Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1903-01-19
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telegraphy are to be carried out at
Portsmouth in connection with the
new submarines.
Canada's shipments of apples this
year are over three times what they
were last year and about double what
they We're in 1900.
Four crops of corn are produced
yearly in Cuba. The first crop is
planted in December and the fourth
crop is harvested in December.
Miss Rose Hackett, the last English
woman to leave Johannesburg after
martial law was declared, is now u
bakers clerk in Charlestown. Mass.
| At a reception of the patriarchs at
Constantinop.e the Sui an has declared
that he will make no distinction be-
One hundred pounds is the price eX
pecred for sheet of 119 unused black
English penny stamps issued in 1910,
which will be offered for sale in Lon
don.
The progress in the scientific treat
ment of beets in Germany has result
ed in raising the percentage of raw
sugar extracted from the root from
5la in 1910 to Ii in 1901.
In view Of the scare as to the per-
manency of typewriter records the
Italian Minister of Justice has ordered
that no typewriter document will be
accepted as legal in Italy.
Thirty one huge and exceedingly
strong Havana cigars is the daily al
lowance Of King Carlos, of Portugal,
the biggest and the latest Of all the
reigning monarchs of the old world.
Friends of the late Senator Vance.
of North Carolina, are raising funds
to purchase a marble bust of the Sen
ator to be placed in the rOtunda of
the Carnegie library building at Char
lOtte, N. G.
| Eight per cent of the population Of
this country is still illiterate. In Ger
many only l per cent Of illiterates eX-
lists and in Bavaria, Baden. Wurttem-
burg and Scandinavia there are no to-
tally uneducated people.
| Hamley-You seem interested in the
horse show. Have you any entries
there? Plamley-Well-er-y Ham,
ley-Prize winners? Phamley-I hope
so. They're my three eldest daugh-
ters and all manageable.
Emperor William Is ambitious to
| create a monumental structure in his
capital city which shall match West
minister Abbey. in London. AT present
the remains of the former leaders Of
the Hohenzollerns are scattered.
More than fifty girls are studying
scientific farming in the Minneapolis
College of Agriculture. The course
they take includes botany. chemistry.
physics and geology. requiring in the
first two years two terms Of each.
The latest invention is a combined
umbrella and fan for the cycle. The
canopy is made in the form Of an ordi-
nary umbrella and is fitted with
blades. which as the bicycle spins
along. catch the air and rotate the
apparatus.
Probably the biggest machinery belt
ever made is one recently made for a
copper mine power-house at Anaconda,
Mont. 1t is sixty-six inches wide and
1870 feet long, weighs $500 pounds,
took 800 hides to make it and cost
nearly $1,000.
To save train fare three Italian
women set out to walk across noun
tain pass between the Engadine and
Lombardy. They were overtaken by
snowstorm and one Of the women
persisted. This is the seventy-eighth
accident of the kind this season.
1t has just been discovered that
there exists at Rapperswyl, Switzer-
land, a fund consisting of nearly
$50, 900, which has been subscribed by
Poles in various parts of the world
for the purpose of waging war on Rus
sia when propitious time shall ar
rive.
The exports of cheese and butter
from Canada this year promises to
make a record. When the season
closes the value Of the products ship
ped to Scotland and England and
abroad will total $3O.0OO,O00. Ten
wears ago the total was only $10,-
600. 1000.
An article in the Electrical Review
discusses the size of an atom of hy-
drOgen. and arrives at the conclusion
that these particles Of matter are so
small that it would take 115,00O,OOO Of
them, laid in line. to extend dis
lance of one centimeter-that Is. an
atom is about one-third of a billionth
of an inch in size.
The "old log schoolhouse" at Camp
Run. WestmoIeland County, Pennsyl-
yania, is said by the Young Peoples
Weekly to be the oldest schoolhouse
in the country. 1t is very primitive
in all it's appointments, but the teach
err Miss Celia ]. Miller, who Is only
16 years old. has enlisted the help Of
the "big boys" to make some improve
ments.
Experiments on the value of salt in