The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-09-13
NEWS NOTES.

| There were five new cases OF plague
as Rio de Janeiro on August 30th.
An apparatus for condensing sea fog
into drinking water has been invented.
a 100000 school house for colored
children is to be erected at Bristol,
Tenn.
London is reported as swarming with
Americans waiting to take steamers
| home.
| The steamer Roanoke brought 5000
600 in klondike gold from Dawson City
to Seattle.
| Germany has begun the direct impor-
tation of South African wool, owing to
the Boer war.
The population of Providence, r. l.,
| increased IS per cent. in ten years, be-
ing now 10000.
! The British bark Drnreggan, 145 days
from London, went ashore near Homo
lulu, but was saved.
Coins bearing the names Of emperors
who existed over 20ooy years ago are still
in daily circulation in China.
\ band of masked brigands, operat-
Ing near Rome, have recently robbed a
number of tourists, killing one.
a miner brought his 7-weeks-old
daughter in clothes basket all the way
from Dawson City to New York, 1000
miles in all.
| The question WAS raised in Honolulu
whether Hawaiian public buildings be
| long to the United States or the Terri
tory of Hawai-.
The new forts at Dover, England are
10 have SIX 9-mch wire-wound guns,
/ having an effective range Of eleven
miles, They are nearly 40 feet long
This month Iceland is celebrating the
Christianity III the island. Olaf, King
OF Norway. sent over the first priests
\ fruit tree propagation has produced
a stedless apple. These new apples are
superior in lavor to the culinary kinds.
High prices are being paid for the trees
\ snake sh0rt-circuited the telegraph
line of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Railroad, recently. by climbing a pole
and tWining his body about two wires
During the fiscal year ending June
30 Kentucky produced 21.1So,722 gal
Ions of whisky, an increase over the
preceding year Of about 100000 gal
Ions.
Senator DepeW, III an interview in
London, said New York would soon be
a dangerous rival to London and Paris
i'll financing the world government en-
| terprises
The heat is SO great in Muscat that
three men belonging to the British
man-of-War Cossack died from heat APP
opleXy while the gunboat lay at anchor
THAT port.
y. Lincoln Hyde, the English scien-
list, advocates a system OF weights and
measures for the English speaking
people based on the inch as the funda-
mental unit
Prof. John Craig head of the depart
ment of horticulture in the Iowa Agri-
cultural College. has resigned to accept
a similar position in Cornell Cniver-
sity. Ithaca, \. Y.
In each of the past three years the
corn exported from the United States
has exceeded all previous records Sill
100000 in 1898, SOS 977, 900 in 1899, and
So, 900, 600 III 1900
An octopus has been added to the
New York aquarium. 1t came from
the waters around Bermuda and meas
ures , feet in length from tip to tip of
! its extended arms.
A papal communication, issued from
Rome, condemns and fOrbids the recita-
| ton in Catholic churches of the Queen
| DOwager Margherita's prayer in mem
DRY of King IIumbert
A man claiming to be John w. Ora
ham OF lrvlngtOn-On-the-H udSOn, \.
y. who insanely imagines that he is to
marry Miss Helen Gould, has been lock
ed up at indianapolis.
Judge Thompson, in Cincinnati has
declared the Chesapeake and Ohio Fuel
Company, which includes about four
teen coal companies, to be a trust, and
| in violation of the nited States law.
The largest balloon ever constructed
capable of lifting over six tons. will as
cend from Berlin shortly to make mete-
geological observations 1t will be sup
piled with provision for several weeks
and two beds
In local celebration at Duxbury,
| Mass, recently the state coach of Dan
iel Webster was brought out and joined
the parade. 1t was lent for the occasion
by the present owner and occupant of
the Webster estates.