The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-10-26
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Wenef0l Paragraphs.
The property Of the Princeton Ia.
logical Seminary IL estimated ct 81 $780,
There were recently shipped to Eng.
land $4,000 worth Of cattle from Hart
lord County, Md,
Massachusetts, heads the list Of states In
wealth per capita, averaging $500. The
individual wealth of Great Britain is the
highest in the world, France coming
next and tho United States third.
Nashville has passed q city ordinance
against fortune telling. An astrologist
told an alderman that he was to marry
a widow worth $4,000. He married
one who IL in debt to the tune of 5000,
and he dosen't want to see any one else
basely deceived.
Our national paper currency Is COW
cred wish poison: Half a DOZEN women
in the Treasury department are suffer-
ing from poisoning by arsenic, AZ q result
of handling the new greenbacks. They
moisten their fingers to facilitate the
counting, and the moistare brings out
tho arsenic In the green coloring.
Fully one.half OF the visitors to STRAIT.
ford.op-Avon are said to be from the
United States!
At one of the colored churches in
Charlotte, n. C.. ON q recent Sunday
evening, . woman shouted 80 energeu-
cally that she dislocated her jaw, max.
ing her mouth stand open to its fullest
capacity. She left the church and went
through the streets with her mouth
wide open, followed by the greater part
of the congregation, in search of q doc
tor, and one being found the unhinged
member was forced into it's place.
The Newport correspondent OF the
Boston Transcript tells and says she be-
lieves this story: "a circular has been
sent to very many clergymen, by New
York wine firm, setting forth the merits
Of Its Liquors and wines, with prices by
the case, etc: At the, end Of. the circu.
lar 1t reads: N. BIO avoid suspicion;
every case sent you will be plainly
marked Canned Peaches.'"
The Russian minister of instruction Is
being petitioned for the restoration o,
corporal punishment in the schools OF
that country. The reason 70. that 10
that, corporal punishment being forbid
den, boys are confined for "a hours on q
bread and water diet, and subjected to
other like severe and degrading pun.
ishments.
Chicago is much inclined to observe
the advice: "Look up-not down." Ac.
cording to correspondent, in the
course of the next three years Chicago
will possese the tallest a. we'll as the most
imposing business structures of the
world. In the past year ten six-story,
six seven-story, two eight-story one nine.
story and one ten.story structures have
been erected. At present the highest
building is q sugar refinery of twelve
stories, while five or six more Of that
hight are proiectets.
Itssems Is II the hight Of Jenkinsism
was reached in newspaper account of a
chiliren's party at Saratoga. The Sum-
mer Season, pink sheet, gave an &C
style: "Roslin Belts of Philadelphia
one year and half old, wore blue satin'
and Eva Southgate was han dsome ~ clai
In pink satin and white Spanish lace,
black slippers and pink stockings"
"Ah. here ATE some interesting statis-
tics" said Mr.. Job Shuttle, % he wiped
bis eye glasses. "It seems that twins
occur only once in every eighty.nine
births, and triplets occur only once In
1910 births, while bankruptcies only once
in 37l.l28 births. Great Jinks, what q
family man must have before he can
be the happy father Of quadruplesI"-
Hartford Post.
The River Withsm in England has Just
been the scene Of . novel contest. More
than sou anglers entered the lists to
compete for valuable prizes, the fisher-
man who caught the largest fish within Q
certain time to obtain the first prize. at
2 given signal Ill tie anglers cast their
lines into the wster. and the keenest
rivalry was shown by the continents of
fishermen from different town. Several
Of the contestants presented abnormal.
" large fish. on which they based q
claim for the prize, but il was easily
shown that they had resorted TO the old
trick Of buying them, and they were in.
nomtntously debarred from tia contest.
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