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Entered Sept. 3 1902, at Moun
1s second class matter, und
of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Northwestern Colorado {2 the
section selected by the governme
a reservoir tn be built under th
national irvigation law, Thirty
townsnlps along the Platte rive
tending from Sterling into the
of Nebraska, have been withd
irom public entry.
According tc the count of an It
botanist, P. A. Saccardo, there
173,706 species of plants known i
world today. There are 12.178
gaes, 89,603 varieties of fungus, /
lichens, 7630 mogzes and 2819 fe
Prof. Saccardo calculates that tl
are six times as many unkn
plants in the world as there
known varieties, Tle includes m
forms of bacteria in his estimate
plants.
A French investigator has vecen
come to the conclusion that the bra
of military men ve out most quid
ly, He states that out oi avery 100.
military men 19% a 83 lunati
Of the liberal professiyns, artists
the first to succumb to the brain strai
next the lawyers, followed at some di
tance by doctors, clergymen, litera
men aud civil servauts, Striking ¢
rage of this group, 177 go mad
LGO, 000,
Investigation has shown that, in a
average year, bi aan lives are {os
forest fires in the United States
5,000,000 worth of real properly i
destroyed, 10,274,683 acres of timber
land are burned over, and young foi
est growth worih, at the lowest esfi-
mate, $75,000,000, is killed. A special
eanvass of the country by the depari-
ment of agriculture in 1891 discovered
12,000,600 acres of timber land le
stroved by fire,
¢ York American remarks
any Hitle fellow can call a man a
takes a big fellow-—a real
» abie 10 pay no attention ic
littie fcilow says. It is not
that one should tamely
‘ory insult that is offered
necessary that one
if-sovereignty
as a man. There are
even wiih the
sults you than hy knocking
When you knock a man
by playing the bully, you i
yourself, which is realy |
of insult that can do you |
nas been travel
18 says the Japanese have
a word of salutation which sounds
like Ohio. When he was in Yoko
hama a fellow countryman was seeing
ights from a rickshaw. The Jap-
very nolite, and when even
an mer them they gave him
Of Zreeting, At first
Huite certain, but as party
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uttering the name of his
Cecidental. Finally on passing
of a dozen or more, who were
: than usually courteous, and who
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‘hie and irom Jefferson county: but hel
vociferated the word of welcome, he
further. “Yes,” he said. “I am from
get on 1a the fact?” | siaf
ID. Pierce correcis ip c
Monthly many false im He
ling Russian institu. con
regards the penal sys. |) ©5f
sia. individual instances of
power have been cited as
while they are in fact, rare
There is nothing crue)
national character or in toe
average Russian cfficial Bh
ald
is true, says Mr. Pierce there
hag frequently received military train 2 fi
ing, and pursues the course of his duty Son
rd the individual entrusted to his | the i
that rigid exactitude
percaing to the army the world | St.
15 10 the reputation. of the Coror
fcionity and cruelty, noth- | made,
o> further from the truth | quest
in the world is there ! -omith
EB ” curine
iion of cruelty to child or | sons n
act, on ihe part of prince or peas | all of
ant, and wnder nwo aristocratic system : i
iz1thore a more generous ‘considera- | insu .
lar s
inferior on the part of the :
held.