The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-12-02
EsACssIs IIT1 E>lsNse INES.

4 The Swiss republic is about to$erect
a monument In honor of the worlds
Il postal union.
Frances last potato crop was over
4 $50, 100000 bushels, valued at about
4 % cents q bushel. /.
4 It costs New York Eve times as mucl,
i as it does London to maintain parks
4 and recreation grounds,
4 The bureau of statistics reports that
EzAmerican trade with Porto Rico has In
creased 6vefold since annexation
The American Ira ct society has is
! sued an appeal for funds to distribute
\ tracts at the st. Louis exposition.
Scottish red deer have permanently
i established themselves in several parts
of the south island of New Zealand. G
Last years iron production in Ger
many was the largest on record, the
enormous total of l0,oS5,63 tons being
placed on the market
Malta is the most thickly populated
island in the world. It has 1,3G0. peo-
pie to the square mile Barbados has
| 1854 people to the square mile
"A Texas jury sentenced negro to
1000 years in prison for an attempted
assault He can have 200 years taken
of for good behavior, however.
" T ~
their flax from Russia- The failure of.
the last crop in that country has led.
to an advance of 25per cent in prices 4
Germany and England get most of.
their flax from Russia The failure
of the last crop in that country has led
ito an advance of p per cent in prices
Within Il few miles of Dublin, occa-'
plying 4 mill which had fallen into de-
cay, an enterprising man has hitui5ofl
q profitable plan of turning peat int
brown paper.
There are $4,000 F1ench in Grca.
Britain and ireland, more than three
lfourths of the number being in Lon
don. The business mostSollowed among
these is cookery.
DR. William Foster of~the department.
sof chemistry at Princeton university
has discovered u new acid, hereafter to
3 be labeled with the Interesting name
risulphoNyarsenic acid
The tobacco crop in the state Of Ha-
hia is regarded as ruined. According
to reports from Rio Grande business
house, even the small amount Of to-
bacco saved will be of bad quality
Oscar Tiffany of East Harls;11d
Conn., has given Maurice B. Tiffany 4
watch more than hundred years ola
Ll4S 4GLSt
father. Eli Tiffany uncle of the. giver,
Oscar Tiffany
Mayor John e. gAndlrns. the recently
elected chief magistrate of Yonkers.
N. Y, presides over the :youngesttbodS#
of. aldermen in the country. Thesay-er-
age is less than tNventy-eight,.t the
youngest being Just stwenty-one and
the oldest Z tritie over forty.
The fish caught on the Siberian, COAST
formerly went to Japan as a fertilizer.
The catch in 1902 asa fertilizer WOULD |
have bpaught but $5150oo. tb11t: by salt
ing and curing the sa11le fish and sell
ing them at the lowest f1rice itlaeJ-j
brought Ehree times as much.
Joseph Drohart. who lives west of
Bennington village yt-f.found a four
pound canon ban recently while $ex-
cavating: a. cellar Under his barn. 1t
was much corroded- but lit was easily
seen what 1T was. He also found sew
eral silver, coins at the same time.
According. to the Moniteur ;Ninicoiel i
Germany holds the eighth place an the
list of wine producing nations. 1T is
claimed, however. By wine ,connoIs- /.
seurs that German wines as ifm as <,
1avor and Bouquet are concerned are
surpassed only by those of France
According. To Professor Berwerth. of IL
Jienna, the naImber OF meteorites "a c.
ually falling on the earth each year.
lot including OF course shooting stars j
It metsors. is about 900. Two scr three =
f these bodies 6all. then somewhere
n the earth every twenty four hours J
Australia and New Zealand .are lbe-I
oming great buyers of California j
ranges and lemons. These colonies
onsumed about 9,ooO boxes of demons
lst year, and the deRand for the navel +
ranges is Increasing. They also took &C
5000 boxes OF apples and 5000 !hoses {
onions. n
An Ithaca grover who is in the halnt Il
feeding the >sparrows in front of his
lace of business threw tout whole "a q
at OF bread the other nsarnins. but a ~
IAN who was driving By saw the ioaf - -
I'D took it away from the birds, with
lie remark. Its good enough to take - 81
ome to my mother-in.law.tt- ~
The warrant posted for TIE annuaI =.
wn meeting in Rye, n. H, was one -
the shortest on record, consisting OF -
st two articles, the first reading as =
lows. ITO choose allnecessary town =.
1cers for the ensuing year. and the - -
cond, ITO raise such slms of rsoney =
may be needed TO defray the town w w
penses." ~
years ago immigration. on