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Show Proposals for building warships to cost $25,000,000. were opened at tho Navy Department Tuesday. Tho recent re-cent troubles at Venezuela have mado it quite apparent that tlic time may not be far oft when wc shall need a larger navy. J. F. Stevens, a Canadian railroad I olllcial, is most enthusiastic regarding I the possibilities of the Canadian Northwest. Ho is profoundly convinced con-vinced and backs his opinion with a I great array of statistics that the section sec-tion named will soon be able to produce pro-duce a billion bushels of wheat per year. A number of figures arc given of Madame Patti's earnings, and it is believed be-lieved that she must have mado a round million pounds with her wonderful won-derful voice. During one single night she netted $350,000. Day after day during one part of her career she made within two or three hours $5000. James Window, a barber at Lynn, Mass., bought an old violin at a Bos-tom Bos-tom Pawnshop the other day for $4. This instrument proved to be a Strad-ivarius Strad-ivarius made in 1715, and lie was offered offer-ed $500 for it by a connoisseur. The offer was rejected, however, Window preferring the fiddle to the cash. Dillon, Mont., Jan. 7. An immense meteor fell on Rattlesnake creek, In Beaverhead county, last night. It looked as largo as a hogshead and was visible for fully a minute. The crash of its contact with the earth could be heard for miles. As soon as the snow disappears an effort will be made to locate it. The United States produced last year $80,853,870, gold and $0,3GO,000, silver. Utah rankedjfourth as a gold producer and third as a silver producer. pro-ducer. Colorado headed the list producing pro-ducing $27,502,429 gold, and $9,085,714 silver. Alaska contributed $7,823,703, gold, an amount nearly a million in access of the amount we paid Russia for the territory. Somebody has Said that life Is all lit tho day's work. So it is. To do one's best every day, in business, in the home, in all the Incidents and burdens of tho social relationship, until nightfall night-fall and sleep come, Is to live well. So to do for 305 days Is to make the year pretty nearly what It ought to be. Wholesale New Year resolves are generally made to be broken. Above is a simpler programme. Each day resolve, and each day will bo plcasantest made, and more fruitful and satisfying. Senator Mason Introduced a bill lii the senate the other day providing for tho temporary operation of coal miners that we believe ought to become be-come a law. It piovldes that when over a coal mine is closed down to the prejudice of tho rights of the people, that it shall be the duty of the Attorney-General to apply to any judge of a United States court for a receiver of tho mine, wiio, if appointed, appoint-ed, shall serve until such thno as tho court shall find by decreo that neither tho general welfare nor public necessity neces-sity rcquiro the further operation of tho mine. The Carnegie institute lias set aside $8,000 with which to start research re-search Into the botany of American Desert plants. A botantlst from tho United States Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture Is to bo sent to Utah, Ailzona and New Mexico to select a site for a desert laboratory and appoint a resident resid-ent investigator to study tho vegetable vege-table growths of arid regions of the southwest. When tho laboratory Is established tho investigator will de-voto de-voto his thno to an exhaustive investigation investi-gation into tho properties of the different dif-ferent desert plants with attention to tlielu. . arli'jUjiijiiU.!"ra' |