Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-12-03
FACTS IN FEW LIME :

al"NtiS are women
The number o. sugar factories e..
Grafton last year in the Russlar ~
pre was 21s. ''' e'1-
The deposits ia the government jill
ings banks in Australia ranresa..
S49.55 per head Of the total popalo,i5-
Twenty years ago a German t,r.r.
the Japanese how to make sher nm.
tons. Now Japan is exporting sbag
buttons 10 Germany, France and or5s,
countries.
an expedition Is being equipped ur.
der the auspices of the Russian ,rf,
istry of marine, with the Object Of M.
covering a northeast passage betWaa,
the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
Dobi Indians in Canada are to d,
made wealthy by the sale Of their rf1o
lands. The total revenue from tJa
sale Of the lands win approyinate
100000. aud some families win 70.
ceiye rs much as $4,000
Owners of even the smallest tor
manufacturing establishments I'm m.
Nuremberg district, Germany. cater ~
the foreign trade. Factories emrIor.
ing from six to twenty people are M
exception to,this rule.
In the annual report Just issued In
the prison commissioners for Scotland
it is stated that no female has 10.
ceived a sentence of penal selviHlda
during the past year This is the first
tine this has happened.
Superstitious people have been gock.
ing to Duttapuker, India, to view
strange date palm, measuring twenty.
five feet, which stands erect In tba
daytime, but with the decline of the
sun bends so far down that its leaves
touch the ground
In certain districts of Australia
where the ground is permanently GOV.
cred with grass or fine sand the horses
are shod with leather instead of iron.
The superior advantages claimed for
the leather shoes are lightness and
ease of application
The coal supply of the Philippines
has been found to be much larger than
was anticipated and of a uniformly
good character. 1t is stated that
large vein crosses the entire group OF
islands, and it has been clearly traced
in ole vicinity for twenty-five miles.
During the last two decades France
has expended 100000 on railways
in east Africa, and the brlgand chiefs
who ruled that vast territory now oc.
cupy civil and military positions and
are amenable to the authority Of Off.
clals appointed by the home govern
ment.
Owing to the irritation many men
manifest when being measured b.
tailors, the leading sartorial artists IN
Paris have adopted a new method
Instead of measuring a customer they
photograph him against screen bear.
ing lines similar to those on billiard
charts.
Chicago recently launched a fireboat
which the city roudly believes to be
the most up to date craft of its kind
in the world. She is the first floating
fire fighter to be propelled by cleo
tricity and is to be equipped with tur-
bine pumps capable of throwing $4,000
gallons a minute.
The Paris mint in 1907 issued Co.
100000 coins Of an average value OF
about Z francs 80 confines This I'm
Guided coinage for France, Tunisia, ln-
do-China and also for Bolivia, which
ordered 2,50O,OOO nickel coins For
France the twenty franc pieces were
easily in the lead
The leading areas of yellow pine pro-
ductiou in the United States are no
longer In the south Atlantic states,
but have tccu shifted to the south
west The states Of Louisiana Texas.
Mississippi ana Arkansas each pro
ducel 10 per cent OF more OF the totai
cut yellow pine last year
The interna tional congress on tuber-
culosis ell be held IN Washington
next September A great exhibition IL
Illustrative Of what is being done me
world around n the fight against the
disease viii be held in connection WIN
the congress, a.ld the two WllI con-
tinue from Sept y TO oct X
Charolles. a small town thirty miles
from Macon, in france, has recent!
been visited by a shower OF sulphur
The roofs. gardens. fields vineyards
rivers and ponds We're covered Win d
yellow dust and for some time 'ne
peasants in the fields were troubled z!
a sulphurous biting odor which nau'
breathing difficult
An American flags made for tle gov
eminent hereafter vii contain ioiE
six stars, the baby star having uesN
added for the state of Oklahoma. LIZ
stars I'm the new flag, some Of VIE
have already been placed on SAFE ".e
arranged according 70 orders
the governments IN six rows, Of VIM
the first. third. fourth and sixth nay,
eight stars each and the second aN'
fifth rows seven stars each
In connection with the death OF ~
yer Cleveland II Is interesting O. nov
that only twice before In the h.7.o',
Of the nation has tie United a,''
been without a living ex-preslltD.-
[ George Washington died in iI.Et I.-
John Adams. the second president W.
In office Andrew Johnson at pug
time the only surviving ex-chiet eA.
utive passed away IN 1876. two
before General G ant retired e F