The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1903-09-24
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A stalk of Indian corn uses up 81
pounds of water during its season.
Newfoundland exports over $7,000,-
600 a year Of ish-nearly all cod.
Less than ~one-seventh of the land
In Great Britain is owned by farmers.
On Sunday a convention of 5000
Christian Scientists opened at Boston.
A well-equipped eye sanitarium will
o o be travelling through Egypt in a
tent.
A room in which soiled clothes or
shoes become moldy is too damp for
health.
Mexico now has GO 1000 American
residents and 3 3,0O0,00O American
money.
Within a year the United States has
sold 253,9S3 pairs of shoes to British
subjects.
In an exhibition at Vienna a billiard
table is being shown which was made
there in 1913.
Cheese at thirteen cents a pound Is
more economical as food than meat at
the same price.
One playing on the piano the music
for three songs exerts enough force to
raise 1000 pounds.
A turbine engine for transatlantic
business will be fully tested by Sir
Christopher Furness.
Automobiles made for the German
army haul five to eight ton loads
through hilly country.
During the last fiscal year one in
every 401 railway employees vas killed
and one in every "a injured.
Sandals are increasingly popular in
Germany and are ever worn in the
streets by ladies and children.
MI. Whitaker Wright has had a re-
lapse, and the hearing of his case has
been postponed until tomorrow.
The Marquis Townsend, who took
his seat yesterday in the House of
Lords, has joined the Liberal party.
Last week a whole company of sol
diers were taken i'll with symptoms of
poisoning at Bekes-Czaba, Hungary.
Captain Blackburn has again set out
to cross the Atlantic from Halifax,
Nova Scotia, to France in an open
boat.
One out Of two working men in
England who reach the age of 65 dies
a pauper and is buried at the poor
house.
Vaccination is now compulsory in
France during the first year of life,
and revaccination during the 18th and
21st years.
The Kearsarge, in crossing the At.
lantic en- route for Kiel at a rate of
1852 knots an hour. beat all records
for battleships.
Two people died and three were
made seriously i'll from eating bread
into which a spider had been k%neaded,
at Gainesville, Ga.
Cotton Is the most valuable crop we
grow, except corn. The 1000, 900 bales
in this years production will bring
planters about $500, O00, 900.
The pressure Of sap arising from a
grape vine o 0 has been found equal
to sustaining a column of mercury
three and q half feet high. .
The visit of the Burgomaster of
Brussels to London, as the guest of
the city, has been postponed, owing to
the illness of his daughter.
The emigration from our northwest.
ern states to British Columbia leaves
us still about a million ahead of Can,
ada in the exchange of citizens.
The area added to the British en-.
pire by the acquisition Of the Boer
republics and 100, 600 square miles on
the Niger exceeds that of France.
Col. Wallace, grand master, states
that no reconciliation has yet been ef-
fected between the Grand Orange lodge,
Belfast. and Mr.. Thomas Sloan. NJ: P.
There are now in operation in the
United States 505 national banks, with
a capital ~aggregating 1856. 600, 900.
During the existence of national banks
1892 have gone into receiyership.