The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-11-05
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Automobile masquerade runs are the
latest.
A brick house is more endurable than
one Of stone. A well constructed brick
house will outlast one built of granite.
During the last three years twenty.
two millionaires have died in Eng
land. Their average age was seventy
five years.
The average man will die for want
Of air in FIVE minutes; for want Of
water in q week; for want Of sleep
in ten days.
Two or three hives of bees on a Kent
England farm have declared war on
the poultry, and several fowls have
been stung to death.
In the Sandwich Islands there are
twice as many Japanese as natives,
and the Chinese outnumber the ma
tives by a small excess.
On the ground that letters patent
have no intrinsic value a woman was
acquitted of theft on her trial at Wen
ma for stealing such q document.
Seventy Polish schoolboys at a Ger
man gymnasium have been sentenced
to terms of Imprisonment from six
weeks downward for belonging to a
secret society.
The great violin neighborhood is
Markneukirchen, Saxony. In that
town and vicinity there are about H.
600 people engaged exclusively in the
manufacture of violins.
In accordance with a superstitiOus
custom, Hungarian girl was enter
ing a chapel in Staranovares to toll
the bell during a thunderstorm to ward
off lightning when the chapel was
struck and the girl killed.
In New York, at the lowest possible
average 100000 people live in rooms
which ought to be considered absolute
ly uninhabitable, dark and without
any window or ventilation.
Tight lacing caused the death OF
Della Alderman in the Cook County
Hospital, Chicago. Construction of the
vital organs resulted from constant
compression, and septic poisoning en-
sued.
A feature of Iowa's dairy exhibit
at the st. Louis Worlds Fair will be
a statue in butter of John Stewart
1t will be life size and will be kept
frozen in a glass case throughout the
Exposition.
The best protection against cold IS
the skin Of the reindeer. Any one
clothed in such dress, with the adj
dition Of blanket of the same mate
rial, may bear the lowest temperature
Of an Arctic winters night.
acres, of which 1891, 466 acres are I'M
der cultivation; 112 persons own one
half Of the total area and eighteen per-
sons own one-fourth of it. One-fourth
of the tenants hold five acres or less
and nearly one-third hold between five
and twenty acres.
All L. Il
of signs or inarticulate sounds express
ing impressions, sensations, passions.
but never ideas. So this language ex-
cludes conversation and is limited to
or signs or movements
expressing joy, g-.ef, fear, anger, all
the passions of the senses, but never
more.
Tobacco is both cultivated and con-
sumed on a large scale in Japan. The
plant was introduced by the Portu-
gnese in the seventeenth century, and
the trade in 1t rs a Government mo-
hopoly. Tobacco Is almost universal
~ used In a small pipe. While cigar
cites are manufactured in large guam
titles, they are nearly all exported.
The Lutheran Church rangs first
among Protestant denominations i'm
the United States, having 1900 con-
gregations and membership of 1.800.-
600, forty eight theological seminaries.
forty-three colleges, fifty academies.
ten young ladies' seminaries, twenty
two hospitals, fifty-two orphan asy-
lums, twenty homes for the aged and
eight deaconess houses.
Best Apples Sold in Boxes
In the fruit trade it is no longer
the thing to order O barrel of apples