Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-02-12
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Portsmouth in connection with the
aew submarines.
Canada's shipments of apples this
year are over three times what they
we're last year and about double what
they were 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
bakers clerk in Charlestown, Mass.
At reception of the patrlarchs at
Constantinople the Sultan has declared
that he will make no distinction be-
tween Christians and Mohammedans.
One hundred pounds is the price ex-
pected 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
81 in 1910 to 10 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
towanCe of King Carlos, of Portugal,
the biggest aud 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 uncducated people.
HamIey-You seem interested in the
horse show. Have you any entries
there? Plamley- Well-or-yes Ham
toy-Prze winners? Phamley-I hope
so. They're my three eldest daugh-
tiers. and all marriageable.
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 Il 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 MS the bicycle spins
along, catch the air and rotate the
apparatus.
Probably the biggest machinery belt
ever made is one recently made for Il
copper mine power-house at Anaconda,
Mont 1t is SiNty-siX inches wide and
$50 feet long Weighs 5000 pounds.
took 3GO hides to make it and cost
nearly $4,000
To save train fare three Italian
women set out to walk across a noun
tain pass between the Engadine ana
Lombardy. They were ovCrtakCn by
Il snOwstOrm and one of the women
persisted This is the seventy eighth
accident of the kind this season.
1t has just been discovered thaG
there exists at Rapperswyl, Switzer-
land, fund consisting of nearly
$4,000, which has been subscribed by
Poles in various parts of the world
for the purpose Of waging war on Rus
STA when a propitous 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 $30OOO,OOO. Ten
years ago the total was only S1O,-
100000.
An article in the Electrical Review
discusses the size of an atom of by
drogen, and arrives at the conclusion
that these particles Of matter are so
small that it would take 10000. 900 Of
them, laid in line, to extend a dis
lance Of one centimeter-that is, an