Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-20
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New York has German population
Of 100000 and Chicago has 100000.
The twenty-five largest London the
aters seat 2s,600 people and earn $780,
600 a night.
England gets about 5000, 900 worth
of new gold from Africa every month
and $7,5OO,OO0 worth out Of Australia.
Miss Vida Goldstein. the woman
candidate in Victoria for a seat in the
Commonwealth Senate. was not elect
ed. but she received $1,000 votes.
The annual loss from the burning Of
buildings in the United States IL about
$135 OOO.O 900, not including cost Of In
surance and the appliances for fire pro-
lection.
A bore put down at Cessnock. near
Maitland, in New South Wales, recent
ly penetrated, at depth Of 200 feet, a
seam of coal twenty-seven feet in
thickness.
In a divinity essay written by an
English schoolboy appeared the follow
ing passage: 80 he sed unto Moses.
Come forth; but he come fifth and lost
the jobb. Moral, Git up urly."
Mr.. Chamberlain is said to be re-
markably proficient political stage
manager. approaching and knowing
the value of dramatic entrance quite
as we'll as Sir Henry Irving or Mr..
Beerbohm Tree.
1t is stated that over 100000 tons
of dust elected from the Soufriere vol
cano in st. Vincent have fallen on the
island Of Barbados. The dust, contrary
to expectation, has been found to have
no fertilizing value.
Public revenue Of Great Britain
from April 1, 1908, to the latest date
at hand amounted to 1921, S49. 765. a de-
crease Of $4,000, 795 from last year.
Expenditures were $780,, TBS, 225. fall
ing Off of $191, 714,365 from last year.
The value of exports to the United
States from Panama in the fiscal year
1903 amounted to $193,342, Of which
$56,767 was the value Of hides, $49,-
974 India rubber, $27,sO5 cocobolo nuts,
$16,59S ivory nuts, $13,372 deer skins
and $8,908 coffee.
Photographic records Of Emperor
Williams voice, on metal matrices,
will be the first deposits made in the
phonetic archives that are to be kept
at Harvard University, and in the Con-
gressional Library and the National
Museum at Washington.
The Russian government has elabor-
ated statutes on general life insurance
by the state. The business L. to be
intrusted to the governmental savings
banks. All kinds of policies will be
issued and the insured will participate
in the profits Of the business.
Cobra George Salem, an Egyptian,
who entered the Missouri University
last fall and is taking the four-year
course in agriculture, is SO well pleased
with his work that he has succeeded in
persuadlng several of his friends in
Egypt and Turkey to come and take
similar course in some American COL
lege.
In commemoration of the Indian
princess Pocahontas, who died at
Gravesend, England, when about to
sail to Virginia with her husband In
1916. st. Georges Church, in Mapping
is to have a pulpit made of wood
brought from Virginia. Pocahontas is
buried in the chancel of st. Georges
{ Church.
= The Greco Roman chariot in the
! Metropolitan Museum Of Art. New
York, one Of the new exhibits, has ex-
cited great interest among artists and
archaeologists. Its preservation was
due to the fact that 1t was buried by
the ashes of Vesuvius. Many other
treasures were found in the same
neighborhood, some Of which Baron
Rothschild bought and presented to
the Louvre. The chariot in question is
two-wheeled and 10 perhaps the rarest
In the world.
Feb. 10 was the centennial of the
use Of steam traction on railroads. It
was only five-ton moving engine run
ming over the Merthyr Tydfil course.
Its inventor was Richard Trevithic, a
Cornishman. It could draw fifteen tons
at rate of five miles an hour. 1t had
an eight-inch cylinder and toothed
wheels, which caught in notched rails
and helped 1t over hard places in the
track. Only few trips were made by
it. for the experiment was not COM
mercially profitable.