The Republican journal., 1901-02-28
NEWS NOTES.

Zurich.
Congress has adopted the "slow-sand
system of filtration for the water sup
ply of Washington.
Emeralds have been discovered in
Arizona, and it is said, in North Caro-
lima. They are, however, very small.
A few days ago at Littleton, N. H.,
the mercury changed from 40 below to
40 above inside of twenty four hours.
1t has been found in India that in
oculatlon against rinderpest will protect
an animal for a period of seventy or
eighty days.
Iron lands showing more than 7,000,-
900 tons of ore have been leased in
Northern Minnesota by the American
Steel and Iron Company.
Arkansas legislators could not decide
whether the State flower should be an
apple blossom or passion flower, and re-
ferred the matter to the committee on
education.
A bill is before the Federal Council
study shall be for medical students five
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four years and a half.
There is a Chinese farm in Florida
where the Johns have gone somewhat
extensively the small truck" bust
ness, shipping their products to New
York. They have made success of it.
In the present House of Representa-
tives of the Japan Diet, there are 100
farmers, % barristers, - officials, 26
merchants, newspaper editors, 3 doc
tors and 20 members without fixed pro-
feSSiOnS
The Bank of Norway is about to issue
new paper currency. The new notes
will be somewhat less in size than those
now i'll use and will be engraved with
views of prominent buildings in Nor
way.
There were organized in Iowa dur
ing 1900 105 private and State banks and
thirty-two national banks; total, 1877
new institutions. Of all the States in
Union the one which approached near
est Iowa was Ohio.
The average cost of land in Southern
Germany suitable for tobacco culture
is Sl27.50 Hessian mOrgen, which is
equal to three-quarterS OF an American
acre. The total cost of production is
1856. So morgen.
A new species of nasturtium, whose
distinctive feature is its profuse and
continuous Towering, has been developed
in the greenhouses of the University of
Nebraska, where experiments have long
been in progress.
Between 1880 and 1890 Kansas gained
All, 900 in population. In the next ten
years it gained only about $4,000. Ne
braska, between 1880 and 1890, gained
COG, 5lS in population. In the last de-
cade it gained only 10000.
One hundred farmers near Keota, To-,
have planned to build telephone line
III the spring 1t will be nine miles long,
connecting keota and South England,
at both of which points it will join long
distance switchboards
The oil wells in Texas have been for
the most part located in the CorSicana
district, and as Beaumont, where the
recent strike was made, is about 200
miles southeast of that city, it indicates
that an entirely new field has been
opened.
Two white deer were the features of
the past deer hunting season in the Ad-
irondacks. Prior to the killing of these
no white deer have been killed in New
ork State for fifty years. Both were
pure white bucks, with pink ears and
pink eyes.
Adirondack guides have decided that
in future they will in every way dis
courage the use of small-bore rifles in
the woods. They say that the weapon
named sends bullets far beyond neces-
sary hunting range, and should be bar
red on that account.
A Mississippi Sheriff sent to Auditor
Cole an express package containing S.
2S0 collected as taxes, without a line
showing to what county it should be
credited. 1t took two weeks time ard
labor to ascertain that Lee County was
entitled to credit for the amount.
Twenty Rio Janeiro policemen at
tackled an unarmed man on recent
night, cut him with sabers, fired thirty
revolver shots at him and finally com
pleted the cowardly assault by putting
a bullet in his brain as he lay helpless
IN doorway where he had taken refuge.
Mrs Charles Weed of Bound Brook,
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the world, superb French Angora,
and $4,000 would not buy him, Napo-
leon |. is the name of this famous pet,
and its silken coat is of the richest gold
Ell hue. The beauty occupies luxurious
apartments.
A process of extracting rubber from
the huge plant has been discovered.
This plant is species of sagebrush,
with small leaves, which grows to a
height of about feet, and is found not
only In Mexico but also in Texas, Wy
omlng and Nebraska. 1t grows in the
mountainous regions, and is said to con-
tain 40 per cent. of rubber.
Cattlemen in South Dakota are gen.
orally agreed that it is time to abandon
the present method of branding cattle
as cruel. In New Zealand they have a
a composition which is used to make an
easily distinguishable mark. 1t is ap-
piled with a cold iron, destroying the
hair or hide, but not causing pain to
the animal.
'The United States Government,
through the fish commission, has made
possible some fine sport in Western
streams says Mr.. F. J. Cannon of
Idaho. ga number of streams that
were formerly almost entirely without
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