The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1899-09-15

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There are 81 900 coalminers in France
New Jersey ranks fret in ailk goods.
Woolwich arsenal has q sixty'ton ar
vii.
America makes ao,0oo,ooO false teet
annually.
oklahoma territory now claims $50, 90
Inhabitants.
The United States have 4,ooo,o ,oo'
workingwomen.
st. Louis is the greatest muts marSe
in the world.
There is an epidemic Of feas in enc ol
the New Yoak markets.
Tattooing is just now the popular pas
time Of the leisured world.
Aurora, Ill.,. has had thirty flour may
ora In the last forty years.
The largest pumping engine in the
world ia In the Calumet and Hecia
mines.
Over A, 900 refrigerstors are made an
nually by Fond Du Lac, Wis.,, factories
There are 2, 500 central stations plants
for gene, ating electricity in the United
States.
The income from the Monte Carlo
gaming tables for the past year reaches
$5,5o0,000.
The money in circulation in the Unit
ed States has doubled in the last twenty
years.
Nearly one.third of the worlds sa wings
are in $50 savings banks Of the United
States.
The gimlet pointed-screw has been re-
sponsible for more wealth than most si!-
yer mines.
According to the VoIkszeItung OF Ber-
lin, the month of July saw in Germany
sixteen prosecutions for lese majesty.
An alleged new Rapheal picture has
been discovered at the exhibition OF sa-
cred art at Como.
1t is estimated that the consumption
Of beer in the world amounts to $l,oS0'-
COO 900 per annum.
A Maryland law prohibits Baltimore
policemen from doing mechanical work
Tor the department or for hire.
Rats recently operated the striking
mechanism Of the disused Flushing L. l.,
town clock for several hours.
The total value of sea fish landed in
Ireland in 1898 was 81, ,962. .955, an in.
crease of over 10000 on the previous
year.
The names of the Indianapolis milk
dealers who use formaidehyde will be
published in the newspapers by the city
Santa Cruz, CAL, is perhaps the only
in which water is far
nished Tree to inhabitants for domestic
purposes.
There ia project on foot in Geneva,
D., to erect library in memory OF the
ather of artistic penmanship, .Platt X.
spencer.
In Vienna the Chamber OF Commerce
s being besieged with demands for the
Introduction of telegraphic postcards.
In Surrey, England, there ia great
poultry fattening establishment, which |
annually sends about $1,000 fcwls TO
london.
After recent thunderstorms in Eng
and thousands Of dead eeIs were found
lear Sandwich, floating in the Deli riV-
r.
A factory inspector at Paterson. N. j..
las been investigating the mills Of that
i.y in the guise Of the laborer, wheeling
barrow.
ChileIis going to fit up vessel with !
he products ofsths country to be taken
o the principal ports OF the Pacific for
Exhibition.
Ia Methodist church in remote
ieorgia community the old rule of sep
ration of the sexes during worship is
bserved.
Among the Parsees murderer ia pun
she'd with ninety stripes on bis bare
ack, while master who neglects his
og receives 200 stripes.
Merchsn ndise imports into France dur
az July decreased l22,OO0. 900 francs
rom 1898, or s24 ,4OO. 600. Exports IT,
reased s8, zoo, 600 francs, or sI7, FAC, 900.
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