Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1904-01-01
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New York city consumes 100000
barrels of potatoes u year.
Bulgaria corresponds in area to
Oklahoma. and in population to Mis-
souri,.
Chewing gum is regularly supplied
to inmates of insane asylums by the
Minneapolis State Board of Control.
The United States bought from
Hawaii in the fiscal year more than
S2G,000,Oo0 worth. and sold in that ter
rtory less than S11 100000.
One of the most popular actors in
Vienna is Ludwig Martinelli, who has
been on the stage fortyfve years. He
Is still active in his profession.
over 100000 pieces of mail mat
| ter. covering $4S643 in money and ST.
1913, 900 checks and drafts, reached the
dead letter office during the year.
William Macabee. who entered the
United States navy in 1917 on the
/ frigate Constitution, celebrated his
one-hundredth birthday recently
Our imports from Turkey are about
/ S10,000,0o0, of which one half comes
from Turkey in Asia. Our exports to
Turkish territory are less than $780,
600
Miss Ethel Bailey, of Crystal
Springs. Miss, sister of Senator
Bailey. of Texas, has entered Missis-
sippi politics as a candidate for State
Librarian.
The number of insane in California
in 1860 was 1 TO 1000, and In 1870 l
to 800. At present the registered in
sane number to $50 of the general
population.
The Rev. Father McKeever, rector
of the st. Rose of Lima church, of
Newark, N. j., announces that he will
offer gold medals as reward for fire
men who save lives.
In London 100000 are plugged to-
gether three in room, while three
quarters of a million have half a
room each, 354 900 belong to the very
Il ptOi Jop,bNO 10 Tile poor.
Miss Laura Drake Gill, dean of
Barnard College, has been appointed
adviser to women graduate students of
Columbia University, an office created
by the Columbia trustees about year
ago.
Few men go to church more regu-
larry than J. Pierpont Morgan, who is
very fond of religious exercises When
at home, according to report, he in
variably passes his Sunday evenings
in singing hymns.
A New Jersey man sued a street
railroad company the other day be-
cause conductor forbade his smoking
on the rear platform of a car. The
judge sustained the man and gave him
verdict of cents
The shipments of iron ore last year
from the Mesaba range, in the Lake
Superior region, about eighty miles
from Duluth, were over 13,000,0O0
tons, or 33 per cent. of the total pro-
duction of the United States.
If all the dressmakers known to
exist in America worked twenty four
hours of each day for a whole year,
without stopping for sleep or meals.
they would still be able to make only
one dress apiece for less than seven
eighths of the women of America.
The greater number of the clergy of
the Church Of England have not
enough to eat and drink, hundreds of
them are clothed in secondhand gar
ments sent to charitable society, and
many of them have no fuel by means
of which to keep themselves warm.
Grants by the British and Foreign
Bible Society to DR. Morrison and his
assistants for producing the first Chin
csc Bible totaled $4,000, while to DR..
William Carey and his associates in
the various Serampore versions the
grants of money and material exceed
ed $25, 900.
According to statistics recently gath
cred about 10000, 900 people are living
in prohibition territory in this country.
This Is more than one-third of the en-
tire population. In Maine. Kansas and
North Dakota they have prohibition
by State law, and in thirty-eight other
States they have 1t by local option.
The Weather Bureau collects its in
formation by telegraph, and for Il
short time twice a day the whole teIe-
graphic system of all the country is
at its service, to the exclusion of all
other business whatsoever. The tele-
grams are sent in cipher, to secure
their correct, careful transmission and
to lesson tolls.
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