The Republican journal., 1900-06-14
NEWS NOTES.

Georgia and Alabama have fine whea
crops.
Since 1891 Colorado has produced ovel
$4,000, 900 in gold.
California will raise 125, 0O0, 900 pounds
OF prunes this year.
The Chicago city architect has made
plans for a mansion for stray dogs.
Grasshoppers are playing havoc with
the cotton crops in the Mississippi delta
| New Orleans has an ice war, and ice is
sold at Sc. hundred pounds at the fac
tory.
The Prince of Wales has again, at his
| PHYSICIANS advice, given up for time
| the use of tobacco.
Secretary Root has authorized the
| erection of the 5th Army Corps monu-
ment at Fredericksburg, Va.
Twenty-Five dollars and thirty cents is
.he annual allowance of 1851 pensioners
OF the State of South Carolina.
Florida Georgia, South Carolina, and
Virginia have made Jefferson Davis
birthday. June 3. a legal holiday.
AT Miles. Mont, the saloon-keepers
have petitioned for permission to close
on Sundays. They need the rest.
All those who attend Queen Victoria
are very we'll aware of the feebleness
which has come over her eyesight.
The bakers strike has revealed the
fact that London's baking is nearly all
done by Germans or other foreigners
Gen. Cronje has been seen by several
newspaper men at st. Helena, but re-
fuses to be interviewed for publication.
There are now forty pearl button fac
torres IN Iowa. working up shells pro-
cured from the river beds. Nearly 1900
people are employed in the factories
alone.
Lord Kitchener is reported to have
sad, that considering the nature of the
country. the Beers. if skillfully directed.
might be able to maintain their resis-
lance for two years
The vail of Damascus is reported to
have discovered the remains of a library
winch escaped humiliation at the hands
OF Tammerlane when Damascus was
WSolIoNtNt ny Hill III lful.
John ID. Rockefeller. Jr.. in the three
years he has been teacher in the Sun
day school of the Fifth Avenue Baptist
Church, New York. has not been absent
more than three or four times.
Season tickets to the Paris Exposition
must bear the photograph of the per-
SONS to whom they are issued The
Algerian, Tunisian and other Moham-
medan exhibitors, however, refuse to
have their pictures taken. as it is con
trary to the Koran.
There is a legend about the Senate
chamber that Gen. Hawley for ten
or twelve minutes, i'll a speech. once
spoke 223 words a minute. The average
speed OF Senators in speeches does not
reach no words. and in debating letters
rarely reaches 100 words.
The oldest relics in Admiral Dewey's
collection relate to the battle between
the English and the Spanish in Manila
Bay in 1902. One of these is a flag cap
tured by Sir William Draper, which
came into the hands of William Everett
of Massachusetts, who gave it to the
AdmiraL
Loeb Lynn Heights, little mountain
town i'll Maryland has had lesson on
the evils of political indifference. Only
fifteen votes were polled at the town
election, recently, and when they were
counted it was found they had elected
ticket put up by somebody for fun.
The election, it appears, is going to hold
An English school board has prepared
a circular on the evils of cigarette smok-
ing, which is to be distributed among
the parents of the school children. 1t
points out that smoking by boys impairs
the eyesight, upsets and stunts the
growth. Local doctors are to be asked
to 90 to the schools and address the boys
on the evils of smoking
Death Valley, of California, is inclos-
ed by the Panamint Mountains on the
west and the Funeral range on the east,
Is seventy-tive miles long. and at its mar
rowest point but eight miles wide. The
lowest depression is POO feet below the
sea level. but Telescope peak of the
Panamint range, rises 1000 feet high
and. directly opposite, Funeral peak is
5000 feet high
Three thousand bronze tablets. con
| tanning the records of Rome from the
| foundation of the city to the time OF
Nespasian are buried in the marshes
near Ostia, according to Sig. Constantine
Macs. an italian archaeologist They
were saved from the fire which destroyed
| the capitol in the year A. d. SO and
taken to Ostia. Sig. Macs wants the
| Italian Government to drain the
marshes and hunt for the tablets