The Afro-American advance., 1900-02-24
CURRENT TOPICS.

An American womau's club has been
organized in Porto Rico.
.ereeee expects TO carne out with
treasury surplus next year.
Physicians In South Framinsham
agreed on schedule of rates.
New Zealand's export OF rold wn.
SS.ooo.ooo greater in 1899 thnn in ls9s.
New York city owes s35o. coo. 900 and
has taNahlcs amounting TO 81. .suo, ,ooo,-
600. wv
Hamburg added forty new steamers
to its fleet last year. 1t now numbers
$50.
The total paid for college education
IN this country is about Sloo, ,uoo, 900
annually.
Winter susPends the activity Of ccr-
tain microbes but does not destroy
their lives.
President kruger's ultimatum is the
first that has ever been received by
Great Britain.
In the #Chino-,1apanese war all the
Japanese soldiers were supplied with
binoeular glasses.
For many years the income OF John
Ruskin from his literary work was
$4,000 annually.
Out of i,54s.6s votes pollcd In the
recent election in Mexico. only og,l72
were against Diaz.
The war in South Africa Is said TO
have ruined the diamond trade for q
long time to come.
France makes nearly &c. .ooo, 900 pairs
of gloves yearly, and of these is.0o0,-
600 pairs are exported.
The Lancet SAYS the climate of
Egypt may. without eNaRgeration, be
described aS magnificent
The president of Switzerland only
gets $500 per year. and the law for
bids him TO succeed himself
Thirty years ago there were only
about p explosive compounds known.
Now there are more than l.l00.
Like nearly all Natal rivers. the Tu-
gela is not navigahlc. and bar OF
sand stretches across it's mouth.
Gen. Theodore Schwan. who is dis
tinguishinR himself in the Philippines,
enlisted as private soldier in 1881.
The yearly loss in value of gold coins
by wear and tear while in circulation
amounts TO about $1,000 in ev ry So,
000. 900.
Max O'Rell. the French author, says
! that he has never seen an American
woman who could be considered real
ly ugly.
Since the war OF 1894 the populn-
| ton of Shanghai has grown from 400.
900 To 100000. The attraction lica ia
the many new industrial establish
mentA.
Gen. Joubert. by way OF being q
huomrist, complains that the English
countermanded an order TO attack his
| troops without notifying him. aud
thereby deprived him OF whole
nights sleep.
! The Boer il no mean fisherman. Civ.
en- pipe aud n goodly supply of his
| fuvurite weed he will sit for hours
angling. Very fine sport, indeed, may
| he had In any OF the streams north
! OF the orange river,
OF every IoJ shots which strike some
soldier A. will lodge In the legs. 81
shots will lodge in the arms, 22 strike
between the neck and the waist, one
In the neck and II shots some part
of the soldiers heads,
In killing game the Beers use a bul.
let of which the lead point Is exposed
SO that IL mushrooms" when II strikes
| On entering the bullet expands aud
tears an ugly hole. II II strikes side
wise the effect II horrible.
The Cathedral of s.. John. In course
Of erection on Morningside heights,
f. New York, Will he the largest ccclcH-
iusticnl edficc in the United States, II
will he $50 feet long and 295 feet
across at the widest point
A new method Of preserving tele.
graph poles is TO surround the por-
ton In the ground with an carthen.
ware pipe like the drain pipe. Into
the space between the pole and tho
pipe is poured "A mixture of sand aud
resin.
TFfffIlth bifHiHNs " iFfii'i's "h'
presented the University of Michigan
year ago with one Of the finest col
lections Of musical instruments in cx-
istence. has added n collection of mu-
steal scores and compositions OF the
old and modern masters.
Ann Ruth Seneca. an Indian prin-
cess. il studying medicine at the Med
ical ChirurRicul hospital, In Philadcl-
phia. She took n classic course In tho
Carlisle Indian school. where she de-
yclopad her love for nursing the sick.
Two Of her brothers were on the Car
Isle football team.
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