Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1906-11-01
VOTES OF INTEREST

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New York.
The railway scrap heap of the
country last year reached the value
of $1,25O,Oe0.
There is one firm in London which
has not made a single bad debt in
the whole course of its fifty years
existence.
For saying that the Kaiser had an
ugly face Matthias Rohrmann of
Phalsbourg, Alsace-Lorraine, has
been sent to prison for two months.
In Switzerland every male be-
tween the ages of twenty and sixty
five is obliged to vote unless he be
a pauper, a criminal or a bankrupt.
These have not the right of voting.
a landmark of Paris dating from
the city's most ancient days is to dis
appear, This is the street Dc Petit
Pont, which commentaries the
struggles Of the city against the
Norsemen.
General Cronie passed a short
time in London recently on his way
to South Africa. America" he said,
yes, very fine, very big, very quick.
But England ~ London ~ unspeak-
able"
The authorities of the Rand, South
Africa, are having trouble with an
organization called the Red Door"
among the Chinese coolies. Its OBJ
ject is to remedy grievances by
force"
Now it is said that pumpkins can
not be raised in Aroostook county,
Me, because the soil is so rich there
the vines grow so fast that they
wear the pumpkins all out dragging
over the ground.
A British army order advises .hat
where possible mules should he
used to draw machine guns. "Whel,
however. a mule is not available any
intelligent non-commissioned Officer
will do instead"
Formed from the trunk of an
oak tree, a canoe seven feet six
inches long, bearing distinct marks
Of the stone ak which followed 1t
out, vas recently unearthed at
Acharacle, Argyllshire, England.
The sultan Of Morocco owes his
well organized army of 10000 men
to which in wartime 10000 irregu-
lars could he added, entirely to the
Scotchman, Kaid Sir Harry Maclean,
who draws a salary of $4,000 a
year.
A stone resembling a moccasin
with a foot in it. with the toe marks
showing, was recently dug up at the
farm of Fred d. Clark in Milford,
Conn. Some believe that the stone
is the petrified foot of an Indian.
On the occasion of the comforting
of degrees at Dublin University, Oc-
tober ~, a number of students
stormed the organ gallery and pre-
vented the playing of God Save the
King They sang instead God
Save Ireland"
The police of Andover, Hampshire.
England, have been so active in ar
resting motorists that the latter have
boycotted the town, to it's loss in a
very heavy sum during the year. The
motorists eve stopped their sub
scriptions 10 local charities.
Three railroad signalmen, whose
prompt action in an emergency re-
Gently prevented great loss of life
on an English road, are to receive
the Albert medal, a priced decoration
which is given for "acts of heroism"
performed by civilians on land or
sea-"
On eight acres of land J.. f.
Daniels of Bristol, Vt, raised $50
bushels Of onions, 1900 punches of
small onions, 1900 cabbages, 400
caulifiowers, 100 bushels of cucum-
bers, 100 bushels of turnips, 100
bushels of table beets, $50 bushels
of green peas, 200 bushels of pota-
toes and three acres of sweet corn.
The modern steam turbine was / n
some respects anticipated by an in
vention of an Italian architect
named Branca, who lived in the sew
enteenth century. In far more dis
tant times the engine devised by
Hero was az least a hint of the tur-
bine which is now making headway
against the familiar r%eciprocatine
steam engine.
A novel and apparently successful
burglar alarm which was recently
put up in the store of a Baltimore
grocer has the merit of simplicity
and cheapness. He placed over the
door of the grocery an ordinary
shovel, hung on a nail so that wher
the door opened the shovel woulC