Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1903-12-31
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The typewriter is more largely used
In Mexico than in France.
The first electrical railway was that
of Semens, at Berlin, in 1879.
Wars of the last 5000 yC lrs are sup
posed to have cost 100000, 100000.
The population of London has in
creased i per cent in fourteen years.
In Sweden bricks are laid in zero
weather by heating the sand for the
mortar.
The population of Ireland is 4,432,-
ga, and the decrease for the past year
has been 1908.
The density of relative population
of the United States.
Over five hundred miles of railway.
mostly single line, are owned and
worked by the Natal government.
Edwin Warheid governorelect of
Maryland, has been everything from a
farmers hired man to banker. He Is
rich.
Dorothea Beale, Ill. D.. has COM
pleted forty-five years as the head OF
Cheltenham college for girls in Eng.
land.
Bishop Henry Clay Morrison Of the
Methodist Episcopal church South,
will make his home in New Orleans
hereafter
Isadore Newman Of New Orleans re-
Gently gave $4,000 to charity to mark
the fftieth anniversary of his arrival
in America.
John Dwight, chemist, who died
recently in New York, founded the
Dwight school at Edwin, Tenn, for
mountain whites of that state.
Day laborers to the number Of l.
100000 belong to the national labor
unions. 100000 to other labor unions,
and 2,250,000 are unorganized,
Prof. Henry Apply, violinist, who
died a few days ago, aged rs, was the
son of the leader of the orchestra in
the chapel of William of Orange.
Paris is mourning the loss of its
oldest tree, an elm planted by order
Of Sully in 1900, in the Rue St.
JACQUES. 1t is leafless this year.
Rudolf Won Gottschall, German play
wright and novelist recently celebrat-
ed his 80th birthday at Leipsic. He
has been an author for sixty years.
Former President of the Transvaal
Republic Paul Kruger, who had been
suffering from an attack of grippe, "
has almost entirely recovered his
health.
The University of Wales has con.
ferred the honorary degree of doctor
of science upon Lord Kelvin, in con.
sideration of his eminent services to
science.
A day or two after Bliss Carman's
Pipes of Pan" came out, Mrs. Craisie
copyrighted her latest play, "The
Flute of Pan" 1t is regarded as quite
a coincidence.
Forty-three letters written by the
Empress Marie Theresa of Austria
have been discovered. They bristle
with news of war and courts and are
to be sold at auction.
Princess Nanzeta Montezuma. who
claims to be the only lineal descend
ant of the great Montezuma. is an ex.
lie from Mexico. and is supposed to
be somewhere in the vest
The longest canal in the world Il
that which extends from the frontier
of China to st. Petersburg. 4.472 miles
In India there are $4,000 miles of can
al, irrigating 100000 acres of land.
Kuno Fischer, the eminent historian
Of philosophy, has at last been oblig
ed to give up his professorship in He.
delberg He is in his eightieth yeal
and has been at Heidelberg since 1872
The Metropolitan Art Museum Of
New York has just purchased an ole
chariot for $4,000. 1t was unearthet
near Rome some time ago, and Il
1900 year old and splendidly preserv
ed.
Lady Durad. wife of the British am
bassador at Washington, Miss Duran,
and Henry White, secretaiy u tn,
American embassy in London, urriv
ed on the steamship Lucania from
Liverpool.
William Darrach, who graduate,
from Yale in 1897, and who has beel
appointed one of the lecturing phys
clans at the p. and s. hospital in Ney
York City. is the youngest man VIII
ever held the position.
The German government will intro
duce in the Reichstag a bill requirin
saloon keepers to sell non-intoxicatin
hot and cold drinks and cold food.
Credit will be forbidden and the nun
Der of barmaids limited.
The late Lieutenant Goldschmid
was the oldest musical conductor |
the German army. For fifty years h
had Deen leader of the band Of tn
honigs Grenadiers. His band playe
at Sedan. In 1898 he was pensionet
Recently experiments with a vie
to preserving the calorific propertie
of hard coal by immersion in sa
water were made and 1t was demon
strated that loss of but / per ceI
occurred. Stored in the ordinary wa
coal loses about so per cent of Il
.calorific power.
At Huntingdon, w. Va, because h
father refused to lend him penknif
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