The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-11-28
FACTS IN FEW LINES


casks and demijohns,"
More than 100000. of food animals
We're slaughtered in the United States
during the last calendar year.
Switzerland, in proportion to it's pop
ulation, spends more on the relief <of
the poor than does any other country
Consul r. E. Mansfield, writing from.
Lucerne. says that it is estimated thai
there were in Europe during the pas
season 5000 American touring parties
n automobiles
Mr. Peter Cooper Hewitt in the
Technical World Magazine makes q
prophecy that the Atlantic will yet be
crossed in two days by ship capable
of travelling 100 miles an hour.
The liner Sesostris, which Went
ashore a few months ago at Coos
Guatemala, has become so deeply im
Dedded in sand that the ship is moss
BEING used as a warehouse for coffee
The health department at San Fran
cisco fixed the price of rats at 10 cent
apiece. but the boys made 50 nue.
money Staying the rodents that it has
been necessary to cut the price in half
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road company has built a passen@es
elevator in which only the dead na
ride at Ro4ehill. near Chicago, where
there is a cemetery. The elevator cos'
about $4,000
A London newspaper says Americans
spend $2Q0000O0 a year for cut flow
ers and that $30,Oo000O is spent i.
England for this purpose The value
Of cut covers sent to England from
France is about S5000,000 a year
The prohibition against carrying pc
troleum through the Suez canal, whicL
mas been III force several years, has
been removed This concession means
much to European consumers, as abou
100000 tons are annually brought from
Borneo and Sumatra
An increase Of 10000 in one year tC
the Chinese population of Vladivostol
alone, coming entirely from the prov
ince of Shangtung. shows that there
must be some particularly attractive
business there to interest the exceed
ingly keen business men of that terri
tory
Lord CurZon has been commentaries
in India by the maharajah of Burd
wan. who has created gateway il
his lordship's honor The structure is
sixty-fve feet high by twenty-four fee
wide and will be surmounted by fig
ures of agriculture, science and com
merce.
Since 1890 when the Grand Army o.
the Republic had 409,4S9 members en-
rolled, its numerical strength has beer
cut down almost one-half There arr
only about $4,000 comrades now The
losses by death run up to 5000 Q.
10000 a year There is practically III
chance to gain recruits.
According to a St Petersburg dis
patch, General Stoessel had intended
to reply to the ceaseless attacks made
upon him with reference to his con
duct at Port Arthur. but be has re
ceived an imperial order forbiddine
him to publish anything or make an,
statements to intelviewers
Rey Horace Hoyey of Newburyport
Mass, whose explorations of Nam
moth cave. Kentucky, have brough
him worldwide fame, has recently pre-
pared new map showing all Of thu
passages. During his last visit few
feet III diameter and from $50 to 90
feet in height
A new poison squad" is to be ere
ated by DR. Wiley, the chief chemis
OF the department of agriculture, fo
the purpose of determining the whole
someness Of SO called soft drinks
The inquiry is the result of reques
from the war department for informe
ton regarding the different varietie:
Of aerated drinks that are sold at arm.
canteens
Vice Chancellor E. E. Leaning @
Camden. n j., has been bequeathet
Washington's ring by the will Of hi
father. Jonathan Learning, recently
admitted to probate at Cape Ma,
courthouse The ring is Of gold, will
q square setting of blue and Whit
enamel in the center Of which, sur
rounded by thirteen pearls, is a loci
Of Washington's hair, covered by glass
How to warn off trespassers withou
spring guns has been discovered by !;
canny peasant in the south Of France
His woods were invaded by nut pick
ers. He asked a botanical friend thu
Latin name for the hazelnut and pu
up the following notice: "Caution-Al
persons entering this wood do so Il
their own risk The Corylus avellans
abounds here as well as other equaIfs
venomOus snakes" Not a trespasse1
has ventured into the wood since
Veterans OF New Yorks Seventh rec
iment now living in San Francisco ar.
forming an association similar to thu
one already in existence ID southern
California Many Of the active anl
veteran members Of the famous regf
ment visit the coast at intervals, ant
the association is expected to have
largp membership No other military