Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-07-06
FACTS I'M FEW LINES

The short time movement Is cAteuu-
ing in Lancashire cotton mills.
There are 100 slate, "a marble and
205 claylquarries in this country.
ireland has now bank holiday all
tolitseIf-namely, St. Patrick $ day.
The people of the United States eat
| $4,000, 600 worth .of,candy in year.
Tho population of London has in
creased. recent intfourteenyears.
In Italy there are 172,000 skilled
worknen engaged in the manufacture
ofssilk.
During the .pastyyear TO fewer than
$4,000 ,passengers4c crossed between Do
yerland the continent
The meat received into ,Smith1leld
market every year for the feeding of
| Iondont exceeds 100000 atoms.
We export nearly 100000 pairs of
shoessto Germany, worth 1881 900. In
1908 we sent her sos pairs, worth
S767.
The, sultan has sent sant order to Eng
/ land for some highland uniforms in
which topclothe shia palaee'guards and
nalabodyguards.
Severals additions aresto be made to
the alreadysIoug list offwomens clubs
in London, land among sthem win be
| the LadiespathemRum
While off the NewfOundlande blanks
the North German Lloyd liner Han
mover passedaan iceberg on'whichathere
were six large polar lbears.
Tourists sreturming from abroad can
now bring, 1hrough the custom house
free of dutyaall, articles to thevalue of
| 800 exceptscigars, ~cigarettesiand liq-
uors.
For the year 1903@there weretlisted
I on the NewsYork Stock tI1xchanges$550,-
| 100000 of bonds and, $431.0000oO of
stock. In s19O1 the lissings aggregated
! $685. 900.
Although@ the statue sof George III.
! in Pail Mall, London, was erected IN
1887, it was only Il few weeks since
that it vas .abeledswithsthe name of
its subject
The London Times commenting on
| correspondent letter On child emil
| grafton to the colonies, says in thirty
| four years $4,000 clhk1renN have been
| sent to Canada.
Doors made entirely Of paper are
used in some Of the moderna dwellings
( in French cities They are finished to
resemble any kind Of wood, and there
is no warpiIEs. shrinking or cracking.
Wages in the United States on the
I average are more than twice those in
/ Belgium. three times those of Den
I mark, France, Germany, Italy and
/ Spain ard one and a. half those in Eng
land and, Scotland.
/ Wages in Russian factories are :
cents an hour and upward. There are
/ thousands who work for cent an
! hour and tens ofsthousa3ldstwho do not
receive 40 cents@a day for stem, eleven
I and more hours work.
Cash registers are all but universal
/ in stores in Glasgow. MoieTn office
furniture andt office appliances are SUI
perseding the older styles Even oil
\ cial correspondence is beginning to
7 yield to the odnnipresentttypcw
4 The Saxocl government now that il
( has been for nj necessary to discon-
tinue the FREE berg mineral mines with
= in the next h,n years, Intends to open
/ up Immediately browI9 coal mines mean
4 Leisnls which in 1904. it is estimated
+ will have am output of 10000 metric
/ tons.
{ AS the result of proceedings taken
4 by K. MofTat Ford well known au
( tomobilist and manufacturer foul
drivers of esactric street ears on ,hC
. outskirts Of London were fined $0.7.
4 each, with court costs, for exceeding
Z their legal islsecd limit of teuAmies N
hour
The FrankfurtN Germany city coun
4 Gil has just received permission tC
make $642G.O00 bond issue TIL,
! rate Of iutEreSt Willsbe between 3 and q
! per cent This monRy will be spent il
making municipal Improvements. .
/ large part of which will be expended
upon public buildings
! The grlve'of the German poet'IIeine
B i'll the Mont1nartre cemetery Paris, il
I said TO DE visitedyby more persons THAI
/ Zola'S which is quite near it. 1t !!
I customary Tor visitors To lcavc' thei
cards. OF s295scards foElnds on Heinei
grave thirty veln left by English anC
American visitors and over go by,Ger
mans and ATlstrians.
All She region of thealppcr Amazon
and IT'S tributaries offers, magnificent fl
I eiitics for cattle rancIing When tn,
higher lanes areMeachcd there are vas
| stretch es of praIies, orf Nsavannas, a
| they tre called. with a climate Xix
/ spring alnahe yea5. whore cattle enough
| to supply "a continent cane be raised
4 practically without expense.
4 Rupert estimates of the probabl
manufacture o:} sutom 1bilesln seyera
states OF the Q7nion in 1904 give IN
prmciI aiSpIacclto Michigan 7with Obi
second Even AIassac balsetzst and Wis
consin fsurpass; New York in the list
while Illinois sInaslesa ans cXtre1uely;poo
showing DCaroS5 a1ld Cleveland ar
the NsoICitiess u5hell suvpaSs all either
in tbs republic tas scentcrs, the prt
ductioU Of tlse sclC' motors II seem
odd thsts New York g&ntb Cb&a@o,shoul
lag behindf them soGdar
TheiS1 Goookls ed bye.he.eecratar
of tle navy Tor s-un Irgs1tiot dGrin
the yos- .sceT1s tno-n o,gstEIt}t o0c cor
sidcrs tin, ctSt ~ Ij'sAZt @hc hiG guI