The Republican journal., 1901-01-10
NEWS NOTES.

NEWS NOTES.
Maine has IT'S factories in which fish
and vegetables are canned.
Chicago's public library has 26O, 900
volumes and sixty sub-stations.
The population of Arizona is now 1922
OOO, gain OF IS. 900 in ten years.
Over five-sixths of the silk manufact-
ured In Turkey is exported to Western
Europe.
Northern capital is used to consider
able extent in developing Southern in
duStries.
Cotton-seed oil is exported to France,
and then shipped back to this country
as olive OIL
The banks in the Indian Territory
have to keep a cashier who can speak
the Indian language.
The Province of Manitoba, almost the
same size as Great Britain and Ireland,
has only 100000 inhabitants.
The Philippines are known to possess
over 400 species of trees, and more
careful survey will bring the number
nearly to 500.
Jenner's famous discovery that per-
sons who contracted cOwpox while en-
gagged in milking never had smallpox,
dates from 1896
Sugar City, Colo, is seven months
Old, and has a population of 1000. A
new sugar refinery costing $500, 900 has
Just been opened.
A curious criminal law exists in
Greece A man who is there sentenced
to death waits two years before the
execution of the sentence.
A man who has just died in East
London retired some years ago on a
modest competence acquired by selling
hot water at cent quart.
The proposition is made to British
Cabinet circles to enroll 10000 cavalry
reserves in Canada and equip them, to
be liable for service in war time.
Seventeen per cent of the population
of Michigan is enrolled in the Sunday
schools The average for the states
and territories of the Union is 16 per
cent.
The officers of the Michigan agricul-
tural experiment station are trying to
make it generally known that the upper
peninsula is splendid territory for farm
ing
Nearly $40. 900. 600 of fruit is sent
from this country to England every
year, vet we buy vast quantities of Jam
and preserves from London manufac-
turers
A Scottish soldier saws that on enter
girl about is or 10 wears lying dead.
with a rifle in her hand and a bullet
through her head
The movement citvward is as marked
in England as in America. In 1901 the
pronortion of town population in Eng
land to rural population was sc per
cent: in 1891 it was Ga per cent.
A special immortal commission has
left st. Petersburg for Moukden. in or
der to carefully pack the MANUSCRIPTS
of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
which were looted from the palace in
that city.
Both Arkansas and Mississippi,
which are to have new state houses to
cost about a million dollars each. have.
nv singular coincidence. selected as
the sites of the buildings those former
ly occupied by penitentaries.
One of the busiest men in Kansas is
Flihu Webster of Comanche County.
He is under bond charged with felony.
has been attached hv creditors. has
been summoned info bankruptcy court
and is defending divorce suit.
John Craig of Covineton. Ky, a
cigarettes that he would steal other
goods. sell them and invest the pro-
ceedS in his favorite smokers. He
would smoke from forty to fifty cigar
cites day
An effort will be made by Philadel-
Dhia peonle to preserve the old monas-
try near Wissahkicton. The monastery
was constructed by the Seventh-Dav
Baptists when they were an order. and
dates back a century and half. IT is
of great historic interest, but has fal-
len into decay since the decline of the
order by which it was inhabited.
In recent decision it was held that
where railroad company sells mile
age ticket and negligently fails to put
the correct name thereon. and the con-
ductor on that account refuses to ac-
cent the ticket. the Supreme Court of
Vermont Holden VS.. Rutland Railway
Company. Al ALL, 4O3) holds the rail
road company is liable for damages.
As the result of an election bet two
black bears will march in the inaugural
parade in washington next March. w.
M. Hoey and William Taggart of No
gales, Ariz. made the bet. The for
mer won and by the terms of the wager
will lead the bears, which were captur
ed in the Santa Rita Mountains. After
the parade they will be given to the
W Washington geological garden.