Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-07-23
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One in four Albanans dies by vo-
lence
Scarlet fever is unknown in the
tropics.
The average American uses 1876 pins
year.
In Paris 25G,OOO families occupy but
bne room each.
Japan's shipyards turned out forty
Dne steamers last year
There are six canals connected with
the Thames, which extend altogether
I B34 miles.
A person can now 90 from New York
| City to Seattle, on PUGET Sound, in
four days.
1t has been decided that aliens in
British prisons are not to be taught
any trade in the future.
1t has been estimated that no lie s
than 25,OO0,OO0 people annually attend
The circuses of America.
Bedsteads with alarm clocks as part
Of the hcadrail are being made for
South London early riscrs.
German trade statistics already show
the serious damage done TO trade with
Latin American countries by the action
Of the Kaiser against Venezuela.
The production Of pig iron in the
United States last year was 17,S21.3O1
gross tons; in 1901 it was 15,S7S,354
and in 1900 it was 13,7S9,2i2 tons.
Joseph Vallot, the French scientist,
whose observatory is located on Mount
Blanc, has the highest home in the
world, being 1900 feet above the sea
level
The prevalence of rabies has reached
such dangerous proportions in Chicago
that education of policemen in the
symptoms o. the disease is urged as
necessary.
Queen Wilhelmlna, patroness and
founder of the incubator institute at
The Hague, has been sued for $500
guldens by Francis Gerhard because
the latter's boy baby was exchanged
for girl while in the oven.
Maryhattyana. an Arkansas post
office recently discontinued for lack Of
business was named in honor of the
three daughters of its first, last and
only postmaster, who were called re-
spectlvely Mary, Hatty and Anna.
Harriet Martineau visited the United
States in 1910 and reported that only
seven occupations were open to wom
en-. They were teaching, needlework,
keeping boarders, working in cotton
factories, typesetting, bookbindng and
household service.
. On account Of the genel osity of the
late Joseph Park MILL nlire IN y ch n +,
in building thirty miles Of macaGa IL
lied roads for the town of Rye, \. Y.
are about to raise funds to erect Il
monument to his memory.
| Prof. Henry S. Graves director Of
the Yale School of Forestry, has gona
abroad for the purpose Of making sge-
cial studies of the methods OF scieLt.tic
forestry on the eminent He VIII
visit the forestry sch OILS and museums
In Germany, Austria, Hungary and
France.
There are now in custody in England
and Wales. undergoing terms of i'm
prisonment fer crimes, 625 aliens Of
I comparatively L cent imp ration. An
Investigation into the antecedcnts Of
: those criminals shows that in Il ma
} jority of instauc 5 they were driven or
; assisted out of their own countries and
/ entered Great Britain unchall nged.
The Commissioner Of Patents, Fred
erick I. Allen, stated positively that
the patent Office viii not under any
; circumstances issue patents on social
= ed perpetual motion" machines and
that no patents for such machines have
been issued by the patent Office for the
last forty years. This statement of
the commissioner was made in re-
! Spouse to an inquiry regarding the a
4 legged issue of patent for perpetual
machine.
Edison has made but one speech in
, his life; it was not a brilliant one. He
= had agreed to lecture ON electricity be
;, fore a girls seminary, and had ed
;, gagged q friend named Adams to work
a the apparatus while he talked. But
:, when the inventor arose to address his
!, audience he felt so dazed that he sim
- ply said: Ladies, Mr.. Adams will now
address you on electricity, and | viii
demonstrate what he has to say will
} the apparatus"