The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-10-09
FACT AND FANCY.

week.
A ton of diamonds in the rougl
passed through the South Africar
postoflices last year.
A barber in Auburn has Just been
"installed" in new "tonsorial parlor
and capillary studio"
Since March 4, nine thousand appli.
cations for office have been filed in tho
interior department alone.
The Union League club of New York
VIII increase its membership to /, 800
between now and December.
In France all the cows are .milked
on tho left hand side. and tho oiG horse
is always called the nigh one.
One hundred million pounds of hon.
cy is the American crop forctold f0,
1885. in spite of tho July drought.
"Aunt Dabncy," a negrcss aged 81
years, died in Nillershurg, Ky, last
Friday leaving husband aged ly.
A curious now fact in natural his.
tory is that the Spitz dog is ..a domes.
ticated subarctic variety Of the prairie
wolf" ''>'
A New York lawyer saws be
would have no trouble in getting
l,OOo men in that city to swear falsely
IN q case.
The death rate in Salt Lake CITY and
vicinity is very nigh. owing 10 i lack
OF drainage and ignorance of the laws
of health. "'
The scientists are divided IN opinion
Us to whether the just vanished season
was very cool summer or Il rather
warm wiatcr.
"Oh! l didn't know that boloyna
sausages grew" cried II little fresh.air
girl riding past u cat-tal swamp at
Pittsford. N. Y.
Some New York ladies arc sad to
DO astonishing tho natives by reckless
pay ut the gaming tables in foreign
pleasure resorts.
Tho western cowboy discourayes sci.
cncc: Que Arizona specimen shot
another, recently. for calliny him {.
bianked microbe.
during tho August term Of the su.
preme court Mt Bangor. No.. lustin.
lvc days. tho amount of $4,000 was
collected for liquor fines.
Delegate Sheats, of tho Florida con-
stitutional convention, fought - re-
porter because tho Journalist called
hiM tho educated plOwbpy.
Tho New York o0liee.cxchun9e has
specimens Of more than six hundred
varieties Ut coffee. aud tl,oro are re-
mote districts still to DO hard FROM,
Solid leather shoe buttons ;,re now
made, and ut the rate Of two or three
hundred minute. They grow a
brighter jet the longer they are worn.
The colorcd debating society in a
Georgla town has been discussing the
question, (Which Arc tho More lIsa-
tui TO Society. Lawyers or lsuzzardsP"
AT fashionable dance ut Ncwport
unique german favors were toy rabbits
wound by machinery and made to hon
across tho floor in front of tho d,ncors
One of the two spircd village cI,urct-
cs of Canada is large enough for tif-
teen hundred worshipera. and Tho
parish contains three hundred mem
bers.
Tho lasso artist among the Wyo,n-
ing cowboys pritles himself on hurlinu
tho moose in front of the boast so that
nc will step into it, cntanglc himself.
and get thrown.
An extraordinary wedding occurred
~ Icrce county, Georgia. recently.
William Harrell, aged al, u wcu.to-Jo
farmer. married Sallie Wilson,. aged
10 years aud q months.
Tho citizens Of Tulare, Cal, are
making an effort to prevent TIM Chi
nesa from building on the lots recent
~ burned over, and are trying to
force them still further away from
town.
Sportsmcn pronounce English spar.
rows good Oating, and they do duty as
reod birds in the Philadelp phl restaur.
ants ut this season. The bird is tonth-
some whenever he is fat, which is
most of the time.
A live toad and q pe.riiic.l snake
were found together in II vein of blue
limestone at West Union, W. Va. Tho
snake was hanging by the toad's leg,
anu appearances Indicated that it was
trying to swallow the toad when they
wero buried
Niowa Indian. studyin at Lincoln
university. Pennsylvania, has submits
ted request TO the commissioner of
Indian affairs to lie admitted tn ctr
zensll p. Hc is informed in reply that
this could only be done by act Of tho
general government.
What is said to be tho largcs. gun in
the world is being constructed in ,Jer-
scy CITY. 1t is brcech loading, sixty
feet loAg. The propclliny power viii
bo compressed air which Will dischar-
&c $50 pound dynamite cartridge
five feet long.
A double scull shell, made bv q
Lansingb0rg, N. Y, firm for Hanlan
and Lee. is fourteen inches wide and
thirty. five feet long, and is claimed IN
be tho lightcst boat Of its kind ovc,. =
built. weighing only forty-ninc aud
one half pounds.
Oscar Wilde has 4 successful com.
petltor III y Barnegat. N. j., citizen.
VINO has three acres devoted to :.
the cultivation of snnilowers. It is
estimated that possibly 100. 900 of these
gau.ly beauties are now in tho height
Of their splcndor.
An original genius is the chairman
OF the almshOusc board of Douhestor
Maryland. lie refused the
other day to put q motion to vote for
the reason. us ho very frankly stated.
that he was opposed to the motion,
Aaa there Is majority in favor of it;-
therefore. l shall not put it,"
Tho following isa verbatim cow Of
notice posted recently by school dis.
trict committee in Vol1ntown, Coon
~ Hereby Notify tho Legal voters OF
District Of tho Annual meet
Ing will be held ut the Chool House on.
to Chuse and Elect Chool officers
and other bsincss that comes ut the
meeting"
by sa automatic tea or coffee not
asea BY the Fronch army. it Is imPos-
siblo to obtain drop of coffee unless
the water is boiling. Tho water is un.
derceath the colleo. but when it boils
it rises up through tube aud falls
over the coffee or tea. porcolatcs. goes
down to the lowor part Of tho appara.
tus. is warmed again. and once more
travels upward, ~.
Society noto in Tic Santa Fs IN. MY
Aeatea; Santa Fe is getting on nicely.