The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1906-01-06
News of the Week.

Because their crops have been destroyed
Cuban tobacco growers are reported in des-
perate straits.
Consul Horton, of Athens, writes that esti-
mates place the olive-oil crop of Greece this
year at over $4,000, 900 gallons.
For shaving a customer with a razor that
had not been disinfected, barber at Eisenach,
Germany, has been sent to prison for month.
About 81, 900 pounds of poultry was shipped
from Hanover, Pa, to Baltimore and Phila-
delpha markets for the Christmas holidays.
Signatures of more than 1000, 900 women
to petition for the unseating of Senator Reed
Smoot, of Utah, has been presented to Con-
gress.
The largest grasshoppers are found in South
America, where some specimens reach a
length of inches, with a spread of wings of
10 inches.
Of the 105 counties in Kansas A are with
out a pauper, % have no poorhouses, 81 have
not a single occupant in Jail, and 81 have not
a criminal case on docket.
More than 524, 500 acres of the soil of India
are devoted to the raising of tea. The total
yield last year was 222, 203, 661 pounds. The
capital engaged amounts to $50, 77S,OOO.
Poisoned chocolate drops, believed to have
ceived by Mrs. Elsie Smith, who was queen
Of the halloween carnival at Albany, N. Y.
Democratic Governor. elect Pattison, of
Ohio, and his wife are strict Methodlsts and
will permit no dancing at the inaugural re-
ception in Columbus. Nothing of an alcoholic
nature will be furnished for the guests to
drink.
The frame barn belonging to George Hart.
- pa
on the night of December "a with its contents
grain and other crops, rs well rs 40 chick
ems calves and hogs and many OF the
farming implements. The loss Is about 49,
600, partly insured.
d. TAYLOR, a 10 year.od farmer of Madison
county, Ky, returned recently from six.
week visit to each of his nine children. all
married. who live in Illinois, Missouri Kan.
sas. Arkansas and Texas, having completed
a remarkable drive of several thousand miles,
which he made alone in buggy. His Jour
ney consumed two years.
a dispatch from Charleston, W. Va. De
cember %, says Mrs. Annie Mace died at
the home OF her daughter, on Coopers Creek,
in this county, last night, al the age OF lo3.
She was bora in Lewis county, Va, now Cal
houu county, w. Va, in 1900. She married
Jerry Mace in 1918 and came to this county
almost 10 years ago. Up TO a snort time ago
she enjoyed excellent health and was bright
and active. She leaves two sons, both over
sc, and one daughter.
Former Judge William II. Moore, the we'll
known fiuancier of New York and Chicago,
has the distinction of wearing the most costly
overcuai in the United States. Il was made
10 order for him from selected Russian sable
fax at a cost of SO. coo Perhaps the nearest
approach 20 il il tue way Of costly oujer-gar
ments is the coat worn by Mrs. William B.
Leeds wife Of the railroad and steel magnate-
The Russian sable coat worn by Mss. Leeds
cost Sl2, coo, and a hat to match tcost 5000.
The total length Of the great Simplou Tun,
mel from the point where it enters the solid
rock on the one side TO the point Of issue on
the other IS exactly II miles ard ass yards,
of which s-iiilie over seven miles Is IN Italian
territory The ST. Gothard Tunnel IS miles
and SOD yards long, the Mont Gents few
yards short of miles, and the Arlberg Tuu.
mel miles and 4O4 yards All these tunnels
have double railway tracks, and their meas
urements are Heigh, yards, and width, Q
yards.