The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-06-22

The latest London quotation of ra-
dunn was $4,000 an ounce.
Every million dollars spent in irri-
eating the arid lands of the west,
preparing them for fruitful fields and
countless homes, is better than six
millions spent in a batt1eship.
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1t IS pleasure to read that the
number of fraudulent firms doing
business has been greatly reduced by
the vigilance of the postal depart
ment. The work against lotteries
has been especially effective
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The vicar of Aberystwith, Wales,
addressing his congregation recent
ly, said it was beyond his compre-
hensior how people could offer the
Lord a six-cent piece with a hand
clothed in glove that cost one dol
lar, which is a good price for a glove
in England.
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The council of Laporte lately sold
$4,000 worth of percent funding
bonds to E. c. Campbell & Co. of
indianapolis at a premium of $3.50.
The. bonds were issued by the council
to provide means with which to pay
outstanding indebtedness.
Rumor has it that Justice John NJ.
Harlan, of the United States SUI
preme court, intends to make the
race for governor of Kentucky. It
hardly seems probable says the South
Bend Times, that a man of his years
would feel inclined to change a lite
position on the bench for the uncer-
tainties of a political office
$3.50
John Kendrick Bangs once ran
across gift copy of one of his books
in a second hand shop, still having
this inscription on the hyleaf: "To
his friend, &C, with the regards
ard esteem of J. K. Bangs, July, 1899
Mr. Bangs bought the copy and sent
it to his friend again with a second
Inscription beneath: This book,
bought in a second hand bookshop,
is presented toJ-G- with renewed
and reiterated regards and esteem by
]. K. Bangs, December, 1892"
Calvin Nj. Titus, who as volunteer
soldier, was the first to climb the
wall at Pekin, China, during the Box
er troubles; Sherman Miles, son OF
Lieut.-Gen. Miles, and William E.
Merritt, son of Maj.-Gen. Wesley
Merritt were among the graduates
from the United States Military
Academy at West Point this week.
Clarence B. Riley of Indiana stood
fourth in order of his class standing.
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The smallest and most isolated of
American possessions is Brooks Is
land the Pacific Ocean, $500 miles |
west OF San Francisco. 1t was dis
covered and claimed in 1889 but fiev- |
er Occupied until 1903, when it was uti-
lied as a station with ten operators
for the trans-Pacifc cable 1t is about
two miles across, 40 feet above the
tide, and rocky reef keeps the waves
from submerging it during great
storms.
The state board of health is pre-
pairing TO begin crusade July l
against impure and adulterated foods
sold in Indiana H. E. Barnhart,
state chemist for New Hampshire,
has been appointed chemist for the
new laboratory of hygiene, which is
to be installed at once. The legis-
lature during the recent session made
an appropriation for the labratory
and its maintenance 1t will be estab-
iished in the basement of the state
house. Secretary Hurry, of the
health board, is confident the labra-
tory will not only result. in the sale
of purer foods, but will result in saw
ing to the people of the state
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Everybody comedies that one cause
of the Japanese victory is the marks
manship of the Japanese gunners.
This craftsmanship came from prac-
tice, hut practice costs money, and We
suppose that while this practice was
going on there were malcontents who
were holwing about the extravaganza
of the government in permitting such
use of ammunition So it is here at
any rate, though there is much less OF
this foolish complaint than there was
previous to the Spanish war, in which
the value of good gunnery was SO
effectually demonstrated
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Governor Hanly's Interpretation OF
the written law on the pass question
and his conception of the public Off
GERS duty will command the approval
o. the great majority of the people
OF the state. There is many man
in Office who accepts pass bee suse
it has become the vogue and not be-
eause he feels that it will influence