Bismarck weekly tribune., 1886-02-12
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u: The conscience fund now amounts To-
$22O,747. 1.
Mr. Blaine is fond Of riding down hin on
D. A. Clark, OF Montana, went to the
range in 1856, with about twenty-five cents,
and he now has an income 81, 900 a day.
# There are 800 900 Indians who are today,
toan intents and purposes, as unciyilized
as they were $50 years ago says Senator.
Dawes. ISL + 3 '. SIS
Sancy, naughty, aClary BELIZE tells the:
public in sprightly Language that yellow
garters are de rigeur for fascinating ,femi-
nine tobogganers
ongressman Rainey, Of South Caro-
lima, is running coal yard in Wilmington.
In that weigh he manages to lay up some
thing for rainy day.
The new election commissioners Of Chi
cago have decided to advertise for bids for
l5O new glass ballot boxes, to be used in fu-
ture elections in that city. 5
Evangelist Sam Jones denies that Gin
cinnati is the worst city il, the world, and
declares that neither Chicago nor St Louis
is half SO bad as New Orleans. &
# The New York civil service commission
reports that in one school in Westchester
county, the history of the United States is
being taught from book published in 1877.
q A pound of bananas, it is said, contains
more nutriment than three pounds Of meat,
or many pounds of potatoes, while as a
food it is in every sense superior to the
best wheaton bread.
Young Voorhees, was elected delegate
from Washington by 14S majority out Of a
total Of nearly $4,000 votes And yet Mr..
VOORHEES, says that he will guarantee that
Washington will be democratic state.
Mr.. Henry Curtis, of Stratford, Conn, 81
years old, suddenly remembering that
eighty-fve years ago he used to slide down
Academy hill, was seized with desire to
repeat the performance, and did it with
success. t +: 4 4 ID
A musical sewing machine is new de-
vice for making life pleasant. A Berlin
inventor has produced machine which
turns out the ordinary amount of work and
at the same time plays lively melodies in
great variety.
Mr.. Osborn, the only cocoannt planter in
the United States, has just received by ship
from Africa 10000 cocoanuts. These are to
be planted this year along strip of sea
coast many miles in length, down toward
the southernmost point of Florida.
The people Of Santa Rosa, CAL, have
been boasting of their artesian well, which
reached but forty feet into the earth, but
its abundant flow now proves to be de-
rived from the reservoir of the local water
company. The well will be corked up.
The Chicago Grant monument committee
has adopted a design and selected site
in Lincoln park for bronze representation
Of the old hero. New York is begging he
roically, with $1l4,OO0 on hand Of the ST.
100000 promised. Chicago represents the
west.
ITO the toboggan slide," read the signs
attached to sleigh that led funeral train
at Saratoga Springs last Friday. The SOL
emn procession had proceeded about two
yards when bystander called attention to
the printed cards, which were quickly re-
moved by the driver. -.s .<s..-
Wallace Ross and Fred Plaisted say they
will make an attempt next August to go
through the Niagara whirlpool in boat.
They claim that Captain Webb was
drowned through an accident, and that the
boat they have contracted for in the United
States will carry them through safely.
The following advice comes from an ex-
perienced benedict: =" Young woman, learn
the game of billiards, and learn it we'll It
will repay you a thousand times for your
trouble by its charm; who knows but that
some day the skill which you acquire will
keep a restless husband from the club
when fireside and music will have failed "
Kansas and Iowa are thoroughly agitated
over the recent decision of Judge Brewer,
of the United States circuit court, holding
that state can not prohibit persons from
continuing the business Of brewing where
such business was legal when entered upon,
without compensating such persons for the
damage and loss of property resulting from
the prohibition. ....
st. Paul Globe: Parties who have re-
Gently returned from the upper Missouri
country. about which there is little gener-
ally known, in the neighborhood Of the
Forts Stevenson and Berthold reservations,
state that it is beautiful country with soil
and characteristics equal to nearly any part
of Dakota, with plenty of timber along the
Missouri river, and abundance of species
of lign ite coal to be had almost on the sur
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