Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-01-25
Talk About Bugs.

summer for bugs. Chicago has mos quito pest, Boston has caterpillars Philadelphia has a strangling bug cap able of choking mouse to death. The kissing bug. of course, needs hardly 10 be referred to. Strange stories are coming in concerning the exploits of. the bugs. A coney island wheelman was recently knocked spinning from his bicycle by a blow from bug. The other day negro was found in ditch in a New York town, where he had been disabled and thrown by some rowing bug that had struck him in the ear. The one thing and the only thing that makes one suspicious of the bug stories of the season is the | entire absence of the sea serpent from 1 the prominent shore resorts. It may be that ttfe bugs are substituting while kLa saroanf takes a saason off
 thinese 1ea Transported Thfopsa staasia
 The Siberian News. of Tomsk. is one of the few eWspapers published in s'l-
 befia. and gives some interesting par ticulars in regard to the transportation of Chinese tea through Russia. Ina Tomsk= newspaper says proudly tAa5 ID
 the first WentF days Of last January no less than 1909q sl8igbs loaded with
 tea passed through tae Siberian city Every sleigh carries usually five 1a-ss
 of tea, packed in o1 skin each weigh.
 ing from 100 0 166 pounds. Tae men
 sleep on the sieiglls during tha rip
 across Siberia which lasts nearly one wear It would be shorter to send the
 Chinese tea b5 seq but in tais case the custom house duties are high while
 thex are comparatively small on tea
 imported by the land route. Russian
 merchants. who have long had most of
 the European tea business in their
 lands. are greatly disturbed aFsr the
 great growth in public favor of the
 ceVlan teas which are distributed from
 Londcc
 vieid ot Gold in the TransvaaA
 The latest published returns show ing the yield of gold in the TransYaal l are said in London to be eminently satisfactory to those persons financial l ly interested in the Rand. The entire l TransYaal yield in June was 467271 i ounces. or 819 ounces better than in the preceding month. the latter return be- ing the previous best on record. So far tbis year each monthly return since February has been over 100000 ounces better than the corresponding yield in | 1898. In fact. up to date. the 1889 I yield is some 625,000 ounces above the l showing the corresponding period in 1898. Here are the total yields of the Transvaal since 1894, when the records l showed 2,024 f59 ounces: In 1895, 2.277 635 ounces; 1896, 2.280,885 ounces; i8975 3,034,474 ounces. and 1898, 4,555,- GOO ounces. London fnanciers do not deem it possible that this extracrdin- arv showing can be maintained throughout tke year, owing to the dis turbed political situation and parttcu- larly to the fact that the exodus of labor from the Rand seems t0 be as- suming serious proportions
 Movement to Erect a Statue Failed.
 The movement to erect a statue in memory of Cromwell at Huntingdon, England, where he was born has ig unanimously failed. The mayor of the borough, Lord Sandwich, recently in formed the town council that of the subscriptions which had been received only two reached two figures. These were the subscription of Lord Ripon and himself. Independently of these two sums. the total=was under fifty rounds. Only five dollars had been raised in America There was not one subscriber in the borough of Hunting don. and only two or three from the county. About twenty or thirty small sums had been received in England and America, and, as the local committee had done all it could, it was now time, after four months, to close the matter He suggested that the best thing. would be to return the money to the su5scrib- CTS, and this course was decided upon
 London Family Doctor: Dr. De Becker has found salicyl1e acid val uable agent in pneumonia, believing that it acts on the infammatory proc ess in the lungs, and shortens the at- tack or abates it It is an antiseptic and dissolyes the fibrinous coagulum. When expectoration is induced he di- minishes or stops the drug. He gives a child one-tenth grain hourly, very small child even smaller doses The