The Republican journal., 1901-02-21
NEWS NOTES.

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Umbrellas were introduced into
America from England in 1872.
The first public schools were opened
in 1915, in Massachusetts.
Last year 337, $685. 600 whitefish fry
were liberated in the great lakes.
For over 1900 miles the Nile does not
! receive single tributary stream.
The Ganges is 1870 miles long and
drains an area of 100000 square miles.
Hawaii is getting it's first share of gar
den seeds and the Congressional Record.
New York coroners, with their staffs,
cost the taxpayers more than $15O,OOO
a year.
The estimated population Of British
Guiana at the end of December last
was 2S7, 2SS.
In the English army soldier is
drummed to church just as he is to a
drill or dress parade.
Delaware people are called ''Musk-
rats" an allusion to the former abund-
ance of these animals.
The recent census shows that about
- per cent of the population of the
United States is cOlored.
The French Minister Of War proposes
giving shorthand lessons to soldiers in
all the French garrisons.
The farms in the neighborhood. of
Pretoria have been proved rich in coal,
copper, gold and diamonds.
OF the 3,153 locomotives built in the
United States last year. sos went abroad,
most of them to British lines.
The total number of students at the
universities of Germany this winter is
81, 3S9-a gain of 5000 in ten years.
Manchester, England, has decided to
establish mounted police force for the
city, consisting of twenty-five men.
The salt production in Michigan last
year filled 4, $40, S65 barrels, a gain over
the preceding year of 5,416 barrels.
The Americans in Australia are as
enthusiastic in celebrating the fedora
ton Of Australia as any other residents.
Sydney letter.
A handsome yacht lying for the win
ter near Vancouver, B. c., was recently
sunk through the weight of snow accu-
mulated on her deck
The first mulberry tree in America
was brought from France in 1926, with
the expectation of establishing null
berry groves in New York.
Winter tourist travel is very heavy to
South California over all the roads, and
the hotels at Los Angeles and other re-
sorts are crowded.
An unnamed beneficiary in Cleve-
land, O., has given Chenille, o., clergy
man unlimited credit for the relief of
the poor in that community.
The head of one of Queen Victoria's
prize Hereford steers has been bought
by the British museum as the most
typical of its class ever produced.
A soldier at Spandau, bent on fright
ening a sentry approached him STEALTH
ly, creeping on all tours. He jumped
up suddenly, and the sentry shot him
dead.
Yard was once any stick, rod or pole,
The expression is still used with this
meaning when applied to various parts
of a ships equipment, as yard-arm,
sail-yard and the like.
To criticise was originally to pass an
opinion upon, whether favorable or
otherwise, and the fact that most opin-
ions are unfavorable is Indicated in the
present signifcation of the word.
Among the fossil animals that have
recently figured in geological literature
is fossil camel from Roumania, which
enjoys the unique distinction of being
the only one so far known in Europe.
Albert Stephenson of Cumberland,
Md, was a prodigal son, but when he
returned to his home he was not receiv-
ed with a fatted calf. His father quar-
relied with him and stabbed him to death.
Disturbing the burial grounds in the
Orient is looked on as heinous crime
Robbing graves is the only crime under
Chinese law for which the thief may be
justly killed on the spot by any one
finding him out.
The coun try, according to Hetty
Green, is just fairly beginning to de-
velop. The twentieth century will far
surpass all the achievements of the
nineteenth, is her prophecy. She sees
through golden glasses.
In the last weeks of our war with
Spain there was a project of raising
money by selling the famous Prado
gallery in Madrid. The value of the
pictures is about $1O,0O0,O0O, and this
would have paid the war expenses for
one month only.
The attention of fruit growers in New
Zealand is being seriously directed to
the question of The eradication of fruit
pests. But for the ravages Of the Goblin
moth and kindred pests New Zealand
has excellent facilities for doing large
export fruit trade.