Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-09-28
FACTS IN FEW LINES


The Paris Notifications are TO be
RACED ana boulevard constructed at
a cost Of xl0,OO0Oo0.
In England builders strike more Of
ten than any other worknen- Next
come Golfers and then cotton and wool
spinners.
During the first half Of this year 261
textile mills were built. of which 1i3
were cotton, SO knit goods and % mis-
cellaneous.
Exports of horses and mules in Mis-
souri, last year brought return of So
oco.0oJ. and a great deal of the money
came FROM foreign countries
The St Louis Globe-Demecrat sug-
gests that the worlds fair there in
teal Illustration of the best systems of
public bathing facilities.
The Dominion government lobster
hatchery at Caribou. y. s. this season
has put out Ie0,0o0.ooo Holsters along
the coast of Nova Scotia. New Bruins
wick and Prince Edward Island.
Experts have come TO the conclu-
sion that what kills so many trees in
London is not the SCOT fakes or the
want of air or the drought but the
sewer gas, which attacks the roots, so
that the tree soon withers and dies
The terms "dowager'' and ''ehaperon"
seem likely in the near future To fall
into desuetude. Nowadays women not
only refuse to grow old, but they dis
like titles which seem significant of
too mature acquaintance with Ammo
Domini.
There is standard joke about
thieves carrying off redhot stoves. but
this is equaled by the recent theft of
two modern six inch Spanish guns at
Santiago, Cuba They were carried
into forest and broken up, but the
thieves We're captured and are now in
Jail.
Parts Of Australia are becoming live
ly rivals to Canada and the United
States in the European apple trade.
Tasmania especially has been found
first class apple raising country. There
are S.313 acres in apple orchards there,
and the product in 1899 was 363.015
bushels.
After a thorough study of the drink
question in Russia Stanislas Prosper.
a st. Petersburg editor has published
a book in which he seeks to prove that
the government monopoly and the clos
ing of saloons on Sunday have led to
a great diminution Of the evil of in
temperance.
In Illinois the foreign white persons
and the native white persons of for
eign parentage represent little over
one-half the entire population, 40 per
cent in Idaho, IS to 20 per cent in Della
ware and the District of Columbia,
over per cent in Florida and less
than 2 per cent in Georgia
Singapore Cinnamon are indignant
with the English ON account of the
Duke of York's visit. Some officials
fit to decorate the hats of the
jinrikisha men with gold buttons, the
Chinese mark of mandarin rank, and
the Chinese in the colony refuse to ac-
cept apologies for the insult.
Subscriptions are discourse ing1y slow
to the proposed memorial to Sir Ar
thur Sullivan in London. Hardly any
thing has been contributed in this
late composer will probably supple
ment the money ON hand sufficiently
for the erection of a statue ON the
Thames embankment.
During the recent Ashanti cam
paign the megaphone was tried by the
British officers for giving orders. since
the columns traversing through the At
rican bush We're so long that it was
impossible to convey orders in the
usual way. The experiment was I'M
successful, however. because the thick
jungle and the winding paths prevent
ed the sound from travelling.
Though it does not cause so much
excitement in the world. the apple
crop of the United States exceeds in
value even its wheat crop Last year,
for instance. the apple crop was 215.-
100000 barrels. or 53S 100000 bushels.
At a base of 50 per barrel which is
considered a conservative estimate. the
crop Melted S43o.0oo.ooo or nearly
S101.oOo.ooo more than the value of
the wheat.
The trees now growing on the farm
tnear Franklin, y. H. where Daniel
Webster was born are to be cut Up into
friction matches. manufacturing COM
pany having paid S2.Soo for the stand
ing timber upon il. The legislature of
New Hampshire refused az its late ses-
sion TO pay $4,000 for the entire farm.
though many patriotic citizens of the
state petitioned TO have it preserved as
q perpetual memorial of New Hamp-
shire's greatest son.
About twenty-five years ago govern
ment engineers decided TO pave Penn
sylvania avenue in Washington with
asphalt. That was the beginning of
the general use of the scientific mys-
terry of street pavements. Today over
234. 100000 square feet of street pave
menfs in the United States and Canada
are covered with asphalt, This asphalt
paving would make a boulevard TWEEN
ty-siy feet wide over $50 miles long