Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-10-14

listed almost continuously since its
first number was printed on January
/, 1867. The oldest copy preserved is
No. 50.
Lord Strathcona is now SO, and has
just returned from his Canadian home
to London. He has made the round
trip across the Atlantic more than $50
times, which, he claims, must be the
record.
Forty young Chinese are now enroll
ed in our colleges and will return lat
er to China to enter the civil service.
1t is the plan of the eastern empire
to keep 400 youths studying in this
country during the next eigh, years.
Students of the crustacea often find
the cod a useful assistant collector.
The circular crab seems to be the ia
vorite food of the cod and rays, and IL
was chiefly in the stomachs of these
fish the Older naturalists got their first
specimens of ale little crabs.
Winnipeg, Man, is growing about
as rapidly as any city in Canada. The
past year she claims to have erected
20 warehouses and factories, II
schools and educational institutions,
90 office buildings, % apartment;
houses, some of which will cost more
than 100000, and 100 fine resi-
dences.
Prof. Charles Ricket of Paris claims
to have discovered a means for purI-
flying air in room, his apparatus con-
sisting of an air filter which mechan.
ically sterilizes the air. Very fine
drops of glycerine are scattered along
the walls of a cylinder containing a
suction fan, through which the air is
whirled
One of the latest Photographic in
ventiOns is lens by means of which
a complete view all around the OBJ
server can be taken at once, and is
a
prove successful on board ship or in
other places where an all-around view
is essential. The result is attained
By means of a circular ring of glass
curved on the outer surface and fiat
inside. By this the light from oil
sides is reflected down the tube which
carries the lens.
A recent traveller in the land of
dikes and windmills has been at pains
to make notes of the names bestowed
by the Dutch merchants upon their
country houses. Here are a few ex-
amples translated: "Our Content
ment," Joy and Peace" Leisure ana
Happiness" MY Desire is Satisfied .
Friends and Quiet" my Wife and l."
mot So Bad" To say the least, any
one of these would seem to indicate
more of the genuine sentiment of the
householder than can possibly be e.
pressed by the Belle Vues" and "Ce-
dars" of Suburbia.
Pref. Somerville's paper before the
British association on the t1mDer suY-
ply shows that the world is steadily
approaching a timber famine Al
ready Britain pays each year EFT 7,00C,-
600 for wood; Germany, with nearly
IL times the area of forest possessed
by Britain, annually pays G12,O00,0Cu
fNT iTl1T0 fod nY%
United States of America exports wood
and wood products to the value of
G20,000,000 per annum, she has to pay
as much of imports. In Europe, Swe-
den and Russia, are, of course, the
chief timber exporting countries, bur
in both cases the vast inroads on sup
plies is seriously felt, and exports are
being appreciably reduced. There arc,
of course, Canada and Siberia, but In
Canada, at all events wood is being
used up at a rapid rate.
According to the investigation OF
the United States geological survey,
Virginia was the pioneer coal produc
ing state. The occurrence of coal was
known in the Richmond basin as early
as 100, and in 1889 shipments were
made to some of the northern states.
In 1882, according to R. c. Taylor, the
production amounted to 48,214 gross
tons. The first coal was taken from
what is usually termed the Richmond
basin, a small area in the southeast
ern portion of Virginia, near the city
of Richmond. This basin is situated
on the eastern margin of the Piedmont
plateau, 13 miles above tidewater, on
James river. 1t lies in Goochland,
Henrico, Powhatan and Chesterfield
counties. The coal beds are much dis
torted and the coal is of rather low
grade when compared with that from
other districts with which it has to
come into competition. This coal is
now mined only for local consumption