Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-09-30


Of them will go to England and Aus
tralia.
The exports OF Australia I'm 1904 were
| $3.50. O42.05G. an increase OF S3S. 1876. $50
over those Of 1901, the banner year pre-
viously.
Professor John c. Olsen Of the Brook
| Ign Polytechnic institute reports 1000
coo bacteria In one sample Of milk
bought In Brooklyn.
japan has one Of the largest steam-
ship companies in the world. with serv-
ice 10 the United states and to Eng
land by way Of Suez.
The house Of the Capulets. where Ju-
liet lived in Verona, has been offered
for sale and the municipality intends to
buy # 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
yolying bookcase.
The FIRST bulfieht In Madrid after the
repeal of the Sunday law was wit
messed 10y 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-
or have Il "than a three-Quarter length
photograph i'm a magazine"
An Institute for the treatment Of suf-
ferers from chest complaints, neural
gia, catarvh and other maladies by
means OF opium smoking has been
opened 10y London physicians.
The Hawaiian legislature has passed
over the governors veto q law allow
ing baseball and similar amusemonts
on Sunday and permitting cigar and
many other stores TO remain open or
that day.
The superior board OF health OF Mex
leo informs dealers ln food products.
especially milk dealers. that the use of
preservatves an food IS prohibited aud
punishable by the board as food adul-
teratiou
a recently discovered manuscript
written 10y a schoolmate indicates that
Napoleon T. knew so little Of the
French language when be was sent TO
the military school at Bricnne that
private teacher was engaged Tor him.
a psalter which belonged TO Boswell
was sold at Sotheby's. ln London, re-
Gently FOR $40. IL contained the in
scripuon: james Boswell l7G3. I
bought this for 2d at Greenwich. when
7 was working there with Mr.. samuel
Johnson"
The value OF shells. tortoise and 9th
crs. gathered in Cuba last year amount
ed 20 about $4,000 and OF sponges
100000. or the latter the United
States received about 30 per cent and
Europe the remainder, France being
the principal buyer.
Or. a. y. Nash OF Townshend. Vt.
has pair Of shears which were hand
ed down from his great-grandCather.
They were made 10y a blacksmith and
used in the war OF 1912 90 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 I'm his garden.
10 Is un Irish coin. dated l123. On it's
face IL bears the likeness OF King
I George T., while on the reverse side Hi
bcrula Is seen with her harp and dis
tam
sam White OF Riverside. Cal. has a
boy born on Feb %. and IN addition
! has one who was born on Washington's
birthday. one on Inauguration day and
two ON All Fools day. April I. one ON
Thanksgiving day and one ON Feb. ..
| ground hog day; also three more boys
born ON other dates.
COLI 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 club and q real golf
BAH which some golfer has lost.
y hotel which cost the builder 3d.
| 600 six years ago NJ Kettle Fails,
! wash. has been sold for $500. and a
I number Of town lots were sold at from
cents to SO each. The sale was
made by the county commissioners on
foreclosure for delinquent taxes and
marked the end Of a boom town
Thomaston, Ne, Is probably one OF
the towns that will not be asking FOR
! a new depot. The one there Is the old
| General Knox mansion, 10 years old
and is the only building left of the
once great Knox estate. For that rea.
son It is a memorial that the town viii
probably be GID TO have preserved.
The most vOlu-linous veport ever
fled with the United States supreme
court is that Of Frank $. Bright. com
missioner appointed TO take testimony
in the suit instituted by Missouri &
enjOin Illinois from emptying the Chi
cago drainage canal into the Mississip
pi river. The report contains 4.4S00oC
words and covers 1915 pages
London viii soon put on its street,
motor street cleaning machine tina
will do the work OF 500 men. IL oper
ates rakes FOR caked mud, "squeegees'
for wet weather, a revolving brush an,
a set OF overlapping scrapers TO com
1 plete the cleaning operation. All tn