Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1885-10-02


cry of the North Pole, by Lieutenant
Glass, U. s. n, detailing the defeat of
the English; also an account of the
great international balloon race, in
which the American vessel Ariel, built
at Chicago. defeats the crack air flyers
OF the world. We clip the following in
teresting items:
"Clarence Howland. of Cleveland, o.,
rides a bicycle twenty-eight feet in dia-
meter. His best record is four miles
and quarter in one minute"
Commodore Cattson. of Nlinnesaint-
paulolis, has just imported thirteen s;-
cred white elephants for breeding
purposes on his elephant ranch at Lake
Wimepesaubegosll."
''Three years ago Mr.. Moses Solomon,
the millionaire who acquired his fortune
in the clothing business in Chicago. pur
chased the whole of Palestine, embrace
ing Judea, Samaria. Gallilee and Pc
drea. HIS possessions reach from Tyre
OH the north to Jenysus on the south,
giving coast line of nearly POO miles.
A ship caAal has been cut from the
Mediterranean to Lake Genezereth,
thus opening to navigation that lake,
the Jordan and the Dead Sea. Irrigat-
ing canals run everywhere, and all over
his little empire King Solomon, as he is
called, pumps fresh water lrom beneath
the rocks and pours it lavlshly upon the
parcning soil. Many railways are build
ing. and. in short, under Mr.. Solomon's
direction the desert is blossoming as a
rose"
''4At last the English channel tunnel
has been completed, and. as stated in
the dispatches i'm the Herald of yester-
day, trains ran through from London to
Paris in three hours.''
"In addition to being the largest city
in the world, Chi ,ago has now become
the capital of the greatest nation on
earth Room for the conqueror!''
"a ship-load of Chinese bibles arrieed
at San Francisco last week. The books
will be distributed throughout the coun-
by the Chinese Missionary society in
America. This society has organized
6,43O Sunday schools in the United
States. which are attended by 9s.sO0
boys, who are being reclaimed from
heathenism and hoodlumism and taught
the morality of Confucius."
CHOW that there is but one American
Indian left, and he is in 1; penny muse
um at New York, there is no good rea-
son why the Indian bureau should con-
tinue to cost the country $7,OOO,OOO a
year,
"Maudess made practice mile at
Cleveland, yesterday. in l:57. 1t is be-
lievo she will succeed i'm reducing her
record of 1::25t before winter"
We don't wish to force the season, but
coats have arrived, and the first are gen
orally the best. Whidden Bros.
Apples. apples, by the peck and bar
rel, at Whidden's.
eYlOO dozen pairs of boots and shoes,
Boston, Chicago, st. Paul and Burling-
ton manufacture, just opened at
Whidden Bros.
.Sterens & Enger acill sell you No. 8 coal
and vood cook stoves, tcar1 anted IN erery
respect. for $3.50.
You can get No. Z Cook Stores for 81,
and No. Cook stoues fer So, near 0oods,
not second hand, at Stevens & Enger's.
We do not advertise prices on goods aee
haze had IN stock for gears, nor on goods
ere expect to haze some time IN the distant
future; bat zee mean business, and have
the goods nou IN stock, fresh
John !Syrerson & Go.
9yDavis & Pickett have just unload
ed car of fine -four. and another car is
coming. Flour is going up, and now is
the time to catch OIL.
g. A new car load of furniture at II
S. Pickett's t's,-everything from a Accent
chair to bridal chamber set.
eB- Salt has advanced but we have a
car load purchased at summer rates, to
arrive in few days, for sale low.
Whidden Bros.
Whidden Bros. have in stock, and to
arrive this wee1two car loads of gro
ceries, all fresh and good.
Thirty -seyen cases OF lined rubber goods
Just received, and to be soldat bed rock.
John Syrerson & Co.
We hare received t,rO car loads of st0res
which are are going to sell at the same
rate of profit ue sold barb acire for last
spring and summer. Sterens & Enaer.
From and after the 18th day of October
sce aril close ont our large stock of stores