Alaska sentinel., 1908-12-31
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 A statue of Lieblg Is to be erected In Darmstadt, where be was born ill 1903.
 British India has s6,912 miles of tel egraph and cable wires, which are worked at very good profit.
 A company has been formed in Flu. rope for the purpose of erecting and operating frst-class hotels in various cities and towns of Greece.
 Sault Ste. Marie canal traffic for tho season of 1907 reached a grand total of 5S. .217,2l4 tons, which shows a net increase of P per cent, or 6,466,134 tons, as compared with that of the sea son of 1906.
 Maine and Missouri and North Da kota are soon to vote upon constitu- tional amendments embodying the in- itiatiye and referendum for State mat ters, and Maine proposes to extend this right to municipal corporations.
 An acre is 6,272.G40 square inches An inch of water on an acre is, there fore, 6,272,640 cubic inches. That amount, at 227 cubic inches to the gall lon. equals 2200O gallons, or 220,o0O pounds, or 100 tons. An inch of rain Is. in other words, rain falling at the rate of 100 tons to the acre.
 The area of Maryland is 12,21O square miles, 2,3JO square miles of which are water There are seven States in the Union which have q smaller area, viz. every New England State except Maine, and New Jersey and Delaware. The gross area of none of these States equals the land area of Maryland.
 For the first decade of the twentieth century one of Canada's greatest ac complishments will be the completion of the Dominion's second transconti- nental railway. The Grand Trunk has finished its prairie section from Winni- peg to Edmonton. From Edmonton TO the coast, TOO miles. through the noun tains, three years more will be needed, The work is exceedingly difficult and expensive.
 The wireless telephone Is being steadily pushed toward commercial practicability by the inventors. The work of the French naval lieutenants, Colin. Jeance and Mercier, and MT. Lee De Forest, of this city, seems al ready to have opened the ether to wire less converse, Of an experimental na- ture. over distances of from 300 to 800 miles, and MT. Poulsen, of Copenhagen, has promised q transatlantic wireless telephone soon.-New York Globe.
 A Florida judge ruled that mullet were not fish, but birds, because they had gizzards. The customs officials In New York ruled that frogs were fish and must pay duty as such. 4 game warden in Maine gained popularity by declaring oysters were game and so ac- quired jurisdiction. And now comes decision from the custom house that bagpipes are toys and cannot be classed as musical instruments for purposes Of taxation.-Florida Times Union.
 In 1899 the production of fermented liquors in the United States upon which taxes were paid was 36,691 ,634 barrels, including l16,520 for export. In 1906 the production had increased to 54,T24.553 barrels, and in 1908 10 ' lo~ 1lc Tn States internal revenue tax was paid for consumption on S3,S19,314 gallons of distilled spirits other than fruit brandy. In the nine years to 1908 tIe amount of distilled spirits withdrawn for consumption had increased to 119.- S0S4o gallons
 As figured out by London Answers, the annual cost of running" a battle ship of the Dreadnought class is S500,- 900 a year, of which s20o,Oo0 goes to the officers for salaries and wages. Ammunition in time of peace costs S60,- GOO a year, the expense of necessary target practice being very heavy. Vic tualing, fuel, etc, make up the balance. Estimating the original cost Of these ships at S7,5O0,000. and allowing life of twenty years the cost from the first draft plans to the sale of the vessel as junk reaches total of 17,5o0 900. Twenty-four years Is long time for a ship to be away from its home port, but that is the record of a whaling bark that has just docked in New Bed ford. The vessel left New Bedford in 1884 for a voyage around Cape Horn and since has been engaged most of the time in whaling in northern attitudes. The snip brings news that the whaling ships in the Atlantic are generally mak- ing heavy catches this season. The whaling business seems to have expert enced a revival, and with this New Bedford is developing new importance which presents some likeness. to its old time activities as a whaling port Springfield Union.