The Redwood gazette., 1905-03-08

believed to be coal mining nearly un-
der it.
The Chinese government is to receive
f3O0 thousand for all the Chinese
coolies shipped to the South African
mines.
The druggists of Rome have formed
corporation to bring suit against
Baedeker for saying that their shops
are unreliable and expensive.
The sardine famine which has exist
ed on the coast of Brittany for several
years promises to be relieved this fall.
| as the catches are now running heavy.
Two hundred school children at Chi
cago struck because the principal of
the school was removed. Their moth
ers also struck-with slippers and the
children are now In school.
In London the unusual heat of last
summer gave further vogue to the
straw hat and made silk hats so un-
popular that the factories dismissed
many of their workmen
The London Tailor and Cutter gives
| this valuable advice: For cricket,
| boating, tennis and football jewelry
must be eschewed, but for motoring,
tshlng and golf it is Indispensable.
Between the two oceans we raise one
fifth of the worlds wheat, four-fifths
OF its corn, one-fourth of it's oats and
four-hfths of its cotton This harvest
is the foundation of our prosperity.
The nracfiao of ailiyap tho roaJ, 49,,
been introduced in India, at Bombay.
1t is found that if the oil is allowed
to soak in slowly no obnoxious mud is
produced, and the result is a success
The Agricultural bank of Sofia has
decided to buy 5000 iron plows, 200
grain sorting machines and 500 har-
rows, to be distributed among its pa
irons to increase the revenues of the
farmers.
1t is reported from Tokyo that the
Russian prisoners of war of Jewish
and Polish origin now held in Japan
have expressed to the officers in charge
or them their desire to become natural
| lied japanese after the war.
A violin player witnessed lively
| street fight at Paris not long ago and
began to play in order to soothe the
| TWO combatantS. 1t had the opposite
effect, however, for one of the fighters
! drew knife and stabbed the yiolinist.
All the five planetary satellites dis
| covered since 1846 have been found by
Americans. They include Hyperion,
| the seventh satellite of Saturn; Die
mos and Phoebus, the little moons of
Mars, and Phoebe, the ninth moon of
| Saturn.
A mail bag captured by the Beers in
1899 has just been recovered 1t con-
talned forty-seven registered letters, in
which were about $3.50 in cash, num-
Der of postal orders, a draft for $1,000,
documents involving sum of $25, 900,
checks, official papers and two wills.
Every one nowadays, owing to the
| disclosures of scientific investigation,
believes that sugar plays a more i'm
portant part in the dietary than mere
! condfment. 1t is food and when used
| Judiciously in combination with other
foods adds markedly to the value Of a
| ration.
Ireland is making bold bid for
leading position in the British fruit
markets. Orchard cultivation is being
! encouraged by the authorities and ar
rangements are being actively prose
cuted for the drying and packing of
| fruit, in American fashion," for ex-
! portation. The Irish fruit is among the
| finest in the world
A Danish electrician named Paulsen
is credited with having successfully
| attempted a curious feat 1t is said
that he has been able to operate the
keyboard of a typewriter at a distance
without any visible connection between
it and the instrument at hand. 1t is
added that he has also discovered a
new kind of electric wave" whose
existence has been suspected, but
which has never until now been re-
yealed.
An English writer has been devoting
his attention to the elimination of un-
necessary things and has succeeded in
| presenting tentative list of articles
| which mankind does not need. He
holds, to begin with, that the resident
of city does not require a watch. He
goes so far as to say that an umbrella
is not indispensable. Then he points
to superfuous buttons on wearing ap-
parel, such as those on the back and
on the sleeves of frock coats
The total production of gold from
the mines Of the world for 40 years,
or since there have been any record of
the same kept, is officially given at
$40, 500, ,236,302 The total production
of gold from the mines of the United
States since its discovery is given at
2,539, ,503, 40. OF this the eastern and
southern states produced $50, 49,, ,64S,
leaving $2,507, ,O1O, ,492 as the amount of
gold produced by the mountainous
country west of the meridian of Den
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