The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1904-04-02

There are now 51.5as divorced
people in the United States, ofwhom
over two-thirds are women.
THE United States pays more
money for the transportation of
mails than all other countries com
bined.
If Alaska could be lifted and super.
imposed ON the eastern part of the
United States, it would cover up %
states.
The United States has $4,000 |
postofhces, Germany is next with
1868 and Great Britain third with
%, 400
EXPERIMENTS to prove that per-
son can live on 16 cents a day seem
wholly superfluous, as nobody wish
es to live ON that amount.
An editor commenting on ladies
raising their skirts when upon the
streets says this; Ladies in this
town raise their skirts while walk
ing and it's all right as far as we
can see
According to Dun's Index the value
of articles used by an average person
in the United States during the last
year, if bought at wholesale, was
$9S.S3. The year before it was
$1O1.9
With poultry and egg prices stead
lily advancing, and the meat trust
still doing business at the old stand,
it looks as if the breakfast food
gobble-ins would get us yet if we
don't watch out.
Authorities on forestry say that
seventy-hve years are required for
the oak to reach maturity, and about
the same length of time for the ash,
larch, and ELM for the spruce and fir,
about eighty years.
Parents living in French and Ger
man Switzerland swap children in or
der that they may pick up the two
languages and now there is an ex-
change agency, by which a Swiss
child can be placed in Italy, SO that
three languages can be learned with
out expense.
In France, when a funeral passes,
every man raises his hat to salute it.
The deceased person may have been
a child, a pauper, a beggar; it is no
matter, the cortege is salute1 by ev-
cry man, whether he be prince, mil
lionaire or mendicant. 1t is a good
and lovel Y custom.
"All things come to him who
waits, is old and generally true
maxim, but there is such thing as
waiting too long. Those who wish
to get in on the ground floor in this
great mineral field should take heed
that they do not indulge that great
thief of misrepresentation.
Books in the old testament, 80;
chapters, 929; verses, %, pa; words,
SOP, 253; letters, 2,728,1000. Books
in the new testament, 81; chapters,
260; verses, 1853; words, 1S1, 253;
letters, 93S,3S0. Total books in old
and new testaments, &C; chapters,
1889; verses, 81, 173; words, 49,
692; letters, 1866, 48O.
A Missouri police judge recently
asked a prisoner if he was intoxicat-
ed when arrested, The prisoner re-
piled, "No, your honor, l was dead
drunk" This recalls the case of the
officer who asked a sergeant if his
prisoner used profane language. The
reply was, 81 couldn't say as to that,
sir, but he swore most awful"
A well-to-do gentleman farmer re-
Gently wrote the editor of his home
paper giving him PERMISSION, for the
benefit of his readers, to say in his
paper that the aforesaid gentleman
farmer has three very fine cows for
sale. With the copy he sent "kind |
regards" Now if the editor could |
pay any Of his printers with kind re-
CARDS, what a lovely place this world |
would be to live I'M
Secretary Wilson says that at is
the farmers who have paid the for
eign bondholders, and to make
good the claims he says that during
the last fourteen years the balance
of trade in favor of the farm pro-
ducts of the United States was ST.
SOC, 10000 and that the balance
of trade in other products during
the same period was against the
United States to the amount of
1865, 900, 900, leaving a net balance
of trade in our favor of SO, 941 ,0O0,-