The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-01-31
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OF the 3.l53 locomotives built in the
Uaited States last year sos went
abroad, most of them to British lines.
The consolidated statement of the
savings banks In Michigan show an in
crease Of $6,SSS OSC.39 in the savings
deposits in the past year.
The appellate division of the Supreme
Court Of New York State has decided
Nat memberships in the New York
Stock Exchange are not taxable.
New. Hampshire has the largest Leg
aalature numerically of any State in the
Union, the membership being 42l, or
enc member to each .140 of the popu-
htion.
Tenn, have sold their bodies to a local
pAysician for 81 each. and contract
- that effect has been put on record at
tAe registrars office.
+. According to advices from London
japan has invited tenders for the estab-
1iaAment OF an armor plate factory at
Tokio, which, it Is thought. means tnat
= the future Japan intends to construct
her own war vessels.
Though storm and flood did their ter
stbly destructive work in Galveston.
Tex. only such little while ago. the
undaunted citizens Of the stricken town
have done much toward restoring 1t to
Sas former good condition.
Recently an Institution was opened In
Belgium for the alleged cure OF tuber-
eulosis by the exclusive raw meat diet
After a trial Of q few months the ex-
pefiment was abandoned. as II was
tsund that there was no efficacy In the
egre.
Several members Of church in kutz-
aDwn, Pa, having fallen far behind
With their fair dues. the board Of trus-
eees has decided, that In future the bell
shan not be tolled for a funeral in any
family which has not paid up its in
aebtedness and a year in advance be-
sides
Indians on the Rosebud reservation
q South Dakota are expressing regret
dat they agreed to allow herds Of cat
tle ON their lands. They gave permis-
ufsn at first because pasture on the
SECULAR ranges was worn out and 5000
cattle were soon grazing on Indian
hndR
A company at Ansonia, Conn, has
5ust received the largest order for cop
Der trolley wire ever placed In this
ssuntry. The weight is more than
100000 pounds and the destination 10
British India, where the wire VIII be
used to equip one Of the frst trolley
unes in that colony.
According to recent legislation in
Few York State q man Is required to
support his mother-in-law. Another le-
gnl arrangement provides that wom-
- need not support her husband unless
Ae Is Incapable of labor or unless an
agreement for mutual support has been
naade previous to marriage.
DEery ship. loading at New Orleans
With mules or horses under British con-
tfacts for use In South Africa is being
carefully watchedto prevent the placing
- board Of Internal machines or other
destructive instruments in behalf Of
ehe Beers cause The coal especially is
subjected to careful scrutiny.
4 public school principal in New Or
hams says that the ability to decipher
more or less obscure handwriting
quickly and accurately is. in his Opin-
lon. one Of the best possible tests OF
general Intelligence He uses it quite
frequently In his school. without let
silg the.pupil suspect what he is after.
German capitalists have planned the
obstruction of q railroad through the
0amoyede peninsula with the object of
hrfnging the wheat Of western Siberia
quickly and economically into the
world market The wheat will be ship
Ded by the Oh and its navigable tribu-
taries to Obdorsk; then by rail to the
eeacoast. and thence by vessel to Lon
Ion or other ports.
4 new bridge is about to be built
scross the Bosporus. bearing the name
q the Sultan. Abdul Hamid. 1t viii be
constructed of granite and metal by
ne Bosporus Railway Company. which
designs q junction between the rail-
ways of Europe and the transatlantic
Eaflway Of Bagdad, now being built by
she Germans. The narrowest dividing
Hne Of sea has been chosen for the point
ef construction.
The use Of oysters has often been dis
eourseed ON the ground that they were
under certain conditions dangerous me
diums Of conveying disease, especially
germs Of typhoid fever. Now the physi-
eians are said to have forbidden an
ether relish nearly as popular st this
time of the year. Celery has come un-
Der the ban of the doctors, who say
>hat 1t is equally well adapted to trans
uitting the poisonous element of the
soil and carrying the germs of typhoid.
Astronomers are discussing the the
sthat the moon is in its glacial epoch.
&c telescopic expert calls the ''craters'
tce- cups and the streams along their
sides glacial weather. Another insists
that the signs Of volcanic action are
unmistakable. All agree that most of
the moons surface is intensely white.
The dark regions are termed seas, but
there is no evidence that they contain
water. Some writers believe they are
covered with the earliest forms of vege-
tation.
I. An influential English Jewish peer
ess, member Of the board Of direction of
the female convict prisons. was dis
tressed at the lack Of provision of de-
yotional literature for Jewish prison
ers and undertook to bring about a cor
pection, with the result that the home
secretary authorized special devotional
literature for Jewish cOnvicts. A pop
ular work was selected and a large
stock secured. When the distribution
commenced the most careful search
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