The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-08
CURRENT TOPICS.


quoted at 60 to Is cents.
Australia is exporting picked sheep
skins to the United States.
japanese are now producing about
100000 pounds of tea annually.
A solid cubic foot of anthracite
weighs in round numbers 100 pounds.
A chestnut tree has been known to
live for $50 years, oak 1000 aud yew
assoc years.
The little German university town
of Jena has no fewer than seven free
reading rooms.
The United States continues at the
head of the list of the worlds eX>
porting nations.
The st. Louis fair is not only GO
ing to have lady managers, but is go
ing to have 'lady managers at large
The report that King Edward has
cancer has finally been admitted by
a London newspaper.
Seven miles an hour is the cancels
over two hours. Its usual speed is five
lnlleS an nOur.
King Edward has given great Of
Tense to his own church because he
attended services at Presbyterian
church the other day.
The chairman of the prevention of
cruelty to animals society is trying
to persuade the town council of Ber-
lin to levy tax on cats.
Edmond Potter has just published
the second volume of his catalogue of
the vases in the Paris Louvre, one of
the finest collections in the world.
The tobacco trade war has already
commenced, the American trust hav-
ing notified it's retailers of a large
reduction in the price of cigarettes.
The naval department will intro
.luce on the new German battIeships
% German centineter rapid firing
guns, the largest heretofore being "a
centimeter.
The people of st. Louis have adopt
ed at the polls charter amendments
to enable the authorities to put the
city in first-class condition for the
worlds fair.
A tour of the agricultural districts
of England and Wales reveals the fact
that scores of farms are absolutely
abandoned, that hundreds more arc
in a semiderelict condition.
Mrs. Roosevelt was discussing the
momentous question of the toilet with
a friend, and she remarked that any
woman who displayed common sense
could he we'll dressed on $500.
In ten Irish counties there are adj
vertised 667,o00 acres of shootings,
and the rental asked is E7,SS5, or a
trihe over 2aald per acre. In most cases,
too, there are mansions attached
The British acreage under wheat his
season was about 1,s0O,OOO-a fall of
$4,000 acres from last year. follow
ing q decline of nearly 10000 acres
in 1900 and of 161, 900 acres in 1899.
To date the prosecution of Roland
+. MolineuN has cost the State of New
York upwards of 100000, not includ-
ing the cost of boarding the accused
at Sing Sing for a year and half.
Count Esterhazy, of Dreyfus case
notoriety, is now a money lender in
London, and has laid himself open to
prosecution under recent law for
acting in that capacity without being
registered.
The Austrian supreme court of APP.
peal has decided that if wife saves
by her husband for household tx.
penses and appropriates the savings
for herself this proceeding amounts
to theft.
The value of pepper was known al
old. We read that when Rome had tc
be ransomcd from it's barbarian con
queror, in the 400, Alaric demanded
5000 pounds of pepper among the pay
ments, and that 1Iippocrates used it IL
medicine, applying it to the skin.
Census Director Merriam estimate:
that the population of the United
States, including the Philippines, viii
reach the enormous figures of 100000,
900 in 1910, and the phenomenal in
crease during the past decade furnish
es Il warrant for the estimate.
At Reading, Pa, in the habeas cor
pus hearing OF the 10 street car me1
arrested for running cars on Sunda,
before Judge Endlich, the court de
clared that under the existing law o
1894 the running of street cars was ;
necessity. The costs were put oil thu
prosecutors, the street car strikers.
A London cablegram saying tina
the last trip of the White Star steam
ship Oceanic, the longest ship tha
ever rode the seas from Liverpool tt
New York, broke all records at profit
making, suggests the interesting an,
complicated question of the expense
and fnanciering of the big ship. Th'
cost of running the vessel was $35,
900, while from passengers alone wa
received S125.63O. The subtraction
shows remainder of profit of 500,
go.
There is perfect rage in Paris 70
homespun. 1t is the textile of the day
and bids fair to he quite as fashion
able as cloth this season. 1t is EN-