Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-03-01
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The lighter all chocolate is in color
the more free it is from impurities.
The present crop of peanuts. while
not of excellent quality, is a~bnornally
large.
The leasing of water flowed lands
for oyster beds in Rhode Island yields
$4,000 annually.
Engineers estimate that 10000 horse
power can be developed along the Chi
cago sanitary channel.
The colony of New South Wales.
Australia, expects to have 10000 tons
of wheat for export this season.
An important element of the voting
population of the cosmopolitan city of
Buffalo is composed of the Polish vot-
ers.
Switzerland has three institutions
for the cure of drunkards which record
permanent cures in one-half the cases
treated.
The North Carolina p%enitentiary was
self supporting last year and returned
to the state $4,000 borrowed during
the year.
tExciusive of private charities, Eng,
land spends something like ELS. o
a year in providing for the necessities
Of the poor.
In the number of locomotives the
United States comes first with a total
Of 3G.1I6 Great Britain comes next
with 1862.
In the last II years the number of
physicians in Germany increased SO
per cent. while the population increas-
ed only IA per cent
The new twin screw steamer Rhine
of the Bremen-New York line has room
for 40 first class. $50 second class and
2.6o0 steerage passengers.
The army death rate is lower In
Great Britain than in any other coun-
try In France it is nearly six times
as high as in this country.
Americans prefer electricity for run
ming automobiles. the French petro-
leum and the Russians wood alcohol.
costing in that country 8 cents a gal
Ion.
Greece has followed itaiy's example
in forbidding the expectation of an
tiguitieS. Notice has beeS served on
foreign governments and learned So
cieties.
The total number of paid employees
of the New York state il
1921. of whom fully 5000 are direct
ly connected with Albany departments.
and a majority of these reside in Al
bany.
Indiana has 90 counties. In these
are 1.016 townships. OF this number
IS We're named after Jackson. 40 after
Washington and 20 after Harrison and
Jefferson Wayne and Clay each were
honored II times
The American Political league. q new
organization. is to have a national con
ventiOn Ia Boston on July 4. Ii will he
the only convention Boston will have
and the only that the American Pc
liticai league will hold.
In 1898 the venerable MasoacAueetts
town of Salem voted against tho grant
ing of liquor licenses within tn hound
aries. In the election of December
1899. IL voted the other way-2.957 for
.cense and $3.50 against.
A great decrease in the use of the
horse may be expected in the near fu
son- Experiments in England have
proved that heavy freight wagon traffic
sxn be handled by motor power at one
W.T. tAt tV>t Va oESttfoA GT-
The total number of paid EMPLOYEES
Il the municipal departments in New
York city Is 3S.usso. and the department.
81 street cleaning. which has 3.:ee0
employs twice as many as the depar.
nent OF public charities. which has
Loco
Asbestus six feet in length has been
Sound on the Orange river banks. Ii
Is coarser than the Canadian product.
but is more valuable on o of its
length The G~riqualand West Copper
company 4 the Cape Asbestus com
pany are mining the fber at a profit.
Highland" seems 20 be a popular
name for a railway station among the
mountains of Africa. There Is a High
land station in Natal There is anoth-
er one OF the same name in Kafirland |
on the line between Port Elizabeth and
Grehamstowu. beyond AIicedaIe June
ten
Tbs Indians of South America use a
curious poison which is called ezcaI
4 grain of II has the effect Of starting |
an irresistible desire for exerrion The
victim begins walking briSkly round
and round IN small circles till he dropS |
in his tracks There IS no pain
but much excitement
FoTeign residents in China are accus |
toned 10 seeing their bali dozen coolies