The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1899-12-20
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performance.
4 needle factory in the east makes
70,o0O,0OO needles every week.
On very dark nights white light
can he seen farther than any other
color.
Owing TO the dry, cold atmosphere
no infectious disease is known in
Greenland.
The war department has appropri-
ated $4,000 for a Cuban exhibit at
the Paris exposition.
II is estimated that about 400. 900
acres of land in the United States
are planted with vines.
The senate will have two new com
mittees, one on Cuba and the other
ON the new possessions.
The first national bank in the Unit
ed States was incorporated by CON
gress December 81. 1888.
The assessed valuation of property
in Illinois this year is S2O2, 425,3S4 10
excess of that of last year.
The first glass factory in the United
states of which we have definite
knowledge was built in 17s0.
The latest English item concerning
Dom Paul says he is a Manxman born
and that his real name is Greer.
1t is believed that die of corn
bread makes bigger men physically
than men made from wheat -four.
In China an inferior upon horse
back meeting n superior dismounts
and waits till the other has passed.
A seat on the New York stock ex.
change was the other day sold for
$4,000, the highest price ever paid.
In Newfoundland an iron mine has
just been discovered containing 90
100000 tons of rich ore under two
feet of soil.
In Abysinia the coffee plant grows
wild in great profusion, and derives
it's name from Kaffa, n district of
that country.
4 15-year-old English girl tried TO
drown herself in a Wimbledon pond
because her mother insisted on her
wearing corsets.
A new sign has been added TO the
German railway time table-a picture
of n bicycle indicating which express
trains carry the wheels.
The shoe manufacturing industry
seems to be moving westward. Kan
sas City is to have factory that will
turn out 1000 pairs per day.
The president is said to be in favor
of revivng the grade of vice admiral
and comforting the rank upon both
RI. Adms. Sampson and Schley.
A company of capitalists, headed
by Thomas a. Edison, has purchased
land at Stewartsville, n. j., and will
build million-dollar cement plant.
Under the new supplement to the
workingman's insurance act in Ger
many, the increase paid to workmen's
funds at the Krupp gun works alone
will be $4,000 a year.
Congressman De Almond, of Mis-
souri,. has a peculiar way of taking
exercise. lie saws wood and says that
his best speeches have been thought
out while employed in this way.
Thousands of persons in Germany
live literally ION straw" making il
up into blankets, painters, boxes,
knicknacks, hats, bonnets, etc. Pro-
fessional schools have even been
founded where the trade is taught in
all its varities.
Before purchasing n Thermometer
the instrument should be tested by |
inverting it and allowing the mer-
curry to fall TO the end in a solid stick. |
II il separates into small columns the |
tube contains air and will not reg
lister accurately.
The fastest cruiser in the world has
recently been completed for China.
The new cruiser is to be known as the |
Hal Tien. of 400 tons, and, under
natural draught, will have a speed of |
a3.e knots per hour. At this rate she
could cross the Atlantic in about four
days.
Samuel ID. Hastings, who has re-
signed as treasurer of the prohibit
ton national committee, has held the
Office for dozen years. lie is 80
years of age and has been a resident
of Wisconsin for half a century He
served for three terms as treasurer of
the state.
Paris Isl said TO be the cleanest
city in the world. Every morning p
900 male aud 600 female scavengers,
divided into 149 brigades turn out TO
perform the toilet of the capital.
The average cost of a British sol
der is 1920 year. The Swiss soldier
costs only 500 year.
The single working girls of Boston
are organizing against the married
women who work i'm restaurants and
zig stores for pin money. The girls
think that women who have husbands
to support them ought to stay at
home and not interfere with others
who are compelled to work for their
living.
The Pullman-Wagner Co. will es-
tablish extensive repair shops at Den
yer, Colo, TO better handle the work
on Western roads.
Gen. Yule's mother, though so years