Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-05-23
THE PITH OF THE NEWS
Most Important Features of the Worlds Daily DOings Boiled
 Down for Busy Men.
It is Spicsd. With Brief Comments of Men
 and Their. Actions, and Public Events.

In 1900 there were 200 horses in Aus tralia; in 1900 there are- 100000.
 In a short time the Japanese popula- ton of San Francisco will reach 20.- OOO.
 Nearly all the German war ships have left Kiel harbOr for sea ma neuvers.
 The new Russian cruiser built al Philadelphia will make her trial triI May 25.
 Oklahoma now has over 3OOOO0 popu lation. while the Indian Territory claims over 100000.
 William H. Hunt of Montana has been selected to be secretary of state for the island of Porte Rico.
 The total value of the exports from Manila for August 13, 1898. to Decem Der 31. 1899. was $19.S3S,3j5.
 Erastus Everett. at one time presi dent of the College of New Orleans is dead in Brooklyn. He was S7 years of age.
 About 700 Icelanders are coming this spring. to take up farming iI British America in the neighbOrhOOd of the DOukhObOr settlements.
 A young Eskimo woman who is visit ing Chicago was greatly disturbed al fist by the electric cars. She thought that they were run by devils. The tallest man in Maryland lives in Carroll county, near the town of West minister, and, with a strange apprOpri- ateness. his name is Miles Long.
 Charles Copeland Morse. of San Jose. California. owner of the largest seed farm in the world, died recently, leaving an estate valued at SST 900.
 Five women sitting together in a Philadelphia street car. the other day, carried finger purses. the initials on which spelled the word EMPTY.
 "Gnat fever" is the new scientific name for malaria. since it has been shown that it is through mosquitoes that the disease is conveyed to human beings
 The attorney-general of New York has decided that electric light and gas companies holding contracts to light state buildings are subject to the eight hour law.
 Over one billion feet of logs were cut in the pine forests of Minnesota during the season just closed The industry in the state employs about I6.000 men.
 A Scranton, Pennsylvania, court is asked to grant the claim Of one Isaac Sidebottom against the estate of John Shafer. deceased. for entertaining the old man playing checkers" during q great mart of tlraa y-aare
 The navy department has made an adverse report upon the Gathmann gun for the manufacture of which S2JO. .OOO was allotted in an amendment to the naval appropriation bill. inserted by the senate committee on naval affairs.
 Farmers in the vicinity of Wichita are arranging to attend the democratic convention at Kansas City in caravans. There will probably be a train of 100 wagons. They will leave the farms a week before the convention.
 At flower show recently held in London. a vine was exhibited that was said to have been grown from seed taken from the tomb of an Egyptian mummy 2OOO years old. The vine is of variety much like the sweet pea
 Martin II. Sullivan. a lumberman. of Pensacola. Florida, has for S2.OO0. 900 sold tO Russell A. Alger and others 3O0,0OO acres of pitch pine timber lands in the counties of COnecuh. Monroe, Baldwin and Escambia, in Alabama.
 The sixteen electric floats built in New Orleans at a cost of $42. 1000. have been sold to Denver for an exhibition rhnrn and fhax- h.. f, Wichita. Kansas. for the next street fair. They are the first electric floats built in the world:
 There has been a gain of 39S4 per cent in the number of sheep In Oregon since the enactment of the Mckinley tariff. and an increase of 131 per cent in the average value of each sheep in that state.