The Republican journal., 1901-03-07
fully to supply her own market. In 1899
the imports of wood were SO, O0O, 900 Gu
bic feet.

fully to supply her own market. In 1899
the imports of wood were 81, 1000, 900 Gu
bic feet.
Poland is the only conquered nation in
this century prior to the present events
in South Africa whose conquerOrs have
offered no terms but humiliation to the
vanquished.
Pennsylvania's fiscal year closed No
vember 80, and the state rejoices that
it's income was the largest in any year
of its history. The receipts amounted
to ST, 494, Pills.
In some grottoes in Algeria, French
explorers have recently discovered
stone implements mingled with the re-
mains of extinct animals belonging to
quaternary times.
The Turkish language is said by schol-
ars to be the sOftest and most musical
language of modern times, being better
adapted to the purposes of musical nota-
ton and recitative than even the Italian.
A man in Western Kansas keeps ten
others at work digging snake root and
rosin weed from the prairies for the drug
trade. In the last eighteen months he
has shipped $4,000 pounds, some of it to
Europe.
In fifteen years-1SS5 to 19OO-Italy
spent on her fleet $500, 600, 900, and yet
the italian navy does not come up to
half the strength and efficiency of the
German fleet on which during the
same period of years $29s, OOO, 900 was
expended.
The other day Justice Everett of Chi
cago fined bird dealer of that city 500
and costs for having live native birds in
his possession. The songsters found in
the dealers shop were for the most
part hooking birds and cardinal gross
beaks.
Recognizing the danger to property
from the presence of large number of
impecunious and idle Frenchmen. the
Government of British Guiana has APP
proved of small expenditure from the
treasu ny to enable some of these men to
leave the colony
The attention of the Pension Bureau
has been called to one regiment in the
civil war in which, according to the rolls,
twenty eight colored George Washing
tons served. A single company shows a
membership of thirteen George Wash
ingtons by the applications filed
The thread on the cocoon of the silk
worm is not wound around and around,
as might be supposed, but irregularly
here and there. as the worm moved his
head to and fro within his self-made
house. Many yards of thread may some
times be unwound from the cocoon with
out turning it over at all.
Since the. West Indian colonies were
lost the production of beet sugar in
Spain has almost monopoized the atten-
ton of Spanish agricultursts. Large
capital has been subscribed for the pur-
pose of cultivating beets on an extensive
scale and of erecting sugar mills through
out the country. The result has already
been considerable over production and
a consequent uneasy feeling in the trade.
One of the most curious mines that is
worked is in Tongkin, China, where, in
sand formation, at depth Of from IA
to 20 feet, there is deposit of the stems
of trees. The Chinese work this mine
for the timber, which is found in good
condition, and is used iu making cotfins,
troughs, and for carving and other pur
poses. The stems are about feet in
diameter and As feet in length, and ap-
parently belong to fir trees, which were
buried thousands of years ago by al
earthquake or other similar cOnvulsiOn.