The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-11-16
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JHsta hundred years ago the flivt
stage and mail coach In New England,
and probably In this country, befan
running between Hartford and Boston.
t E9or cs Ss xs ,u required asa 9 .a
we're at the head OF "trHnk line" ex.
tending fiom Portsmouth, N. H., to
Savannah, Ga. A uniform rate Of fare
was fixed-"three pence per mile, with
liberty to passengers to carry fourteen
pounds weight Of baggage"
Texas has increased her taxable valua.
ton 30 per cent. in three years, and
now has about 6.0O0 miles of railroads
in operation. Tennessee has over 5000
square miles Of coal fiel,'s. Alabama has
still more, and now stands sixth on the
list OF iron. producin. states. The value
Of these mineral deposits has long been
known. but 1t is only few years since
the Southern people began in earnest TO
develop them. Now that they have ia.
ken hold they are going with rush,
The mineral output in many cases has
doubled, and even trebled, every year
for several seasons.
Mr.: E. E. Conklin, Of the Knicker-
booker Ice company, has expressed to
q reporter Of the Albany Evening Jour
nal the opinion that not less than 900, 900
tons of last winters ice harvest remain
in the storehouses along the Hudson.
The companies are buying up all the old
open winter. They make this prophesy
holdlv Gnr UNA MT Tho wind In thn .o,,kk
when the SUN crossed the line? And
isn't that an infallible sign that south
winds will prevail the next six months.
The notion that there is no such thing
as slavery in England is shaken by an
extraordinary story which was told by
the London Times. A lodging.house
keeper applied for a simmons against
one Of the dodgers for Systematically ill.
treating little negro boy, whose
screams she had often llyard through
the door. The boy, it appeared, had
been purchased in Africa as servant
and when the lady demonstrated with
her lodger for his cruelty, he replied:
oh! he Is only colored child and be.
landlady's interference seems to have
been visited on the little boy, who had
his wrists tied together, aud was huup
up to hook on the wall of the room.
"a workman" SAYS Ell Dia, "who has
acquired a certain celebrity for his for.
tune in the hunting field, as we'll as 70,
his success in training wild birds and IN.
imals, had succeeded in domesticatins
AL eagle 80 far that the bird would come
down from the greatest height in answer
to simple sign or slight whistle. The
eagle New about with the pigeons, caus
Ing no little CONSERVATION among then
ut first. 1t used to fly long distances, bu
came back two or three times day I,
take its food ont Of the hands Of Its mas
ter. After a few days. however; q fiocl
OF eagles was aeen In the neighborIlnod
and their domesticated fellow disap
peared with his friends, never 10 return
A PECULIARLY of Indian co,irtship i,
Idaho is described by correspondent
of the New York Post. In the fret place
it is said, it must be borne in mint
that the young sQuaws are NOR,
fleet OF font than the old bucks. Nov
when a buck fancies sQuaw lie provide
himself with lariat rs he would ifhe in
tended to lasso an animal. When she see
| hOi ouhuCI 0ppupdCtiillK BIG UeilANC
after her fashion, in tic manner of 9th
er young ladies. She runs, aud the bucl
runs alter her. fslle does not wish t,
be caught she duickens her pace aud /.
snoh beyond reach of the rope. II, Of
the contrary, she does not object, tn
moose slips easily over her head and tn,
prize is WON
A CORRESPONDENT ofthe London Time
writes Of the Victoria Theater that, ii
spite of all precautions, "let there com
chance, such us an encore verse, sucl
as some slip or stoppage in the stag,
machinery, and out will come something
not in the programme, and never hear,
or seen before, which will bring down
thunder ofenjoyment from the audience
and ut the same moment fill the man
ayers box with sorrow and humiliation
There is sorrow to think that for all tn,
efforts to take the "masses' on the up
ward path. bit of obsccnity has We
such ready power to catch them; am
there is sorrow to think that artists
| who can sing songs and dance dances
with no real mischief in them, will yet
for til. sake OF the fascinating triumph
of a 'round,' interpolate illusions, whicl
degrade their performances and thci
audience alike"