The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-05-21
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formed three marriage eremOnieS III
one hour.
In the early days of Sir Isaac Pit
mans shorthand crusade the system
was assailed on religious grounds.
Italy's deficit is about S12,5O0,0OO a
year, and Greece, Turkey, Portugal and
Spain are also running behind in rev.
enue.
A Tombstone merchant, doubtless a
very successful one, with an eye to the
foibles of womankind, advertises
Beautiful ladies' dress goods"
A few days ago a Wilmington, Del,
woman received a little box by mail in
which was a watch and chain that
were stolen from her twelve years
ago.
1t seems, according to the latest sur
vey, that Mount st. Elias, the great
peak Of the Pacific coast, is evenly
divided between the United States and
British America.
The Empress Eugene has presented
to the Paris Museum of Decorative
Arts all the plans and drawings for the
o~rnamentation Of her private apart
ments in the Tuileries.
The old chair that Governor Benning
Wentworth of New Hampshire Occu-
pied while he filed that office in 1741 is
still to be found in the council cham
Der at Concord in good condition.
Sawdust is turned into transportable
fuel in Germany by a very simple proc
ess. 1t is heated under big steam pres
sure until the resinous ingredients be-
come sticky, when it is pressed into
bricks. One man with a two-horse
power machine can turn put 5000
bricks a day.
The collection of Hawaiian idols be-
longing to the American board, and
which were sent to this country as GU
riosities by the early missionaries to
the Sandwich Islands, has been sent
back to Hawaii to be deposited in the
National museum. They are said to
be the only specimens Of the original
1t is stated by one who has inyesti-
gated the subject that the average
yearly expenses of a cooperative build
ing and loan association of Philadelphia
is $3.50. In most cases no salaries are
paid except to the secretary, and he
receives about $3.50 per annum. There
are over 400 associations in Phila-
delphia.
The banks of issue Of Europe con
4o;ro6 ceSO 600 000 p,oro Of tho o1nca
of the year 1895 than they did at the
end of 1890, without any corresponding
increase in their loans or notes Of is
sue. The decrease in the amount Of
new capital placed in London was
over So, OOO,OOO,OOO for the years 1915,
compared with 1SS6-90.
Professor Woodrow Wilson, who has
been delivering a series of lectures at
the Johns Hopkins University, con
tends that American city governments
are inefficient because they copy too
closely the structure Of the federal
government, with it's two chambers
and executive. The system Of checks
and balances and division of power is
not suited to municipal needs.
By order Of the Supreme Court Of
Ohio R. A. Harrison, Columbus; w.
S. Groesbeck, Cincinnati; s. n. Owen,
Columbus; B. J. Dickman, Cleveland,
and L. T. Neal, Chillicothe, have been
appointed a committee to prepare and
submit to the Supreme Court a mem
orial on Allen G. Thurman, deceased,
for n1h1ioot Hon in tho fftu-fhir1 vol
ume Of the Ohio State reports.
An analysis Of 1000 accident poll
cies on which benefits were paid shows
531 persons injured by falls on pave
ments, 243 by carriages or wagons, sew
enty-five by horseback riding; 1T were
cut with edge tools or glass; ninety
six were hurt by having weights fall
on them, and seventy-six were hurt
in bicycle accidents, while seventy
two were hurt by falling downstairs.
A New Orleans paper reports that
while the South has gained Sd per
cent. in population during the last
twenty years, the enrolment Of it's
school attendance has increased 80
per cent. The value Of Southern school
property in the same time has increased
from $16,OOO,OOO to $751; 1000. 1t is
estimated that Of the 1926, 900 eX-
pended for education in the South in
the last eighteen years one-fourth has
been for colored pupils.
J. W. Steers, son Of the famous de-
signer Of the America cup, in a talk
about his father which has just been
published, states a fact that was prob
ably known to but a very few peo-
pie. 1t is no less a revelation than
that the renowned America cup has
no bottom. This fact was not known
to the New York Yacht Club itself until
ONE years after the cup was brought
over, and it was proposed upon occa-
sion by the club to drink a bumper
from it.
A curiosity which is attracting the
attention of the folks around Crofton,
in Marion County, Kentucky, is a calf
covered with a fine coat Of wool in the