The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-08-28
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Tho wine product for 1885 IL esti.
mated at $1,000, 600 gallons.
The old Cincinnati postoffice is to be
rebuilt at Eden park for an art school.
A Danbury, Conn.,, man swallowed
live frog several days ago for two
bottles of beer.
The last blow to the roller.skatine
rink has been given by Philadelphia
physician, who says that roller. skating
enlarges the feet.
The Japanese have adopted the bi.
cycle. and it has become popular there,
but the Chinese seem wholly incapable
OF compromising it.
1t is now claimed that birds rs near.
ly rs possible initiate the nests in which
they were reared. and bring to the
work sort of rudimentary education.
Prof. L. E. Richards, the Yale pedes-
trian. has walked nineteen hundred
miles thus far this year for pleasure.
Last year he made twenty-one hum
drcd.
Tho Pennsylvania Railroad company
Is soon to open ut Allegheny, for tho
use OF its employees, q library, reading
room, bathrooms, and an assembly
hall.
Fifteen thousand people at the OPEN
ing of tho Chautauqua school, which
indicates that as popular summer re.
sort the school is fast taking tho place
OF tho camp meeting.
In recent issue of o well.known
French journal appeared the follow
ing advertisements: "Wanted, a dis
tinguished and healthy looking man to
DO Cured patient in a doctors wait.
ing-room. Address, etc.,
As two men wcro fishing in mill.
pond at Valatie, Columbia county,
New York, the other day, thoy saw q
crocodile about six feet long crawl
into the water. 1t was put into the
pond six years ago, when small.
Tho Jews of Austria complain that
It is great hardship that they should
be forbidden to work on Sundays, since
their religion obliges them to rest on
Saturday. The jewish population in
Vienna alone amounts to 10000.
Lunches at the Ascot races, eaten
on the grass or under cover, consist of
ebrcad, butter, and a ard boiled egg"
for "threepence" or, more elaborate,
the "periwinklc, 'ot 'ouse grapes,
peerless pines, and as a sweet pack
age of acid drops.
Tho tribal government of tho Chero-
KEGS is democratic in form, with an
elective chief magistrate and an up
per and lower house of representa-
tives. The judiciary is also elective,
and criminals are punished after the
manner of the whites.
The dry weather in Texas affects
Tic L'tlinQ Wasp in this manner:
''rhe foam-covercd coursers of tho
air are constantly in sight, but the
sound of their tramping comes not,
nor do we feel the welcome spray from
the raingod's fountain"
A horse was thrown down In New
York few days ago by the iron shoe
Of one foot coming in contact with
tho cover of manhole for tho cleo
trio wires, which was affected by leak
age, while tho other foot touched the
iron rail Of the Blocker street horse
railroad.
AS an illustration of the depreciation
Of land valued in England, London
Truth states that q large free hold es.
tate in North Wiltshire was offered for
sale at Devices recently for $4,000
There was not a single bid, and yet
ten years ago this property was valued
at S24O,00O.
In communication to the Acaden,-
tie DIES Sciences. Nj. Duclaux states the
presence Of micro-organisms in the
earth is essential to the termination
of seed. HIS experiments were made
with plants whose seeds grow on tho
surface as well as those which deYel-
op in tho ground.
In Tenejapa, Oaxaca. Mexico, the
Indian residents arc more sanguinary
than tho Chinese in the administra-
tion Of justice. They surrounded tho
houses Of seven well-known robbers,
and burned them alive in their houses.
When tho militia arrived they only
found q heap of ashes.
Tho largest diamond in the world is
shortly to be cut at Amsterdam, where
a special workshop is being construct
ed. This gem is south African, and
weighs 4?5 carats. thus being 1876
oarats heavier than tho Grand NOgul,
belonging to the shah of Persia and
hitherto tho biggest diamond known.
Tracing-paper may be made by i'm.
mersing best tissue paper in bath
composed of turpontine and bleached
bcoswax. A piece of beeswax an inch
in diameter dissolved in half pint of
turpsntine is said to give good results.
The paper should be allowed to dry
for two or three days before using it.
A very aggravated case of vitriol.
throwing occurred recently In the
Bots dc Boulogne. A woman named
Josephine Pei, having in vain solicited
aims of a gentleman who was passing
by with his little daughter, flung q
bottle full of vitriol at his head. He
escaped injury but the child was badly
burned about the neck and back.
Within few days 1870 omnibuses
have been sold at auction IN New York.
The hundred sold at the Madison
square stables went as low as an aver
age OF $50, and one brought only S15.
At q later sale eighty Fifth avenue
stages brought an average Of 500
each. At these prices they were
cheap for the use Of camping-out par.
ties or travelling photographers.
Take a slip of paper and place
thereon. in figures. your age in years,
dropping months, weeks, and days.
Multiply tho sum by two; then add to
the result obtained the ii cures 3,768;
add two, and then devidc by two.
Subtract from the result obtained tho
the Rumber Of your years on earth,
and soc If you do not obtain figures
you will not be likely to forget.
For its private work the Bank of
DEVILS Lake. Dakota, has adopted Il
rather peculiar but very suggestive
yignette. The base is u sheaf Of wheat,
on which rests q silver dollar, over
the back of which Satan is climbing,
holding in one hand the scales of jus.
tice and in the other lance. At his
left is map of tho Lake, which forms
the place for writing tho amount of
draft or check, on which arc the
words. "Give tho devil his DUE"
A few days ago a Watervliet, N. Y,
farmer was induced by a stranger to
net as agent for wire fence, signing
what he was told was an agents Ger.