The Afro-American advance., 1900-11-17
MRS. GEO. DUcKETT.
PUBLISHER AND MANAGER.

Eighteen states and one territory
now have valued policies Iaws-that
is, laws requiring fire insurance COM
panies to pay the face of the policy,
no matter what may be the actual
value of the property burned.
Miss George Glass, of Bunkie, Ia,
a cchooi teacher at New Orleans,
drowned herself after reading letter
from home. An unfortunate love af-
fair is said to have inspired the act.
France this year is short 100000
"A Herman Syndicate has Just made
arrangements whereby 1t secures all
the timber on a large strip of land
in the mountains in eastern Kentucky.
IL is estimated that this strip con-
tains about 100000 of the finest speci-
mems of oak trees.
After keeping a cylinder of gold
and one of lead together for four
years at about 65 deg. F.-that Is. a
comparatively cold temperature-Sir
w. Roberts-Austen found that the
gold had slowly but surely made its
way into or mixed with the lead.
Venezuelan government has annul-
led the concession of 10000. 900 acres
of land to the 0rinoco company, with
Headquarters at Faribault, Mimi, and
capitalized at $30,000,000, on the
ground of non-execution of contract.
olution at Cape Town favoring, "a bot
The annual crop of mushrooms in
France is valued at $2000,000, and
there are co wholesale firms in Paris
dealing exclusively In them. In the
department of the Seine, it appears,
there are 5000 caves, and about 800
persons are employed in their culture.
Justice was cheap in Wales ESQ years
ago. In 1876 the salary OF justice
of the great sessions of Anglesey, Car
narvon and Merioneth was ESQ year.
But a Welsh Judge" of those days
was allowed TO practice in the su-
pevior courts at Westminster. The
advocate paid the judge.
The rajah of Matlan owns the
largest diamond in the world. IL
weighs 367 carats. and is shaped like
an egg, with a queer little dented hol-
low at the smaller end.
If spray of liquid air Is applied
TO the skin the part is frozen as hard
as ice. but in few minutes circu.
laticn returns without injury. provid.
ing the part is not at some extremity
Cinders from the forest fires on
Cape Cod were carried by the wind
as far as Boston, distance of almost
fifty miles. falling in the streets and
the waters of the harbor in consid
cradle showers.
A life-size marble statue OF Apollo
with the head wonderfully well pre-
served has been dug up near Athens
The Workmanship is the fifth century
before Christ.
Kansas, in celebration Of the AZ
tieth anniversary of her admission
into the union as territory, purpose,
to hold. in 1904. at Topeka. her cap
fal city, an interstate exposition.
Berlin pays salary to profession
al bird catcher. who keeps scientifI,
and educational institutions supplies
with birds, birds nests and eggs, ant
ne - the only man in the empire per
mitteCl 10 do so.
Canadian oil expert has 1iscov
cred oil in paying quantities neal
Fort-au-FTnce. Newfoundland, and 1
now importing machinery from Pc
srolia, o., 70 work the wells.
The total value Of the II events Sc
cured BY fFe American Jockeys dur
Ing Ascot week in England was sfiO.
20, while the 10 races won by EnOIisI
Jockeys were worth only ses COO
= stranger In SaliEa. Kan, had tn,
local police hurt all one day 10 re
cover $40 bill he claimed to have los,
wsen the guilty man was located Ii,
oneers learned that no $40 bills ar,
Printed.