Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-10-09

A thousand railway cars are need
ed to handle the peach crop in one
country in southern Missouri.
Last year there were 192,705 miles
of telegraphic lines and e33,153 miles
of wire in the United States.
Within few weeks the Germans
Of Mexico City collected $4,000 for q
German schoolhouse to be built there.
According to statistics prepared for
the home secretary LOO children are
burned to death yearly in the United
Kingdom.
An Englishman 30 years old may
expect SO years ? months more of life;
woman of that age "a years /
month more.
After the confiscation of monastery
property in Spain by the state, much
OF tho proceeds were devoted to the
making of roads.
John w. Bowler, general superin-
tendent and director of physical train
ing in the public gymnasium of Bos-
ton, has accepted a five-year contract
as director of physical training at
Dartmouth college.
The Oldest known weapon was the
club. The clubs of the lake dwellers
of Switzerland, studded with stones
in default of nails, and thus making
formidable weapons, have been recov-
cred from their habitations.
In New Jersey there are two match
factories with a capacity together of
100000 matches day. The largest
factory in the country, at Barber
ton, O., can turn out 10O,O0O,OOO match
es day, probably one-seventh of the
entire consumption.
A strange sight was witnessed at
Bologna recently. A bellringer at a
church was struck by a great bell and
thrown violently through the window
OF the tower OH to the roof, some
go feet below. He escaped with moth
ing more than a shock.
The total product of wool is 1,0O0,-
100000 kilos annually. Australia is
credited with 3o4,ooo,ooo kilos. Ar
gcntdna 179, 200, 900, the United States
1872 100000, Russia liz, 100000, England
64:00o,O00, France 46,0oo,ooO, etc. Dur
ing the past ten years the product
A recent invention by an Italian is
receiving notice from those who go
to sea. It is net made of hemp and
intended to break the force of waves.
One recently tried with success at
Havre was 800 feet long by 50 feet
wide with meshes II inches apart.
The nets will break the waves at sea
and will also be a bulwark for n.y.
draulc works against heavy surf.
It took sixteen years to build the
first Brooklyn bridge but immensely
larger suspension bridges can now be
constructed in from four to five
years.
Twenty additional fruit-carrying
steamships were chartered recently
to reinforce the fleet now trading
between the West Indies and Phila-
delphia.
Sven Hedlin, the explorer, reached
Charkhlik, in the heart of China, last
April, without hearing of the trou-
bles in the eastern part of the en-
pire. He found the Chinese polite
und obliging.
The United States has the highest
proportion of children at school; IL
per cent of her population are at
school, II per cent of Germany's and
Is per cent of England's.
K Gen. Nelson A. Miles has added to
his collection of arms, which is one
Of the finest in the country, a sword
worn by Simon Bolivar during one
of his South American campaigns.
F. Graduates of the Dwight grammar
school in Boston presented it's head
master, James Alfred Page, with a
silver loving cup containing $500 in
gold on the occasion of the gradua-
ton Of his fiftieth class of pupils.
Lord Breadalbane is said to be the
owner of the finest vine in Europe. It
{ was planted at Auchmore house in
Scotland. more than fifty years ago,
and is double the size of its rival at
Hampton court. 1t produced 1900
punches Of grapes in one season Z
few years ago. ,:$s.
The report for the year ending
2 uUC 0V ACSs0AuAuS 1uC%E CApOEIS III
boots and shoes from America to the
United Kingdom proves most conclu.
sive1y that the British manufactur
/ ers Of this important industry must
bestir themselves in order to retain
their trade. ss. = Isl.
Great Britain receives 81 per cent.
OF her total imports from her col.
jonies, Holland one per cent, France
ten per cent, Germany one-tenth Of
one per cent.
IN the Brookfield (Mo.) white
schools the sexes are represented by
exactly the same number. There are
Just 500 each Of the boys and girls.
Of q ,e14 gasworks 81 the United
Kingdom, 1858 are IA England, s53 in
Scotland and 1os s. Ire band