The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-04-05
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NEWS NOTES.

A new export to Hawaii is rice, which
is raised in Louisiana.
Coal has been selling for S125 ton in
the neighborhood of Dawson
Capital invested in farming in this coun-
try is estimated at SIG, 900, 900, coo.
Boise City can talk over the telephone
with San Francisco, 1000 miles away.
The peanut crop of 1899 is nearly l, 000-
600 bushels heavier than the crop of 1898.
Seven counties in western New Y ork re-
ceived nearly S. 600, 900 for their apple
crop last crop.
provision of a new charter drafted for
st. Paul, limits school expenditures to S25
per pupi! per year,
Three hundred thousand bushels of po-
tatoes will be ground in Wisconsin starch
factories this year.
In Nebraska there are 141 log school
houses, 517 built of sod, one of baled
straw and one of steel.
The quicksilver finds in Brewster coun-
ty,' Tex, have already proven the most
extensive in the United States
Steps bave been taken to make ST. Louis
the full and permanent headquarters of
the Mississippi River Commission.
British agriculturists are slowly waking
up to the advantage of scientific methods
of dealing with diseases of crops.
The SC. piece is not entirely out of cir,
culation, according to Pennsylvania
banker. He took il 900 of them last year.
Near Ashcroft, b. c., several soda and
horaX lakes have been found. One of them
contains about %, 600 tons of the powders.
Meat is very dear in Havana to the re-
tail buyer. The price tor beef is about
SOC. pound, and is very poor beef at
that.
Because of the rise in price of European
coal, inquiries are pouring in from Europe,
the West Indies and Mexico for Alabama
coal
The civil code in Alaska is that of Ore
gon, which was taken bodily and dumped
on the territory without regard to appli-
cation.
Customs collections at Havana during
| January footed up 81, 152, 513, sum in
excess of any month since American occu-
patton.
A powerful fog trumpet is being placed
on the light house at West Haven, Conn.
1t is expected that it will be distinctly
heard twelve miles away.
Two grapdsons of Ii Hung Chang, the
grand old man of China,' are students
in the University of Nashville. They are
T. Sung and Y. Sung.
In the various public institutions of the
District OF Columbia, 2, 600 colored people
are employed, who draw an annual COM
pensation of about 81 ,O0O, 600.
In addition to the coffee and tobacco
plantations, there are nearly 81, 600 small
farms in Puerto Rico devoted to small
fruits and miscellaneous cultivation.
j. NJ. Dobie of Ramires, Live @ ak coun-
ty, Tex, owns a steer whose horns from
point to point, measure 9 feet ! inches. 1t
will be sent to the Paris Exposition.
A St. Louis Judge has ruled that if a
husband be locked out by his wife he may
chop down the door, if necessary, to gain
eutlance-but he has to pay Tor the door.
Burlington, n Y, will not collect any
taxes this year, the saving on appropria-
tions having gone ON so long that the town
ship has sufficient funds to run all depart
mentS.
The anti foreign attitude of the govern
ment of China grows more pronounced,
and is extremely menacipg to foreign en-
terprise. Never in the last forty years
has the central government been so in
tensely antiforeign.
| Turpin, the inventor of melinite, is said
to be with the Beers. The petroleum
bombs fired at Kimberley are attributed
to him. Great Britain was the only power
| that offered him compensation for his
discovery.
Prospectors are boring for zinc in four
counties in Northern Arkansas, and with
in the last year several changes in the own
ership of land has resulted in consequence.
One syndicate is said to have purchased
Is, 600 acres of land