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THE NEBRASKA, INDEPENDENT
FEBRUARY 21, 190?
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QUESTION BO
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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. -
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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
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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. "
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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
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Costiveness, Femal Ills, Headache,
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