The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-04-18
NEWS NOTES.

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President Kruger will visit the United
States.
In boring for oil at Beaumont, Tex,
1t Is reported that a vein of pure sui
phur 70 feet thick was discovered.
Three moonshine stills were recently
ralded near Fry, KY. The products
were taken, but the operators escaped.
The Carthage (Mo.) Chautauqua will,
II 1t can, secure Minister WI Ting Fang
as one Of the lecturers this season.
A monster schooner is being built at
Boston. 1t is to be the largest one
atloat, costing s150,OOO, and having six
maStS.
The Hungarian Government has for
hidden the practice of hypnotism, ex-
cept by medical men and under special
permission.
Buttons and trimmings to the value
of 1858, 1863 were imported into the
United States from Paris in single
quarter last year.
On its last cruise to the North the
sealing steamer Leopard took 1000
seals. Seals were never so numerous as
they have been this season.
Nicaragua has established museum
in Managua, the capital, for the public
display of foreign products. Samples
and articles for exhibition, free of cost,
are solicited.
The Mohammedans want better
way to Mecca. They desire to go there
by railway, and for that purpose have
given the Sultan s1Os,0O0 to be used in
| cOnSt ruction of a railroad
1t is proposed to illuminate the Yo-
semitic Falls, 2000 feet in height, by use
of twenty arc lights in connection with
means for producing color effects. Some
of the roads are also to be lighted with
electricity.
The peaceful Doukobhors are the
Quakers of Russia. They are opposed
to all wars. 1t is in their behalf that
TolStOi made his iDpassioDed appeal.
Many of the Doukobhors are emigrat-
ing to Canada.
Canada still has herd of wild buffalo.
Traces of the existence of the animals
were found in the woods at the west of
Slave River. 1t was ascertained that
| the buffalo was being mercilessly hunt
ed and destroyed by the Indians
DR.. Chapot-Revost. the surgeon who
operated for the separation of the
Siamese twins, has gone to Vienna to
study a case of Chinese twins similar
ly afflicted. The examination is to be
made by means of Roentgen rays.
| The mother of Gov. Beckham of
Kentucky has a remarkable record.
She has the unprecedented distinction
of having been the mother of Cover
nor, the daughter of a Governor, the
sister of a Governor and the cousin of
a Governor
Italy's present debt amounts to 81
So, SOB, 491, with a yearly interest of
| kindgom is entirely absorbed by the cur
rent expenditure and in furnis hing the
! interest of the debt without leaving
any margin for sinking fund
The State flower of Texas is to be the
blue-bonnet, or buffalo clover, wild
flower which grows in the greatest pro-
fusion over the whole State at times
covering many acres with a carpet of
blue. 1t is, seen in masses, most
effective blossom. The blue-b bonnet
grows about foot high
James NJ Zeigler of Pittsburg has
purchased forty-seven acres of land
near Temple, Pa, on which there is a
thick growth of chestnut sprouts. He
lish chestnut sprigs. He says they will
be matured in six years, when the pro-
duct will realize hm about one hun
dred and fifty dollars per acre annually.
Hiram Cronk, the last male pensioner
of the war of 1912, still lives and draws
his pension in the town of Ava, nine
miles from Boonville Oneida County,
n. Y. He was born in Frankfort,
Herkimer County, n. Y, April %, 1900,
and in September, 1914, he enlisted in
Allegheny College. at Meadville, Pa,
has enjoyed a string of good luck from
anonymous givers. 1t has received an
other donation of large proportions a
gift from an anonymous doror of
100000, conditioned on the raising of
S45, 900 additional by the college before
January l, 1902. Within short time
the college has been given the Newton
Observatory, the Ford Memorial Chapel
and a 100000 library building, the last
also from an anonymous donor.
The first industrial and manual train
ing school in the Philippines has just
been established in the City of Duman-
guette, on the island of Negroes. The
school building, which is of two stories
(the first of stone and the second of
wood, though not of bamboo), was erect
ed through the generosity of H. B. Sill
man of New York, who gave $4,000
The young Filipinos are to be taught
carpentering, ironwork, ETC., and 100
acres of land have been bought on
which to teach them agriculture.
Dr. Dudgeon, who died recently in
Pekin, was perhaps the best-known of
all the Europeans in China, with the
exception of Sir Robert Hart. He
went out early in the COS to take charge
of the British legation hospital, and the
walls of the hospital are adorned with
tablets testifying to his surgical skill.
For twenty years the doctor was daily
at his post, receiving all sorts and con-
ditions of Cinnamon, and at times his
patients numbered hundred day.
He had the confidence of the best Chi
nese statesmen.
Work is in progress near Monterey
Mexico, on the great Milmo palace