Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-07-16
Current Matters.


While England, with apopulation OF
26,ooo,oo0, has only 5, 500students at
Oxford and Cambridge, Germany, with
population of 40, $50, 900, has %,
600 students attending her universe.
ties.
1t is predicted that heiyory supply
OF Central Africa will not last more
than ten or fifteen years longer. Its
exhaustion will be good thing for
Africa, because the natives will not de
vote themselves TO the development OF
the natural resources of the country
so long as they can find tusks. The
sooner the ivory is gone, therefore, the
better for Africa and the Africans.
Mason and Dixon's line, which has
cut such a figure in our political his,
tory, was originally 800 miles long,
and was marked by stone posts at in.
tervals OF one mile. TWAS the bound.
airy line between the state of Pennsyl,
vania and the states of Maryland and
Virginia, and the name isderived from
its surveyors, Charles Mason and jere.
miah Dixon. In 1920 the line was ex.
tended to the western boundary o
Missouri, This is known as the Henry
Clay compromise.
Concerning the perfumery manufac.
tories at Nice and Cannes il is reliably
stated that these establishments an
nually crush and squeeze no less than
154, 900 pounds of orange blossoms,
1920 pounds of acacia blossoms
154, 600 pounds OF rose leaves, 80, 20C
pounds of jasmine blossoms, % ,00C
pounds of violets, $500 pounds o
tuberoses and relatively large
amount of Spanish hlacs, rosemary
mint, lime and lemon blossoms, thyme
and numbers OF other plants and leaves
and flowers. .T fEaEa
In anticipation of a clean sweep, the
postmaster OF Golden, Col, has post.
ed up the following notice on the door
of his office: II have to get out of this
shebang about LIST OF August coming
and want to close out all this store
truck before that time, and if any OF
you have the welfare of a fellow-being
at heart, and are fond OF a good smoke,
walk right up to the counter and DROP
your shekels-you willneverset anoth,
er such chance"
For the seventeen states of Europe
the total of the armies on a peace foot.
ing is 2,529, $50 men. Calculating
their wages at 50 cents per day, and
emitting the holidays, we have sum
of SlS7 80 per anuum for each man
Multiplying this sum by 2 ,529, 522, the
total comes to S474, 102, S75 per an
mum. Adding to this the total of the
seventeen war budgets, which is $50S,.
363, $40, the total loss suffered by
Europe annually on account OF hel
armies is 1882, 574, 260.
The transfer of West Virginia's cap
ital from Wheeling to Charleston, on
the Kanawha, ends a somewhat bitter
contest OF factions. When West Vir-
ginia became a state, Wheeling was
made the capital; but after the war
Charleston became the seat of govern
ment In 1875 the legislature made
Wheeling again the. capital, and the
citizens donated the state building
for the capitol In 1879 the legisla-
ture ordered a general vote on the cap
ital question, the decision to be con.
elusive one. Clarksburg, Martinsburg
and Charleston were to be voted on,
and Charleston received the largest
number of votes. Ii is understood
that there will never be a change.
The New York Sun says ofthe bench
show OF dogs mt the Madison Square
Garden: Ladies pets were numer,
Gus, and were almost without excep,
ton the ueliest dogs i'm the show, Mrs.
Frederic Nelson's bull terrier, which
took first prize, being phenomenally
so. The mild faced collies, the mag
nificent st. Demands, who may justly
be called the kings Of the kennel, aud
the soft -eyed, intelligent red settlers OF
ireland are all passedunnoticed by the
fair sex, while fox hounds, poodles,
bull terriers and Ch,nesemonstrositi
are taken to their hearts and laps,
But fashion must necessarily govern
the tastes and direct the affections OF
society women in the choice of a lap
dog, as well MS in the capture OF an eli.
gible husband or the selection OF o
hunter gts