Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-11-20
etails regarding rerriil,y

ins minute details regarding rerriIary.
| wines. etc
The New York Historical society
| OWES an entire block on the west side
of Central park and has adopted plans
for a new million dollar building 20l
! feet long and I25 feet deep.
The trains TO run in the London IN
! derGround electric tunnel viii. avera re
/ 200 tons. and on the Finsbury Park lire
/ of seven miles the run viii be made in
thirteen and half minutes.
II is said that Canada is soon 10 have
| her own mint and that the gold coins
| will be called beavers. In value the
beaver" viii correspond to our eagle.
| $40: double beaver" SO. and half
! beaver" So
/ No fewer than 5S1. SS4 prisoners Were
| In the prisons Of British India in 1900
| 1900. an increase of 92.o64 over the
! number for 1891. OF this huge total
only 24.5,5 We're females. which is a
much smaller proportion than in west
| ern countries.
| speggotty's house." one of the most
| interesting features of Yarmouth. as
described by Dickens in David Ccp-
| perfield.' is in the market. Portions of
| the wood and the two windows CT the
| old boat are still in possession of the
present owner.
The first chemical factory opened in
this country was in Salem, Mass. i'll
ISL At first great objection was
made TO the establishment of the fac
tory. the persons living near claiming
that the fumes of the chemicals poison
ed the air and made life intolerable.
In Paris the getting out of artistic
menu cards is generally intrusteG to
young women One young lady has
been particularly successful in this
work. Her last unique idea was the
decoration of menu cards with insects,
with their wings silvered and gilded.
Starch manufacturers are interested
in scheme to cultivate 1.o00. 900 acres
In Florida and southern Alabama,
where .'ca ssava." which is raw mate
rial for starch. can be produced twenty
tons to the acre. out of which four
tons of commercial starch can be made.
Between 10000 and $4,000 women
pass annually through the prisons of
England and Wales. Taking the fig
ures for last year. ii appears that ~
per cent had been previously convicted.
40 per cent five times and more and Is
per cent-about 1900 women-twenty
times or more.
The annual output Of the American
paper mills has been estimated as ap-
proximately 2.1OO.OOO.O 600 tons. valued
ut $2OO.OOO.OOO. Great Britain. our
chief rival. produces about LOCO. 900 600
come third and fourth with 500. 600, 900
and 4OO.0OO,OOO tons respectively.
To have the right to keep a retail to-
bacco and cigar store in France is con-
sidered a privilege worth working for.
and it is said that every change of min
istry is sure to give an opportunity to
the exercise of the appointive power of
the government. which augments the
number of retail tobacco dealers.
A square foot of the best Persian rug
is worth about So and il takes a sin
gle weaver twenty-three days TO com
plete this portion This allows the
weaver about ~ cents per day for her
wool and her labor. but three-fourths
of this amount goes to pay for the
wool: only II cents per day is left for
the weaver.
Mrs. Milford Brady operates an old
fashioned water power mill in Morrow
county. o.. her only assistant being n
boy. She lives in a log hui adjoining
the mill and has no intercourse with
her neighbors except in a business
way. The mill. built a century ago. |
was owned by her father. and she has
kept il going since his death.
The French department of agricul |
ture is taking steps TO arrest the whole |
sale destruction cf birds which fats