Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-14


VOL. Is, NO 10. .
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.
The average duration of life in Russia
is only twenty-six years.
Blne Earth county, Mimi, is about to
erect a $4,000 court house.
The number of scholars enrolled in the
United States is placed at 100000.
It is said that such thing as good
looking Arab woman does not exist.
The house in which General Grant first
saw the light had only two windows.
There are in England 1877 ragged schools,
which are attended by $4,000 children.
Color blindness is said to be many times
as common in the male as in the female.
General Hazen is off on vacation. We
are having some pretty good weather now.
The greatest height of an ocean wave
is said to be thirty-fve feet above the
level. '|tt a" ys. ~ ~
There are 250 disabled ex-confederate SOL
diers living in the poor houses of North
Carolina IT'D, H..
The st. Paul coal dealers have broken
their pool and are engaged in coal war of
large dimensions. ...
During the past fiscal year there were
5,288 deaths in San Francisco, against 5000
of the preceding year. '@
Francis A. Underwood, Bret Harte's sue
cessor as consul at Glasgow, was the first
editor of the Atlantic Monthly.
Fruit trees are so heavily laden in some
places on the Pacific coast that hundreds
s of laborers are kept employed thinning out
the fruit. ..,....1 III. ,.2-..
The good people of Boston are up in arms
against reckless herdic drivers. There
have been countless accidents from this
cause recently.
A fire at Sanborn, Dak, Sunday. de-
stroyed the stores of Covey & Brown. D. F.
s Siegfried and VIM. Holiday; loss, $4,000;
! insurance, $4,000 ~. ~
The Philadelphia Call is agitating in fa-
vor of freight street cars for the city of
brotherly love. Passenger street cars are
good enough for Bismarck. 49,: "a
The Dakota Clipper says it will be hon
est with its delinquent subscribers and tell
them the truth-that the editor is hard up
4 and wants them to pay up. .....
An Oregon man has followed out the
stump of large tree in the fashion of a
room, cut a door and windows in it, and
Y has there taken up his abode.
The MOrmOns have sent agents to buy
land for settlement in Alabama where
they expect to place 300 new converts who
are coming over from Europe.
The odd fancy of Michigan man is to
build his summer residence in the shape Of
huge lantern. The site for the structure
is on bluff overlooking Lake Huron.
i One of the oldest newspapers in the coun-
try is the Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette
! 1t has passed its one hundredth year, and is
in no sense debilitated by it's extreme age.
Boston Globe: 1t is claimed that Da-
kota's population has gained from 10000 to
100000 in the last five years. 1t is still like
horse car, however; there is room for one
more. ,. ,.s'
Margaret Weston, an Indian woman
living at Flandreau, is Ito years old. The
ozone of Dakota will probably prolong her
y life many years yet. She was born in Min
nesota.
A 10 year old lad, living near Yankton,
was bitten on the hand by rattlesnake.
The father of the boy bound the wounded
hand in manner to stop circulation, and
sucked the virus from the wound, saving
the life of his child.
There are no hod carriers in Germany
Bricks are passed by hand. The higher up
the brick layers are the more men are re-
quired to toss the bricks. Two men to a
story is about the average, with enough
more to lead from the front of the building
to the place where the bricks are needed.
A special to the Globe from Bismarck
says Governor Pierce delivered the memo
rial address on Saturday in that city. The
tolls on that special" will not make a
heavy draft on the Globe exchequer.-Far-
go Republican. :........
No such telegram was sent from Bis
marck.
North Dakota is complaining of pros
pective shortage in harvest hands, and at
the same time all the towns in tnat region