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The Commoner.
Vol. 2, No. 27.
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Items of Interest
Hamburg's shipping trade with Aus
tralia doubled in 1901.
Thirty thousand Filipinos havo boon
vaccinated by Americans.
Practically all of the nitrato supply
of tho world cornea from Chile.
" Quarantine wa first established
against Infectious diseases in tho tenth
contury.
Tho soil of tho- larger part of Man
churia and Mongolia is of a sedimen
tary formation.
Tho winters are very cold In Man
churia, tho ground being frozoh to
tho depth of sovoral fcoL
Two coal mines aro now in success
ful operation in Alaska. They produce
good steam coal.
Tho volume of tho world's com
merce is two and a half or threo times
as great as it was 30 years ago.
Two modern flouring mills, with
'Amorican machinory, havo recently
been constructed at Harbin, Man
churia. Seattle's oxports to Japan aro now
about $5,000,000 per annum, which is
cloven times what thoy wore six years
ago.
Tho highest mountain's in Cuba
reach -greater hoights than any peaks
In tho oastorn ranges of tho United
States.
Tho sanitation of tho city of Ahme
dabad, India, is so bad that tho mor
tality is 70 per 1,000, with no epi
demic to account for it.
Wordsworth would write one or two
"sonnots ovory day. When engaged on
"The Excursion" ho produced from
150 to 200 lines a day.
The territorial board of health of
Hawaii is to bogin a series of experi
ments to determine tlie value of X
rays in the treatment of leprosy.
A' prbject for an olectric lino from
Cornwall to Toronto is being rapidly
pushed by American and Canadian
promoters, who havo a capital of $5,
000,000. Canada's military establishment,
consisting of less than 40,000 men, all
told, will be Increased to 150,000 if the
British idea of colonial defense pre
vails. Mr.' Chamborlain has informed o
correspondent that Canada contributed
7,300 men and Australia and Now Zea
land 22,000 men for servico in South
Afriqa.
Bombast onco signified the cotton
tbat was omployed to stuff garments,
particularly tho enormous trunlc hose
worn in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries.
All that remained of bank notes to
tho value of $240 which had been de
voured by a goat have been presented
to the National Bank of Belgium and
duly cashed.
A Rontan bowl of Samlan make, said
to bo 2,000 years old, has been brought
up from tho sea bottom off Beachy
Head by a Brlghtling sea oyster
dredger.
Tho Rocky mountain locust, or
grasshopper, in 1874 destroyed $100,
000,000 of crops of Kansas, Missouri,
Nobraska and Iowa, and tho indirect
loss was probably as much more.
Both eyes of a wolf in a menagerie
at Lyons havo been operated on for
cataract. After the operation the ani
mal's eyolids were sown together to
provont it opening them for several
hours.
The bands of oik that wintered in
Jackson Hole country, Wyoming, four
years ago wore estimated to number
60,000. They now number less thun
10,000, according to tho estimate of
the ranchers.
Crossed bugles, a death's head and
other marks are stamped on tho
wings of a pigeon which has just been
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His Old Friend, John" Excuse me, Sam, but I cawn't help larfing when I think
ard you worked to throw off the yoke of British oppression." New York Journal.,
caught here, writes a correspondent
from Llanerfyl, Montgomoryshire, to
tho London Daily Mail.
Gray ashes or dust sufficient to part
ly whiten their tunrcs fell from the
sky a few days ago on some con
stables in the police barrack yard at
Kilkenny, writes a sergeant of the
Royal Irish Constabulary.
Eighty pigeons had their eye3
picked out recently by an owl which
entered their loft by night at Nord
hansen, Prussia. Tho same owl the
night before picked out tho eyes of a
whole 'litter of kittens which wore in
the same building. Pittsburg Dispatch.
Go, Ve, and Do Likewise.
Denver (Colo.) Democrat: While
Cleveland openly stabbed his party In
1896, the wily politician of Wolfort's
Roost sulked in his tent, when duty
called him In the field. The brazen
effrontery of this combination or par
ty wreckers is Unparalleled and would
remind one of the audacity of Judas,
had he asserted himself as tho faith
ful head of tho church after his be
trayal of his master. But Judas had
tho good sense to go and hang him
self. We would say in all sincerity to
these distinguished and extinguished
gentlemon, Go ye, and do likewise.
Roosevelt Doesn't Frighten Them.
Goshen (N. Y.) Independent Repub
lican: President Roosevelt has taken
advantage of the silly season in poll
tics to declare his intention of smash
ing the trusts. It will bo noted that
he did not give vent to this high re
solve until after congress had ad
journed, when it was too late to pass
any measure designed to regulate thesa
monopolies. The trust magnates are
losing no sleep because of Roosevelt
It is more than likely that, two years
from now, they will be liberal con
tributors towards his election. Tho
powers and privileges of tho trusts
to oppress will not be curtailed by,
any republican administration.
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