The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-03-28
NEWS NOTES.

California fruit dealers ship out 50,-
600, 900 cans annually. s-
The Zoo at Cincinnati has sold four
antelopes for $1,000.
A new tea company has just bought
5000 acres of land in Colleton county,
S. c., intending to raise tea for the
market.
Thirty-three thousand acres of heavi-
ly timbered land have been bought in
Eastern Texas by an Eastern syndicate.
A big saw-mill will be the sequel to the
purchase.
As a result of the lifting of the reve-
nue. stamp act on bank checks many
federal employees are likely to find
themselves out of job. The law goes
into effect July 1st.
The Case heirs of Lexington, KY,
claim $2O,OOO,OOO worth of property in
Cleveland, O. Suit will be instituted
for possession. There are 500 plaintiffs
and 900 defendants.
One region around Plant City, Fla,
will ship this season about 400, 900 quarts
of Strawberries. The grow ers expect to
receive an average of Is cents quart,
which would make the crops value $780,
600.
There is still in existence an unre-
pealed law in Switzerland which for
bids-under heavy penalty wear
ing of hats more than IS inches in
diameter, artificial flowers and foreign
feathers.
The present House of Commons has
one octogenarian member, Mr.. Spencer
Charrington, who is 80 years old. Twen-
ty members are between seventy and
eighty, and over hundred are between
sixty and seventy.
The Sultan has presented the Gar
with magnificent table, with all &C
cessories for smoking. 1t has been
manufactured at the Yildiz factory, and
is embellished with his Majesty's por-
trait, set in diamonds.
Ohio capitalists will establish game
preserve in Florida of 1000 acres 1t
will be located on ST. Johns River, forty
five miles south of Jacksonville. The
land will be fenced and number of
winter homes erected.
Prof. Robenan, the Berlin electrical
expert, who is studying the applicable
ty of electric traction to the TRANSIT
berian Railroad states that within ten
years one will be able to travel around
the world in twenty-five days.
The number of persons visiting the
library of Congress ON Inauguration
day was 72,572 by actual count kept by
a mechanical register. In three days
Saturday, Sunday and Monday II the
total was over 100000 persons.
Michigan's decline as lumber State
is strikingly shown by the figures of the
product of 1900. In the Saginaw River
district there were produced in 1882,
1,011, 100000 feet of pine lumber, While
last year the pine output dropped to
129, 921, 4OS feet.
The Cape to Cairo Railway is at pres
ent being extended from Buluwayo to
Wanki, place about 200 miles farther
north, where a great coal discovery has
just been made. 1t has also been found
that the Zambesi can be much more
easily crossed at this point than at the
point originally selected.
Samuel II. Davidson, who died in Lon
don, O., a few days ago, at the age of IS
years, was locally famous for having
kept an uninterrupted daily record of
the weather for the past seventy years.
He was the village oracle on this subject
and his record was accepted unhesitat-
ingly by his townsmen as accurate.
Chicago has 1000 policy shops running
wide open and more than JAG, 900 plays
are made daily. The business is con-
trolled by nine big companies, backed
by prominent politicians who have
''pulls.'' In the daily play more than
S3l, 800 is taken in. Protection is paid
for. Policy-writers give the names of
men to whom this tribute money goes.
The rate is 81, 900 day from each COM
pany.
In the side of the rock of Gibraltar
four huge reservoirs have been cut,
capable Of holding 100000 gallons of
water Each tank, by means of gauze
wire, can be made mosquito-proof, thus
preventing this pest, prevalent in hot
weather, from introducing any germs of
disease. In the event of siege this water
supply would be Invaluable, and for the
present the troops and the poor will be
benefited alike.
Some time ago the use of gasoline
lamps in Ohio was forbidden by the oil
inspectors of the State. The manufac-
turers of these lamps have obtained an
opinion from the Attorney-G General Of
the State, in which he holds that lamps
invented since the passage of the law in
1894, and which provide for vaporizing
the gasoline and burning the vapor, in
stead of using wicks, do not come under
the ban of the law.
The duelling practise has just led to
an ugly tragedy in German garrison
in Lorraine. A duel was arranged be-
tween two officers, but never took place,
because brother of one went and muir
dered the other officer in cold blood.
The murderer gave himself up and ex-
planned that as his brother, man with
family, would have been killed in the
duel, he, a single man, had elected to die
in his place, even as a murderer.
The Kansas City, Mo-, Real Estate
Exchange favors the Torrens system in
regard to land transfers. The Torrens
system was first adopted in Australia.