Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-09-11
BISMARCK, DAKOTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER H. 1885

make difference of 100000 to the farm
ers of North Dakota, and action, Mr.. Green
ssys, should at once be taken to correct the
matter"
A Dakota farmer claims to have raised
from one grain of seed.
The Buffalo Telegraph, the sheet that
first printed the Halpin scandal in the last
campaign, has suspended publication.
The resolutions adopted by the liver con-
vention seems to indicate that Minneapolis
is the head of navigation of the Mississippi
river.
/, The new postal cards will cost the gov
ernment $47.n per thousand. Two-cent
postage was hard blow to the postal
cards. The issue has been decreasing ever
since letter postage was reduced.
A COW in Sparta, Wisconsin,, has just
given birth to five calves; she had previ-
ously given birth to twins, triplets and
clare that this is the most remarkable case
on record.
Of presidential postmasters there have
been 524 removals and of fourth class post
masters $500 removals. In Dakota eight
presidential and forty-one fourth class re-
movals have occurred and about the. same
proportion in the states.
Minneapolis Journal: Ex-Delegate Pet
tigrew has expressed his opinion that South
Dakota will never accept statehood unless
their is division of the territory. We
doubt if Mr.. Pettigrew accurately repre-
sents the real sentiments of the people of
southern Dakota. 1t is not likely that they
| are disposed to stand in the way of their
progress with captious objections to CO M
ing into the Union unless they can get in
| ON their own terms.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch: New light is
thrown on the working girl vuestion in
London by the statement that the most
poorly paid of all working girls are those
thrt stitch and bind the Bibles that are
published for distribution among the
heathen. If this is true, it shows the
British Pharisee at his worst.
A drummer swan the Mississippi river
at Dubuque, Iowa, on bet, Saturday night.
He crossed the river in forty minutes with
his clothes Oh, and won 800.
The first snow of the season in the United
States fell at Wilkesbarre, Penn, Aug %,
and on the same day it showed at Quebec,
General Miles and his wife are said to be
the handsomest couple in the army.
1t costs ten dollars to kiss another mans
wife in Pittsburgh.
Fall River Advance: When a delicate
and refined young lady can get away with
four square meals day, mount three diff
ferent dresses, read a novel, thump a piano
into Mysteries, take q bath, stroll and a
drive, play croquet, fill programme with
dances and then flirt on the hotel piazza
with her best looking partners, it may be
that she can persuade her papa that she is
a fragile lily whom such scenes can only
wean from heaven, but she can not fool heI
mother that she hasn't gone through days
work that would make city laborer strike
for more wages.
According to the Herald, tramps are liv-
ing in tents in Grand Forks.
Beuna Vista (Col.) Democrat: A Geor-
gia man, in climbing fence, got caught
and hung for four days with his head down
and his heels up before being discovered
and relieved. 1t is believed that he will
die as no Georgia man has ever lived three
days without drink of whisky. The limit
in Kentucky is two days.
Jamestown Capital: Speaking of the re-
vised census returns made of Grand Forks
city the Bismarck TRIBUNE says that
aprObably the least we say about the affair
the better Grand Forks" Whereupon
the Grand Forks Plaindealer retorts that
the editor of the Bismarck TRIBUNE "has
been contaminated by the thirty-seven
convicts lately transferred to that burg
on the Big Muddy" and he calls the editor
of the TRIBUNE a "lop-sided, knock-kneed
and pigeon-toed fellow"
Yellowstone Journal When it became
apparent that the buffalo were undergoing
a very rapid process Of determination,
dealers in and manufacturers of robes be-
gan to cast about for a substitute for the
robes which had formed such universal
protection against the rigor of northern
winters for SO many years. Many different
kinds of pelts were brought into market,
the most acceptable being Russian dog
skin, which obtained favor both with man.
ufacturers and consumers, but this is now
in danger of being supplanted with the
hide of the Galloway cattle, which, aside
from the defects occasioned by branding, is
nearly the equal of the famed buffalo hide.
The striking resemblance of the Galloway
to buffalo is the subject of constant re-
mark, and it would not be strange if they
succeeded the bison in supplying the world
with it's protection. They have the advan-
tage of the buffalo in color and texture of
1 fur to begin with.