The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-11-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

King Edwards life has been insured
for large sum.
st. Louis is the conceded apple ship
ping center of the country.
1t is reported that Emperor William
nus taken up the palmistry fad.
Last year England possessed 1889
vessels, of which 9,2Os were steam-
ships.
British inventors applied for $4,000
patents. and $4,000 were granted this
year.
Sales of public lands in the fiscal
year of 1901 aggregated 1862, 796
acres.
Suffering children are cured in the
German public schools by special
course of dieting
Russian engineers propose tunnel
under the Caucasus mountains at
cost of $75,OOO,O0O.
Elaborate ceremonies have attended
the dedication of a, monument to Pas
teur, at Orbais, his birthplace.
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie is to
be equipped with an automatic cleo
trio block signal system from Youngs-
town to Glassport.
The largest bird of prey in the Old
World is the lammergeier, or beard
ed vnlture, which has wing expanse
of nine to ten feet.
The British revenue last year was
e13o,ooo,0oo, and the national expen-
diture was &1s3, OO,0OO-which left
balance on the wrong side.
Workmen on the farm owned by
John Henry Thornburg, near Hagers-
town, Ind, have unearthed the re-
mains of a prehistoric race.
The census taken last fall shows the
resident population of Dawson to be
$500. OF this number 4,5OO are men,
$50 women and $50 children.
For one of his repasts bat does
not eat less than thirteen caterpillars,
and i'll "a hours the smallest specimen
will easily eat so flies or more.
A man who failed to rise from his
seat in a meeting in Berlin when
1'Hoch' was called for the Kaiser was
sentenced to three months imprison-
nent.
An increase of forty warships is to
be asked of the approaching session
of congress in addition to four for
which plans have already been pre-
pared.
The London postoffice delivered
more than 2.0OO,OOO,OOO letters and
sent nearly 10o,OOo,OOO kilograms. It
handled s0,oOO,Ooo parcels, weighing
100000 cwt.
The acreage under wheat in En-
gland has dropped to 100000 from
the 100000 it was ten years ago. On
the other hand the cultivation of oats
has increased.
Ten years ago 100000 tons of fish,
valued at e4,300,OO0, were landed on
English coasts, while during last year
100000 tons were landed and real
lied e6,6oo,CoO.
Prof. Porter and all astronomers of
prominence are satisfied that no be-
ings such as ourselves can live on
Mars, for want of atmosphere and
because of the intense cold.
The tracks of the Illinois Central,
Monon, Michigan Central, Pittsbure,
TT. Wayne and Chicago, Nickel Plate
and Lake Shore roads at Grand Cross
ing, Chicago, are to be elevated.
A number of the most prominent
railroads in the United States con-
tinue to report delays, owing to
lack of enough freight cars to ham
die all the carrying business offered.
The great chemist, Pasteur. saved
France at least $5O0,OOO,OOO by his re-
searches on the disease of silkworms.
Yet at school he was only fourteenth
out of % in his chemistry examina-
ton.
A blue diamond weighing over 20
Iarats, said to be the largest of it's
kind in the world, and once possessed
by the Duke of Brunswick, has been
imported to this country by New
York jeweler.
Baron Ludivor Moncheur, the new
Belgian minister is expected in Wash
ington soon. His marriage to Miss
Clayton, daughter of the United States
ambassador to Mexico, will take place
MI DSSCllDSl III l&lC WY VI -hSAiSO.
!sloped on Sunday, pursued on Mon
day, married on Tuesday, forgiven on
Wednesday, separated on Thursday,
back home on Friday and divorced on
Saturday is the short story of Marie
Tomkins Henry, II, daughter of
prominent Richmond (Va.) family.
a twelve-year-old boy named South
wick kidnapped a six-year-old child in
Great Falls, Mont, and demanded
ransom of $1,5c0 for it's return. He
was captured by the police, however,
and the stolen child was recovered.
The biggest free pass ever issued
was the one which the builders of the
Central Pacific gave to johnson Sides,
chief of the Piute Indians of Nevada,
for himself and people for life, to
ride back and forth on all except pas
senger cars as much as they pleased.
Baron Tak&sald chief of the poets
bureau in the imperial palace at To-
lSvo saws that the emperOr of ,Japan'S