Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-06

Stevens Go. Tribune.
j. f. TODD, Editor and Publisher.
MORRIS. MINNESOTA
INTERESTING CURRENT TOPICS
The census gave Paris, in 1876, 1885,
500 inhabitants. The number by Decem-
Der, 1877, will reach two millions.
The Rev. Joseph Cook says: "We
have churches that, when they erect a
new house, dedicate to God only mort
gage"
A farm hand for harvesting is paid in
central Italy seven cents day, and con-
siders himself a lucky man to find en-
ployment at that rate.
United States Senator Mcdonald ex-
presses the opinion that the railroads have
outgrown the narrow limits of the
State authority which created them, and
that the national Government will have to
protect them, precisely as it does COM
merce on lakes and rivers.
The London World says that Lord Duff
ferin is the most popular Governor-Gen-
eral Canada has had for years; and that
if the Canadians chose to transform the
Dominion into an elective monarchy,
Lord Dufferin would be unanimously
chosen its first King.
At the close of the first centennial of
the United States there were 25,717,907
hogs in the whole country; 1898, 100
were in or en- route to Cincinnati, aud the
rest chiefly between st. Louis and Chi
cago. This is less than two-thirds of q
hog to each citizen.
There are 1875 temperance reform clubs
in New Hampshire, with an aggregate
membership of $1,000 men, of whom
$4,000 are over eighteen years of age.
Both political parties are trying hard to
secure their support in the coming guber-
Material campaign.
According to the most most recent stat
istics, the inhabitants on the earth
number 1,493,917 900, or 90 persons to
every square mile of surface. London is
the most densely packed spot of popula-
ton, containing S,4s9,428 souls, more
than some continental kingdoms.
Over a million Frenchmen in thirty
four departments have reported losses in
the war of 1901, amounting to $177,-
391,551, and the government has applied
to their relief sum of $94, 106,32 in
twenty-six year bonds. This does not in
clude pay of troops, clothing, transporta-
ton or military expenses, but only prop
srty destroyed by the enemy, and contri-
buttons exacted.
No nation can beat the Germans in the
number of their anniversary and memorial
celebrations. They now propose to have
great fete inHamburg on the I'd of Janu
airy, 1878, the 2OOth anniversary of the
first representation of an original German
opera. A feature of the celebration is TO
be the performance of this same first
German opera, which bears the title of
Man, Created, Fallen, and Again
Raised Up"
A stove dealer in Hartford has died of
a slight cut made in one of his fingers by
q piece of ordinary oxidized sheet zinc.
The zinc inflicted a poisonous wound that
in few hours affected the whole circula-
ton, and baffied the efforts of physicians
who were then summoned. Oxidized
zinc, which is found in numberless
houses, should therefore be handled as
carefully as Woorara arrows or poisoned
Chinese daggers.
Germany has been in the habit of i'm
porting anayerage of 1000 horses a year
since 1872 and exporting only $4,000.
Since the list of January last the impor-
tations have fallen off and the exporta-
lions increased immensely, SO that at the
rate things are going on now the excess
of imports in 1877 would only be 1.4OO
against $1,000 excess in ordinary years
This is why Germany has forbidden the
sending away of horses from the empire
at present. .--
The drinking saloons of Sacramento
have odd names, and a knowledge OF that
fact renders ineligible the following re-
port of police officer to his Captain: 81
looked in at the Hole in the Wall, but
she wasn't there; heard she had been in
NOah's Ark, but had lit out; then pros
pected the Iron Jaw and the Woodpeck-
er's Nest, but didn't have any better luck
A fellow In the Calf Pen was sure he
heard her singing in the Frog, Pond, but
when went there it was all mistake.