Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-29
NOTINGs.

Henry w. Lamb of Boston, wei
known in this county for his work OF
| the stump here dozen years ago
announces that the American free
trade league, of which he is president
will push its work with renewed ac
tivity on the line of reciprocity
1t is remarkable coincidence that
the First line of wireless telegraph
on land for commercial purposes" is
being established between the two
Morse system 56 years ago-Baltimore
and Washington.
After service of 81 years in the
chair of Greek, DR.. Edward North of
Hamilton college has notified the trus-
tees of his desire to be relieved, and
they have promptly made him profess
sor emeritus. He is one of the best
loved of American scholars.
The United States alone, among the
great nations, is paying its way and
reducing its funded debt. The latest
French budget showed deficit of
$40, 600, 600, the German, $50, 900, 600
and the British $3.50, 900, 900. The next
United States budget is expected to
show a surplus of Sl30, 900, 600.
DR.. G. NJ Mitsukuri, an instructor
in the university of Japan, at Toxic,
is at Chicago and is about to write
the official history of the nation. He
says that the United States should be
given practically all the credit for the
greatness of modern Japan and that
Commodore Perry ought to be lauded
as the country's liberator.
Park Benjamin, well-known writer
on naval topics, acquits RearA dmiral
Sampson, in last weeks Independent,
of the charge of having ever, directly
or indirectly, given Mr.. Maclay any
justification or support for his accuse
lions against RearA dmiral Schley.
Mr.. Benjamin is friend of Schley
and has, if anything, taken the Schley
side in the controversy.
During the last century, France has
grown in population from 5000, 900 to
40, 90, 900, Germany from 10000, 900,
to 30, 600, 600, Russia (partly from an
nexation) from 40,0O0, coo to 135, 900,
600 the English population of the
British empire from IL, 900. 600 to 30,
800, 900, and the United States from
rather over 5000 600 to nearly So,
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round numbers, from 10, 900 to
SO, 900, 600.
The South pole expeditions will
have served some purpose if they as
certain whether the annihilating
glacier movement prophesied by one
Leon Lewis, a geologist, is imminent
Mr.. Lewis advances the theory that
the ice cap at the South pole measures
80, 600, 600 cubic miles of ice, which
has been accommodating for some %, 600
years, and must therefore soon break
away and bring wholesale destruction
to the north.
Kansas this year beat not only her
own great record in the production of
wheat, but the record of every other
state in the union. In spite Of the
great drought of last season, her two
staples, corn and wheat, only dropped
II per cent below the total value of
last year. The total yield of wheat is
81, 600, 600 bushels and its home value
is SOL, 900, 900. This is the greatest
wheat yield in the history of this or
any other state. The corn yield is
q, 600, 600 bushels and its home value
is 1000, 600,
When extracts from the recent Chi
cago translation of the Bible were
published in London, the Evening
News commented on the work as fol
lows: "In Chicago even the master
piece of literature is not sacred.
Twenty misguided inhabitants have
just issued translation of the New
Testament into modern American.
Such an atrocity almost makes one
sigh for few hours of the Inquisi-
ton. = This becomes a huge joke.
by the assertion of the publishers that
the work is British Dissertation, if
as it is the production of
twenty scholars, nearly all prominent
professors in English universities.