Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1904-01-14
Brief kilograms

There are about 100000 Catholics
In the United States.
The pension issue last year was
the largest in ten years.
In Finland reindeer are worth only
$3.50 head. One of these animals
recently covered 1870 miles in n day.
Prussian railway cars have only
about three-tenths the carrying ca
pacity of those used in the United
States.
Senator Russell A. Ager has been
sued for 90 for failure to cut the
weeds on property owned by him in
Kansas City.
In the United Kingdom last year
S5,500,000 pounds of tobacco passed
through the custom house for home
consumption.
There are 20. lead pencil factories
IN Germany, which employ 2,S13 per-
sons, and export each year 1,614 tons.
of pencils, worth $2,OO0,O0O
Lincolnshire has the biggest English
farm. Over 1000 acres are under
plough. The second larDest is near
Coldstream, in Northumberland.
The borough of Fulham London, by
the use of its garbage in the furnace.
of the municipal electric lighting
plant, makes profit of 83,442 year.
Professor Koch, Of Heidelberg Is,
the only instructor OF any university,
In Germany who lectures on journal
ism. He has for several years lee
tured there on this subject
A large amount Of hay is being
purchased in Nevada for immediate
shipment to San Francisco. 1t is
stated that the hay is being purchas-
ed for the Russian government.
The Oldest ship in the world, the
mail schooner Vigiant. running into
st. Croix, F. w. l., although now UNI
der the French flag, was built of
Essex oak at Essex Mass, in 1902.
Owing to the demand of the gov
eminent for guarantee deposit upon
its legal reserve funds the Equitable
Life Insurance society of New York
has announced its withdrawal from
Japan.
Italy Is soon to celebrate at Asst
and Florence the centenary Of a great
tragic poet, Alfieri He is buried at
Florence. Alfieri narrowly escaped
being guillotined in Paris during the
revolution.
IInn - -
Mount Holyoke college and who holds
masters degree from Oberlin, Ohio,
has been elected assistant pastor of
the Congregational church in Fond
du Lac, Wis.
Mrs. William e. Chisholm, a widow
of College Point, l.. l.. has set aside
a plot on her estate for the burial of
her dogs. Mrs. Chisholms son-in-law
is step-brother of the present Duke
og Marlborough.
The New York Daily News, which
about a year ago abandoned the after
moon newspaper field and became a
morning publication has discontinued
Its publication as morning news
paper, and will appear as an after
noon paper.
Miss Valentine Smith, q society wo-
man Of Chicago, has written an in
teresting ode on the centennial cele-
bration in that city. She has been a
writer of poetry since n child, and
James Whitcomb Riley is one of her
warmest admirers.
Several Chinese cities have erected
temples in honor of Lii Hung Chang.
His tomb also has the form of tenn
pie. Two of its, inscriptions are:
'All countries in the world mourn
him." and He changed heaven and
revolutioniZed the earth"
Secretary Wilson, the farmer men,
her of the Roosevelt cabinet. is go.
ing south to make a personal investi-
cation of the cotton crop for the pres
ent year, There have been so many
conflicting reports on the subject
from official and unofficial sources
that the secretary has concluded he
may be able to learn more by personal
observation.
MI bNduliIS, Nullcu States minister
to Colombia, has transmitted to the
state department a copy of law en-
acted by the Colombian congress,
providing for the isolation of lepers
in each department of the republic.
Zone of the gravcst questions CON
fronting Colombia these days" says
Mr.. Beaupre, 'is the terrible one of
leprosy. This awful disease has in.
vaded the country to an alarming ex.
tent and extraordinary measures
have become necessary to check its
progress"
The state departments answer TO
General Reyes formal note, setting
forth Colombia's alleged grievances,
has been prepared at the department
according TO Secretary Hays instruc-
ton, and the draft memorandum is
in Mr.. Hays hands for final consid-
Grafton and revision.
Count Max lie Coeppey de la For.
est, secretary of the board of health