The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-04-13
Out of the Odd.

Holland is the only country in Europe that ad-
mits coffee free of duty.
At least peach tree in full bloom,
early this month at Williamsport Md.
A recent shipment of malt from Milwaukee
amounted to $4,000 pounds and filled 100 cars.
Meerschaum is silcate Of magnesia and Is
to be found chiefly in Asia Minor. Greece and
Madrid.
Having been surprised by the police a Mon
treal burglar jumped 40 feet from window into
d snowbank
The population Of Palestine is increasing rap
idly. Ten years ago there were only $1,000
In recent test of speed at Gibraltar the
British channel squadron succeeded in putting
in 5000 tons of coal and getting ready for In
4S hours.
The popping sound of bursting bottles led to
the discovery of fire that had started under
the shelves of closed drug store in Amite
If all the sparrows in Britain were extermin-
ated tomorrow except one pair. in about 30 years
the country would possess as many sparrows
The Maine ice crop for trade outside the state.
which is put UP almost entirely the Penob-
scot and Kennebec rivers. is estimated at
A Scotch tea planter in Ceyon. Mr.. Malcolm
son. is going to start plantations in Mexico,
and is now Sa egota ing, for the of 500
In Palestine the swallows are allowed the
freedom not only Of the houses and living rooms.
but of the mosques and sacred tombs, where
they build their nests and their young.
In 1850 the tallest building in New York was
were conspicuous above them. Now there Is
only one spire in the city as high the tallest
building.
Strange it may seem. the origin of the mitre
is to be found in Acts H.. 3. and there ap-
peared unto them cloven tongues as Of fire.
and it sat upon each of them The mtre is
supposed to be a representation of these cloven
tongues.
The proposal made at a recent meeting
Of the London Methodist council that the be-
ginning of the twentieth century should be cele-
brated by that body by raising fund of Il ;
100000 from million Methodists in the
United Kingdom.
Ten sheepmen of Drews Valley. Lake county
agreed g
for every wildcat. cougar coyote ne killed
in the vicinity of Drews Gap and within three
making the surrounding country safer for sheep,
and then he doubled his earnings by means
According to recent statistical returns the
total number of women over the of IS en-
Islands is little million. of which
IL per cent belong to trades Unions. Most of
these have membership in common with the
men, but there are some separate women $
unions organized, differed and conducted ex-
clusively by female members.
Tenth and Main streets, Kansas. Saturday night,
trbutons to be thrown the flag. In few
minutes he sadly announced that the collection
amounted to one nickel and two beer checks.
and then he added: II don't know who the two
sinners We're who donated the beer checks but
we will pray for their souls
An old colored patriot discussing the war
situation with his race, said: Git ready ter
defen' de flag; Under dat flag Mister George
Wen she orphan fought ter de liberty Of
de cullud man. and toll Abr'am Lincoln ter free
'em he could. Lincoln did it soon
he had chance. Stan by de flag 'twell hit ;,
all shot ter pieces, en- den take de pieces homo
pas'e 'em in yo' scrapbook.'
At Adria. in the Italian province OF Rovigo
IS miles from the Adriatic sea two ancient yes
sells have been found which, from the thickness
of the planks, must have been used in seafarine
Vases, bones and other objects were found in
them. The vessel is "a feet long and l. feet
beam In classical times Adria a seaport
but the Adriatc has steadily receded
Rome built roads and bridges last. The
bridge across the Danube between Turn
SEVERN, in Roumania and kladova, in Servia
Will be built on the pillars Of the old bridge at
the same place erected By the Emperor Trajan
the Roumanian engineers having found that the
old Roman work will stand the strain after
800 years a statue of Trajan will be put
up in the middle of the bridge.
British responsibility has been defined in a
London police court by prisoner charged with
begging, and the definition to have been
accepted by the magistrate, for he discharged
her She said: I'm a respectable woman, a
taoress. Why. l make trousers for Mr.. New
ton-Mr. Newton. the magistrate, l mean. II
I'm respectable enough TO make magistrates
trousers I'm good enough for anything
This month the order of Cistercian Monks
celebrates the eight hundredth anniversary OF its
foundation by the Benedictinc Robert OF Mo
lesme, Citeaux, in Burgundy, in 1898. II
the thirteenth century the order possessed zoos
inconsistencies in Europe. Its famous mem
Der is St. Bernard of Clairvaux. The Templars
and the knights of Alcantara. Calatrava am
Montesa, in Spain, and of Christ in Portugal