Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-12-16

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 Lar-sa ,.~,rse.s.sa =aG American end are called for the te@.oa ef paIys= tine.
 The native Indian tribes If Alaska nuulaer 29.:.36. gam of i.1H2 in len years.
 Manchester, EnGlafd, has more pub lie houses than any other city in the kingdom.
 There are 1G5,oo0 Britons living in the United Kingdom at present who were born in the colonies.
 Recent investigations enable New York city to point to her asphalt pay ing as the costliest on earth.
 Malaria continues to be greater scourge of the British army in India than any other fatal disease.
 The census of 1900 shows that there are 13,191 negroes to every 100000 whites compared with 13,315 in 1SJ0
 The total value of the manufacture , of bricks and tiles in the United States ill 1900 was $7G,336.S71 and ot pottery $19, ,76S, ,GT0.
 Japanese cotton mills have no advan- tage over American mills. despite the fact that the average tafly wages for men is 15 cents and women 9E cents
 No fewer than 1000 Paris landlords have refused to provide proper draiit- age system iii their houses IT accord. ance with the neW sanitary reguato..5.
 The worlds national Indebtedness fs estimated at &33, ,201 7-f9.2I.l ten times as great as the worlds national debts amounted to during tha Napolroaic wars.
 Ten thousand English s9yefeiens, after lying feF nearly 125 years at tfe bottom of East bay, Lake Champlain. Lave been recovered and are now de. posted in Ihe Allen National bank in Fairhayen.
 The gas accounts of the city eff Gas goW show a total revenue for the past year of f9G9-'92 aal expenditure of .S.2, a.S...2 1tz3 He iEaatttE of gas made Ws,:s G121, ,5577,5eo cubic feet and the quantity sold 5,475.f2t,aa0 feet.
 'fAe city ef Philadelphia has in it. treasury more tdaa #1555s490 belonging 10 persons who uexei. called for it when iheir bonds, registered and nonregis l teaeJl. r,atgred and 5ecane payable oi EAo left Unco.ecte1 coupons on their bonds.
 Tie neeseSt floral wonder is the Shas. ta eatszs originated bT 2 flower sfoEeI of California. Ii measures I foot in eifcuusfefeAee= and Wtea one was es- =Eibitesl recently in g A#f.st's WindoH. IL San Francisco people Hteea41y fioet.. ed t5 sec t.
 Deer forests aie much more eSpen size in Scotland than grouse ae6iss They range from ffG90 10 t4.ooo or even f56eo for the season, according 10 the sport obtained and whether the l place gives salmon fishing and grouse shooting as well as deerStalkin@.
 Last year 3sG tons of cigarettes, val ued at S1, ,000, or fully five times as ! many as ten years ago, were consumed in Germany. These cigarettes came l from France, Austria Hungary Rus 1 sia, Turkey, Egypt. Algeria and the United States, GO per cent cCming from Egypt
 A good portion of the money invested in Hawaii is owned by residents of tLe islands. but some comes from the Chit cd States Not long ago q loan of a quarter of million dollars on the es- tates inherited by Prince David and i Prince Cupid was taken up by San ] Francisco capital.
 The great iron ore companies ef Spain have combined under English capital. and fifteen immense and mod ern blast furnaces will be built as quickly as the material can bp fur uished England must have cheap steel i to meet American coEpetition, ard this is the only way to get it.
 Two large German iron coreerns, t4e IIasper and the Baropo,. which paid respectively 70 per ""iit and l. per cent dividends last yeal &4ave passed thpil i IJJi tilNlGCIUS. ] tC I1disIltI tdt itH forward it's entire net earnings IS q spe- cial reserve against possible losses on the co4pany's accumulated stock ct iren
 An arrangement has just been made whereby the Berlin gas lamps in the streets will ue EShtel automatically and simultaneously by mems of ah electric attachment. The current will be switched OH from tbe central sta tion, and spark wi'i ignite the gas. which will be turned 6a by special apparatus.
 Paris is only just bes:antus to reaiiz the priceless treasures which it has SO cured by the late Earon A4o!ph Roths chi,ls be4uest cf H.e .ipval gold anG silver smiths work 10 tho Louvre IL will all 90 into oHn room. which is 10" being prepared for Il, but t will f's.ae sept va34e of Sfe09,639 Most of the ob.gcts are connected WitA relie.oa
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