Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-11-21
OLI0 OF EVENTS.

,E StaTes. "A 236 Japanese. In ten years
49,. rhinese have decreased 1885. and
me Japanese have increased 22,2S1.
Tbs worlds national Indebtedness is
estimated at $3l POI ,749,214 ten times
81. great a. the worlds national debts
amounted 10 during the Napoleonic
wars
II IS expected that the railway now
batna built 70 connect Valparaiso with
the Rio de Ia Plata N,43l kilometers in
lengthl viii be completed III ave or six
years
At cost of about a million collars
,he government OF SaXony has complet-
ei map of the whole country. giving
minute ietails regarding fertility,
wipes et.
klnelik ne strange. weird boy vio-
lnist he magic Of whose bow has for
,ome time ensayed the hearts of Lon
don society viii sail for America No
vember 20.
Norway. Ireland and Spain have more
Blind people in proportion to popula
ton than any other Europen countries.
spain has PIG per 100000; Norway, POS,
and Ireland. Ill
Western Australia is making heroic
efforts to develop farming industries.
especially the growing of grain. In 1899
the cereals harvested in the colony ag-
sregatad less than 900, 900 bushels.
There is in existence an unrepeaied
law ia switzerland which forbids the
wearing OF hats more than Is inches in
diameter, artificial flowers and foreign
feathers under a heavy penalty.
so little confidepee is there in Turk
i,h postoiiice employees that when,
sometime ago, opportunity was given TO
SEM packages and registered letters,
only one OF each was received at STAN
b1ul in ten days.
An enormous capital is sunk in the
mineral industry in Great Britain 1t
is probably not oyerestimating the fig
IRE 70 put il at c 5000 600 while the
workers employed will number not far
short of 100000
II is said that Canada is soon to have
her own mint, and that the gold coins
will be called beavers In value the
beaver will correspond to our eagle
$40 double beaver $50, and half
beaver S.
No fewer than 5S7 ,SSi prisoners were
i'm the prisons of British India in 1899
1900 an increase of g2064 over the
number for 1891 OF this huge total
only "A .555 were females. which is
much smaller proportion than in west
e"n countries.
French scientists will hold a special
meeting in November 10 honor their
colleague NJ. Berthelot, who is about to
complete fifty years Of service in the
cause of science. On this particular
occasion Berthelot will receive a gold
medal from his friends.
j. w Adam, of Buffalo. merchant
and a present a candidate for alder
man, has bought the big organ in the
Temple of Music at the pan american
exposition, and will present it to the
city 1t will be placed in Convention
Hall
Exercises will be held in Boston on
Monday, Nov. II. IN memory of DR..
Samuel Gridley Howe, the great bene-
factor of the blind, who was born just
90 years ago-on November 10. 1901
nited States Senator George f. Hoar
win preside.
Ole Hansen, the peasant who was APP
pointed minister of agriculture in the
present Danish cabinet was visited by a
journalist recently who found the min
lister engaged in harvesting. The states
man looks after all the work of the farm
ana even personally feeds the cows In
the sheds.
MIGUEL the late German minister OF
finance was frequently represented in
tHc comic papers as a sort Of octopus
holding in one arm a hig money bag.
and trying with a hundred other arms,
TO grab all the gold that was not yet
in that bag
The Rev. James Addison Iugle who
has been chosen by the Episcopal gem
erH convention as bishop OF Hankow,
China was graduated from the tIniver-
~ Uf Virginia as missionary For
some years he has been in charge OF the
ulrurh at Hankow
The late ]. c. jacobson. the brewer,
nt C0penhangen Denmark, presented
% the state nearly 200000o0 kroner
$500 G00l 10 be spent lol scientific
and phlanthropic purposes. He also
created the Carlsberg fund which now
amounts to l2.500000 kroner.
Ihc kaiser is said TO be IN very I'M
satisfactory physical condition lie snf-
.ars from abnormal nervous symptoms,
.ompiicated by other conditions the
asu.t ~ long -eontinued anxiety and
strain consequent upon his multitudin-
nHs iaocrS in keeping himself abreast
with the work in almost all the great
1i. departments.
Tine Duke of Alya. who died in New
'ork city few days ago. held % titles,
being four times duke. IL times a
marquis and Ave times a count Though
fine deceased was grandee " high
HA. his influence and position in
spanish affairs were not as command
|1s a, certain other srandees. Neither
"ls his fortune by any means ducal
aa Supreme court o. Iowa mas fixed
H' easn value of mans leg at IS 600.
TO a ease tried last week the jury gave
arrlCt for sl4 500 for an amputaied
- bot the court declared that sum
tessire aud followed a precedent es-
.H'iisned few years ago when yer
I.L 1' $4,000 was cat down to $4,000.
.N.S rs nov regarded as tho standard