Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-01-14
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Canada produced over $4,OOO,O0
worth Of pig iron last year
! A silver dollar, 1898. small eagle,
is worth 81; large eagle,$1,5O
Count Leo Tolstoy has written a
treatise OH Shakespeare, whose works
he criticises adversely.
Lord Cromer the real ruler Of Egypt
has recently issued a volume of trans
latiOns from Greek verse.
The library of the late Prof. VirchOw,
some 1000 volumes, has been present
ed by his widow to the Berlin Medical
Society.
Lieutenant Gov srhor Guild, of Massa-
chusetts. has added full set of Fill
ipino daggers of quaint design to his
collection of weapons.
The Rev J. NJ. Haughey of Mason
City, ILL.,. during the years of his min
istry has Joined 2,S12 people in mar
riage. His age is seventy.
The Bonaparte Hotel. at st. Louis.
will be the largest hotel In the United
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taneOus with that of the big exposition.
The silver statue of Ada Rehan,
shown at the Columbian exposition,
which has lain in the basement of a
Topeka (Kas.) dry goods store for a
long time, is to be melted into bullion.
The two or three years gain Of the
German and Spanish schools over ours
Is due to the metric system and pho
netic spelling, by which the greater
part of compound numbers and spell
Cren, Is made unnecessary.
1t has been calculated that the en-
ergy stored up in fifteen grains of ra-
dium Is sufficient to raise 800 tons
weight mile high. An ounce would,
therefore. suffice to drive tifty-horse-
power motor car at the rate Of thirty
miles all hour around the world.
In 1880 the Southern States had 667, ;
900 spindles and capital Of $21 .OOO,-
900 In cotton manufacturing At the
present time the South has, in round
figures, a total Of about S,OOO,OOO spin
dies, representing an investment OF be-
tween 75,OOO,OOO and 100000
The American Monte Carlo is in the
principally of Flagler. at Palm Beach,
Fla. The cOncessiOnaries, owning the
Casino. are two brothers of the name
of Thompson. They come from Texas.
and their little gaming establishment
at Palm Beach is worth to them $780,
600 a season.
The largest human brain Of 800
measured was that of woman, 115
cubic inches; the smallest adult males,
~ cubic inches. There Is mentioned
the skull of one Of the Inca Peruvian
race which is but 90 cubic inches. The
Caucasian skull is larger than that Of
any other race.
Commodore Perry's flagship, the
Niagara, to which he rOwed in the
battle of Lake Erie from the sinking
Lawrence and from the deck of which
at the bottom of Presque Isle bay. and
Representative Bates. of Pennsylvania,
proposes to have the hulk raised.
Government maps made in 1887. 1898
and 1899 by Gen Robert T.. Lee, then a
captain of the United States engineers
were shown during the trial of eject
ment brought by the ST. Louis Board
Of Education, in the Circuit Court, at
St. Louis. to determine ownership
rights to land lying along the Missis-
sippi river.
For some reason immigration to the
PHILIPPINES Is falling Off, In this partic
ular furnishing sharp contrast to the
record here During the past
year the number Of arrivals in the is
lands showed decline of more than
5000. In nationality this decrease is
noticed principally among the Ameri-
cans.
BY far the most wonderful wedding
presents ever given to an American
bride were those presented Miss May
GOelet on the occasion Of her marriag &c
to the Duke of Roxburghe The gifts,
which are now at the GOelet house,
carefully guarded, represent wonder
ful fortune. If they were all converted
into cash. the figure would reach into
the millions.
Stated in figures. the average Of
books produced to every million inhab-
itants is as follows: German Empire.
354: France. 344; Switzerland. $685.
Belgium. 337; Italy, 300; Sweden. 300;
Norway. 262: Great Britain. l75; Rus
sin q. I-Ditad States N. Spain Ef
On the other hand. an average Of
periodicals to a million of inhabitants
the United is far ahead. having 80,
and Switzerland coming next with
800.
Sailors Fond OF Candy.