Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1904-04-28
IL }GNEN1

ACH 4OLh Ids d NSIuldu pOpulduO
If $4,000 and Chicago has 100000.
The twenty-five largest London the
lters seat 28,6OO people and earn $780,
400 a night.
England gets about $4,000, 900 worth
IF new gold from Africa every month
Ind $7,50O,0O 0 worth out of Australia.
Miss Vida Goldstein, the woman
candidate in Victoria for a seat in the
Commonwealth Senate, was not elect
ed, but she received $1,000 votes.
The annual loss from the burning of
buildings in the United States is about
135,000,O00 not including cost Of in
surance and the appliances for fire pro-
lection.
A bore put down at Cessnock, near
Maitland, in New South Wales, recent
" penetrated, at a depth of 2G0 feet, a
seam of coal twenty-seyen feet in
thickness.
In a divinity essay written by an
English %schoolboy appeared the follow
Ing passage: $50 he sed unto Moses.
Come forth; but he come fifth and lost
the jobb. Moral, Git up urly."
Mr.. Chamberlain is said to be a re-
markably proficient political stage
manager, approaching and knowing
the value Of a dramatic entrance quite
as well as Sir Henry Irving or Mr..
BeerbOhm Tree.
1t is stated that over 100000 tons
Of dust elected from the Soufriere vol
eano in st. Vincent have fallen on the
Island Of Barbados The dust, contrary
to expectation, has been found to have
nO fertilizing value.
Public revenue Of Great Britain
from April 1, 1903, to the latest date
at hand amounted to 1927, S49, 765, a de-
crease of S3S, OO4, 795 from last year.
Expenditures were 1892, 1925, a fall
ing off Of $191, 714,365 from last year.
The value Of exports to the United
States from Panama in the fiscal year
1908 amounted to $193,342, Of which
500, I67 was the value of hides, $49,-
974 India rubber, $27,SO5 cocobolo nuts,
S1G,59S ivory nuts, $13,372 deer skins
and $6,90S coffee.
Photographic records of Emperor
Williams voice, on metal matrices,
will be the first deposits made in the
archives that are to be kept
ar Harvard University, and in the Con
sressiOnal Library and the National
at Washington.
The Russian government has eIabor-
lted statutes on general life insurance
the state. The business is to be
ntrusted to the governmental savings
banks. All kinds of policies will be
Ssued and the insured will participate
n the profits Of the business.
Cobra George Salem, an Egyptian,
Who entered the Missouri University
asst fall and is taking the four-year
in agriculture, is so we'll pleased
With his work that he has succeeded in
)ersuading several of his friends in
egypt and Turkey to come and take q
course in some American col
eye.
In commemoration Of the Indian
Pocahontas, who died at
.fravesend, England, when about to
all to Virginia with her husband In
GIG, st. Georges Church, in Mapping,
S to have a pulpit made of wood
from Virginia. Pocahontas is
'uried in the chancel of st. Georges
jhurch.
The Greco-Roman chariot in the
Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New
,Ork, one of the new exhibits, has ex-
tied great interest among artists and
rchaeologists. Its preservation was
lie to the fact that it was buried by
ashes Of Vesuvius. Many other
'easures were found in the same
eighborhoOd, some of which Baron
,othschild bought and presented to
lie Louvre. The chariot in question is
yo-Wheeled and is perhaps the rarest
/ the world.
Feb. 10 was the centennial Of the
Of steam traction on railroads. 1t
as only a five-ton moving engine run
ove the Merthyr Tydfil course.
S inventor was Richard Trevithic, a
ornishman. 1t could draw fifteen tons
a rate Of five miles an hour. 1t had
4 eight-inch cylinder and toothed
heels, which caught in notched rails
I'd helped it over hard places in the
ack. Only a few trips were made by
:, for the experiment was not COM
ercially profitable.
ALENT HAS DEVELOPED EARLY.