of a pre-
paration of Prussian blue i'm combina-
ton with nitric and hydrochloric acid |
The writing done with this ink has
the singular property OF fading when
to the light, and recovering |
its color when taken into the shade or
placed in perfect darkness.
A novel feature was introduced at |
a harvest festival service held i'm New
Haven church the other day. Mem
bers of the congregation owning cana
ries brought them to the church, and |
the cages were hung i'm various parts