South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1896-07-23
NOTES and COMMENTS.

States gives yearly product of over
billion dollars. or more than twice
the value OF the entire output of all
the minest Yet nowhere ON earth is
the wealth OF the forests wasted more
wantonly than In this country.
| In n recent address in New York. ".
Francis Hyde declared that the 3Is
square miles Of area OF Greater New
York was sufficient &c ac commo late with
standing room all the inha bItants OF
the earth, .45O, 0OO. 900 in number. and
allow six square feet to each iudi-
| vidual.
| French authors will henceforth have
| power 10 have the books OF their pub
fishers examined in order to ascertain
whether they have been paid their
royalty I'm full. A decision has Just
been rendered in the case of Paul
Bourget versus Lemerre. Lemerre OBJ
| 5ected 10 an inspection of his books,
and this was the cause OF the suit.
| Electric railways have displaced 10
the United States no less than 2T5,-
600 horses, says the Pittsburg Dis
| patch. SO many horses would require
about 125.o00 bushels of grain day to
feed them, amounting to $4,000, 900
bushels a year. The loss of the com
mercial demand for this grain In the
cities where these railways run mean
! an enormous loss OF TRANSFORMATION
tonnage for the railways-some Co.
500 carloads. Here is n question OF
domestic economy that is serious
Hair-splitting ON legal techhicaiity
| this time in Minnesota. The crime al
| this time in Minnesota. The crime was
| legged was forgery. and the indictment
charged the defendant with having
frauduleDtly and feloniously uttered
| and disposed of n forged instrument
| then knowing the same to be forged
That would appear to the lay mind TO
be sufficiently definite. But it happens
that the statute, in defining forgery.
makes the crime to be the utterlng of
n forged document "as true" The
words las true were omitted from the
Indictment, and this, in the opinion OF
the Supreme Court, was a fatal defect.
DIR. Toner, the venerable historian,
who knows more than any one else
| about the private life of Washington,
| for he has made ii special study for
| half century, says that the recently
/ published story about woman at VIII
liamsburg, Va. being Tilted by the
Father of His Country is untrue.
| Washington had many love affairs, but
he never Tilted any woman. He was
sentimental and susceptible, fell in love
with n number of girls, and offered
| himself to several before he captured
| fItc DIT
not a breaker. and in all his re-
lations with woman was sincere and
! honorable.
The Importation Of American horses
into France is becoming n success that
| is not only stimulating TO the national
love for the honest penny, but to pa
| tr'iOtic pride as well. The French will
not yet acknowledge that our product
! equals their finest breeds, the Perche-
rons, for instance. but as carriage
horses. draught animals and perhaps
for cavalry use they regard them as
| far superior to the corresponding class
of horses bred in France The French
| breeders are taking fright. and we may
perhaps expect to see some sort Of
Observation-Disclosures law passed
| ny bnc TtuCn lHfllHlnent.
Lepers are not so uncommon in Eu-
rope Ms is generally thought. one was
picked up in the Paris streets recently
and sent TO the -. Louis Hospital.
where there were already six other pa
tents with the sane disease. There
are isolated cases dotted all over
France, while the lepers' hospital at
San Reno and in Spain and Portugal
are never without patients. They are
gaining ground in Turkey and the
IOnian Islands. Crete has 800 of them.
They are most numerous, however, in
Norway, where there are 500. and are
rapidly increasing I'm Sweden. which
has already 4G2. In British India
there are 10000 Iepers The disease
inlests Indo- China, Tonqun, China.
and Japan. rs well rs Hayti, Trinidad,
Guiana, Venezuela. Brazil and Para
quay.
"One of the most remarkable new
departures in the freight business"
said Mr.. Omar H. Bartlett, general
freight agclt Of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad. "is the idea Of icing
vegetables for shipping long distances.
~ ii'iH b'fu iii'U NpdNUtONlfdUl III Olnef
years, but never until this year was
the plan carried ont to any extent. Now
the New Orleans shippers are icing
their vegetables right along. We have
/ already this season hauled twenty five
cars to New York city alone that con
tanned iced vegetables. and the ship
ments TO Boston, Buffalo. Piusburg.
Baltimore. Philadelphia and in fact. TO
all the Northern cities, have followed
| ont this new idea. You know. the
shipment Of cucumbcrs. cabbagcs.
beans ana all kinds Of garden stun
have grown very rapidly IN the past
few years. and now the producers have
found IL necessary To- ice them. The
process Of packing is quite interest
ing" New Orleans Times Democrat.
The Railroad Gazette says. ''Thc
records of the new railroad building in
the United States i'm 1896. which have
been gathered. show that III miles Of
road has been built in the first half Of
tie year. The total is not very different
fr0fi the amount of railroad which has
been constructed in the first halfof any
year. since the conditions ia 1898
called q sharp halt in railroad building
last vpgr Gg2 miles OF new road was