Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-08-28

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VOL. l3, NO. 70
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.
There has been no rain in Arizona since
December. &sss.a
There has been no rain in Arizona since
December.
It will cost s5Oo,OOo to complete the Pan
anna canal. s.s.s fs.i;t s.s,..,, %. .,4,..,. 4
Rome in the reign Of Hadrian is supposed
to have contained 100000 inhabitats.
A boom for Roscoe Conkling for COVER
nor is about to be launched in New York
Nine monuments to Grant will be erected
in this country unless some of the present
projects fail. ~. - ,.a. ~ s,a 4 i,.
Over 100000 have been spent by Pull
man in experiments to find way to i'm
prove the ventilation of his cars.
The Chicago Current, one of the best lit
erary publications, has, from want of suffi-
cient patronage, been obliged to surrender.
The real name of Miss de Rance, author
Of "Ouida," ETC., is plain Mary Ann Stubbs.
She is 60 years old and is aboutto be mar
ried. .-.
The heavy rains in the eastern states
have washed down so much good food for
oysters that the crop will be great this
year.
The story is related that of the seven SOL
diers originally detailed to guard the tomb
of the late President Garfield three have
gone crazy.
Out of six appointments to office in Wash
ington, made at the solicitation of one DEM
ocratic congressman from Ohio, three have
been dismissed for drunkenness.
A worthy citizen of Long Island recently
went to sleep on his own doorstep; but he
awoke in a breezy perch in neighbor's
tree, thirty feet from the ground.
1t is estimated that the loss by the burn
ing of the wood warehouse of Orberne,
Hoosick & Co., Chicago, will reach 100000
on stock and $4,000 on the building.
Captain David Murphy, superintendent
Of the government building in Frankfort,
KY, has been removed for offensive par
tisanship" in the campaign of 1884. Muir
ply will resume the editorship of his paper,
the Danville (Ky.) Tribune.
Rev. John P. Newman, who received a
great deal of newspaper advertising as
Grants spiritual adviser, is seeking eleva-
ton to bishopric honors in the Methodist
church. His efforts, however, are said to
be meeting with strong opposition.
In an Ontario town last week lunch
was given in honor of Lord Landsdown,
the governor general of Canada, There
was wine on the table, and it is said that,
discovering this, all the clergymen left the
board, except the Episcopalian rector.
jamestown Alert: Maj. Edwards seems
to have stirred up lively hornets nest at
Bismarck. The major, however, can sting
just a little harder than the hornets can. A
few days ago Hollembaek was out cunning
loaded for bear of the Edwards species.
The Minneapolis Journal believes, like
the rest of us, that New York is extremely
tardy about raising funds for Grant mon
ument, and remarks that this is natural, as
New York City is neither patriotic nor
American, but is selfish and cosmopolitan.
Out of ten men who started five years ago
in the business of torpedoing oil we'll in the
region of Duke Center, Pa, two brothers,
named Gallagher, are the only survivors,
the other eight having come to their deaths
by the explosion Of the nitro -glycerine used
in this risky business.
The tallest chimney in the world, at the