Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1905-09-28
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IL ID ealu mat l,0OO Greeks arrive at
New York each month.
This year Tasmania will export
100000 bushel cases Of apples. Most
Of them will go to England and Aus
tralia.
The exports of Australia in 1904 were
$3.50, 042, O56, an increase Of $3S, 1876, 636
" those Of 1901, the banner year pre-
viously.
Professor John C. Olsen Of the Brook.
Ign Polytechnic institute reports 4,OOO,-
600 bacteria in one sample of milk
bought in Brooklyn.
Japan has one of the largest steam
ship companies in the world, with serv-
ice to the United States and to Eng
land by way Of Suez.
The house Of the Capulets, where Jul
liet lived in Verona, has been offered
for sale and the municipality intends to
buy it and convert it into a museum.
The London Academy tells Of an old
woman who walked into a shop and
asked to buy a circulating library"
Inquiry revealed that she wanted a re-
volving bookcase.
The first bullfight in Madrid after the
repeal Of the Sunday law was wit
messed by 10000 persons, and $4,000
more waited outside the ring to get
prompt news Of the result.
So fashionable Is appendicitis in
British society circles that, says Lon
don Opinion, many women would rath-
er have it than a three-quarter length
photograph in a magazine"
An institute for the treatment of suf-
ferers from chest complaints, neural
gia, catarrh and other maladies by
means Of opium smoking has been
opened by London physicians.
The Hawaiian legislature has passed
over the governors veto a law allow
ing baseball and similar amusements
on Sunday and permitting cigar and
many other stores to remain open on
that day.
The superior board Of health Of Mex
leo informs dealers in food products,
especially milk dealers, that the use Of
personalities in food is prohibited and
punishable by the board as food adul-
teration.
A recently discovered manuscript
written by a schoolmate indicates that
Napoleon l.. knew so little Of the
French language when he vas sent to
the military school at Brienne that a
private teacher vas engaged for him.
rc,o1fnr xyyhioh ho1or~o1 70 poo-olI
was sold at Sotheby's, in London, re-
Gently for Els. 1t contained the in
scription: James Boswell, 1863. I
bought this for I'd at Greenwich, when
I was working there with Mr.. Samuel
Johnson"
The value of shells, tortoise and 9TH
ers, gathered in Cuba last year amount
ed to about $4,000 and Of sponges
100000. or the latter the United
States received about 35 per cent and
Europe the remainder, France being
the principal buyer.
Dr.. A. D. Nash Of Townshend, Vt.
has a pair Of shears which were hand
ed down from his great-grandfather.
They We're made by a blacksmith and
used in the war Of 1912 to cut the hair
Of soldiers. They are much larger and
heavier than those in use nowadays.
Captain Freeman II. Murray Of Lynn
has an old cent which he found some
years ago while digging in his garden.
1t is an Irish coin, dated 1928. On it's
face it bears the likeness Of King
George L., while on the reverse side Hi
hernia is seen with her harp and dis
taft.
Sam White Of Riverside, Cal, has a
boy born on Feb. 20, and in addition
has n who was born on Washington's
birthday, one on Inauguration day and
two on All Fools day, April /; one on
Thanksgiving day and one on Feb. 2,
ground hog day; also three more boys
born On other dates.
Golf is greatly INDUCED in by the
naval officers and European residents
in China. In consequence the Chinese
boys have grasped some idea Of the
game, and they are frequently seen
amusing themselves with an old stick
converted into a club and a real golf
ball which some golfer has lost.
A hotel which cost the builder $13,-
600 six years ago at Kettle Falls,
Wash, has been sold for 5000, and 4
number of town lots We're sold at from
5 cents to sos each. The sale was
made by the county commissioners on
foreclosure for delinquent taxes and
marked the end Of a boom town.
Thomaston. Me-, is probably IL Of
the towns that will not be asking for
a new depot. The n there is the old
General Knox mansion. 112 years old.
and is the only building left Of the
once great Knox estate. For that rea-
SOL it is Il memorial that the town will
probably be glad to have preserved.
The most voluminous report ever
fled with the United States supreme
court is that Of Frank S.. Bright. COM
missioner appointed to take testimony
in the suit instituted by Missouri to
enjoin Illinois from emptying the Chi
cago drainage canal into the MISSISSIPPI
pi river. The report contains 4.4SO. 900