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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
MARKETING BANANAS IN HONDURAS.

to eat before it has been frozen, or with
the big, tioury and sweet product Of
modern skill in farming.
The average yield of bananas is 2sS
punches yearly to the acre. The aver
age bunch weighs 81 pounds, which
makes 1870 pounds per acre. That
would feed a man three years, four
months and seven days, if he were do
ing moderate work. No wonder life
goes easily in banana lands; or that
an eminent Mexican declares that the
banana is an institution for the promo
ton of laziness.
In the years 1890 and 1900 an avera ge
of 1922 bushels of potatoes per acre was
obtained for each of those years. A
man doing moderate work would be
fairly supported by like amount of
food one year, six months and II DAYS,
which is two years, one month and Is
days less than bananas would feed
him. But A times as much food as an
acre of potatoes give would feed him So
years.
Again disappointment awaits us,
when we look into the statement that
an acre of bananas will give us 25 times
as much food as will an acre of wheat.
To do that the fruit should support a
man 80 years, four months and 10 DAYS.
1t lacks some 27 years and - days of
doing what has so often been claimed
for it. Nor does ''the result of scien-
tific investigation" help us much more
when we examine the claim that ba-
nanas give 80 times as much food as
rice gives to the acre.
That we may see at glance precisely
how bananas do compare with the
more common of other foods, let us
put them side by side on a table, and
show the average annual yield per
acre, the actual food value, and the
number of days each will support a
man doing moderate muscular work;
thus:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
LAND AND WATER BOAT.
Queer Craft, Invented by q BostoA
Man, Launches Passengers
from the Dry Beach. "a,

On many beaches which are very
level it is impossible to launch a
boat from the land unless the passen-
gers wade out or the boat is pushed
out by hand, and it is to overcome
this obstacle that the apparatus
shown in the drawing has been de-
signed by Samuel I. Britain, of Bos-
ton, Mass. With this continuance the
passenger may enter the boat and
be driven along the beach into the
water, and when finally launched the
same apparatus which accomplished
that work is used to propel the beat
through the water.
Any ordinary form of motor is
used, being geared by chains to the
apparatus shown in the rear of the
boat. This consists of gear wheel
with concave face secured in a rigid
yoke, with a fitting post carrying a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
that the beef trust may be dowaed

that the beef trust may be dowAed
by eating bananas instead of beef. In
a pound of beef are 944 calories, and
in pound of bananas there are 200;
so, to get as much food out of the
bananas as the beef gives, one must
eat 1868 pounds of the fruit. The av-
erage bunch of bananas has about 10
dozen fingers of ISL Galleries to the
dozen. If bananas are worth Is cents
a dozen, beef should be worth 1855
cents pound. But if beef sells at Is
cents a pound, then bananas should
cost no more than lis cents dozen
to make matters even.
Potatoes have SIG parts of waste
matter, including water, in 100; while
bananas have s3.9 parts of waste, leav-
ing only ia pounds of food in 100
pounds of the fruit. A pound of ba-
nanas furnishes 26O calories; pound
of potatoes POS Galleries. If bananas
and potatoes were each priced at one
cent pound, the money value of ton
of potatoes would be 17.6 cents more
than that of a ton of the fruit. Sci
to sustain the assertion of our fruit
dealer. 1t seems to me safe to say that
scientific investigation has not clearly
shown that bananas have As times the
nutriment possessed by potatoes.
A pound of whole-wheat our has
1850 calories. This is 1 800 more than
a pound of bananas affords. One would
have to eat 6 1-3 pounds of bananas
to get as much food as pound of the
flour furnishes. He who prefers to
eat soda crackers instead of whole
wheat flour, can so get from pound
as much food as 1875 pounds of bananas
will give. Rice has about 6 1-3 times as
much nutriment as have bananas.
Here again science appears to be not
completely in accord with the Phila-
delphia authority.
Possibly he had in mind an assertion
often credited to Humboldt, to the eff
feet that an acre of bananas will yield
as much food as will A acres of pota-
toes. Before accepting such state
ment as guide in laying out a bill Of
fare, it may perchance be well to in
quire whether, if Humboldt did say
such a thing, he had in mind the prod
uct of an acre of a warm and fertile
farm of Europe, or of one of Peru;
whether he compared the fruit with
the acrid little tuber of the Andes, unfit
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17

accuracy, and fancy that there may be,
possibly, rivals who would be delighted
to pounce upon, drag out and shake
an error in public places, and perhaps
even cry aloud about it, that all might
see and hear. If that is true, it may
be taken for granted that scientists
will be quite careful of their state
ments, and that we may therefore
trust to their published deductions.
have taken the trouble to write all
this tedious explanation because to
many people the term ''calorie" is new,
and because | wish to prejudice the
jury so that it will accept, without
too much explanation, the statements
which are to follow. One of these is
that the average man doing hard work
requires each day about ALSO calories
of food; he who does moderate or
ordinary work gets along on about
3,1S7 calories, while the men who do
light work need but 2,572 calories to
keep their steam up to good working
pressure.
Now we can get back to the notion
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

About 100000 gallons of cider are
made yearly in the United Kingdom.
The Bank of France estimates the
value of the buildings and equipment
of the main institution and all its
branches at $4,933,OOO.
Sixty good-sized mushrooms were
recently discovered growing in the
at Hucknall Torkard, Nottingham,
England.
Jordan is one of the crookedest riv-
ers known. In covering a distance of
60 miles, for that is the length of a
straight line drawn on the map be-
tween the Sea of Galilee and the Dead
sea, it runs 212 miles. because of the
multiplication of its windings.
At Buda-Pesth the wooden pavement
of whole street has just been stolen
in broad daylight and in full view of
the police. The thief appeared in the
forenoon with a gang of laborers,
whom he ordered to pull up the pave
ment, which he sold forthwith, prompt
ly decamping with the proceeds.
At a recent cooking exhibition in
Paris President Loubet made speech
in which he declared that one of the
reasons why so many foreigners like
to visit Paris is that theNare sure to
get better things to eat there than
anywhere else in the world, and he ex-
horted the cooks to use all their talent
to maintain this supremacy for France.
At one time drunkenness was so COM
mon in Russia among the lower classes
ing Russian servant, to make the
most elaborate inquiries as to how
often he or she became drunk, for in
Russia many workmen and servants
who scarcely touch alcohol during the
week make point of getting drunk
every Sunday and holiday.
Count Carlo Aloisio Contarini, who
died recently in Venice, is believed to
have been the last male descendant of
the great Contarini family that gave
eight doges and A Procuratori to the
republic. The first doge, Domenico
Contarini, ruled from 1043 to 1911 and
rebuilt St. Marks in its present form.
The last count was a retired officer in
the Italian army and very poor. He
could not be made to pass through the
Grand canal, on which are five splen-
did palaces that once belonged to his
family.
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man is to work, the wise men natural
ly adopted unit that represents the
amount of energy, force or work a
stated quantity of food will yield,
when it is burned in that wonderful
furnace of that most marvellous of en-
gines, the stomach of man.
That unit of measure of food values
they agreed to make calorie, as en-
gineers have named their standard of
energy horsepower. A calorie is that
quantity of heat or energy which
would raise the temperature of a pound
of water about four degrees Fahren-
heit; or, to be more exact, of one kilo-
gram of water one degree centigrade:
or, in other words, to lift one ton 1.54
foot. By analysis, the scientists can
learn very nearly the number of
calories in any food. 1t has been said
that as a rule these men are excess
sively Jealous for their reputation for
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
BEEF AND BANANAS.
Their Food Value Compared by Men
of Science.
Meat Trust Cannot BE Downed by
Eating Tropical Fruit Instead
of Steak-Nutritive Prop
critics of Vegetables,
Especial Correspondence

((IF YOU want to down the beef
trust, don't eat meat. Eat ba-
nanas instead" So a Philadel-
phia daily soberly says that dealer in
fruit there advised, and asserted also
that: 1T may surprise you to know
that the banana is the king-pin of the
vegetable kingdom, so far as nutrition
is concerned. 1t is 25 times as nutri-
tious as wheat of the same weight, has
As times the nutriment of potatoes and
80 times that of rice, the three staple
vegetable products of the world. These
figures are the result of scientific inves-
tigation."
That fruit dealer was probably quite
right. Many will be surprised to learn
that the banana has so much virtue.
Such discovery will astound men who
have made what they imagined were
careful and thorough studies of the
fruit and the tuber, and thought the
two were nearly equal in food value.
In fact, the results of a number of
such studies show that, if the price of
both bananas and potatoes were one
cent pound, ton of potatoes would
be worth about IA cents more than
would a ton of bananas, as food. l
shall not take into account the differ
ence in palatableness of the food, for
as a rule SAVIOR in itself is not known
to be especially nutritious.
Studious men in several parts of the
world, whose habit it is to dig up and
show to the world the truth, the whole
truth even to its minutest rootlet, have
analysed and weighed by wonderful
devices the different parts of almost
every food commonly used by man.
Having learned a great deal about
these things, those men agreed on "a
standard or unit by which to measure,
weigh or count those parts, and thus
get at their value. As the chief end of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
Warning Against Hawaii.

Comrade VIII L. Eaton, 1871 S.
King ST., Honolulu, Hawaiian islands,
writes: 81 would like to see an arti-
Gle published in the National Trib-
une in regard to old soldiers coming
down here where there is nothing
for them to do in order to make u
decent living, thus becoming a bur-
den on the community to the injury
to our post, which is small and has
all it can do to take care of its own
members, when the same comrades
can be well cared for in soldiers
homes in America. Common labor
ers here must compete with Chinese
and Japanese who live on about ten
cents per day. Even skilled labor
has to come in competition with
them in many ways. 1t is a notori-
Gus fact, and one upon which a
great many unfavorable comments
have been made, that there is now
being work done at the naval station
here by Japanese simply because
they are cheap."-National Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
STARTING FROM THE BEACH.

second gear wheel meshing in the
first. A second chain connects the
latter gear wheel to the propelling
wheel. At either end of the shaft
carrying the rear gear wheel is =
yoke extending forward and ending
IN a handle which serves to turn
the propeller after the manner of 4
rudder. In order that the driving
wheel may serve as propeller in the
water it is fitted with a series of piv-
oted blades which turn at right an
giles to the plane of rotation during
the lower half of their revolution
To accomplish this a defector is at
tached to the side of the fork which
throws the blades out during half OF
the revolution and then returns them
as they pass through the fork.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
SIeep-Walking.

'Ten per cent. of the worlds popula-
ton is more or less somnambulistic,"
said physician, "and every one, at one
time or another, has done little sleep
walking. myself, when a lad, got up,
dressed, took my books and went to
school on summer night, my father
following close behind to see that |
should come to no harm. Blond per-
sons are more apt to be somnambulists
than dark folk, and in cold climates
there is more somnambulism than in
warm ones. In certain Greenland vii
lagos, l have been told, the hut doors
are locked from without by watch.
man in order that those within may not
come forth in their sleep, and maybe
freeze to death. But in Egypt and such
like hot lands such precaution is UNI
necessary. "-Philadelphia Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
Utilization of Tidal Forces.

1t has long been matter of observa-
ton that the forces of the waves and
tides, if harnessed, could be made to
do an unlimited amount of work, but,
until very lately, no one has been ven
turesome enough to attempt so bold
an appropriation of the earth's natural
forces. Two schemes, recently devised,
are worth noting. One is calculated to
work in an inlet, using the tides to
revolve waterwheels, thus extracting
a 1.-THE of their energy. The other con-
sists of number of buoys so anchored
and constructed as to utilize wave force
to compress air. Both schemes, it is
said, are well financed, and are assured
of a thorough test.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17

Bananas may be the "king-pin of the
vegetable world" but those who have
tooth for sweeties may be glad to
learn that while that fruit has beg
carly 26O calories to the pound there
is delightful confection which has
5,625, or more than 20 times as much
as bananas, and more than has any
other food easily found Great is the
virtue of chocolate. Long may it
soothe and sustain from the breakfast
cup; long may it fill the bsnbon box.
For it and it alone is the kingpin of the
vegetable kingdom. PAUL BIT.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
COLOR AFFECTS DEW.
Truth of the Assertion Can BE Proved
by Any DOubter by n Simple
EADeriment

There are conditions in which
color materially affects the forma-
ton of dew, as may be shown by
simple experiment. Place three
pieces of board-one white, another
green and another black-so that
they may have the sun on them all
day, and leave them exposed to the
air all night. A clear, cool night
should be chosen for the exeperi-
ment, for dew rarely forms when it
is cloudy.
If all the conditions are normal it
will be found in the morning that
there is great deal of dew on the
white board, much less on the green
board, and still less on the black
board; indeed, there may be none at
all on the latter.
The difference is due to the fact
that the three boards absorb the suns
rays unequally, and are, therefore, OF
different temperatures at the close
of the day. The black board absorbs
the most heat and the white board
the least. They all begin to lose
their heat as soon as the suns rays
leave them, the white board cooling
first, the green board next and the
black board last. AS soon as they
become cool enough to condense the
watery vapor of the air in contact
with them, dew will begin to form on
them, and the most dew will fall on
the one that cools first. 1t may be
that the black board will absorb
more heat during the day than it car
throw off at night; if so, no dew
will form on it.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
No Colds in the Arctic.

Various arctic explorers have point
ed out their complete immunity from
colds and other troubles until they re-
turned to the habitations of men. Act
ing on this hint DIR. Bunge, of St. Pc
tersburg, has suggested the erection
of sanatoria for consumptives in Spitz
bergen.-Chicago Chronicle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
An Object Lesson.

Little Tommy Cooking at the num-
mics in the Metropolitan museum)-
What made them like that, pop?
Mr.. Upton-Egyptian cigarettes, my
aoni-Puck. --
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
Butterhy and Moth Firm.

Near Scarborough, England, there
is farm for raising butterflies and
moths. "The output is 10000 season.
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Expensive to Some.

One mans fad is another mans for
Cune.-Chicago Daily News.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-04-26
Special Correspondence


The Compressor was started up Sun
day and works like charm.
The st. Paul railroad company has a
pile driver at work on the overhead
crossing of the new Great Western
spur over the Mansfield branch of the
Northwestern.
Mrs. Broad is here from Negaunee
attending her son. WILL who is dan
gerously ILL.,
Captain Harry Duff, of the Riverton
mine, Iron River, visited with NJ J.
Shields last Sunday
Mrs. Harry Duff is spending the
week visiting her daughters Madames
Plecta and Shields
Tom Harvey, brother Of Win. Harvey,
will occupy the house recently vacated
by the Cheney family.
A New Coal dock is being built in
front of the New Engine house. Work
was started there on Monday
The Great Western location furnished
the justice courts with little business
this week Joe Movinsky and Joe Ko-
shuba, old friends, got into dispute
over partnership affair involving a
horse wagon, sleigh, pig and board
dill. Each claimed the other was OF
the red ink side Of his hooks and IL
order to settle the dispute Jus tices
Dawson and Morrison and Herman
Buenger were chosen to adjudicate the
matter Chas II. Watson appeared fol
Movinsky and NJ II. Moriarty for Kos
uba After listening to the evidence
and using up a lead pencil or two fig
uring the three good and true men de-
cieded that the accounts. exactly balanc-
ed and assessed costs Of $40 80 on Ko.
shuba.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-04-26

an organization for several years and
recently the juniors have effected an
organization and are careful TO leave
nothing undone TO minister TO the
wants and preserve the proper relation
TO the seniors
During the week the juniors perfect
ed plans for giving party in honor Of
the senior class at commencement time,
function that is carefully observed in
all we'll regulated high schools. In or
der TO secure funds for the purpose the
class will give social on the evening
of May. 9nd in the Moriarty building
on Superior Avenue. The class mem
bers have been selling tickets about
town during the week for this event
and all Of the money obtained from the
sale of these tickets will go 10 the pur
pose named 1t is good thing and
we hope that all will push it along
The membres of this very progressive
class are as follows. Harry Waite,
Eliza Desbien. Amelia Oswald, Mae
Grafton, Belva Harbour, Dora Wehse
and Glenn Webb.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-04-26
INCREASED THE WAGES.

The board Of education held very.
important meeting last Tuesday ev
ening at which the first step towards
the hiring of teachers for the coming
year was taken. Superintendent Hill
was rehired for another year with an
increase in wages Of 800 for the year
making his salary 1850 The wages
of the teachers below the fifth grade
were raised s. per month making it
$50 dollars per month instead Of $40
as it now is The wages ct the teachers
in the outlying schools were advanced
from $40 to $40 and the wages Of the
assistant in the high school were in
creased So The members of the pres
emit corps OF teaches were asked to APP
ply for their present positions II they
cared to return and their applications
viii be taken mp at the next meeting.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-04-26
TO THE PUBLIC.

In the intrest of all good works, the
ladies Of Crystal Falls have organized
a new society the name given to this
is, the Sunshine Society
1t is'to be non-sectarian society for
yong and old We therefore invite
members of our all denominations, to
co-labor with us. in our benevolent
purposes and by so strengthing our
band, we hope for immediate results,
that would otherwise take long weeks
of toll, if there were only few
Ladies Especially we invite you to
join us and in 80 doing, you will in
terest your husands and children. that
we may all have work to do. for the
good Of our little city and its fellow
citizens.
One work in particular we have star
ted out to do, is to assist the Gem
etary Board in improving and beauti
fling as far ~ lays within our power,
the ground where our leloved dead rest
or are TO rest.
OF course we cannot expect TO do ev-
erything At once, but we are going to
make beginning, and hope by your
hearty support and cooperation, you
will meet with ms, whereon you see
the labor with us for love
Thore are many other things, we in
tend TO do as we increase in member.
ship, not alone in Identifying ouI
town, but in looking after, those who
are worthy Of our assistance, in times
Of distess
We want every individual to take al
interest. in our work, as we know yor
win, as worthy citizens, and help III
by striving to make your own littl,
home, yard and grounds thing o.
beauty and neatness.
1t may be that some of our prominen
citizens, may offer prize for the nea
test and most improved surrounding
OF your homo or place of business
This is being done in other towns
Why not in Crystal FallsG
A purse of $500 could soon be col
: lected for this purpse, and sewers
: judges, selected TO make, a tour of th
town, during the season, and awar
; the prize to the worthy one.
It is really distressing TO ride aroun
and note the careless shiftess habit
D Of some people, and good pominer
4 citizens too, who throw rubbish i
+ the street, directly IN front OF thei
$ homes, 10 lay for months, an unseenl
r sight on our most prominent streets
r In other cities such an offence would
T. subject the owner TO fine of five
ten dollars, unless removed With
4 twenty four hours.
= How easy IL is TO distinguish pc
d sons habits by this little peice Of mel
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1902-04-26
IuNIoRs ARE PRoeREssIvE.

The Crystal Falls schools can boast
Of as bright and as progressive students
as any school in the upper peninsula.
Not only are the boys and girls of our
schools up.to-date but they are taking
pride and evidencing interest in their
school as is shown by the class or
ganizetions and the loyalty of the class
members to their class and their school.
Every class in the school has It's organ
ization and all are looking forward tC
the time when they will reach the goa
and stand on the pinnacle Of school sue
cess, the graduation rostrum. This
desire, OF ambition. conduces to better
attendance, better scholarship and bet
ter schools and should be heartily en-
Outraged by our people.
The two classes that are the mos
prominent are, Of course, the senior
and junoirs. The senior class has hat