Evening journal., 1902-01-28
CAUGHT AT RANDOM
The profit on a cocoanut tree is 81 a

The profit on a cocoanut tree is 81 a
year.
An acetylene gas plant has been in
stalled in a large calico mill in Muhl-
bach. Germany It's light renders
shades of color truthfully.
A member of the National Fish Gull
ture Association suggests that land
unsuitable for agricultural purposes
might be converted into fish ponds.
With reference to weight, the COM
mercial bean crop of the United States
is more nearly comparable to that of
rice than to any other domestic food
crop Excluding the important produc-
ing State of New York, for which no
recent statistics are available, the pro-
duction of beans in the principal pro-
ducing States in 1886, the record
year for that crop, was about 100000
600 pounds.
In Scandinavia it is believed that
Captain Sverderp, OF the Fran, who
has been away for forty months, has
found the North Pole. and is return
ing
The new railway bridge the longest
in South Africa. across the Lower Tu-
gela. in Natal. is now nearly finished,
and the new line will be completed in
about year
DR. John p Wood. the oldest prac-
ticing physician in the world
celebrated his one hundred and first
birthday at Coffeyville Kas.. on Janu-
.ary 4. When Kansas was admitted
into statehood he was a United States
Commissioner. and John Brown was
twice brought before him. once charged
with murder and once with harboring
fugitive slaves.
During last year Brazil sold Germany
S26. .O22. .354 and bought from her s5,-
299122 In the same time the United
States bought from Brazil $5S,O73.437,
and sold S11,57S,119.
Artificial incubators are being used
in England for pheasants and other
game birds Nearly all the Ostriches
on the South African ranches are also
raised in incubators.
Under the heading: The pre-can-
cerOus stage OF cancer" a recent medi-
cal journal cites the following condi-
tions which predispose to the disease:
Tissue of the lip, abrasion of the
tongue, from a rough or broken tooth,
biting the tongue, cutting wart
while shaving. wound of the skin from
the tooth of a comb, chronic eczema.
| The constant pressure and irritation
from a pipe or cigar is supposed to be
a causative factor in the cases of the
lip of men, a condition which is very
rare in women.
An Alton saleswoman has started an
"anti-lazy mans crusade. Already
she has made herself a terror to the
healthy man who prefers an idle life
to providing for his family.
Thirty-fve thousand day school girls
and 1000 young women attending the
u evening continuation classes of the
London School Board. at 165 cookery
lcentres have been taught how to make
christmas puddings and other season
liable dainties during the past season.
/. The postoffice OF Buenos Ayres haf
ladopted X-rays to discover smuggle'
articles in registered letters without
opening them. Watches, rings, chains
and other valuables have been found
in astonishing quantity. More thar
S25. 900 worth of smuggled property
was confscated in one week.
Eldridge S. Brooks, the author o.
more than seventy books, mostly TO
boys died at Somersvills, Mass, lat
week
Thirty to forty miles an hour Is th'
b rule for railroad trains in Russia; II
Siberia fifteen TO twenty
Japans foreign trade has In thirt.
years increased from less than 81 q
l nearly 81 per capita per annum
The first fourteen Roman Emperor
all shaved their faces clean. There
a portrait bust representing Nero wit
a beard. but il is not believed to be at
b thentic,