The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-13

and thirty-seven carloads, and that the
same percentage of increase applies 10 the
other milling companies.
Wheat men say that the wheat crop
which is now being harvested in Okla
homa, Southern Kansas, Indian TERRITORY
and Southern Texas. is the largest ever
known Oklahoma alone VIII
more than thirty million oussets-
The semi-annual meeting of the Board Oh
Trustees of the Mortified (Mass) Semi
mary was held yesterday evening, and the
trustees resolved that Mr.. Moody,s work
should go on without any dimnucon.
They have already subscribed SSO,G0 TO-
wards the endowment fund
1t is said that Captain S. E. White, OF
Columbia, s. G., an old Confederate sol
der, will erect monument to the dead
Indians who helped the Confederate cause.
Sir John Tenniel, who is affectionate!y
known among his associates as the Grand
Old Man of Punch has been on the
staff Of that paper for fifty years over
two thousand cartoons nave come from
his pencil, and an exhibition OF the origi-
nal drawings is now being Eeld in London
The monthly statement of the exports
of the United States for May last, issued
by the Bureau of Statictics, SHOWS as
follows, compared with May, 1898:
Exports. Increase.
Breadstuffs $3.50. .....s 23,0I4,995 5 1850, 600
8 Z 4
Provisions ...... 49,. 13662,S57 $4,000
Cotton ... ........ 11,s30,931 2,300,0 eco
Mineral oils .......... 6.1H,936 100000
Total .... ......s 57,o5t,529 S 100000
Decrease.
A drug clerk at Concord, n. H, ar
rested charged with violating the Sunday
law by selling soda water, was dis
charged in the police court next day, the
judge holding that soda water is one or
the .'necessaries of life" exempted by the
statute from the operation of the Sunday
law.
Very few people are aware, says the
Chicago Chronicle that in the last twenty
years the number Of fish in the great
lakes has been decreasing rapidly. 1t is
a fact that as compared with ten years
ago it requires practically double the
number of men, boats and nets 70 catch
the same number of fish. The Govern
ment has for twenty years maintained
large number of stations along the
lakes where fish have been propagated
in enormous numbers, but in spite OF all
this the supply IS steadily decreasing.
Dr. John II. Girdner, Of New York, who
is a warm friend of William ]. Bryan.
has a coat, says the Chicago Record,
which is interesting from its long tail
to the taiIor's band on the collar It
is a wedding dress coat which belonged
TO his grandfather, and it was made ny
Andrew Johnson, afterward president of
the United States. At the back OF the
coat, under the collar is a little clip OF
cloth, marked "a Johnson, tailor" The
coat was made long before Johnson at
tanned any political prominence
Department stores in st. Paul and
Minneapolis provide bicycle stands. with
boy in attendance who checks wheels
free, whether the rider intends 10 visit
that particular store or not. Indeed a
bicycle may be SO housed all day.
California physicians are puzzled over
the case OF Mary Terry, a seven-year-old
daughter of Portuguese rancfer, in the
southern part of that State, who was born
with some defect of the optical structure
which causes her TO see everything re-
versed, precisely as people with normal
vision see things in a mirror. The doctors
have coined a new word-"topsyt urvyopia'
TO describe the malady.
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