The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-04
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The Irish. next to the blacks. are
least given to suicide
Five men can hold down a lion, but
It takes nine to manage a tiger
Goat herders in Mexico are paid $40
per month and rations worth about
over 5000. 900 French women-half
of them married earn their own liv-
ing.
Canada has today 5S pulp mills and
Az paper mills, producing 3.A00 tons
day.
America is still the largest consumer
Of cocoa. The cocoa crop of 1906
amounted to $4,000, 695 Kilograms.
When Mccormick built his first
hundred reapers in 1S45 he paid 4 and
one-half cents for bolts. Today 50
bolts are made for cent
A bridge recently built for the Cape
to Cairo railway over the Kafue river
Is the longest IN Africa. It meas
ures 1,400 feet
Louisville recently increased the wa
ter rates to an amount that will add
$4,000 to the receipts The depart
ment was running behind
The steamship Kronprinzessiou Ce-
ella, which arrived at New York re.
Gently, made the run from Cherbourg
in exactly six days to the minute
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Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy of Germany.
a celsbratcd portrait painter has come
to this country for the special purpose
.of painting a portrait of President
Roosevelt
OF strictly military schools there are
l75 throughout the land New York
has 30, New Jersey Q, Pennsylvania II.
North Carolina z, Texas 3. Wisconsin
4, California g. aud Illinois 3,
Many monarchs are using English
in intercourse with one another. The
Gar of Russia speaks Eenglsh better
than German, and the German En-
peror speaks English better than
French.
General Mario Menocal. one of the
three prominent candidates for Presi-
dent of Cuba, was educated In the
United States and two of his relatives
served as officers in the American
navy.
orsa. in Sweden. has in the course
of generation, sold S5,550, 900 worth
of trees, and by means of judicious ~.
planning has provided fc similar
income every 80 or 40 years. There
are no taxes.
A feature of the reads of France is
The ever present guideposts. These
guideposts consist of an iron plaque.
about two feet long and 4 foot high,
securely mounted on sturdy posts or
fastened to some substantial wall.
The Dundee Town council at a re-
cent meeting caused a proposal for a
committee to draw up a scheme bear.
ing upon the municipalization of the
milk supply of the city, but it was
defeated by 23 votes to g.
As a result of recent excavations
on the site of Jerico. the historic city
wall, constructed of burned lime brick
upon a foundation of stone, has been
laid bare, together with rows of
houses, some of which could well be
used for dwelling places for all the
centuries which have passed since they
they were built.
The barrel cactus. or bisnaga (Ech.
ino-cactus). contains a fair substitute
for good water. To get at this Juice.
one must be armed with a stout knife.
or an az to decapitate the plant A
green stake is obtained and with this
or with the ak the white pith OF the
Interior is pounded to a pulp and a
cavity that would hold two gallons is
formed. Squeezing the pulp between
the hands into this cavity win give
from three to six pints Of a drink
able liquid that is far from unpleas-
ant