Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

Sydney, N. S. W., was recently visited by a hot wave. Almost 3,000,000 persons are receiving famine relief in India. The prospects for the Australian wheat crop are most favorable. A great avalanche has done considerable damage'at Glacier. B. C. Great Britain estimates that the war will cost at least $31X1,000,000. A bloody civil war is raging among the natives of Kerewani, New Guinea. An attempt was made to assassinate all the missionaries in the New Hebrides. Smallpox has broken out among the Indians of the Colville reservation, Washington. Four hundred farmer boys are on the auxiliary cruiser Dixie for a cruise round the world. The Liberty Alliance, a pro-Boer organization. has been formed in Chicago with 500 members. While playing near a fire in Roekwoo,!. Tern., a little son of Mr. and Mrs. Connor o>f Chicago burned to death. The London papers say that the health of Florence Nightingale is so enfeebled that sire cannot live muq£ longer. The plague was reported to be raging in New Caledonia. The governments of Australia have taken elaborate precautions. Charlton T. Lewis of New York, who has investigated the prisons of Cuba, says they are in a deplorably disgraceful condition. Under a liberal interpretation of the peace treaty we will transport to Spain all Spanish soldiers and their families in the Philippines.

The two great material conquests which mark the nineteenth century are the building of the Pacific railroads and the digging of the Suez, canal. Lord Bennet, evangelist, who married Miss Leonora van Marter, of Tacoma, Wash., succeeds to the title and estate of the late British Earl of Tankerville. John D. Sargent ,who was at one time suspected of killing Robert Ray Hamilton in Wyoming, and who has since been charged with wife murder, is insane. JSxperiments recently made in Europe with forty-nine different kinds of German, French and Austrian sugar beet seeds show that German seed is by far the best. The discovery of the operations of a band of counterfeits in Cuba is leading government officials to consider the advisability of applying the United States laws against counterfeiting to the island.