Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1901 — Thin and That. [ARTICLE]

Thin and That.

Kansas has more national than State banks. In the English army n soldier Is drummed tt) church just as he is to drill or dress parade. The estimated popuiatioa of British Guiana at the end »of December last was 287,288. Montana’s Governor signed the eighthour law for mines and smelters. Law will be effective in niuety days. Chinese residents at Pekin presented Gen. Chaffee several umbrellas because of their regard for him and his troops. Wm. Campbell, a colored porter in the Grand Hotel, Denver, Colo., shot and wounded David and Arthur Alien, white. The kangaroo is said to consume as much grass as six sheep. There are now in Australia about 900,000 of these funny animals. The German empire imports about $32,000,000 worth of corn every year, the major part of which comes from the United States. Winter tourist travel is very heavy to South California over all the roads, and the hotels at Los Angeles and other resorts are crowded. The first mulberry tree in America was brought from France in 1526, 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 us the most typical of its class ever produced. Disturbing the burial grounds in the Orient is looked on as a heinous crime. Robbing graves is the only crime under Chinese law for which the thief may be justly killed on the spot by any one finding him out. In the last weeks of our war with Spain there was a project of raising money by selling the famous Prado gajlery in Madrid. The value of the pictures Is about $10,000,000, and this would have paid the war expenses for one mouth qnly. The attention of fruit growers in New Zealand is being seriously directed to the question of the eradication of fruit pests. But for the ravages of the codlin moth and kindred pests New Zealand has excellent facilities for doing a large export fruit trade. Lyons, France, reports that the wine crop of France for the year 1900 will exceed 1,721,000,000 gallons, a yield that has been unsurpassed but three times in history. Forest experts in Germany admit that the empire will never be in a position fully to supply hes own market. In 1899 the imports of wood were 30,000,000 cubic feet. Poland was the only conquered nation in the last century prior to the present events in South Africa whose conquerors have offered no terms hut annihilation td the vanquished.