The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-26
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SaGUNA SOsll1l4OS
Roumania a ordered from Krupp
800 quick-fring field guns. they viii
cost SIS, 100000.
the steamship Barkta has reached
liverpool with acargosof cotton from
me new WestAfrican fields.
The Gar has put a million rubles
into bank for his infant son, to give
him a start in life. Vanity Fair says
ii is known as b Fresh Heir Fund
Awoman aged seventy-nine years,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, runs a ferry
boatson the FIakensee Erkner, near
Berlin. She is always ready, day or
night, to take over passengers.
Investigation by the Secretary of
me Interior showed that In 1902 there
yer in existence in theFUnited States
about LOO American bison or buff
IaEo. Canada deported GOO wild buff
fafo and SO in captivity.
novel event at the sports meeting
held atLowestof, England, in con-
neetion with police picnic was a
-thIef,race, in which the thief" had
~ dud was GU ~
TIM anywhere within an enclosure.
the thief" eluded capture for the
stipulated time of three minutes and
took the prize
The Tacoma smelter, controlled by
ID O.. Mills and associates, is making
$4,000 month by saving precious
metals that have heretofore been car
Tfed away in smoke from its furnaces.
The smoke is passed through a cooler
and then strained through light can
was The result is a harvest of gold,
silver, copper. etc.
1t present the office Of IA Agents
General Of British colonies are scat.
tered all over London. A proposal to
have them all in one great colonial
building has been favorably received
in colonial circles Such a building
would be less expensive for the colo
MES than the present Offices, the total
81 of whic is in excess Of $4,000
"a
II viii require five years to con
st7uct h f-Rotherhithe tunnel
7iuw being built under the Thames.
us length win be 6,SS3 feet, with an
external diameter of 80 feet, which
VIII allow a carriageway of 16 feet and
tEU footways four feet eight and one-
Inf inches wide When it is finished
here will be three tunnels under the
Thames at London.
tailor named Guiding died in
Dublin the other day. 1t was he who
Eaade theasuit of clothes for William
DEBrien when O'Brien was in Eulla-
more jail. OsBrien refused to wear
prison suit and remained unclothed
II his cell for several days. One morn
ing his keepers We're surprised TO
4 him wearing a suit of tweed. 1t
cast $50 TO get the suit to him. how
ever.
T45Toyen, of Brussels, has Invented
method of rowing by which h oars
nan is enabled to face the bow Of his
huar. Each oar is in i've parts, joint
"a and fitted TO the rest, the parts
being connected with each other by q
toothed sector working between the
fEo plates furnished with ax1es, upon
which the sectors hinge, the plates
beiu adjusted to the rests There is
no change in the rowing motion.
Il first steamship that made the
western trip across the Atlantic was
tHe Sirius. She sailed from Queens
fuwn April 3, 1888, and crossed to
New York in Is days. June IS. 1897.
she was lost Off the South coast of
Ireland. In May of this year the
wreck was raised, and now most Of
her metal is being made over into
steam fittings and taps. Her crank
shaft of solid brass, will be sawed into
su1an disks, which will be suitably
engraved for souvenirs.
RAISED a POSTAL ORDER.