Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-09-10
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There are about 100000 Catholics
In the United States.
Last year America imported only
100000 bushels of potatoes.
Automobile building gives employ
mcnt to 20,OCO persons in France.
In future women will be allowed to
take degrees in the University of Dub
lin.
Aldelney is the only place in the
British islands where tobacco is now
untaXed.
Six hundred men are regularly en-
ployed on the new steamship Kaiser
Wilhelm.
Japanese is the latest language to be
added to the list taught at the Uni
veristy of Chicago.
In London twenty ne autograph
letters and manuscripts of John Keats
were sold for 1910.
Wisconsin is first in lumber and tim
Der products, and Minnesota leads in
Touring and grist mills.
PrusSian railway cars have only
about three tenths the carrying capac-
ity of those used in the United States
During the last three years twenty
two mlllionaires have died in England
Their average age was sevcntytive
years.
Compared with 1901 the population
! of New Zealand 1851 ,063, including
49, 143 Maoris) shows an increase last
year of 2O,263.
Before he had reached his twelfth
birthday young Handel was known
throughout Germany as brilliant
composer and virtuoso at the court of
the Emperor
The Uganda Mission, in Central
Africa, begun twenty years ago, has
now 1910 church buildings, seating
l26,S50 persons, erected chiefly at the
cost of the people.
Several new eSmic papers make
their appearance in Paris every year.
Rirc which was founded ten years
ago, had so much success that it has
since had about twenty imltators, most
of which were short-lived,
Artificial teeth and "uppers" for
boots and shoes are among the new
uses to which paper is being put. A
substantial business firm in Boston is
considering Il proposition to take up
/ the work of manufacturing paper
hats.
Several Chinese cities have erected
temples in honor Of Ii Hung Chang
His tomb also has the form Of tenn
pie Two Of its inscriptions are: IAN
countries in the world mourn him.
and He changed heaven and revo-
lutiJnzed the earth"
Capt. S. f. James, who was ass0-
tiated with the Royal Society's COM
mission on malaria during the nyesti,
CATION in India, says that in India,
anyway, the kind of mosquito that
carries malaria rarely, if ever, flies
more than half mile from its breed
ing place.
The Pennsylvania terminal to he
erected in Manhattan will he the big
gest railroad station in the world, with
accomm dations for handling 100000
passengers day. or about 70,0OO,0OO
or SO,OOO,O0O a year. From sixty to
ninety trains will enter ana leave it
hourly. The tunnels will be lighted
and trains moved through them by
electricity,
A German professor has been inves-
tigating the causes of insanity among
women. and has come to the conclu
sion that if women are admitted into
competition with men the inevitable
result will be tremendous increase
of insanity among the women He
finds that the percentage of women
teachers who become insane is almost
double that of the men teachers.
DR.. $. Weir Mitchell says too much
importance is attached to college ath-
letics. In a letter to the senior class
of Pennsylvania he says: You have
lost out of college life that which it
were better to have kept. We played
hard IN my college days, but we talked
of our sports less than you do YOU
| fear, care too little for your intel
lectual athletics. Athletic sports are
meant, as | see them, to insure that
the body shall be made and kept
sound"
1t is said that Mascagnl seeks dra-
matlst's laurelS. The composer has
written three-act comedy, which
will be staged in October. \ Rome
newspaper the Menestrel is quoted as
making the following very discour-
teous comment on the composer
, Composer, leader, newspaper man,
lecturer, professor and conservatory
director without a job, likewise play
wright, Mascagni would hop around
ST. Peters on one leg if he could get
an audience"
Old furniture collectors in this city
have lately been driving prices high
er and higher. The rage for Chippen-
dale and Sheraton patterns of the finer