Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1901 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

Some Polynesian languages have only seven consonants. Coral, lioth white ami red, is found on the Florida coast. Five negro prisoners escaped from Quitman, Miss., jail. Green crocidolite, or “cats eye,” is found in New Mexico. In the year iiMkt the manufacture of silk began in England. (’. T. Yerkes will build a $5,900,000 palace on Fifth avenue, New York. Health authorities estimate that 10 per cent of the men who go to Cape Noma never come back stive. All the trig Canadian furniture makers, numbering twenty, have formed a combine. Capital, $5,000,000. In 1890 the mineral production <rf the United States umoun>ted to $619,000,000, and in 1809 to $976,000,000. St. Joseph, Mo., is to follow Boston’s example and provide portable schooi 'houses for the overflow from the regular schools. 'Hie Russian nuinwrtry of communications has decided to adopt petroleum for generating motive power on the locomotlves of ail the railways. • In the year* 1800 tbe territory of the United States was 815,244 square miles; in 1900 it is 3,768,521 square miles. This is an expansion of nearly 3,000.000 square miles in 100 years. It is the moat nmaniug record of territorial growth ever made by a nation.