Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1905-07-26
FACTS IN FEW LINES

India holds about 10 per cent of the
entire population of the world.
Toothbrushes and tooth powder are
to be supplied tc all the inmates of the
Austrian prisons.
A movement is spreading through
Wales for the recognition of st. Da-
vid's day as a public holiday.
An Englishwoman few years ago
invented a button hook for gloves
which is now worth 5000 year to
her.
BY a judgment of the supreme court
of Pretoria the old Boer law forbidding
natives IN the Trapsvaal to acquire
land has been annullCd.
The Swiss police ans being trained in
the London model The chief, who re-
Gently visited England, was much i'm
pressed by police methods there.
The kaiser is getting worried about
the color of the German uniform again.
He is now trying to see whether blue
or black would not be better than the
light gray.
The students of Stanford university
will buy a magnificent bronze vase,
which will be placed on the marble
steps of the Stanford mausoleum, and
every day, year In and year out, kept
full of fresh flowers.
Railroads In Africa are approaching
the heart OF the continent from the
Kongo on the west, from Cairo "r the
north, from Cape Town and Lor MO
Marques on the south and into Ugan-
da and Abyssinia on the east.
In the old churchyard at :Kilkeel,
Ireland, is a tombstone with the fol-
lowing inscription: Here lie the re-
mains of Thomas Nicholas. who died
in Philadelphia In March, 1853. II,
he lived he would have been buried
here"
A Stanford university faculty colony
Is to be started at Carmelby the-Sea,
southern California. Among1those who
will build summer homes there are
President Jordan, Professors Gilbert.
StiIIman, Fish. Pierce, Merino, aElnore
and Cannon and Mrs. W. A. KinEba Il.
Mrs. Lucy Seymour Of Great Bar
rington, Mass, has hen which lays
eggs with a rough shell. The letters M
and w are plainly noticeable Oh each
egg Every time this remarkable hen
lays an egg it pecl.s on the windowlun-
til Mrs. Seymour goes out and getssfhe
egg
The house marking the official center
of population of,the Unitedi States, near
Columbu Ind, owned andtoccupied by
Henry Mari, was unroofedE by recent
windstorm. This house has marked the
center of population since the last eel
sus and has been an'obJect,of great in
terest.
Henry X. Bradbury Of Hollis, Me.
who recently, died after. practicing law
for over halffa century, is said to have
had the distinction of being graduated
from Bow1om collegetat younger age
than any other of itssaldmni. He en-
tered,colege at 'thirteeI4 years and was
graduated at seventeenth the famous
class, of IA.
An uncoJmtedk treasury bill for t1OO
datedI1745,, wasepresertedIto the Bank
of England thes other day. 1t Is genu
inc. and it.iss believed that 1t was ISSUED
at per cert compound interest. Thai
makes its.present value $4,000. The
treasury has not yet paid 1t, but the
general ,opinion.seems'to be that 1t viii
have to+do so.
When the Itahanscruiser Umbria en-
tered the .harbor oftSan Jose de Guata'
mala the other daya she fired salute
A burning wad from one of her guns
dropped on the rooftof thetgovernment
building and set fire to it. The crew
was ordered ashore andl assisted in q
hard fight, which resulted in saving
most of the buildings.
China has recently ISSUED an edici
prohibiting, except in'the treaty ports
the sale of metal trimmed spectacles
Tan shoes are also tabooed, and any
one dealing in themtrenders himself Ii
:able to decapitation This latter dras
tic regulation is due ito the feet that
! yellow is there the imperial color, to be
worn by none save members of the
At the Austrian court articles are
never permitted to appear a second
time at the royal table, but become the
perQuisites of the servants. The un
scorked bottles of probably the choicest
of wines go to,one, the joints to anoth
.er, the liquors left in the glasses t
another, and so on, sale of the dam
ties being held in the lower regions oil
the palace every morning.
The gold production of Australasia
In 1904 was A, 194, 1922 fine ounces, val
ued at SS61eo.000, against 4,296,23
fine OUNCES, of a value of $SS. SIT 800
In 1903. There is thus a decrease Of
I01, 415iffne ounces in quantity and 81,
0eL 5ootin value in 1904. The falling
of hast been principally in Western
Australia, where a decrease Of S1,51,
ounces occurred, and In Queensland
/, where's the,decrease was 43,029 ounces
Japan has named her big battleship'
after sgreat i mountains and the small
war vessels, from some well known
natural features of the country. /
NAV also be mentioned that at TIL enc
4 of the nanesof every japanese ship Il
either thes termination kan" or INA
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