Putnam patriot., 1911-07-14
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The spanish governments annual revenue from taxes, customs, etc, IS now sl5, ,300,0 ,000 larger than 1t was len years ago.
 Australian farmers have begun to breed opossums in their woodlots with view 10 profitable transactions with the fur-buyersl instead of killing them. It is explained .that the idea of Mr. Huang Hsi i.eh iuan in starting einna- mon plantation near Kaying China Is quite as much to supply employ ment to poor people and keep them from emigrating as to make money for himself and partners.
 Confident that the glacier Des Bes sons of Mount Blanc will be true to it's traditions, and after forty years give up it's dead, Miss Edith Randall ,daaRh- ter of John C. Randall, Quincy banker, who lost his life in the Alps on September 6, 1870, has left for Cha mounix to recover the body of her fa- ther.
 The cables bring the news that there were no startling sensations in wem ems dress at the Grand Prix this year. There were no hobble skirts, no harem trousers. Both are extinct. So rapid Is modern progress and enlightenment that nowadays it Is difficult to keep woman silly even about her clothes.
 The day Is not far distant when tour ists can by rail journey from any of the European capitals to Jerusalem "by way of the Garden of Eden.n Thus, the spots revered by tradition are being turned Into side shows for moderns. It is too bad, but it can't be helped.
 Reports are coming in from neigh boring farms which augur i'll for cheap milk next fall and winter. The drought has dwarfed the hay crop, ,fod , der will be expensive and milk will rise even as cream. But the higher prices received will not benefit the dairyman, or even repay him fer the deteriorating effect which feeding last years hay and silage will have upon his cows. The farmer can never bend the weatherman's whims in his favor, but he can plant fodder whose roots will reach down four or five feet, if necessary, to water. Alfalfa does 1t. Government experts have been all over Siberia collecting alfalfa seed They have found varieties that can survive within the Arctic Circle without win terkilling 50 there Is no excuse foI not getting informed on the subject and giving this drought-facer trial,
 A kiel newspaper says that the K ai' Ser overrode the customary formaities in making j. Pierpont Morgan mem Der of the Imperial Yacht Club. "We have new member, he said. "Pier. pont Morgan of New York That was all.
 The total immigration into,Canada for May was 6l ,475 as compared with 47 7,5s9 for May, 1910.
 A board of naval officers, experts in explosives, is being selected by the Navy Department 10 study the hull of the baltleship Maine in Havana har- bof as the water k pumped from the eotier dam now surrounding the wreck.
 Savings departments have been opened by the government in about S50 post offices over the country. IL is the present intention to add to the number by i50 week until the 10000 money order offices have all been ta- ken in.
 The loss of more than 800 lives can be credited to the great heat wave of July to 6, 1911. The heat wave will be memorable in weather annals for it's wide extent, its long duration, its rec ord-breaking temperatures in certain places, and the long list of fatalities which 1t caused.
 Dublin received King George and Queen Mary on Saturday as we'll as could be expected under the eircum- stances; indeed, rather better. There was no open row, and there was also no address presented by the Lord Mayor, the opponents of this civility having daubed with fresh paint the stand at the boundary of the city where he would have stood for such a ceremony.
 IL was announced Saturday that the 40,0O0 odd ruraiaree delivery carriers in the United States are 10 receive salary increases of Si ,ooo,ooo during the cur rent fiscal year, which will mean an increase of $loo over the present salary of $900 for all carriers on standard routes. with proportionate increases on the shorter routes.
 The response of the express eom- panies, 10 the announcement of thorough-going investigation from the interstate commerce commission Is a counter announcement of quite general and substantial express rate reductions. This is an admission of guilt before the cme hes come to trial.