The Negro world., 1900-06-09
CURRENT TOPICS.

Steamers are, for traye'ers, SO per
cent. safer than sailing vessels.
OF eighty balls fired in battle. only
one, ON the average, hits its mark.
contract is TO be let soon for u co.
600 spindle cotton mill at Columbus,
Ga.
The mines of South Africa give
work to between 6o,ooo and 1000
men.
Mrs. VIM. Neill. of Augusta, Ca, has
a moekinghird which she has taught
| TO talk.
A flour war is on in Chattanooga,
and prices have been cut fifty cents
q barrel.
Grasshoppers are playing havoc
with the cotton crop in the Missis.
sippi delta,
On the ITO square miles OF London's
area, it is said 1000 tons of SCOT set
ties yearly.
The Chattanooga opera house is to
be remodeled and made ground
floor theatcr.
There are $4,000 more exhibitors
At the present Paris fair than there
were in 1850.
Portland is the largest prison in
England. Nearly 1000 convcts are
located there.
The annual production of jute fab
RIGS in Germany now amounts 10 $ii,-
5000 in value.
New Orleans has an ice war, and ice
is sold at eight cents n hundred
pounds at the factory.
Joseph Quong, a Chinese laundry
man, is candidate for seat in the
city council of Toledo, o.
For some years the Nova Scotia
government had expended about $751;
900 yearly upon agriculture.
Queen Victoria never removes from
her hand the three rings connected
with her courtship and marriage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Schofield, OF
New Canaan, c., have been married
sixty years-the record for the state.
Russia's war debt has been wiped
out. In eight years the remaining
total, "a, 100000 rubles, has been paid
of.
Nine important British steamship
companies earned in 1899 a net profit
of S4,96C,OOo, against A.743,oo0 in
! 1898.
Henry James, the novelist, has
turned mountain climber and will try
his prowesE this summer in the Swiss
Alps.
Tnrantulas are being raised in Aus
| trnlia for their webs, which are being
used in making threads for war bal
| looms.
A new substitute for celluloid re-
sembling horn in appearance is now
manufactured under the name OF
mariod
Since pigs were introduced into the
New Hebrides the natives, II is said
have come TO regard human food as
second best.
A Russian count and a French
prince are among the prisoners cap
tured by the British and now enjoy
ing the sea air of st. Helena.
Charles A. Towne, nominated for
the vice presidency by the populis,s
at Sioux City, Is AZ years old tive
years older than Mr. Bryan. lie was
born in Michigan, and all his fore
fathers on both sides were repub-
| leans.
During the cars recent visit 20
Moscow his sanction was obtained
20 the project for the erection OF a
church in commemoration OF the lib
Grafton of the serfs nearly forty
years ago. Only half the money has
az yet been collected
From Manila TO Australia Is like
going down n river, for one Is out OF
sight OF land only two days" The
voyage lasts twenty-one days. but the
course Is through the South Sea
islands, which accounts for it's Tesem-
blance 20 river nagigation.
Ihe French authorities controlling
the athletic events TO be held in con-
nection with Paris exposition have
announced that, as concession 90
Americas desire TO eliminate Sunday
games, the sports which were sched-
uled 10 begin Sunday, July IS, will
instead commence Saturday. July ~.
the great French national holiday.
and will continue on the following
Tuesday and Thursday. The finals,
in which Americans are entered. will
be put ahead, and the games will con-
clude on Saturday. II possible.
Two persons nsmcd William McKin-
ley are on Uncle Sans payroll. One
draws a salary Of t}.160 month as
president, and the other 500 month
MS engineer in the Louisville custom
house. There are forty-eight organs
and three Of them were chriStened
william There used 10 be two Grover
Clsvelands in the public service. but
there IL only one now. He Is assistant
farmer at the Ft. Peck Indian agency.
and receives a salary Of $50 a month.
800 Reward 800.
The readers Of this paper viii be pleased
10 learn that there ~ al least one dreaded
disease that science has been able 70 cure in
81 It's stages, and that il Catarrh. Halle
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known 20 the medical Maternity. CatsfTh
being q constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Gatarrh
Cure - taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
Of the. disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature ~ dong its work. The
proprietOr1 have 10 much faith in its eura
tive powers that they offer One Hundred
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