Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1901-07-06

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The Aztec language in use in Mexico
.at the discovery of America lacked the |
sounds indicated by our letters b, d, I, |
g, |, and v.
In the Rhine vineyards one of the
methods of protecting the vines against |
frosts in May Is to put paper bags
around them at night.
800
The French minister for war has or
dered that all French troops employed
on foreign or active service are for the
luture to wear khaki
"A recent tabulation made by Swiss
economist puts the. aggregate savings
deposits of European countries at more
than $4,000, 100000 in the summer of the
year 1900.
Experiments made at Grison and Zu-
rich, in Switzerland, with patent Am
erican plowshares have proved a great
success. English firms thus lose large
orders which have gone to the United
States.
In the United States the savings de-
posits of 1870 were $549, 9,S74,S5S, distrib
uted among 1,6SO,S46 depositors. This
amount was multiplied by more than
four in 1900, when s2,3S4, ,77O,849 was
distributed among 5,S76,45O depositors.
1t was William Pitt who originated
the income tax in Great Britain in 1913
as a war tax. The Napoleonic wars
were fought with it. From that time
to this it has been the resort of all
ministers to meet war expenditures.
From July 80 next the subjects and
products of Great Britain, as well as OF
the British colonies and foreign pos
sessions, with the exception of Canada,
will be granted the most favored nation
treatment by Germany until further
notice.
An Indian sepulchre has been found
in Lincoln county, Ontario. 1t con-
tanned upward of 800 skeletons, which
are thought to belong to the tribe of XII
tiwandarons, or VNeutins, allied to the
Hurons, and exterminated by the Iri'
quois in the seventeenth century.
80
| tha
has just been invented for the proven.
7 ton OF collisions at sea. The topo
} phone registers even slight sounds fai
outside the range of the human ear
and by enabling foghorns to be heart
at immense distances will greatly mini
mize existing risks in thick weather
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Outside London only five or 81,
: large b, in Great Britain are with
out mum 4 gas works, and a majori
ty OF the ,eptions have started elec
trio light paants. Throughout the coun
try municipal gas is sold at 10 per cent
less than the corporation gas anu thu
quality is better. ,
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There is talk of the establishment o
woman's college of matrimony to b,
:. located in Chelsea, England, where tn,
a duties of the wife will become the sub
ject of two-year course of study. TIL,
curriculum will embrace not only th
o usual branches of housewifery, such a
t cooking, sewing, laundry work. but i
}. intended to deal with physiology ant
medicine as we'll, so that the student
will receive mental discipline in con
. nection with the manual training.
sft :. ssas 80
i A pound OF camel coal is a luml
about the size of a mans fist. Out o
II this dyes can be distilled sufficient t.
). color the following lengths of flannel
three quarters of year wide: Five fee
of yellow, three and one-half feet o
scarlet, two inches of orange, four in
ches Of turkey red and eight inches o
magenta. By judicious blending yol
can obtain 16 distinct yellow colors, 1
orange, 30 red, rs blue, green and
i, violet; In all, 89 separate tints. Thes
colors are made from the waste left af
ter the gas has been extracted.
D. Hives are terrible torment to tn
little folks and to some older ones
Easily cured. Doan's Ointment neve
e fails. instant relief, permanent cure
At any drug store, so cents.