Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-01-04
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

The number of marriages in Man.
haitian and Bronx this year will he
greater than ever in their history.
The Ancient Mechanical Society of
Baltimore celebrated its 10th anniver.
sary recently.
An attack of melancholia caused Mrs.
Samuel Miller, of Portchester, N. ",
" cut her tongue with pair of scis.
sOrs.
The oldest existing church in New
Hampshire is the Congregational at
Hampton, which was organized in
August, 1888.
The state prison building at Sing
Sing, N. Y, has been condemned by a
committee of the New York State Pris-
on Association.
The hest maple syrup comes from
the north side of the tree, but the flow
is not so large as when the tree is
tapped ON the south side.
At recent auction sale at Zurich
more than 1000 gold and silver Swiss
coins of the 10Th to the 10th centuries
were disposed Of.
On the big steamer Oceanic there is
no seat at the table marked Ii, nor n
cabin bearing that number. This is a
concession to superstition.
In Connecticut the percentage of
criminal population to the 1000 inhab-
itants has fallen steadily from 2.4S in
~ 4,
The Noah Webster Association,
which has just been organized ut Hart
ford, Conn, will procure funds for the
erection of library building in mem
DRY of the photographer.
Thunder storms are more frequent in
Iowa than in any other part OF the
world. The average is one about every
fourth day. Sumatra has SO in year,
and Rio Janiero 81.
The vegetable ivory of Ecuador is the
nut of native palm. The exports
amount to ILL., 500 tons per annum, OF
which two.thirds go to Germany and
one-sixth to the United States.
A Chicago workingman has discov.
cred process by which plate glass
can be made from Stag, the waste ma
terial in iron and steel manufacture,
and the Federal steel trust proposes to
build plant to turn out the new
product.
The whole of the dry land on this
planet scarcely exceeds 5a,O0o,O0O OF
square miles. Forty millions are un-
der caucasic sway, leaving, as Profess
eor Keane says, not more than l2,OOo,-
900 for the now reduced domain OF the
other divisions.
Judge Scott, of the district court at
Omaha, has decided that the forcible
entry of saloon for the purpose Of rob-
berry is not burglary under the law, for
the reason that the word saloon" does
not occur among the buildings men.
toned in the statutes in the list of
places subject to burglary.
The life.sized bronze equestrian
statue OF Frederick the Great, by j. l.
Gerome. the French sculptor. which Ia
will exhibit at the Paris exposition.
has been purchased by Peter Gibson. OF
Cincinnati, and Immediately after the
exposition it will be shipped to this
country.
James S. Galloway, OF Hillsdale,
Mich, has just pur hased the whole OF
Morgan county, Ontario, 394 square
miles, for the white pine timber upon
it. lie could cut nearly ii not quite
100, 900, 900 feet, but intends to hold
most of it, awaiting developments.
Mrs. Marie Melms, widow of Charles
Melms, the PIONEER Milwaukee brewer,
died in Germany recently and was Gre
mated there. Her remains have just
arrived at Milwaukee through the me-
dunn of the United States mails This
ia said to be first use Of the mails for
such purpose.
Scion Borgium, Partisan sculptor,
has been in South Dakota for the last
three months making models in clay of
Indians for the Pairs exposition. He
found some fine specimens OF the Amer
lean aboriginies among the Sioux at
the Crow Greek agency. South Dakota,
and succeeded in working mp half
dozen models.
It is said that Admiral Dewey's go
receives a sample every time an artic
named for Dewey il put on the markt
whether it be q cravat, y collar.
hat, a cigar, a brand Of whisky or any
thing else. lie has adorned his room
with these samples, and 1t Is probably
the most remarkably decorated room
in America.