Charlevoix county herald., 1905-08-05

Petersburg.
Americans drank 1,40i. 191. 800 gal
Ions OF beer last year
Japan has very few millonaires and
practically no multimilllonaires.
London's new county hall, on tll
banks OF the Thames, will cover i've
and six-tenths acres.
The London Times says that the
Russian government is ordering moth
ing in England or America that can be
obtained elsewhere. ~
The cake used at a Portland (Me.)
wedding was baked for a relative OF
the bridegroom on the OCCASION of his
marriage forty years ago.
A concrete chimney that has been
completed recently for Tacoma
smelter is 307 feet in height and is said
to be the highest in the world OF its
kind.
The most costly picture frame in the
world is said to be that which mcloses
the Virgin and Child" in the Milan
cathedral 1t is made Of hammered
gold and IS worth $4,000.
Recent travellers in Tibet have no
ticed that, while effect, OF the rarefed
air are severely felt at attitudes of be-
tween 14,0C0 and 10000 feet. on going
yet higher all disagreeable sensations
pass Off.
Excitement has been created at
Mombasa. east Africa, by the discov-
cry of the west African rubber tree
Quntumia elastica) in the forests Of
the protectorate. London syndicates
are competing for large tracts of for
est land.
The largest bequest ever made by q
negro TO Tuskegee institute at Tuske-
gee, Ala, was recorded recently when
the will of Mary e. Shaw of Philadel-
phia was probated. 1t bequeathed
$50 900 to the Institution of which
Booker 4. Washington is president.
At Il meeting of the Amalgamated
Society of Tailors in London a member
stated that she knew Of a woman who
had made cloth skirt - plated,
tabled, trimmed with bands and but
tons-for ninepence, the said skirt be-
ing ticketed in the shop window, The
Best English Tailor Made"
One of the shoe dealers in Louisville,
Ky. is building up Il nice little trade
in wooden shoes. He has three lots
sent TO him from Holland each year
and sells them to the German garden
erS who live near Louisville They find
them Of great value for wear when
working in their gardens.
The British museum, London. has de-
cided to collect and keep gramophone
records of the voices of the most emf
nent singers and publicists. They will
be for the use of posterity. The mas
ter records" will be of nickel and prac-
tically indestructible. From these play
ing records can be stamped at will
Skyscrapers are forbidden in Berlin.
but the architect, Professor Siegmund
Muller, after his recent trip TO Amer
lea delivered a lecture in Berlin in
which he spoke strongly in their favor,
declaring that they offered great bust
ness advantages and were safer in
case of fire than any other buildings.
Swordsmanship in one or other of its
forms is making marked progress in
England New SALES d'armes are be-
ing opened and fresh clubs formed
year by year in London and the prov
inces, and International matches have
been arranged in which. the English
teams have 1t least borne themselves
well.
The Manchester Union wonders when
in the last half century that city has
had the number of people within its
limits that attended the agricultural
fair in 1851. The drawing card of the
fair was Daniel Webster, and over
90 900 people were OH hand to welcome
the great statesman when he arose to
make his address.
The store of Tewksbury & Raymond,
at Randolph VT, is adorned with Il
rather unusual relic in the sign line.
The sign was sent from Boston to
Randolph seventy-six years ago by
Amos Tewksbury and was once the
common thing among q class of trad
erS long since passed away. The sign
reads, Cash and Barter Store"
Lying neglected and broken amid the
bushes and brambles at the edge Of
the farm of Moses Il. Goodwin in Eliot.
Me-, is Il slate slab which bears this
inscription: Here I've We Remains
of Simon Frost Esq'r late first justice
of ye Court of Common Please and Reg
lister of Probate for we County of York.
He departed this life ye Sd day of
Feb'ry, 1TGG. age CO."
+. r. Payne, well to do resident of
Williamsport, Pa, was on visit to
New York with his daughter Florence.
who is not yet out of her teens. a
fellow guest at the WaldorfAstoria
gave Miss Payne hint as to the stock
market. She acted promptly, invested
her own fortune on the information
and returned home richer by $4,000,
all made inside of Il week.