The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1904-11-17
CURRENT TOPICS.
The Island Of Cuba now has popu
lation Of 1.655.677.


600 on hydro-electric plant to i'm
prove its water supply.
The rubber exported from the ANA.
Eon river in the season Of 1904
amounted to 67.3l4.116 pounds.
OF the 467 savings banks in Japan
only one 10 foreign. OF the 1,799 or.
binary banks only four are foreign.
The opening Of the international In.
dustrial exposition at Cape Town.
South Africa, has been postponed un.
til December next.
The American Telephone and Tele-
graph Co. and the German Electric
co. have radiophone which trans.
mits speech on light waves.
Pierre Beziau has machine by
which he demonstrates the motions Of
the earth. from which are inferred the
causes of changes Of seasons.
H. Comes Himalaya has a pyrhou-
other that will develop more than
four thousand degrees Of heat. cent?
grade. by concentration Of the suns
rays.
The Tar railway steam motor sery.
ice between Penarth and Cardiff is
working satisfactorily. and number
OF new cars are being built for it by
. Bristol firm.
The Japanese are allowed to be
among the very strongest people on
earth. They are strong mentally and
physically. and yet practically they
eat no meat at all.
In 1902 the United States. England
ana Germany produced 20 per cent.
OF the iron ore. "a per cent. of the pig
iron ore and 81 per cent. of the steel
produced in the world.
More than 1000 children. grand.
children. and great-grandchlldren
mourn the death Of William Rice. 7S
years old. who was buried the other
day at New Bloomfield. Pa.
Losing his new hat out Of a win.
dow OF Swiss express, an American
passenger pulled the alarm cord and
the train was stopped. He recovered
the hat and very cheerfully paid SO
dne.
Welding by electricity IL brought to
such perfection that welding-apparatus
can be carried to a railroad track and
two rails Joined as solidly as If they
had come out Of the rolling mill one
piece.
One OF the mechanical wonders 10 q
Geographic instrument which sends
one thousand words minute over
lines thousand miles in length. A
human operator can transmit so words
Q minute.
A novelty in stoves is battle.ship
range with steel racks for preventing
the pots and pans from going heller.
skelter ina high sea, and With n.
genious braces for holding the range
ITSELF in place.
Tho Chinese government win estah.
lish national bank with a capital Of
$s.00O,O00. One-half Of this sum is to
be furnished by the imperial treasury.
the other half to be raised by the n.
sue Of shares.
From nearly all sections Of Eastern
oregon come reports Of the reduction
In the size Of the docks OF the sheen
kings. whose extensive operations In
the past have made Oregon famous az
wool and sheep country.
Estimates Of the amount Of money
wagered in Wall street on the ma.
tional and state elections run from
$1.50O.000 to 100000. These trans.
actions bring in considerable revenue
to the brokers who place the wagers.
There has been considerable in.
crease in both imports and exports OF
Belgium in the last year. The i'm.
ports In 1903 amounted to 3612. 6S5. 400.
against $459,475,100 In 1902, an in.
crease Of $63.075. 900. or 11.6 per cent.
A discovery has been made in the
Andes mountains. $50 miles from
Arauco. Chill. Of a city deserted for
1000 years. but once inhabited, pre-
sumably by Aztecs Of much larger
stature than those who lived in Cen.
trail America.
The school board of Chicago is con.
Quoting seven free public kitchens.
and 1t is said that more than q thou
sand women are learning to cook in
these schools. Thirty nationalities are
represented among the pupils, China
among them.
As q species OF rejoinder to the
charge that the present consumption
Of ivory is threatening the elephant
with extinction It has recently been
stated that IS per cent. Of the supply
of ivory is obtained from elephant
cemeteries'-spots met with in the
tungles where elephants have resorted
for centuries to die.
Onthe average Of the last I'VE years
the yield Of tea to the acre. dividing
the total yield by the area under ma,
ture plants. has been as follows: Az.
sam. Brahmaputra Valley. 4o1 pounds:
Surma Valley. sos pounds: Bengal.
Duars 47es pounds; Darjeeling. 2s7
pounds. H ''-s'-''
In the rebuilding Of the king Of Co.
rea's palace, which was recently de.
stroyed by IRE. PAPER macha win be
solely employed. To obtain sum.
cient quantity for the purpose there
has been engaged a star Of 1000 Co
reans possessed Of strong teeth for