The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-02-21
This and That.

Kansas has more national than State
banks.
In the English army soldier is drum
med 10 church just as he is to drill or
dress parade.
The estimated population of British
GIiana at the end of December last
was 2S1.2SS.
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
S32.OOO,OOO worth of corn 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 Los Angeles and other re-
sorts are crowded.
The first mulberry tree in America was
brought from France in 1926, with the
expectation of establishing mulberry
groves in New York
An unnamed beneficiary in Cleveland,
Ohio. has given Glenville, Ohio, clergy
man unlimited credit for the relief of the
poor in 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
Orient is looked on as heinous crime.
Robbing graves is the only crime under
Chinese law for which the thief may be
justly killed on the spot by any one find
ing him out.
In the last weeks Of our war with
Spain there was project of raising
money by selling the famous Prado gal
lcry in Madrid. The value of the pictures
is about $1O.OO0,0OO. 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-
cellent facilities for doing a large export
fruit trade.
Lyons. France, reports that the wine
crop of France for the year 1900 will en-
ceed 1.121 100000 gallons. Weld that
has been unsurpassed but three times in
history.
Forest experts in Germany admit that
the empire will never be in a positjon
fully to supply her own market. In 1899
the imports of wood were $4,000. 600
cubic feet.
Poland was the only conquered nation
In the last century prior to the present
events in South Africa whose conduerors
have offered no terms but annihilation to
the vanquished.
The Turkish language is said by schoi-
ars TO be the softest and most musical
language of modern times. being better
adapted to the purposes of musical nota-
tion and recitative 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. scme of It to
Europe.
The Lancet pronounces the present un-
derground steam trains in London "ex-
ccedingly dirty" All attempts at ventila-
tion have failed, and the proposed substi-
tuition of electric traction seems the only
remedy.
The attention of the pension bureau
has been called to one regiment in tn,
Civil War in which. according to the
rolls, twenty eight colored George Wash
ingtons served. a single company shows
IA membership of thirteen George Wash.
ingtons by the applications filed
Since the West Indian colonies were
lost the production of beet sugar in Spain
has almost monopolizci the attention OF
Spanish agriculturists. Large capitaI
has been subscribed for the purpose of
cultivating beets on an extensive scale
and of erecting sugar mills throughout
the country. The result hus already been
considerable oyer-prcdnctiop and con
s.quers uresss feeling Ia tbs t.ads,