Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1901 — This and That. [ARTICLE]

This and That.

Some Polynesian languages have only seven consonants. r , Coral, both white and red, is found on the Florida const. Five negro prisoners escaped from Quitman, Miss., jail. Green crocidolite, or “eats eye,” is found in New Mexico. Health authorities estimate that 10 per cent of the men who go to Cape Nome never come back alive. In 1890 the mineral production of the United States amounted to $610,000,000 and in 1809 to $976,000,000. St. Joseph, Mo., is to follow Boston’s example and provide portable school houses for the overflow from the regular schools. The Russian ministry of communications has decided to adopt pet role uni for generating motive power on the locomotives of all the railways. •In the year 1800 the territory of th* 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 most amazing record of territorial growth ever made by a nation.