The Wrangell sentinel., 1909-07-01
SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY


Estimates place the amount of capi- tai value of British investments in India at s2,35O.OOO.
 l As game. preserves. it is claimed that the northern regions and forests of Canada furnish the finest fur-bear- ing animals in the world.
 Natives of Burma and parts of In dia prepare tea in a peculiar way, called "pickling" The leaves are boil ed and pressed into bamboo tubes. which are buried in the ground un- til the material has matured.
 Roughly speaking, 1t might be said that the annual importations into the 1 United States of coffee. tea and cocoa amount 10 s100,000.0OO a year; three fourths coffee. and the remainder about equally divided between cocoa and tea
 Several years ago the late Sir Fran cis Lockwood got prisoner of by proving an alibi. Afterward the judge met the eminent lawyer and said Well. Lockwood, that was very good alibi" Yes. my lord" was the an swer: q had three offered me. and think I selected the best"
 The River Indus in width during the year may vary by miles. Traffic l for long distances cannot be guaran- teed because the ever-shifting channel throws up mud flats and sand banks here and overwhelms good land there l in a manner which defeats the wis dom of the ancient boatmen.
 John Bright used to tell how a bar i Der who was cutting his hair once ] said to him: You ave a large cad, l sir: 1t Is a good thing to ave a large 1 cad, for large cad means a large i brain. and a large brain is the most useful thing a man can ave. as 1t nourishe5 the roots of the air"
 Baltimore Is congratulating herself on the figures shown by the new city l directory, just issued. A decided growth commercially and a gain of nearly twelve thousand in population i in the last year are indicated. The population is placed at 691, 1,12S, which i is a gain of 11,941. according to the directory editors estimate.
 R. A. Hudson. of Wellington. was here Saturday and sold to Messrs. Stack & Hudson, sixty bales of cot ton for his neighbors, the Misses Ross. These ladies make in the neigh borhood of one hundred bales each year on their lands in that section, and MT. Hudson carried them a check for a clear s3,00O.-Monroe (LaD Journal.
 Cole Younger, former bandit, out on parole granted by the Governor of Minnesota, has taken to the lecture platform in Oklahoma A young man never made a more serious mistake than to suppose that the world owes him living. It doesn't" says Young CT The understanding with the Governor of Minnesota was that might do as I pleased as long as I didn't do it in Minnesota" the bandit declares.
 On the west slope of the Cascade mountains giant red fir was recently blown across the tracks of the North ern Pacific railroad. Traffic was l blocked by the monster log, which measured eight feet in diameter. ] There was no saw within miles that l was big enough to cut the timber and l as the railroad company could not wait the five days required to saw section from the huge log, dynamite was placed in deeply bored holes and 1 the aged tree blown to splinters. It l was easier to repair ten rods of road bed than to saw through eight feet of 1 solid red fr-New York Sun.
 The total number of American regu- lars who served in Mexico and its bor- l ders during the Mexican war was 21,- 509; of volunteers, 22,O27. In the as- saults upon Mexico City, General l Scott had on August 20, 1847. an avail able force of 1O,73S. nearly one-halt of whom were recruits. After several l onslaughts the city was finally taken on September 14. after which General 1 Scott was reinforced to an aggregate i of 10000 men. The treaty of peace was signed on February ?, 1S4S. The i total American losses in the valley of Mexico were 2.703. including 3S3 off, cers. The Mexicans had 1000 killed and wounded and 3.730 Mexicans were l taken prisoners of war.