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Day
29
Month
September
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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Nine cables are used to teil the daily story of Europo to America and America to Europe. Lord DoneraĆ¼e was not the Crst British peer to die of hydrophobia. The Duke of Richmond also died of th same disease. The London Economist estimates that there are $5,000,000,000 of coiu ia the present circulation of ths world or available for circulatlon. Of this magnificent total S,200,000,000 is in gold and $1,800,000,000 is sil ver. Tennessee bas an area of 5,100 square miles of coal, which covers twenty-two counties. During the past six years the output of coal in the state hos grown f ram 494,000 tons to 1,700,000 tons, an increase of 400 per cent. The production of anthracite coal for the sil months ending July 1 was 16,275,738 tons, the largest ever known for a like period ; yet the stock on hand is less than 500,000 tons over that of any previous period. Sharks are accused of causing the great scarcity of soft crabs in the waters of the Chesapeake bay this iummer. They are unusually numerous and bold, and may be seen any day swimming on the flats exploring the water grass with their blunt noses. The Hawaiinn "army" consists of one "generalissimo," five colonels, five majors, one adjutant general, one quarterniaster general, one intelligence offlcer, one engineer, one aide-de-camp, one adjutant, one captain, two lieutenants, eight sergeants, sixteen corporals, one bandmaster, twenty-foar bandsmen and sixty priva tes.

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Ann Arbor Register