The Republican journal., 1901-05-23
NEWS NOTES.

RAPIDS TO Dawson, Is open.
Total coinage at the United States
mints for April aggregate $21, 734, $50.
1t is proposed to increase the war
strength of the Belgian army to $780, 900
men.
Churches in Buffalo, n. Y, will drop
the Sunday closing question for the ex-
position.
Nearly one thousand immigrants are
arriving at New York on each of the
big ocean liners.
The sheet mill at Bridgeport, Ohio,
will be doubled in capacity by the billion
dollar steel trust.
In the South 100000 cotton spindles
are at work, or third the number in
operation in the North.
Gov. Odell of New York has signed
the bill appropriating 100000 for the
purchase of the Palisades.
Statistics collected in Germany show
that the death rate among widows is
considerably higher than among wives.
-Four hundred and thirty-five pairs of
trousers have been purchased by the
government for the Yankton Sioux
boys
Forty thousand italian emigrants, &C
cOrding to a report at Rome are booked
to leave for the United States this
month.
The stock of California raisins is so
large that growers talk of building a
distillery to absorb the yearly surplus
| hereafter.
There are 300 public schools now
organized and running successfully in
Cuba and the number is increasing
every month.
The stupid policy of hunters in South
Africa has led to the almost total de-
struction of a host of wild animals
the quagga among them.
The S12o, 100000 of iron and steel
products exported last year exceeds the
total of American manufactures eX-
ported twenty years ago.
Over 5000 miles Of new steam railway
will be constructed in the United States
this year. Oklahoma and Indian Ter
ritory are in the list for 612 miles.
An enormous pine log, "a feet long
and 10 inches square, was landed at
Leith, England, recently. 1t was the
largest and most perfect tree in Louis
lana.
Recent experiments made by M. eau
ter of Paris have shown that hydrogen
is a constant constituent of the air to
the extent of two in 10000 parts by
volume.
MI Sturgeon has been dead more
lint
cation of his sermons proceeds and will
60 on for many years before the supply
is exhausted.
A new law in PENNSYLVANIA makes it
misdemeanor to place free or trial
samples of medicines, dyes, ink, color
ing or polishing compounds where chill
dren can obtain them.
George w. Carroll of Beaumont, Tex.
made rich by the oil discoveries, has
given $50, 900 to Baylor University in
Waco Tex, to erect a science building,
and has promised more if the sum given
is insufficient.
Some idea of the great demand for
Egyptian cigarettes can be gained from
the fact that one factory III Cairo turns
out 10000 cigarettes a day These
are principally sold throughout Euro
pean countries.
Thousands of persons are pouring into
southwestern Oklahoma and camping
in and about Kiowa, Comanche and
Apache and Wichita Indian reserva-
tions for the opening, scheduled for
some time in August.
New York city has just introduced a
bath equipment into one of its public
schools situated in crowded tenement
district. 1t consists Of fourteen shower
baths, the spray system having been
found to give the greatest cleanliness
and economy of time.
In the operation of dredging naviga-
Bile channels at the mouth of the Moruya
and ShOalhaven rivers, in New South
Wales, it was discovered that the mud
contained gold dust. An automatic gold
saver was then attached to the dump
ing machinery, and it is estimated that
enough gold will thus be obtained to
defray the expenses of keeping the
channels open.
Frederick Thomas, who lives on the
Gettysburg battlefield, shoots birds and
rabbits with a bow and arrow. So ex-
pert has he become that he seldom
misses a shot. He subsistS almost en-
tirely upon game killed in this manner.
His first home was a hole in the ground
and a small cave hut. Thomas. three
years ago, unassisted, succeeded in
building himself a one-story cabin of
logs.
For one year at least the pupils in
the Philadelphia public schools who
merit such consideration are to be freed
from the ordeals of examination for
promotion 1t is in the experience of
| many teachers that many pupils who
have done good work throughout the
term fail in the nervous strain of an
examination, although well qualified to
undertake the work of the succeeding
grade.
At Norristown, Pa, the unusual hap
pened when Dominic Pasquale picked
up a stick of dynamite in Richardson
& Ross quarries. He was eating it
when the quarry boss, to brighten him
into abandoning the dangerous feast be-
fore the dynamite could explode, threat
4 ened his arrest. The youngster jumped
upon "a passing coal train and was ar
rested at Reading for illegal car riding.