Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1884-12-05

VOL. y. No ~.
NEWS COMMENTS.
TooLE, democrat, for delegate from
Montana has majority of 2O7. He has
been nearly month finding it out.
A MAN fell off q bluff eighty feet high
at St. Paul Saturday, but was not hurt,
because he was dead drunk at the time.
ELEVEN thousand applications for re-
lease from the martial yoke have been
made under the new French divorce
law.
ARE we nation of scals?-Boston
Transcript The conceit of some peo-
pie! The idea of calling Boston ma
ton! Washington Gazette.
MANDAN TIMES: No man in the house
of representatives is more qualified for
speaker than Hon. E. A. Williams. He
should be put in that position.
ONE of the greatest curiosities IN
Japan is the wonderful variety of coins
that are used daily. In some instances
it takes 1000 pieces to make a dollar
ALoNDoN physician has ascertalned
that there are six deaths among l,OOO
married men, ten among the same num-
Der of bachelors, and twenty-nlne in the
= same number of widowers.
AN Indiana man, who has cork leg,
is about to get married to a girl with
similar outfit, and it makes him madder
than wet hen to ask him if he is going
to have wooden wedding.
The Washington Gazette says in al
most every case in which man has fallen
in love with girl dressed in bathing
suit and afterward married her divorce
has followed within two years.
PHILADELPHIA CALL: Grand Forks,
Dakota, is represented at New Orleans
by a cabba e-head nine feet in circum-
ference. The only wonder is that nobody
has nominated it for president in 1883.
A SINGLE shoe manufactory in Massa-
chusetts turns out by patent ma
chinery in twelve months as many
pairs of boots and shoes as 10000 shoe
makers in Paris make by hand in the
same leng:h of time.
The Chicago Inter Ocean gives St.
Louis the following unkind cut: "Slnce
the recent cattle convention in st. Louis
street beggars in that town have resumed
business They say citizens again have
loose change in their pockets.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, after life
time of public service, died poor. The
little home at Charlottesville, Ga, called
Liberty Hall, where he lived, was recently
appraised at $4,000. There was some
other property besides tnat, but not
much.
D1cKEY COUNTY LEADER: Hon. e.
A. Williams, elected to the house from
the Bismarck district, is spoken of as
speaker of that body. He occupied that
position at the last session, which was
in every way acceptable, and it would
be a graceful act for his fellow men,
bers to edo it to him again"
FARGO ARGUS: The Argus is favored
with the wedding cards of Mr.. and Mrs.
R.D. Haskins, with ':at home" at Bath
gate, Thursday evening, Nov. 27. Con-
eratulations are extended to the editor
of the Sentinel and his-hoped to be
happy bride. Let s'Hask" be careful how
he breaches another" business to the
wife-it may do to play on Burke, Hans
borough and Dawson not on the
wife.
Boston ADVERTISER: Colonel Pierce,
governor of Dakota, agrees in the esti-
mates of the population of that immense
territory which place it at 100000, OF
which 10000 are in the northern half of
the territory and 250,000 in the southern
half. He favors, as most of the Dakota
ians do, division of the territory; but,
despairing of accomplishing this result
while either house of congress is demo-
cratic, he is content to press the admis-
sion of the territory as whole. 1t would
make superb state, equipped with
sturdy and enterprising population. No
American state ever entered the union
having at the time of its admission SO
large population, SO much developed
wealth, SO many miles of railway, and 50
many flourlshing cities furnished with
1ao,+ od;rncts 0f civilized and Ink