The Breckenridge news., 1907-10-02
FACTS IN FEW LINES

johannesburg, in the Transvaal, has
prosperous American club and two
husky baseball mines.
The 1904 dollar is the only one OF
the last pattern issue that is Of suffi-
cient rarity to command a premium.
New York city is the second in the
Union for size Of per capita debt. il
being $113.25, Newton, Mass, coming
first with S125.5S.
In Philadelphia a goat chewed off
the tails of Policeman Gilberts coat
while the officer was watching a pair
making love.
Recently two-year-old FAN River
baby's Teddy bear fell out Of a second
story window, the baby tumbled after
It, and the doctors couldn't find
scratch on either bear or baby.
While c. L. Derby Of Ludlow. Vt.
was blowing recently his wife picked
up from the dirt thrown out by the
plow British copper coin Of the issue
of l747. just 100 years old
Teddy Schoappler at his hotel I'm TIL
Bronx. New York. recently held a raj
1e for tombstone. the winner to have
his name. date of birth and death en-
graved on it free of charge.
After a stiffness of more than year
due to a broken rope. the curfew bells
in a Plainville Comm mill are ringing
again. This ancient custom has been
observed in the town for a half cen
tury.
A Kamr in Cape Colony bought an
American broom some months ago
and. noticing some seeds I'm the straws
planted them. He now has fine field
of broom straw growing and may have
founded an important industry.
one Bowdoinham Me.) residence has
an unusual night watchman. 1t is a
fat woodchuck that guards the prop
erty carefully from cats and dogs.
Every evening be roams over the
grounds and disappears at sunrise.
A schoolteacher I'm England noticed
that It always rained when the in
spector happened To call on her. one
day she mentioned ii TO the inspector
as a curious fact and received the an
swer That's because | play golf on
fine days"
Que of the Ohio girls who recently
visited London aroused the ire Of some
Of the editors by remarking that Lon
don was the biggest she had seen "on
this side oS the ocean The Globe
scornfully asks whether "Onehorse
VILE Mich" is bigger.
tI,f- tf,,,, IA, Ifo,,,atat. # tn.
globe has not been arrived at within
thousand feet. but Nikola Tesla says
that his system of wireless telegraphC
will he the means Of reducing thi
margin of error to within fifty feet OI
less
The dreaded nun butterfly is appear
ing everywhere i'm Bohemia, threaten
ing the devastation of the forests. The
neighboring woods of SaXony and Silc
! sia are also threatened. The ministry
of agriculture has named n commission
TO investigate.
Yale is far less honored in England
! than is Harvard. The residence OF
Elihu Yale at Plas Grano has been
pulled down. and it is difficult to ideu
| tify the site. Yale'S tomb. a solid mas
| of masonry. at the base Of WreXham
church tower. is almost his sole visible
memorial.
The costlest lot Of land in Boston
was taken the other day by the Boston
/ transit commissioner to provide en-
trance and exit for the new Washing
| ton street tunnel. The lot. which con
| talns 1855 square feet, is located n
Winter and Washington streets, and
the price paid was $3.50 per foot.
Dennis J. Buckley. president of til,
Kerry Mems T. and b. association
| has made the statement that the peo
pie of the famous County Of Kerry.
Ireland. have decided to officially re
pudiate the title of Kingdom" which
has hung to il for 1.726 years.
The London Express says the golf
! links Of the country are fast becoming
vast hairpin cemeteries" and that nm
fortunately most OF the millions Of hair
! pins I'm them are only half buried, with
! their business ends uppermOst,' TO the
| annoyance and even danger of players.
The volunteer fire department Of
Rockville Center. y. Y. must have the
reputation Of the proverbial messenger
boy At recent meeting Of the trus-
| tees of the village it was suggested
that when Il fire breaks out the mem
bers Of the department be notified by
postal card
Tubercuous patients that live and
grow fat are reported by Or. Guilhaud.
a French physician He has found a
| form of tuberculosis that remains in the
condition Of local lesion, is usually
associated with an excessive deposit Of
| adipoSe tissue and is durable. He be-
| lieveS 1t arises from implanting atten-
uated Koch bacilli in so called scrofu-
lous persons.
Mrs. John Hays Hammond, the wife
of the clever engineer OF South Africa.
has a most wonderful bathroom in both
her New York and Washington homes.
! The tub is an immense affair, the shape
of shell. and when the lights are turn
ed on and the tub filed the bottom Of