The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-09-01
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germany exports hops to the value
Of IS 100000 year.
Venice has been selected for a mod
ern ship building plant.
In 1899 no fewer than 5000 books
We're published in this country.
A Lithuanian in Chicago bears the
name of John Uppermost Short.
Germany had 1913 suicides in 1897,
rate Of FL to 1OO, 900 inhabitants.
Maxim gun drill is now carried on In
the various schools of instruction in
Canada. g.
sturgeon have arrived in the Della
ware river and promise to be very
numerous. t<~. -
Fourteen ecclesiastical students
from Porto Rico are at st. Mary's
seminary in Baltimore.
No royal house in Europe, except
those of Germany and Italy, originated
In the country that it rules.
Some $500 Germans, Poles and
SWISS left their own countries last
month to settle in England. ~
School teachers in Iowa have low
er incomes than those of instructors
In any part of the Middle West, except
Ohio. ,z..~..," -
IN the treasury of our Island OF
Guam on March 10 the total amount OF
cash on hand was $2,171 in Mexican
silver. ~.
Inc Turkish government has issued
an trade, prohibiting the importation
OF all apparatus connected with cleo
tricity.
Ihere are only two surviving Ameri-
can vice-presidents, Levi P. Morton, OF
new York, and Adlai E. Stevenson, OF
Illinois.
Cups and saucers are never used for
tea IN Russia. The drinking vessel
1or tea is the "stakan," a glass tumbler
IN silver holder.
Ihere are ninety-two firms in Am
sterdam registered as diamond cutters.
In one $50 to 400 workmen are con-
stantly employed.
For lithographing, peculiar variety
OF stone is required, which comes for
the most part from the village of SoIn-
noIen, In Bavaria.
All eternity would be too short for
MIN who admires Rome,'' wrote Ruti-
Hus Namatianus, in the fifth century
OF the Christian era.
Golf has infected every European
living in the city of Singapore. There
are two golf clubs, and the members
are very enthusiastic.
Anywhere in the world, no matter
where, the chances are that the,
clothespin used in hanging out clothes
were made in America
London is twelve miles broad one
way and seventeen the other, and
every year sees about twenty miles OF
new streets added to it.
The pineapple crop of Florida will
break all previous records. The value
OF the crop on the east coast alone will
be in excess of 100000.
Two hundred and forty ships are
now in the Russian service The Rus
sian army figures in grand total ST.
loo officers and 2.798.00O men.
The Tennessee convict coal mine is
paying institution. It's estimated
that the enterprise will show a profit
of over 100000 for the past six
months.
While cotton factories are springing
up as if by magic in cotton fields, there
Is no growth of the industry in any
part of the world more remote from
the fields.
The Yaqui Indians are largely en-
ployed in the mines. They make ex-
cellent miners, are Industrious and
good workers, quite in contrast with
the Mexicans.
The Argentine government has sent
fifty young men from the different
provinces to be educated in the agr1-
cultural school of the United States
indianapolis News.
The short session of Congress which
begins next December is a continual
ton of the one just adjourned. The
interval from adjournment until that
time is technically only a recess.
A story is current in Washington to
the effect that during a short speech
in the senate General Hawley spoke
>225 words minute. The average
speed of senators in addressing the
senate is ITO words a minute.