Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

Kansas hns more national than State banks. Hawaii is getting its first share of garden seeds aud the Congressional Record. New York coroners, with their staffs, cost the taxpayers more than $150,000 a year. In the English army a soldier is drummed to church just as lie is to drill or dress parade. The estimated population of British Guiana nt the cud of December last was 287.288. Montana’s Governor signed the eighthour law for mines and smelters. Law will be effective in ninety days. Chinese residents at JYkin presented Gen. Chaffee several umbrellas because of their regard for him and his troops. Winter tourist travel is very heavy to South California over all tin* roads, and the hotels at Los Angeles ami other resorts are crowded. x The first mulberry tree in America was brought from France in l.Nlili, with the expectation of establishing mulberry groves in New York. An unnamed beneficiary in Cleveland, Ohio, has given a Glenville, Ohio, clergyman unlimited credit for the relief of the poor in that community. The head of one of Queen Victoria’s prize Hereford steers has been bought by the British museum as the most typical of its class ever produced. Disturbing the buriul grounds in the Orient is looked on ns n heinous crime. Bobbing graves is the only crime under Chinese law for which the thief may be justly kilhsl on the spot by any one hading him out. 11l the lust weeks of our war with Spain there was a project of raising money by selling the famous I*rndo gal* lery in Madrid. The value of the pictures is about $10,000,000, and this would have paid the war expenses for one month only. The attention of fruit growers in New Zealand is living seriously directed to the question of the eradication of fruit pests. But for the ravages of the codlin moth anil kindred pests New Zealand has excellent facilities for doing a large ex|tort fruit trade. Lyons, France, reports that the wine emit of Frame for the year 1000 will exceed l,7'21,0t)O,OOO gallons, a yield that hns been unsurfflissisl but threw times in history. Forest experts in Germany admit that the empire will never la* in a position fully to supply her own market. Iti 180 U the imports of wood were 3(1,000,000 cubic feet. , x Poland was the only conquered nation in the lost century prior to the present events In Houtb Africa whose conquerors have offered no terms lmt annihilation to the vanquished.