Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1909-10-07

OF the revenue accruing from the
national forests in Columbia % per
cent, or 100000. is yearly turned over
to the state by the federal authorities
for use on the public roads and schools.
For number of years Washington
has been far and away the largest
lumber producing state in the Union,
and it still is ahead: but last year
Louisiana nearly caught up with 1t.
Rent. clothes, service wines. beer.
tobacco, all are cheaper in English
than in American towns, and prices
of meats. vegetables, bread. butter.
poultry, eggs, much the same.
German has only S,275 millionaires
Tin marks); that is, owners of $4,000
or over. OF these "millionaires," Prus-
sia has 5.S37. Bavaria 631, Wurtcm-
berg 243 Baden 151.
An electric motor is used in San
Francisco to haul sand for grading
sand is scraped from the hills to fill
the hollows.
A contemporary says mushroom
poison is destroyed by boiling. DIR.
Ford, of Johns Hopkins, says mush
Ing.
Neither boiling water nor cold 200
degrees below zero kills the sprout in
some seeds. Professor Beequerel found
three seeds 81 years old that sprouted.
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Japan in 1908 made 260.000000 pounds
OF paper and imported 900 pounds,
a CONSUMPTION of 30S.o00. 1000 pounds. or
So pounds per capita OF the population.
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F. s. Weinhold OF Brookside Pa,
last season raised on % acres about g.
900 bushels of ear corn. Many of the
ears We're over 16 inches in length.
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The importation of Holsters into the
United states in 1908 amounted to s..
2l2945 pounds, valued at 81, 40l 449. Most
of them came from Canada
Recent discoveries in Norway of hui
man bones mixed With hearth ashes
indicate that the cave dwellcrs of the
North cape were cannbals.
A new mcrophone the invention OF
two Swedish engineers, is reported To
have greatly increased the range OF
long distance telephones.
Leading japanese provision tner-
chants have agreed TO dispose of $500
bags Of Brazilian coffee during the
next t:.ree years.
The number of women enrolled a,
the universities of Germany this sum-
mer is 1.44l, an Increase of 1913 per cen,
over last summer.
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Professor John Cleland has retired
Prom the chair of astronomy of this
Glasgow university. after occupying i
for 90 years.
New York city consumes more but
ter than both London and Paris Th'
average daily consumption is 1880,
pounds.
Electric power is used on 32S6 mile
of street railways in Great Britain /,
14S miles operated by other means.
An English chemist says that $500,
900 may be made by any one who ere
ates a new perfume.
The walls of the lock Of the Panam
canal at G;.tun will be reinforced wit
1000 tons of rails.
The fur trade of the world make
use of more than one million catskin
every year.
Tulane university realized an endow
ment fund of s1,000.000 last year.
Hydrogen gas for ballooning is OF
tanned by an electric process.
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Her Wardrobe.
That wardrobe of Mother Ewes
Doubtless comprised some fancy leaves;
For homework some substantial weeds
And maybe furze for winter needs.
No doubt she had her worries, too.
AS stylish ladies often do
Perhaps complained when leaves were
rhat she had nothing much to wear.
And doubtless often in the fall
Poor Father Adam heard this call
Voiced In those dulcet tones OF hers:
''-The behemoths are in the furze."
Kansas City Journal
English agricultural societies ha
started Q sparrow crusade. Bounti
kare paid for birds and eggs.