The Republican journal., 1901-04-25
NEWS NOTES.


lished in Pekin.
The City of New York includes 2,5Os
miles of streets.
American troops are to be away from
China by the end of April.
Jealousy among Cubans causes delay
in sending commission to Washington.
French detectives report discovery of
plot to assassinate President Loubet.
The Roman roads, according to their
Importance, were from to 30 feet in
width.
The amount of water flowing out of
the Nile is sixteen times that of the
Thames.
Aguinaldo's manifesto is not yet sign
ed, owing to his objection to certain con-
ditions.
In many parts of Europe river and
canal routes are legally regarded as
highways.
owners, 1000 Pennsylvania coalminers
may strike.
The journey from Klondike to Seattle
over the all-American route is made in
nineteen days.
Charles R. Flint, before the industrial
commission, discussed in detail the ad-
vantages of trusts.
Claims against Spain must be presen-
ted to the commission before midnight
of October Sth next.
New York, with total population of
$780, 900, expends in police salaries alone
more than $4,000, 900 annually.
Sea-fowl are almost exterminated
along the Louisiana coast and protect
I've measures are being taken.
Secretary Root has collected one of
the best private libraries in military
history and science in the country.
The relief of the bread tax and the tax
alton of the Weather classes are the
chief features in the new italian policy.
Anegro who claims to be Levi Charles,
the notorious New Orleans desper-
ado, is in a pest-house at Clarksdale,
Mass.
The latest Swiss mountain railway
project is to connect the Engadine with
the Italian lake by road over the Ber-
| nina range.
Kangaroo skins to the value of $780,
$3.50 were imported from Australia
into the United States during the quar-
ter ending September 30, 1900.
A new census has just been made of
the American buffalo, which gives the
total number as 1924, of which 6S4 are
in captivity and $40 in wild state.
One of the most destructive earth
| Quakes in the worlds history was that
which occurred in Yeddo in the year
17o3, when 100000 people were killed.
AS the editor of the Greenville Tex. J
Banner was returning home from Farm
| ersville, whittier he had gone on an in
vitatiOn to deliver lecture on law and
ORDER he was mobbed and severely
beaten by those who did not like his lee
ture or speech.
Germany. although it has $4,000 900
acres of forests eXcellently managed
and yielding an immense revenue, de-
mands increasingly greater quantities
OF wood, so that for the last ten years
the amount of timber which it buys has
doubled and it's value trebled.
LeuoD1d, Cne Famous queen OF Pal-
myra, is stated by ancient historians to
have been of light brown complexion,
with intensely black hair and eyes, She
is described as cutting off her hair in
front and allowing it to hang over her
forehead in the style of the modern
''bang."
The largest tree in the State of New
Jersey is white oak, situated three
miles north of Mickelton, Gloucester
County. Its dimentions are: Height,
IS feet; diameter of trunk, three feet
above the ground, feet, 10 inches; and
spread of branches, 11s feet. This tree
antedates the settlement of the colony.
The United States is now patronizing
the banana plantations of the West In
dies and of Central America to the
amount of about eight million dollars
year. That is the exporting, not the re-
tail value. The Island of Jamaica alone
is sending to this country over four mil
lion punches year, which means ST.
800, 600 to the producers and shippers to
the colony. The contributions of the
tens of millions of punches which this
country consumes annually come from
Costa RIGA, Nicaragua. Honduras, Mex
leo, Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica and San
Domingo.