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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1901)
V"- 1 V' IK 'WFZflffT "'W"" PWW'' 4 The Commoner. 9 At Exclus i v e Beach. t u ' .Si - "-' - IHgH, bath houses f-,,,, mojt'CE IjLpt LuMBin leather csment T COMMOrmOPLE JSK& trust trust J2J MUST KEEP - - - (Copyrighted by W. R. Hearst.) By courtesy of Mr. Hearst We reproduce one of Mr. Opper's cartoons, made for the New York Journal, the Chicago American and the San Francisco Examiner. It may. he refreshing to the readers of The Commonee to know that the trust magnates are able to enjoy themselves dur ing the heated term. Items of Interest. A gallon of mercury weighs 1,357 pounds. Greater London has a population of 6,578,784. The lyre-bird is the largest of all song-birds. There are 268;000 Indians in the United States. There are 240,000 guests daily in the hotels of Paris. ..Sheep are used-as heasts of burden in some oriental countries. A. silver coin usually remains in circulation about twenty-seven years. The largest prison in the world is at Fresnes, France, eight miles from Paris. One-half of the atmosphere is within two and a half miles of the earth's surface. Seven years is the shortest interval between two rains at some points on the coast of .Peru. Of the different continents, South America has the greatest and Australia the least annual rainfall. Only one of the seven presidents of the French republic has served out the term for which he was elected. A crossed knife and fork is the sign used in Sweden to indicate the places where meals are served. In the list of rulers over the various nations of the world there are twenty kings and twenty four presidents. Three thousand Seminole Indians in Oklahoma have abandoned tribal relations and become citi zens of the republic. There are 52,000,000 square miles of land on the earth inhabited by 1,600,000,000 people. Thus there is little more than 20 acres on the earth's surface for every person living thereon. Bronze cents to the number of (JC,S38,700 were coined by the "United States mints last year. The largest number coined in any one year prior to this was in 1898, when 49,000,000 were coined. The newly chosen president of the Chilean re public is Senor" Resico, a brother-in-law of the late President Frederico Errazurls. His term of office will commence on September 18th next. 1
