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i. 10 THE NEBRASKA, INDEPENDENT FEBRUARY 21, 190? -I Ill i I QUESTION BO ft"1" Is there a' book on the life of Victor Vifqualn? If not, la there one under contemplation? None that we know of, either present or in prospect. : Will you plea.se explain "The Rom berg test," and also the Argyll-ltobert-on pupil test," terms used by Mr. Je rome in the Thaw trial. In a medical dictionary we find that "Romberg's sign, or symptom," is "the increased incoordination of movement in tables caused by placing the feet in juxtaposition and closing the eyes." Tabes is more commonly called loco motor ataxia.' The) Argyll-Robertson pupil test is a test of the same disease, the early symptom indicated by thji fact that a myotic pupil responds on accommodative effort, but not to light. What Is the present total of '.Rocke feller's' gifts to education? Carnegie's? Rockefeller's latest sift of over thir ty millions makes his total about $79 000,000. Carnegie's gifts to libraries and universities now aggregate about $150,000,000. Please give the acreage, and yield of the principal farm crops last year. ... Cr - - ..- Acreage Production Corn ' '. 96,737.581 2,729,6,0M Winter wheat 2.G99,91 492.8SH.004 Spring wheat 17.705.WS 242.372,966 tuts 3O.958.708 W4.901.522 Barley 6.32:1,757 178,916,4S4 Itye ' 2,001,904 33,374,8.1:1 Buckwheat . 798.20S 14,611,937 Flaxseed 2,505,927 25,576,1 K JliCf, 575,014 17,854,768 Hay ....42,47,224 57,145,959 Tobacco 796,099 682.428.530 Potatoes 3,013,150 308,038.382 What is the address o Clem Denver? A letter addressed tw O'Neill, Neb., where he occupied a position in the land office Until not long ago ought to reach him. - . ).,.. ., . .. . j How many negroes are there now ml the United states? Seven years ago, when the last cen sus was taken there wer; 9,653,000. Whf-re can I purchase a cook book of Madam Begue, the noted cook of New Orleans who died recently? Madam Ilegue seems to have devoted hersrlf exclusively to cooking, since no cook book bearing her name appeared P3erie print the names of the persons who have been given places in the hall of fame in New York. The numbers after each name are the number of votes received: The numbers after each name are the number of votes received Elected in 1900: Authors: Emerson (87); Longfellow (85); Irving (83); Hawthorne (73). Teachers: Edwards (82); Mann (67); Reecher (64); Chahntng (58). , ... Scientists: Fulton (86); Morse (S2); Whitney (69); Audubon (67); Asa Oray (51). .soldiers: Grant (93); Farragut (,9); Lee (68). Jurists: Marshall (Ul); Kent (65); Story (64). Statesmen: Washington (97); Lin coln (96); Webster (96); Franklin (94); Jefferson (91); Clay (74);. John -Adams (62). Septimi (under-this title, "the sev enth ones,'1 are grouped those who are not comprised in the six classes desig nated by specific ; names); feapody (75); Peter Cooper (69); Stuart (52). Elected in 1905: Famous Americans ot native birth: John Q. Adams (60); James R. Jewell (59): William T. Sherman (58); James Madison (56); John G. Whittier (53). Famous Americans of foreign birth: ; Alexander Hamilton (8S); Louis Agas- j iz (ivS): John P. Jones (55). Famous American women: Mary Lvon (59); Emma Willard (50); Maria Miteh.-ll (4H). Please print Kret Harte's Greypovt legend. They ran through the streets of tan sea port town, Thev peered from the decks of tho ships that lay; Tho cold sea-fog that came whitening clown Vu, ner so cold or white a they. ; "lio. Ktarmiek and Plnckney and Ten- j terden! ; Ran for you ha!l"p, gather your i men, ! Scatter your boats on tho lower buy, j Uood .uut ' r'arI In tha lU,,k ,n,,i" i d.iV I Th iulk that lay by th rotting nir. ! FHi.d with the children In happy play, j l,rtil lis mooiiiiRS and drilled tlur . Drifted daar n-yond the re;uh or i TblriVa chitdrtn thv wcm In a'l-j AU ndrift la th bwr hty! fUld a hard-faced Wlsp-r, "lb! i.'Mp m i all' ' KhVtn m float tlt ih timing tub" ; Said bin wti., "My dirlinf wlU io.r tor j call. , , i h'tloT sea w hea-u she bid. j "4: And she lifted a quavering voice and high, Wild and strange as a sea-bird's cry. Till they shuddered and wondered at her skle. The fog drove down on each laboring crew, Veiled each from each and the sky and shore; There was not a sound but the breath they drew, . And the lay of water and creak of oar; And they felt the breath of the downs, fresh blown O'er leagues of clover and cold gray stone," But not from the lips that Had gone before. The come no more. But they tell the tale. That, when fogs are thick on the har bor's reef, Th mackerel fishers shorten sail; For the signal they know will bring re- "lief; ' For the voices of children, still at play In phantom hulk that drifts alway Through" channel - whose waters never fail. . . . It is but a foolish shipaian's tale, A theme for a poet's idle page; But still, when the mists of doubt pre- . vail. - - . And we-lie becalmed by the shores of Age, ' We hear from the misty troubled shore ' The voice of the children gone before, . Drawing the soul to its anchorage. What is the present gold production in the United States? The latest figures seem to be for thi year 1903. For that-year a report issued by the United States geological survey puts the total production of gold at 4,265,742 fine ounces, valued at $3S,18Q, 700; the total production of silver was 56,101,600 fine uunces, valued at $34,221, 976, making an entire total value of $122,402,676. The production of gold in the United States for 1905 represents an increaseof $7,716,000 in value over the production of 1904. The rapid advance in gold production which began in 1892, but temporarily halted from 1901 to 1903 was resumed in 1904. This increase in 1904 over the output of 1903 was ap proximately $7,000,000, and in all prob ability the increase in 1906 over 1905 will be at least the same amount. The chief sources of the great increase are as follows: Alaska added about 000?00 to its output of $9,160,458 in 1904, and Colorado, Nevada and Utah added about $1,000,000 each to their productof the previous year. On the other hand, decreases are noted in Adizona, Idaho and other states. , The states producing over $1,000,000 in gold rank at present in the following order: Colorado, Cali fornia, Alaska, South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Montana, Arizona, Oregon and Idaho. Is there any law in the state of Ne braska forbidding local school boards to charge for tuition of high achool scholars of adjoining school districts? Not that we can find any trace of. Is it true that thenitrate beds of Chili are about exhausted? Conflicting stories are told about the nitrate beds of Chili. Rumors have been current in this country and Eu rope to the effect that the supply was limited and likely to give out in twenty-five years, if the present rate of consumption is maintained. This statement is now contradicted by the United States .Consul at Valcariso. He says that a Chilean official whose busi ness it is to keep track of the matter is puoted 'by "The Chilian Times" as saying that the government still pos sesses two million hectares of nitrate grounds. Even if the deposits were limited to one million hectares they ought to yield then thousand million puintals a year, but even if it were eighty million the supply ought to last one hundred and twenty-five years. "If to these one million hectares be longing to the state," says tho official, "there bo added the grounds belonging to private persons, the number of years of duration would be three or four times greater." Please give the plural of "tailor's goose." Tailor's geese. What Is the second highest mountain in the world? That ihKs not sovni to 1ms established btyond doubt. Possibly Dap. -mug mountain In India, 2S.70U feet. I occasionally se in Nebraska papers the expression "got mv sidetrack" sig nifying seemingly that on who get hln sidetrack th stops tryig to get anything is. fhat N the origin of the expiiiion? ThU come from a story of a tnemtor of a former lxiltur who introduced a bill to omp-i tailroaila to grant irites for elevator orr id tracks. 11 waji lnuitcd in s)tUiia; a IJ0 track U au elevator in his district, and one day ex plained his loss of interest in his bill by saying "I got my sidetrack." j UP-TO-DATE j C7S HE income tax was paid in the UJJ United Kingdom year before last by 9,582 corporations, 80,129 public com panies, 57.244 business firms and 456,571 individual British subjects. Total gross income, $2,347,708,940. The number of British subjects taxed on incomes in excess of $50,000 a year 'was 212, the number taxed on incomes in excess of $250,000 a year was 24. - . A curious custom connected with the Servian army is the' manner in which most of the regiments carry the . big drum. It is not, as in most countries, slung in front of the man who plays it, but is placed upon a small two wheeled cart drawn by " a large dog, which has been so trained that it keeps its place even through the longest and most tedious of marches. The drum mer takes up a position behind the cart and performs on the instrument as it moves along. The absence of springs on ice skates has been more or less of a mystery. That they are needed is an undisputed fact, as the skater has no means of lessening the jarring naturally inci dent to the uneven surface of the ice. A New York inventor,' noticing the total absence of springs on ice skates, experimented with them and found them desirable in every way. The springs are placed between the steel runner and the plates for the "recep tion of -the toe and the heel of the shoe. The addition of the springs also tends to ease the feet while skating, besides greatly adding to the enjoy ment of the sport in other ways. A report has been received from the department ' of agriculture in India showing the extent of the war carried on against the Bombay locust. In all some 1,500,000,000 individual eggsadult locusts and "hoppers" were accounted for. Of this number 60,000,000 were adults that would have produced an other 3,000,000,000 "hoppers" had they lived. This slaughter cost about $65. 000 in awards and saved probably mill ions in the value of crops. Nature also helped. The report adds that juari birds arrived on the scene in large flocks and devoured the locusts greed ily, . so that the preservation of the crops was due possibly "as much to these, birds as to the effects' of human agency." East St. Louis now has the biggest steam whistle in the world. It is a re markable triple machine, with three voices a three-chime whistler, whose capacity for the . annihilation of peace is extraordinary. This whistle- blows a . ten-mile blast at half steam, and with favorable wind has a distming power of twenty miles. Jt costs $1 every time it is blown. But this great whistle is not all noise. It is an idea in economy, a "whistle" trust, a noise .combine. Almost ail the little noises, yelps, toots and whines of smaller me chanical throats in East St. Louis are now dumb. The giant whistle trust whistles off for them. The independent whistles have to-whistle off time to be heard. Within the range of this whis tle are said to be one hundred thou sand people who telMime by it. A Vienna artist, writing about Leon ardo da Vinci's "Last Supper," says: "Atmospheric changes and the dust and soot from the factories which are near the church of Santa Maria delle Grozie have mads the picture a wreck and only a Tsmall part of the original work is left. Anotherpotent cause for the great loss may be found in Leon ardo's use of material which lacked the proper adhesive qualities. Artists who went to Milan to studv the prob lem have agreed that the fresco can not be detached from the wall, and none of them has suggested a plan by which the disintegration may be ar rested." A register of sanitary halrdressing establishments, with a penalty for fail ure to comply with the regulations, Is a plan of the health officers of Huda p."1. Among thft -recommendations of tho medical adviser are that regular customers should provide their own toilet renuisttios; that all shelves und fittings should b made of gW; that the use of puff should bo discarded for a better method of applying pow der; that a barbr or hairdrenM'r hIumjM rerust to nttend a customer apparently suffering from rib'-en of nkln or hair and that nil ra?.m und comb should before using b kept live udnuUvt In n 5 per tM-nt solution of sodium c.iiIhiu ate. Referring to tho recent ppointmnt of Dr. llauer jw chief mMit of the prin cipality of Mtituuo, tho American I.u-IUrt 4)-y"ll will lurdly h. kept very buy by th duii-a of otfl.t". tlrKv Ws Who vi3it" the famous hn?iblhn5 re8rt wil1 not- in likeli hood, have great need of spiritual min istrations. Statistical hondbooks do not give the number of Jews living in the S???iit'-Ihe PlincesS "f Monaco . fir h.nOWn' iS of thfi Hemefam- , marna' dissolved about five years ago " The greatest. deer hunt on record in Canada was that in the wilds of On" w the,jen Rsn in J November. o tW?t returns received by the Grand Trunk railway system the ines , of which- tap the W territory in the province for fish and game it appears that the-hunters, had theft, d?vsmofSlhe. f ?UCCeSS- In the hESi Canadian Express company alone transported 3.100, carcasses of do?r having an aggregate weight of 318 -21a pounds, all of these being shipnod tl2 r'ntS n the northernandOt tawa divisions of the Grand Trunk Vvhcn it is considered that about five thousand- hunters were Operating in the several districts of the province n the open season, and that the game onTf to-iUlow the killing of . only two deer by each hunter, it can be conservatively estimated that no fewer than ten thousand deer were ' killed in the province between Novem ber 1 and 15. -.-MATTERS OV I.TKRIiST. Brier wood for the pipes of Amer ican smokers is imported In great quantities from Italy. The larger part of the Italian brier wood is found along the Mediterranean coast. A kind of grubbing spade with one sharp edge for cutting away the large billet rJmrt f the root (thft valuable part)Trom the surrounding small roots is used in this work. After being thoroughly cleaned and trimmed it is brought to the mill and bv means of circular saws cut into small blocks corresponding roughly to the shape of a pipe bowl and stem. These blocks are of various sixes, depending upon the dimension and shape of the billet. Afterward they are immersed in boil ing water for a period of about twelve hours and then thoroughly dried. This process? completed, they are sorted, the imperfect pieces being thrown aside, placed in large jute bags and are then ready for shipment The ,wa.':te pieces unsuitable for pipes are sold for firewood. In Chile, at any rate, the Japanese immigrant is made welcome. The Chilean government offers consider able inducements to agricultural and fishing Immigrants. Forty acres -..or: rich land ' are given outright to each settler; twenty more- to each son eighteen years of age or more; a yoke of oxen, a set of farm implements and $15 a month in cash for the first year. This Is regarded as an excellent in ducement to the Japanese .farmer to leave his little farm of something less than an acre and go to Chile. More over, a practical monopoly of the en tire fishing industry of a country hav ing 3,000 miles of coast abounding in splendid fish, but practically without a fishing class, holds out an additional bait to a people versed In sea fishing Real storehouses of delight tor the visitor are the bazaars of Tunis One merchant has a $5,000 carpet which he likes to display. This huge filmy creation he, will fling Into the air for the benefit of a possible customer and allow it to settle itself gradually on the ground. This it does unlike an or dinary carpet. So exquisitely, fine . Is the weaving that it imprisons air bub bles large enough to hold a man. " HYS0P0PULAR Do you know why the Bitters is so popular among sickly people all over the world? Then let us quote the gist of the thousands of voluntary testi monials sent us: "Your 3itters cured me after all else had failed." This ought to convince you that HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS is a superior nudicine and the one you need to cure Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Costiveness, Femal Ills, Headache, Colds, or Malaria Try a bottle. r PATENTS that PROTECT lUlT ?'."f"k PATENT-SENSE wIth.uiV n I a. I n.a.n a. d.li .UCEy.Wirtlnftow.O.I. UUts. IKS. WOOD, J. C, & CO, successors to Soukup & Wood. Kxpert cleantrs and dyers. 1320 N St.. Lincoln, Neb., Phones: Auto 12D2. Bell 147. Mall jnrderwork carefully jittended to. rr?ii i ir.n conn ncne nUli LIFE PRESERVERS --t , r Tkrh!trtttrttthaW r turn. tmulmtoH u.1 hi, faff. B(, "ftniw I'm ia4 lMlf Mm II lb k. 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