The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-17
SALAMAGUNDI.

The present population Of Germany
is about fS.ooo.OOo
with an income of $1,000 a day. MI
Carnegie can still give away a few Il
braries
The ninth International Georgraphi-
cal Congress will be held at Geneva
From July q to August s.
After seeing theatrical perform
ance the kaiser often goes behind the
scenes and chats with the players.
A motor vehicle purchased by the
town of Tynemouth. England, can be
used as a prison van, fire apparatus
or ambulance.
General Porfirio Diaz has been presi-
dent of Mexico for .wenty-seven years.
There was an interruption between the
years 1880 and 1884.
San Francisco has begun the work
of beautifying herself for The raccp
ton of the battleship fleet b. scat
tering seeds over the burned Hill
sides
There is an average of one leg or
one arm amputated in Now fof, City
each day in consequence OF accidents
caused by surface, elevated ur sab
way cars.
Suffragettes In I.ordcn arc siill fIsh-
ling to martydom. A dozen .no;c who
] Al a..
recently were hustled 10 rfison.
The Alaska gold production for 1907
! is stated by the collector 10 be about
$4,000 900 short Of 1906. This is mainly
explained by labor troubles and mi
ners strikes
While the Catholic Church nom
/ bership in this country reaches II
81 $40. and the Methodist only 3,0S6.
667 there are more preachers of the
latter denomination than of the
Church of Rome
Silebria contains one-ninth Of all
the land on the globe Great Britain
and all Europe except Russia. to-
gether with Tie whole If tIw Uuilcd
States could be Enclosed within ITS
boundaries
During the year Of 1907 the total
number of vessels arriving at New
York from foreign ports was 4,749 OF
which only 726 we're American. while
2039 were British and 40 German.
At the last Chamonix me etins a
| Norwegian on skis made q jump of
26 meters II was magnificently done.
and he alighted rpon has skis without
injury. This y a distance of nearly
feet.
Three hundred Berlin eireejs are
planted with $4,000 trees, which are
said to represent a value of nesrly
100000 About a thousand gardeners
and assistants are employed to take
care Of them
The announcement has been made
in London that one result of King Ed
wards visit to France has been q
tentative arrangement for an Official
visit of President Fallieros 10 london
next May
There are S2,9S3, 156 Christian com
lmunicants in the United States, of
whom little more than one-third be
long to some branch OF the Catholic
church. The net additions for the
last year were 627546 In the preced-
ing year this net gain amounted to
931.740.
Richard Savage, the gifted poet,
died in a debtors prison at Bristol,
after enduring the pangs of semi
starvation for years. Chatterton, driv-
en- desperate through hunger, poisoned
himself at the age 1S Swith died
mad, as he had all along predicted he
would.
The Belgians have a breed OF fowls
the feet OF which they have shortened
in order 10 lessen their powers of do
ing damage By scratching in gardens.
They have another variety which have
been denuded of all feathers that they
may have better chance of escaping
from foxes.
AT the headquarters of the Society
of Friends. i'm London were shown re-
Gently some manuscripts OF great his.
toric Interest among them being the
IOlver Cromwell proclamation of lib
erty 70 many Imprisoned for con.
science sake including John Bunyan.
and the fine original manuscript OF
the journal of George Fox
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