The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-12-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

Irish mayors are exempt from duty
In courts of law.
The navy desires the establish
ment of base az Guam.
Memphis will issue s25O,oO0 worth
OF bonds for pnykipurposes.
A drouth is causing great incon-
venience in Eastern Kentucky.
The Alabama nal=ontpnt for 1000
Is estimated at 100000 tons.
The Cumberland Telephone Co. win
erect building at Chattanooga.
| From the moon the earth looks IS
times as big as the moon does 10 MS.
News from Peking is photographed
to London at cost of IS Cd per word.
The first backing made was COM
pounded of lamp black and rotten
eggs.
Belfast. it is said, is the greatest
tca-drinking city in the United King
dom.
The report of gun mile away
takes full five seconds to reach
the ear.
bikes in Japan cost in the aggre-
gate more money than those of the
Netherlands. E
Commercial estimates of the 1900
wheat crop of Siberia place it at 49,
COG, 900 bushels.
Twice year, in the first week in
April and October, the Chinese carry
food to their dead.
A married couple living near
Throop, Pa, who were childless, have
adopted ID children.
The farmers of Kansas yielded this
year over $3.50 to every man, woman
and child in the state. rs
Sweden's seventh ironclad of mod
ern type, the Dristigheten, was lately
launched at Gothenburg.
All the conductors of the Brook
field (Mass.) trolley line have been
appointed special officers.
The bishop of London enjoys the
reputation of being one of the best
classical scholars in England.
There are about 100000 Indians in
the Dominion of Canada located upon
reserves in different districts.
In hurricane blowing so miles an
hour the pressure on each square
foot of surface is 31H. pounds.
A man living in the country aver
ages one inch taller and three pounds
heavier shan one residing in town.
There are 25G,00o.O0O Confucians
in the world, beating the Roman
Catholic church in numbers by 25,-
100000.
Sugar manufacturers in Queensland
Invariably purchase the years crop
of cane standing, and cut it at their
own cost.
In every Siberian city the most
conspicuous and finest buildings are
buildings.
Sound passes through air at the
velocity of 1,142 feet per second;
through water, 1900 feet; through
iron, 1850 feet.
The yield of olive oil in Italy in
1s99-1900 was of poor quality and de-
flcient in quantity, amounting to
only 100000 hectoliters.
A curious butterfly exists in India.
The male has the left wing yellow
and the right one red; the female
has these colors reversed.
The little Grand Duchess Olga of
Russia is the richest baby in the
world. The week she was born ST.
100000 was invested for her.
Prof. Young estimates that train
running from the earth to the sun at
40 miles an hour would take 26j years
for the trip, and the fare would be
$1,25o,000.
An American has erected number
of steam pumps on the Jordan, and
is now supplying churches in the
United States and in Europe with
genuine Jordan water.
In some Italian towns, instead of
giving books as prizes in public
schools, they give savings-bank
books, with a small sum entered to
the credit of the prize-winner.
Estimates of the largest wine max
ers in California indicate that the
wine production of the state this year
will reach between 13,500,000 and
IL ,OOO,O00 gallons of dry wine and
100000 gallons of sweet wine