Norwich bulletin., 1909-11-13

There is shorthage of school teach CTS in the Canadian provinces of AL berta and Saskatchewan. Each want 150 more after midsummer.
 
 John Bigelov has given Mount Airy. his 400 acre farm, to the village or Highland Falls. N Y.-his summer homeAfor a watershed.
 Capital, formerly invested in build ings at Messina is calculated at about The greatest portion of this is ire vocably lost.
 Accompanied by six suffragettes from Denver, Mrs. Helen Reine Baker of Spokane, Wash, an ardent suffragette, planted black flag on the summit of Pike's Peak.
 Consul l.. J. Keena, of Chihuahua finds that there is a market in that district and probably throughout large part of Mexico for lightweight, their proof safes for house and office use.
 The state of Jalisco has long been known as one of the richest in the Republic of Mexico as an agricultural and mineral producing state. It is true boweverthat it's greatest strength is due to the fertility and productive ness of it's soil
 Having ample means at his com mand. William Nelson. head of the Nelson Navigation company. Los An geles, Cal, has invested in almost ev- cry known remedy to cure the rheu- matism that has held him in it's grip for years.
 Ten years ago New York city had no subways; cable cars were in Broad way, Lexington and Third avenue; horse cars ran in Madison avenue; Brooklyn trolley cars did not cross the bridge and ''L" cars were drawn by coal burning locomotive engines.
 The declared exports from Sydney Australia, to the United States during the first quarter of 1900 aggregated $1.69S. 900. The largest item was wool s663. .S00. followed by blister copper s3S6,000, and skins largely kangaroo), 235, 800. and flour, 1Os,945.
 President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton university has been made q i trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance company of New York. He is said to be the first college president admitted to the board of any of the larger life companies.
 The practice of cutting the claws of the more ferocious animals of the London Geological gardens has recent ly been greatly facilitated by chloro- forming the annals Heretofore it was dne by sheer force by a squad of men. the animal being first secured by ropes. 
 Huxley's vaults at the Eastgate. Chester (England). which were the subject of magisterial comment re- gently on account of their duty condi- tion, have just been cleaned. Cob webs to the weight of a hundredweight were removed by vacuum dust re- moving engine in three days.
 
 In a general way it may be said that barring exceptional circumstances. the production of Tunisia in olive oil tends to increase. The number of adult trees is 1O.0OO.000. to which must be added 200, 900 young trees that will en- ter in production in the course of the next few years.
 Richard Sharpe of the Jubilee stamp house, North Berstead. Bogner Eng lad, has been collecting postage stamps for A years. He has en entire room papered with them and festoons of stamps hang across the room. There are about 5,O00.000 stamps in all. and their face value is more'than $4OO,c00.
 From Honolulu to Hoylg Kong q stowaway. from Horg Kong to Seattle a cabin boy. from Seattle to San Fran cisco a hobo. and d hobo from san Francisco to Denver and from Denver to Butte, three years on Ghe road and 13 years old now-such is'sthe record of Manuel Govain.
 MT. Perflief, late aide de ecamp to General Unterberger. governor general of the Amur province. has be en ap- pointed governor of Kamchatka. Struc- tural material stores. provisions and horses have been shipped to Petropav- losk. where the buildings will be com pleted so that they may be occupied this winter.
 Consul George E. Schumacher writes that a controlling interest in the En- senada (MeXico) Electric Light and Power company has recently been purchased by practicalAmerican. and general improvement in the electric light and water service of the own is expected A complete machine shop has already been purchased in the United States.
 Among other articles for dogs. a St. Louis concern is placing on the m ar ket a dust eve shield similar in every way to the same article worn by hul- man automobile drivers. Popular Me chanics contains picture of a Bos- ton bull equipped with the eye shield It is held in position on the dogs nose by straps which fasten to the collar. As matter of curiosity. it might be mentioned that under the Danish flag there are flying g. selling vessels built before 1895. and of these seven were built before 1S00 One of them. the schooner Nigilant was built in Balti- more in the year 179O. and has ever since been in service between the Dam ish Antilles. During the war between 1 Denmark and Britain. 1S07-1Sl4. she fought victoriouslv as a privateer against the Englishman. The Muskrat. The muskrat industry is at high water mark in Maryland this season. and the tra ppers of the Eastern shore report a $500 900 harvest in prospect. -Boston Transcript.
 The muskrat has an eternal abiding place in the hearts of thousands of Toledo people. and they win resent the Boston idea of putting a dollar mark before him. No greater offense has been committed against this inno- cent little animal since the New York Sun inadvertently gave him a bushy 1 tail.
 The Toledo muskrat is moi a com