Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-09-18

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n NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.
One and two dollar bills bring a premium
in New York. .as55.5i, I, q,
In China they pile weights on a murd er-
er and slowly crush him to death.
It is said President Cleveland has pur-
chased 5000 span or roadsters.
Captain Griggs, Of Grand Forks county,
has bearing apple trees in his garden.
Savannah, Georgia, has put up $2,OOO,0OO
worth OF buildings thus far this season.
Yankton county's tax is twenty three
mills, while Burleigh is but 15 2-1O mills.
The Womans National Industrial League
has decided that Chinese laundries must 60
Five daily papers in New York have sus-
pended publication since the 1st of last
January. 5.f:= t55%ys
A parrot, said to be 90 years old, is owned
by an Orlando, Fla, man, who has refused
$500 for it. w. ...s:1
Horatio Seymour is reported to be ageing
very fast; his hand trembles and his gait is
tottering. tE|2 .'e1
A street in San Bernardina, Cal, is so
overgrown with sunflowers as to obstruct
travel alongit. r.4,..lg ..5
Miss Cleveland will return to the white
house with party Of friends about the
first of next month. ge
Louisville is preparing to celebrate the
unprecedented sale of 100000 hogsheads of
tobacco in one year. :.
An average of 1868 letters for every
working day are received at the dead letter
office in Washington. t
"Aunt Dahney," a negress, aged 81 years,
died in Millersburg, KY, last Friday, leav-
ing husband aged 10.
1t is said that 955 farms in Iowa are
owned by women, and that twenty dairy
farms are managed by women.
This has been the worst season for cir
cuses in years. It is said that not one on
the road has cleared any money.
Belva Lockwood has introduced her moth
er to the president. 1t is not stated wheth-
er the old lady's consent was given or not
"Only a Woman's Heart" got broke at
Anaconda, and had to be taken out of hook
by Manager Gardiner to the extent of $500
A Philadelphia man says the banker
DrexePs daughters will receive $6,OOO,OO0
apiece from his estate when it comes to
them.
The king of Denmark has wart on his
nose, which he would give $4,000 to get
rid of, but the doctors are afraid of serious
results.
The sword which Blucher wore and
welded at the battle of Waterloo was
sold at auction in Berlin the other day fol
less than $40. = =. .'.s, ~
An opium joint was discovered in Fargo
and Quang John is now in durance vile
Several females and their companions were
fined and released. a.
Stovepipes can be cleaned by putting q
piece of zinc on the Goals of hot fire. The
vapor produced carries off the SCOT by chem
ical decomposition.
Mrs. Emma M. Markley, the heaviest
woman in the land, $50 pounds, is dead
No hearse in Philadelphia was large enough
to convey the coffin. ......
Grand Forks Herald: The Bismarck TR1
BUNE's tables of territorial finances and
taxation, based upon the auditors docu
ments, are exceedingly valuable and to be
commended.
Grants doctors held that ice water, un
less drank when one was overheated, was
healthy and refreshing, and laughed at the
idea of kidney diseases being caused in any
such manner. ..
p; A Paris novelty is a magnifying fan
Two sticks are bored and the holes filled
with small lenses of the finest crystal
The wearer covers her eyes with the fan
and uses the sticks as an opera glass.
.a President Cleveland announces that he
will give six hours week to Office seekers
two on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
;. and that in November this time will be
shortened to two hours on Monday only.
L. E. Bassett, of Detroit, Mich, was the
youngest enlisted soldier in the late war
He enlisted in 1854 at the age of 10 years
- and eight months, and served four months
and seven days in the 13Oth Ohio regiment
st. Paul Globo: 1t is noted that ONLY
about two-thirds of the members provided
by law of the Sioux Falls convention took
part in its organization-n out of Ill This
indicates even less interest in its work thar
has been supposed.
Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has vetoed
the ordinance imposing $500 license ON al
breweries In giving his reasons, Mayo
Harrison said that when high license wen
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