The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-01-24
NEWS NOTES.

Green crocidolite, or ''cats eye,' is
foun din New Mexico.
In the year 1900 the manufacture of
silk began in England.
New York City owes more by S6O,O00,-
900 than all the forty-ive States in the
Union together.
In 1890 the mineral production of the
United States amounted to $619,0O0 900,
and in 1899 to $976, 100000.
Health authorities estimate that 10
per cent. of the men who go to Cape
Nome never come back alive.
The British claim to control the' gold
fish market of the world. The fish are
getting scarce and the price has doubled.
St. Joseph, Mo-, is to follow Boston's
example and provide portable school
houses for the overflow from the regu-
lar schools.
The Russian Ministry of Communion
ton has decided to adopt petroleum for
generating motive power on the locomo-
tives of all the railways.
Vernon County, Wis, offers bounty
of so cent for every dead rattlesnake
brought to any town chairman. Ere
quent injury to persons and stock in
duced this action.
A brisk trade in fox skins is spring
ing up between France and Italy. The
latter country last year exported 1000,
mostly from around Rome. Foxes are
plentiful in Italy.
Five thousand honey bees. as they
leave the hive, weigh about l pound,
but when the insects return from their
visits to the flowers, freighted with
honey, they weigh nearly twice that
amount.
Horseshoes weighing an ounce each
and just trife larger than silver dol
lar, were turned out in California
shop recently. They were made for a
Shetland pony months old, and small
for it's age.
In the year 1900 the territory of the
United States was SIS, PA square miles;
in 1900 it is 3,76S, 521 square miles.
This is an expansion OF nearly 5000, 900
square miles in 100 years. 1t is the
most amazing record of territorial
growth ever made by nation.
n
been in court at Portage, Wis, for
more than two years, and the costs for
which had run into the thousands, was
of $50. The participants had nearly
bankrupted themselves.
Iowa. almost from the date of its ad-
mission, has been called the ''Hawkeye
State.'' Hawkeye was the name of
noted Indian chief, who, in the early
days, caused no little trouble along the
western border of American civiliZa-
ton.
An editor at Bowersville, Md, ac
knowledges that sad mistake was
made when his paper announced under
the obituary heading that Hi Slocum
had moved to Philadelphia, but adds
that his foreman used to live in that
CITY and thinks that is sufficient excuse.
Cripple Creek is the greatest gold
camp in this country, ard its produc-
ton is very great In the core of the
gold country there is a strip of ground
six miles long by three broad Out of
this comparatively small area of ground
$50. 900, 600 in gold will be taken this
year.
In ordinary apple years the waste of
skin and cores amounts to 800 to 800
carloads, and during years of abundant
yield it runs as high as 1900 and 1900
car loads. All this waste now goes to
the factories which make cheap jellies.
There are upwards of 40 OF these fac
tories in this country, and they have an
annual capacity of some 200,0o0,o0
pounds.
An original device for evading the
prohibitory law was recently unearthed
by plumbers i'll house in Rutland, vt.
Tie liquor stored in a secret nook, was
conveyed by hidden pipes to a radiator
in one of the principal rooms of the
house \ small faucet attached to the
radiator was the means by which the
liquor was drawn off for use.
1t is believed by many that the dry
climate of Southern Oklahoma and the
southern district of Indian Territory is
going to make all that section the
home of the finest grades of cotton.
During the season it has developed that
the cotton grown in the ChOctaw Ma
ton was of an extra good fiber, grading
above the average and in great demand
for export.
The Hungarian Government is about
to take steps to effectually put an end
to the wandering of gypsies, who are so
frequently to be met in that country.
The stalwart Hungarian gypsy, with
his multi-colored cloak, his dark-eyed,
fortune-telling wife, and his crowd of
half naked children, is one of the most
picturesque figures in this part of
Europe.
The coffee-growing industry in tropi-
cal Africa is developing tremendously.
The seed was introduced in the country
about five years ago by some English
missionary, with the object of ascertain
ing whether the resources of the coun-
try were favorable to the culture of
the article. The ground appears peculi-
arly adapted to the industry, since last
year 100 tons of coffee were exported
from Uganda alone, and the result of
this years productions will be even
greater.
An authority on bacteriology says
that many diseases may be traced to
the eating of unwashed fruit, and par
ticularly of unWashed grapes. After
washing some grapes which had stood
for long time in a basket on fruit
stand the man of science found that
the water contained tubercle bacilli in
sufficient quantities to kill guinea pig