The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-08
PASSING EyEvrs

Surf-bathing has commenced in San
Diego, Cal.
The actual membership Of the Nor
mon church is 1856.
The skating-rink fever has reached
the Sandwich islands.
Bias. bull clubs are being organised
throughout the country.
One ostrich egg makes good pam
cake meal for three men.
There are ninteen metals that arc
worth about 81 900 pound
Tennessee farmers are at least one
month behind In their work.
This country controls three.quarters
of the corn-fields of the whole world.
Early fruit and vegetables in Missis-
sippi have been destroyed by heavy
freeze.
Tho value of wood used annually in
cooperage IN the United States is $685.
ia, 40.
PlcurO. has broken out
among tho cattle in tho vicinity of
Marietta, Pa.
A poplar was felled at White Fern,
Tenn, that made over ten thousand
feet of lumber.
There are $50 disabled ex.confeder-
ate soldiers living in the poorhouses
of North Carolina.
A Jacksonville, Fla, merchant has
disposed of ten thousand marbles with
in the past three weeks.
Thirty thousand writers are employ
ed on the fifteen hundred daily news
papers published in the United States.
A blue seal OH letter indicates love.
This is probably because when u man
is in love he is blue more or less all
the time.
A Manitoba farmer who tills thirteen
thousand acres of land communicates
with his employees by the use of the
telephone.
The legislature of Massachusetts, re-
fused to permit woman preacher at
Nantucket to perform the marriage
ceremony.
1t is understood that, for several
causes, a comparatively small number
Of Americans will go to Europe the
coming summer.
A Colleton county, South Carolina,
woman is Boosting of the fact that
twenty-five hens Of her flock laid
forty-nine dozen eggs in ten weeks.
There are altogether some six hum
bred glaciers in Alaska, varying IN
size, but IN nearly every case having
dimensions far greater than any in
Switzerland.
Baltimore is to have an electric rail-
way between Huntingdon avenue and
the union passenger station. The cleo
trio conductor will be third rail, and
the speed ten miles per hour.
Lawn-tcnnis is said to have brought
in. like roller.skating, a new and pc
culiar disease. 1t is o rupture of q
muscle in the arm. The ailment has
already been dignified by name.
Western lumbermcn are poking fun
at Tom Nast's picture in Harper's,
where a single span of horses are rep.
resented as drawing a sled loaded
with fifteen large logs-a quite impos.
sible and improbable feat.
Smyrna. Del. has a public school
building costing SIG, 900 which was SO
during the gold weather the schools
had to be closed, because it was found
impossible to keep the building warm:
Someone has discovered that five
out Of the twsnty-oae presidents of
the United States were Of Scotch Irish
ineage-Jaokson, Polk, Buchanan,
Johnson, and Arthur; two of Scotch,
Grant and Hayes; one of WEIGH, JEFF
ferson, and one of Dutch, Van Buren,;
The remaining twelve being of Eng
lish descent.
Near Chickasawhatchee, Ca, line
Of earthworks can still be seen which
were thrown up by Gen. jackson
(Old Hickory as q protection against
the Indians on his march to Florida
through that section in 1918. These
breastworks are scarcely perceptible
on first sight, but by close observation
they can be traced.
The aggregate number of carloads
& o%R f'is ss7 is To P oSs sf RssEsS
greatest year being 1875, with 9,O72
carloads, and the smallest, 1881, with
only 7S. A carload is $50 baskets.
The bulk of the crop is shipped by YES
sells to Baltimore. During the past
year svaperators haye been erected
throughout Delaware and MARYLAND,
which are both profitable in them
selves and useful in preventing gluts
in tho market. The crop tor 1885
promises In both states to be large.
Hattie ketchum, a 5-year-old girl
living near Syracuse, N. Y. is said to
In hnra1ocSlxy ,l.1;n&ol 20 H. "a
tonacco. and has been since she was
years old. When between l and 2
years of age the girl was afflicted with
what is known as wind collie. and at
THE suggestion of a friend, tobacco
smoke was blown into milk and gfveR
her, This remedy proved effective,
but created an uncomfortable desire
for tobacco, and by various subter-
fuges the child has ever since found
means to satisfy her craving for the
weed.
Every stop of train costs money to
a railway company. Recent statistics
kept on a certain trunk line showed
that during a given year the $50
| daily trains made 1000 extra stops
every twehty.fsnr hours, the traa4o
being largely suburban. kxsppeerim1 et
showed also that each stop eort 10
cents. reckoRed largely In extra time
to employees, who for that number of
stops put in the aggregate of $50 ex-
ira hours per day, making total loss
to the company of nearly $50,
! year.
The captain Of Mobile fishing
smack lately lost nearly all of bis
catch in a singular manner. He was
making for Mobile, and when twenty
miles distant encountered a large
quantity of drift timber, and while
p Esfa5 t tpfoEga il aosiesa FIAT tie
Shortly after he found that all the fish
IN his well were dead. Having a sup.
ply of ice, however, he was able to
preserve seventeen hundred of the
rest Of his fish. Whether the discol.
as oss q any %h a1{e gss Hs s & ths
cause Of the mortality. is q matter of
doubt, but in 1873 the water In Mobile
bay was similarly affected, and nearly
| all the fish in tho hav at tho time .1;oS