The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1900-03-30
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TRY, It had 10 import last year more than
$1,000. 600 worth Of srain.
| Il is predicted that our whole remalE-
ling area Of white pine foreeta Mill be
practically denuded Within Ave years.
The Transbaikal railway, extending
over distaace OF l,0S4 Kilometers, 10
open for traffic.
Al Zurich the ElheoloRical faculty Of
university inds tha,it has only eight
students Tor ten professors this winter. /.
Descendants Of the missionaries in ths
| Hawaiian ialands constitutes aboct one-
twentieth cf the white population, sx-
elusive Of the Portugese.
Colorado produced last year ISL. l2s,.
l66 IN gold, sl2. $50. $50 in silver, A,eih-
SOS in lead, sl.S54.226 in copper aud
s577 500 IN Rinc aud manEaniierons iron.
The timber supply Of Georgia has been
estimated by lumbermen of that state as
sufficient to last only nine years at the
present rats of saving 2,6O0, 900 feet
daily.
Statistics Of the Massachusetts, rail-
way commissioners show that the aver
age cost oil railway equipment per mile
OF main track in that state last year was
SAT, ,l49.
Payments ont Of the British exchequer
by the formal returns average during
February almost exactly $5.O00.0 .0c0 per
week over the average Of the preceding
year.
In sheliipg lI.adysmith the Boers
knocked of regularly for meals-the
luncheon interval being IL 80 to IL, for
riHemen and IL 10 10 80 for gunnsrs.
An eminent surgeon shut up In Lady
smith recently got letter through to
his wife. He had TO pay runner El5 to
take il through the Boer lines.
Fifteen years ago native Christains
could rarely fod employment in India !.
Now they are preferred by contractors.
because they do more aud better work
than the heather.
Nome City. the new mining town on
the Alaskan coast. already has news-
papers four-page sheet which meas-
ures about 12xls inches, but which sells
at 80 cents copy.
Hamburg and Bremen cannot agree
~ to WI ich has the larger feet, but both
are proud ct the fact that Germany has
the two biggeet steamship companies In
the world.
An sEuglish railroad journal reports
that two Glasgow firms have received or
ders OF upwards OF 100 locomotives for
South Africa, 10 be dispatched when the
present war ends.
The president TO be elected next No
yember may heve the filing of four Of
the nine places on the United States su-
preme bench. One Of the vacancies
will be the chief iusticeship.
A young French peasant. seeing his
child thrown from q mule received such
q shock that be became bald within
eight days. After time the hair began
to grow again, but it was white.
In Japan vaccination 10 compulsory, |
and the government makes lie own
lymph and issues 1t free Of charge. Re-
vaccination at stated periods 10 also rig |
idly enforced. Only cali lymph 10 used.
Queen yictoria's first trouble with her
eyes came on long her defore she ascend
ed the throne. As girl, she was quite
near-sighted, and it was at cne time
Iesred she would have TO wear glasses all
her life.
New York hotel proprietors are graii'
led at the increase Of summer gueets.
they gave over their houses to
o emptiness in summer. Now they are j
Ible 70 count on a certain number OF /
,uests at all seasons.