Bismarck weekly tribune., 1886-02-05
VIEWS NOTES AND CouarENTs.
Kansas City, with it's suburbs, has pop
ulation Of 127 900.

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Sarah Bernhardt has taken to pork diet
to increase her avoirdupois. M.
The Hon. Samuel J. Tilden will celebrate
his 72d birthday February 9th.
Chief Justice Waite is said to have in
mind a pleasure trip to Alaska.
Miss Mary Gladstone, daughter Of the
great premier, was married Tuesday to the
Rev. Harry Drew. 53
Inter Ocean: Democratic advice to the
Ohio senate Stick" Response by the
Ohio democratic senate .We are stuok.''
Mrs Virginia Hanson, having filled the
position satisfactorily, has been nominated
for reelection as state librarian of Ken
lucky.
Franklin Simons, the sculptor, who has
lived in Rome seventeen years, is still a
thorough American. He is putting Long
fellow in marble
4 A Hindoo loom, complete, is worth sixty
eight cents, and Weaves shawls, silks and
muslins which our most expensive ap-
paratus can not equal.
1t is said by those who have tried it that
cayenne pepper sprinkled upon hot fan
nels will afford instant relief to persons
troubled with neuralgia.
Numbers of people speak Of the popular
and expressive word "crank" as slang ex-
preston. But it is legitimate term found
in the dictionary, with its definition.
Score another triumph for woman's
rights. A woman has been elected enroll
ing clerk of the Kansas house Of represen-
tatives. There were three applicants, and
all ladies.
Captain Louis Choat, who recently died
in New Orleans, was the oldest steamboat
man in southern waters, his river career
having commenced in 1918 on one of the
first boats run by steam. 7r-
A tailoring firm in Boston are making
$3 900 overc0at for well known wealthy
resident Of that city. The exterior of the
coat is OF fine blue castor beaver cloth and
the inside Of the finest Russian sable fur
skins. Ill.,. s s ".,
The portrait of General Grant painted in
Paris by Mr.. Healy, an American artist,
and imported by Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant,
per steamer Labrador, will be admitted
free Of duty. ~.
Ben Hogan, the muscular evangelist who
formerly dealt telling blows in the prize
ring, is now holding revival meeting in
Kearney, Neb., and knocking out sinners
by the score.
Traill County Times: The Bismarck
TRIBUNE is calling for republican leader
for North Dakota. Why not fix upon Bro.
Potter, of the LaMoure Chronicle, repub-
lican of forty years standing.
Chicago Inter Ocean: The Ohio senate
has been without chaplain. That ex-
plains the trouble. Governor Kennedy
has called in the services of the Rev. Met
calf, and hopes there will be peace.
Algeria is the paradise of hunters, as far
as game is concerned. During 1885, POP
lions were killed there, besides 1874 pan
theirs, 1882 hyenas and 27,185 jackals; but
it is wretched place so far as the comfort
of the sportsman is concerned.
Mr.. T. j. Todd, of Benton, was in the up
per story of his house during the recent
fire endeavoring to save property, and find
ing retreat cut off by the stairway, was
obliged to Jump from one of the windows
He strained his leg very severely.
Marble gates will be built by the $4,000
which the late Senator Sharon gave to
Golden Gate park, San Francisco. The
gates, with wings and facade, will be 400
feet long, and the central facade, sixty feet
in height will be pierced by three arches.
Two of the Pennsylvania iron works
keep six steamers busy bringing ore from
Cuba at the rate of 1900 tons a week. The
total imports of iron ore in 1884 were only
250,000 tons. Several establishments in
Baltimore send all the way to Spain for
the iron which they use.
Grand Forks Plaindealer: The Charter
Oak Life Insurance company, of Hartford,
Conn, one of the oldest companies in the
United States, has for some time past been
reported in shaky condition. The policy
holders have recently been notified to re-
NIT their annual payment but it is thought
advisable by some of them to defer action
until the matter can be inquired into. All
persons who are policy holders in the above
company are requested to leave their names
at the Plaindealer Office.
Speaking of John L. Sullivans recent
remark that he would fight any man in
the world for any amount from $1,000, to
$4,000, but that he would not place him
self in a position where the law could take
hold of him, Paddy Ryan said: "That is all
bombast. In one breath he says he will
fight, and in the next says he won't fight;
at least, he might as well say that, because
he knows there is no place in this country
or in England where he could fight with
out being amenable to the law. can't raise
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