Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-05-06
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Turkey exports goods to the value Of
about Sl0o.000,0oo a year.
Princess Albert OF Belgium is said
to be the happlest wife In the courts
Of Europe.
There are more doctors per caplta
In New York city than anywhere else
in this country.
Trial Marriages" were discussed at
the recent congress Of Russian wom-
en- at St Petersburg.
II is only within the last ten years
that tropical fruits like bananas and
pineapples have had large sale in Ger
many.
The foreign commerce of this coun-
try fell or about $500, 1000. 900 last year.
The greatest decline was noticed at
the Atlantic ports.
Mrs. Keith Spalding, of Chicago, has
given $4,000 and forty acres of land
TO be used in establishing a taber-
culosis sanatorlum at Naperville, III.
The Australians eat an. average OF
l29 pounds Of sugar each year, the
United States 80 pounds, Germany SO
pounds, France 80 pounds and Great
Britain 81 pounds, but In the latter
country the ratio is going up.
Owing to recent raids upon "blind
tigers" by the police authorities, the
city of Savannah, Ca, is the possessor
of about 10000 gallons Of whisky, be-
sides much beer, wine. champagne,
etc. 1t can neither be sold nor given
away.
Figures Issued by Manchester Uni
versity point to the fact that women
graduates rarely marry. Out of $50
women who have taken degrees only
sixty-four have married. Twelve OF
these married graduates of the same
university.
Mrs. Russell Sage is said to pay the
heaviest tax Of any person in the city
Of New York. The tax books show
that twenty New York women are as
sessed for upward Of S17,000.000, ant
more than score Of others are re
quired to pay for s25oO0o to 500,
600.
Mrs. W. ]. Beggs, now of Seattle. 1.
said to have produced the only ros'
absolutely without thorns. She wal
for several years a neighbor of Luthe
Burbank in California. where sh
studied his methods. The bloom o
this thornless rose is reported to be o
unusual beauty.
The Grand Duchess Sergius Of Rus
sia Is to found an establishment 1
Moscow which is to supply distric
nurses for the poor. The gran,
duchess, whose husband was killed b.
the terrorists, is to live In one Of tn
buildings devoted to the work, an,
other titled men and women will ais
dwell near her and help in the work.
A bill has been prepared by Charlie
Francis Adams and introduced in tn
Massachusetts Legislature to provid
that there shall be no alteration o
change in the name Of any public way
street, place or square, or Of any pull
lie park, where the name altered 0
changed has been In use for twenty-fy
years, without the consent Of the Higf
way Commission of the State. At
hearing on the measure representative
of many patriotic societies favored !
The women Of Paris have discoyere
; new method of stimulation in the te
cigarette. To make one about as muc
tea is required as would make tw
strong cups of tea. AS many Par!
, women are reported TO be smoking O
an average ten a day, It is easy to sc
why the doctors should be taking mea
ures to nip the fashion In the bu
They describe 1t as horribly eas
method of stimulation and sure to III
dermine the strongest constitution in
few months.
Canton, China, at present is full I
robbers. 1t is said that in some par
the people are really afraid to go
rest at night, inasmuch as it is certai
that thieves will enter and rob Il
place. Accordingly some one sits u
, while others sleep. The following
a queer criticism of China's policy by
g correspondent: "We have a poll
q force. whose work consists mostly
: sleeping at post or helping the nearl
shopkeeper to chop wood or neig
boring blacksmith to blow his fire."
Mrs. George F. Lowell received mo
applause than any of the other spea
9 ers at the recent meeting Of the Mass
: chusetts Press Association. Her a
dress was on woman suffrage, and
l. reply to statement made by spea
It er preceding her that the women
n America could get the ballot or an
thing else they wanted, Mrs. Low
said they could, provided they wait
: long enough. She reminded them th
0 II took Massachusetts women ffty-f
years to obtain the equal guardiansh
Of children, and almost as long to c
that Of equal inheritance between ht
band and wife.
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