The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-08-31
Current Notes.

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trial Germany" says: can American
could hardly observe an election in Ger
many without the thought occurring
that the great mass of the people of the
Empire had outgrown their institutions"
He says political discussions are not so
heated or excited as IN the United
States.
A laughsble incident occurred in
Judge Lawrence's Office the other day.
The unexpended balance in favor of the
Interior Department amounted to $780,
99l-2. About 9 o'clock messenger
from the latter department appeared
hearing voucher for $SU0-an excess of
half cent. "I'll have to disallow this"
said Comptroller Lawrence, "as it is in
excess Of the balance" Ageneral laugh
folio wed, but the Judge adhered to his
decision.
A remarkable counterfeit IS piece was
lately stopped at the Boston sub-Treas-
ury. 1t bore the date of 1881, was the
exact size and weight of the genuine,
and contained fine gold equal in value
to 81 60.
Thirty years ago, in the heyday of the
slavery regime, the total value of South.
ern crops of cotton. tobacco, rice, hay,
hemp,and sugar cane was S;6O5, 73S.
The cen sus report of 1881 shows that
Southern agricultural products were that
year valued at 60,000,00O. Further
more, the South is becoming rival of
the North in cotton and other manufac-
lures.
Within secluded enclosure ON
Columbia ave., Philadelphia, fourteen
young women&re practicing for positions
on two baseball mines which are to be
composed of women only and are to
travel about the country and play
match-games wherever it is thought
that the exhibition will prove profitable.
The players, who are to be neatly I'M
formed, are engaged on regular salaries
and their managers expect to make
fortune. Practice has now been going
on for about a week, and if the street
urchins who during that time have
glued their eyes to the knot-holes in the
fence, surrounding the ball-feld are
fair critics, a reasonable degree of pro-
6ciency has already been attained.
The San Antonio Express is authority
for the following extraordinary bear
story. A gentleman who was out hunt
ing on the Nueces saw bear go into
hollow tree. He made him come out,
shooting him as he did so. Thereupon
in rapid succession six other large bears
came out Of the same tree, all of whom
the mighty hunter laid low. It is sup
posed that the hollow in the tree COM
municated with subterranean cave, in
which colony of bears dwelt.
For half a century the farmers within
thirty miles of the New Jersey coast
have gathered at a. convenient point
along the beach on the second Saturday
asalt Water Day. On Saturday 200" 5000
men, women and children, in pictur-
es9ue attire, proceeded in all sorts of
vehicles to Wreck Point, near Sea Girt
The population of the New Jersey pines
then took its annual salt water bath.
The skin-tight trousers must go. An
accurate and interested observer says
that the heavy swells at Newport who
have just returned from "abroad" have
trousers much wider than before, and
their Jack coats cut in to fit the figure.
''Tbe shad," says a California paper,
although until seven years ago stran-
ger on this coast. has multiplied since
its introduction to an extent truly ,e-
markable. They are now to be found
all along the coast of California, and
northward ale rapidly making their
way. From recent accounts, the "run"
in the Columbia river is something Won
derful, and at the present time the fish
are so abundant that they are sold for
Is cents per hundred, and thousands
fail to find purchasers even at that price.
Pacific coast people in general consider
the shad rather coarse fish.
chihuahua, Mex, city of 25, 900 peo-
pie, is now building its first street rail.
road. A new state house and new
mint is also in course of construction.
They are being built of stone. The
blocks are being brought in on huge
wagons with wooden wheels, the rims,
or ties, of which are ten inches wide.
The oxen are yoked as of old, by the
horns, and goaded by man with long
stick with a sharpened nail at the end
of it. Blocks OF stone weighing fifty and
seventy-fve pounds each are brought In
on burro mules, sad dle-bag style. One
burro trudges along under two of these
heavy blocks.