Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-02-20

Kansas has more national than State
| banks.
Hawaii is getting its first share of gar
den seeds and the Congressional Record.
New York coroners. with their stats,
cost the taxpayers more than $4,000
year.
In the English army a soldier is drum
med to church just as he is to drill or
dress parade.
The estimated population of British
Guiana at the end of December last
was 2S7 ,2SS
Montana's Governor signed the eight
hour law for mines and smelters. Law
will be effective in ninety days.
Chinese residents at Pekin presented
Gen. Chaffee several umbrellas because
of their regard for him and his troops.
The kangaroo is said to consume as
| much grass as six sheep. There are now
in Australia about 100000 OF these funny
animals.
The German empire imports about
$50, 600 worth of 'orn every year. the
major part of which comes from the
United States.
Winter tourist travel is very heavy to
South California over all the roads, and
the hotels at,L9s Angeles and other re-
sorts are crowded.
The first mulberry tree in America was
brought from France in 1896, with the
expectation of establishing mulberry
groves in New York.
An unnamed beneficiary in Cleveland,
Ohio, has given a Chenille, Ohio, clergy
man unlimited credit for the relief os the
poor i'll that community.
The head of one of Queen Victoria S
prize Hereford steers has been bought
by the British museum as the most typ
ical of its class ever produced.
Disturbing the burial grounds in the
OFient is looked on as a heinous crime.
Robbing graves is the only crime under
Chinese law for which the thief n be
justly killed on the spot by any ohv find-
ing him out.
In the last weeks of our war with
Spain there was a project of raising
money by selling the famous Prado gal
lery in Madrid The value Of the pictures
is about $10.000000. and this would have
paid the war expenses for one month
only.
The attention of fruit growers in New
Zealand is being seriously directed to the
question of the eradication of fruit pests.
But for the ravageS of the Goblin moth
and kindred pests New Zealand has ex-
cellens facilities for doia. large export
fruit trade.
Lyons. France. reports that the wine
crop of France for the year 1900 will ex-
coed l. T2l .0O0.0OO gallons. a yield that
has been unsurpassed but three times in
history.
Forest experts in Germany admit that
the empire will never be in a position
fully to supply her own market. In 1899
the imports of wood were 10000. coo
! cubic feet.
Poland was the only conquered nation
in the last century prior To the present
events in South Africa whose conquerors
have offered no terms but humiliation TO
the vauquished
The Turkish language Is said 10y sehol-
ars 20 be the softest and most musical
| language Of modern times, being better
! adapted 10 he purposes of musical nota-
tiou ana recita;ive than even the italian.
\ man in western Kansas keeps ten
| others at work digging snake root and
| rosin weed from the prairieS for the drug
| trade. In the last eighteen months he
has shipped $4,000 pounds, some Of il TO
Europe.
The Lancet pronounces the present IN
dercround steam trains in London "ex-
ceedingiy dirty" All attempts AZ yentila-
| tioa have failed. and the proposed substi-
tuition OF electric traction seems the only
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