The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-09-01
FOREIGN FINDINGS.

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FOREIGN FINDINGS.
. = MINING claim on Douglas Island, Ala.l,. Z
Aas Just been sold for q, 800, 600.
CHILI and the Argentine Repnhlic ara -
Andes. a $50 $500 "
Tue railway casualties in England last
ysar nclude thirty-three persons killed and
jured. '-s s. & - e. go -
TnE moro important cities 81 Colombia
sres almcst IS we'll supplied with telephones
as the average city Of tho same NOMINATION
~ this country. .s7 81 /. -
Two .,sf.' STATE railway carriages have been
Dul y. IN Paris for the Emperor and Empress
OF China. Tho dragons on the panels aro
cont all over. ss,s 40 .sS II
The telephone disease has been dis
: covered g BY Prof. Wilborstadt,i Of Berlin.
Inc Qso Of the instrument produces dis
order IN thu Migratory chambers 81 the ear
generally in the left ear.
TsLsPHoNE rates are comparatively low
N sweden. At Orebo, for instance, the
! subscriber pays an annual renta, Of but
Tour dollars and gets the use Of telephone
the country.
THERE are six hundred and twenty-one
newspapers printed in Berlin. Fifty-fourB
are 0mclal papers, seventy political, one
hundred and sixty-hve have to do with lit
erature, science and art, ..two hundred and
seventeen are commercial, and thirty relig-
ious.
ss An immense terrestrial globe, on the scale
NJ mill
Paris exposition Of 1889. It VII. be about
forty 1eet in diameter and will give impor-
tant spaces in their actual relative size.
Paris, for example, will cover about a sixth
Of : square inch.
81 COUNT MAURICE EsTERHAzY'has been put
underg guardianship to check his mad ex-
travagance He owns, free and clear Of
membranes, more than 100000 acres of
land in Hungary, and can travel IN a
straight linz more than fifty miles without
quitting his estate.
Tn morphine habit in Paris is enslaying
thousands OF women in the upper classes.
They provide themselves with miniature
apparatus, which can be concealed about
the person and actually practice the vice in
public, injecting the drug while visiting or
attending the theater.
DURING the recent celebration at the Bo-
logna University the students Of Parma
sent their Bologna brethren Parmesan
cheese, weighing one hundred and eighty
pounds, and covered with Latin inscriptions
worked in maccaroni A tun Of wine was
also sent to wash it down with
d Ex-QUEEN ISABELLA, Of Spain, has an in
come Of one million dollars year, but is al
WAYS in debt. She maintains. no house in
Paris, but always resides at a hotel. Her
executive ability is alearly shown by the
ease with which she constantly spends more
than her enormous income amounts to.
AN atmospheric phenomenon was wit
messed in the English Channel lately. The
atmosphere raretied to the extent that OBJ
jects thirty and forty miles distant could be
discerned by the naked eye with remarka-
BILE distinctness. Almost every prominent
object could be picked out along the French
coast.
SOCIETY called the Columbia has started
carrier-pigeon service between Strasburg
and Vienna, and recently q number Of pig
cons were started at the latter city at five
O'clock one evening, and the first Of them
reached Strasburg at six o'clock the next
morning, having travelled at the rate Of
over thirty -one miles an hour all night
The sardine and other tins, OF which such
thousands are thrown away, 60 to support a
branch of industry in Paris which is deeply
interesting to the youthful part Of the pop
ulation; for, after being stamped into shape
by machines Of simple construction, they
reappear in the form of countless armies OF
tin soldiers, which are sold at prices 80 low
that the manufacturer could not possibly
ahord to buy his material new from the tin
man.
SEVERAL OF the French railway companies
and other public bodies have adopted the
practice Of having their printing done on
green instead Of white paper. The reason
for this alteration is that they have conclud-
ed that the combination Of white paper with
black characters endangers the eyesight Of
their work-people. Black on green has al
ways been recognized as good combination
for this purpose, and many railway tickets
are 50 printed