Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-10-18
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the world. have been located in south
ern Oregon
London specl.atc-S say the ply Of
dried tut fer the coming sen ON viii
exceed 81 record.
The expected increase in the worlds
visible coffee supply this autumn is es-
MINATED az 1.ooo.0o0 bags.
Berlin is TO be equipped with a Chi
cago telephone system which has been
under test for fifteen months
Europe has five reigning princes who
are over eighty years old and nine 9th
ers who are more than seventy.
This years harvest in the south of
Ireland is stated to be the best expert
enced for quarter of a century
1t is said that an exchange of ma
chimes between automobilists has more
fine points than even a horse trade,
Boston has added this year forty
portal BILE schoolhouses to its educational
equipment. making a total of tifty-six.
Two hundred carloads of steel have
been sent TO supplant the wooden
bridges in the Sacramento canyon, Cal
ifornia.
Recently one days receipts of cattle
in the Chicago market was 32,372 head.
This is the largest single days receipts
on record
Before bis departure from Divonne
the khedive bought n number Of Swiss
cattle. He also purchased two st. Ber-
nard dogs.
Queensland. Australia. grows great
quantities of sugar cane and has thou
sands of acres yielding grapes, bananas
and oranges.
1t is stated that 39.s72 persons per-
ished at the hands of homicides in the
United States during the five years
ending with 1900.
y harvesting machine firm in the
west mas made an automobile grass
mower that cut twenty-five acres of
grass in nine hours, using n five foot
sickel bar.
Boston is fortunate in that an estate
amounting to several millions of dol
lars is TO be used within a reasona BILE
number of years for a great hospital
for incura blas.
Secretary Franklin Allen Of the Silk
Association of America states that the
capacity Of the present silk plants is
sufficient to more than supply the do
mestic demand.
Western Australia has only a small
acreage under crops and grass. In
1898 and 1899 the total of cereal crops,
wheat, barley, oats and maize, was
81, 423 bushels.
An enterprising person in Chicago
has discovered that the bee keeps just
as busy in storing away honey on the
third floor of a home as in a hollow
tree in the woods.
All southern California cities look
forward to be supplied with electric
power from Kern river, where at first
$4,000 and later $4,000 horsepower Will
be obtained from an 500 foot fall.
Greenland and Iceland have the bet
ter of US in the way of trade. Last
year we imported goods from those two
countries to the value of $50. 533 and
sold them only $500 worth in return.
Sweden has 2,303 miles of govern
ment and 4.3S7 miles of private rail-
roads. The government has not yet
succeeded in acquiring the latter, al
though efforts have been made to Go
IN.
In Rhode Island SD per cent OF the
population in 1900 lived in cities or
towns of 5000 inhabitants or more.
while this element also constitutes l6
per cent of the population in Massachu-
sets, 6S5 per cent in New York. 61-2
per cent in New Jersey and $50 per
cent in Connecticut.
Birds are made to take their own
pictures by the ingenious apparatus of
Q. G. Pike, an English photographer.
A bait of fat is placed on an electrical
wire which is SO connected with a
camera that when the bait is removed
the camera shutter is released, giving
an instantaneous exposure Of the sensi-
tive plate. -~
The average weight Of engines on
German state railways is 42.G7 tons,
while those in use on private roads
average 37.6S tons. During the year
1899 446 engines were purchased by the
state railways and fifty-six by private
companies. In the year 1898 $556,OOO
was spent for the purchase of new and
the repair Of old engines on private
lines.
Germany produces a very good quail
ty Of champagne. Ia 1900 2.045 tons
valued at $547. 900 were exported. Dur
ing the same year the imports amount
ed to double that quantity. The duty
on champagne imported into Germany
is 35 cents a bottle. This high duty
has induced many French firms to
establish plants Of their own within
the German border.
There Is large number Of profess
sional bee hunters" in the west and
southwest of Texas. Small caves and
dark recesses formed by shelving rock
abound along the waterways of the
Texan rivers. They are the natural
hives of the wild bees and take the
place of the hollow tree trunks Of the
forest regions of the northern country
These caves are used year after year
by the hoes and in many instances