Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1885-09-11
NEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS.

VOL. l3, NO. Id
NEWS NOTES IND COMMENTS.
A mica mine from which sheets twenty
feet in width are taken is said to have
been discovered about ninety miles from
Virginia City, New.
The exertion of propelling bycicle six
miles is equal to walking one mile. Sixty
miles day on bycicle would be moder-
ate exercise for healthy man.
Buffalos are now bred at Good
night, Kan, and buffalo calves sell at
$50 head where once the earth shook be-
meath the onward tramp Of 10000 hoofs.
Solicitor General Goode has received a
telegram announcing the application for
writ of habeas corpus in the case of Hibbs,
the defaulting postmaster, arrested in Brit
ish Columbia.
The Superior. Milbank & Missouri River
air line railway is the name of new pro-
jected line from some where in Roberts
county to some where on the Missouri river
in Brule county.
The fishes collected from great depths
upon the famous Challenger expedition
two OF three thousand fathoms-possess
bones and ligaments Of great softness and
muscles loosely connected. This is pro-
vision to allow of the permeation of their
tissues by the water, since otherwise at the
great depth where they live the pressure of
the water, which shivers solid glass to pow
der, would crush their bodies.
A Apeculiarity of most OF the Paris papers
is that they rent out the financial column
by the year to anybody who wants it. A
we'll known banking house pays the Figaro
100000 francs year for the use of their
financial column, and puts in whatever it
pleases. 1t has ten years. contract.
Senator Kenna, Of West Virginia, is pre-
pairing to manufacture another cabinet po-
sition and will introduce bill with that
end in view at the coming session. His
bill will call for department of industry,
and will include the agricultural bureau,
the bureau Of statistics, the geological sur
vey and the census Office.
A law has been enacted in Austria MAX
ing the observance of Sunday compul-
sorry.
A law goes into effect in Ohio this month
requiring all wages to be paid weekly in
cash..
German geologists estimate that the Dead
sea will be a solid mass of salt 1,000 years
hence.
At the Palmer house, Chicago, 1909
guests were accommodated during August,
or an average of 614 per day.
President Cleveland had a good fish and
drew $3.50 for salary while he was gone.
He ought to be able to tell good fish
story.
A number of Russians are to settle in a
valley north of Sitka, Alaska, an agent now
travelling across the continent having Sc
lected the site.
The census of Wisconsin has been COM
pleted. The footings are as follows: Pop
ulation, 1865, ,99SSS;; subject to military duty,
1888; union veterans, 29,l52; gain in five
years, M8, ,44S, or about 20 per cent
A bill has been introduced into the
Georgia legislature which imposes tax on
every unmarried man in the state over
thirty years of age, of $3.50, the tax to be
devoted to the education of children who
have no fathers.
It has been finally settled that the Chi
cago, Quincy & Burlington will build its
extension into the St. PauPs territory,
which is expected to lead to a railroad fight
in the northwest similar to that which has
already been experienced in the east
Miss Sarah Landreau, who was once the
reigning belle Of Savanna, Ga has for thir-
ty-five years lived hermit life in log
cabin near Fayetteville, Ca, because of a
been married and the night Of the wedding
the groom eloped with another woman.
The Yankton Herald says: A good illus
tration of the rapidity with which new
bottom lands on the Missouri are formed
can now be seen in front of the city.
Where the channel of the river ran twenty
feet deep five years ago, there are now
ebout 100 acres of good land from six to
eight feet above low water mark, which in
five years, if the river continues shifting to
the Nebraska side, will be considered
choice farming land.
1t is just fifty years agothat the construc-
ton of the first French railroad-that from
Paris to st. Germain-was officially sane
toned.
A Fargo dispatch says: eli Green, a
leading farmer of the Red River Valley,
says of 24GO0 bushels of wheat threshed he
has shipped forty-five cars to Duluth,
where the first eighteen graded No. hard
and and inspectors there graded the re-
mainder No 1 Northern making differ