The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1888-09-08
CURRENT EVENTS

b-nhturAi - the hclnotc 70 koo1 orcc1-
Ing.
CelluIoid has almost driven ivory out OF
use
The locust plague In AlgIers Is becoming
worse.
There are 10000 Japanese Christians in
Japan.
They have natural gas aud petroleum in
japan.
The FIRST railroad 10 Persia Is being con.
/ stroctcd.
Statistics show that Iabor-savIng machines
increase wages
A Boston professor Is embalmIng whale
for $1,000
General Buell. Is stIll In active business In
Kentucky.
De Lesseps, the French engin Ger. "a In bis
eighty third year.
Ben Butler spends much OF his time IN his,
New YoIk law Office.
Prince Roland Bonapsrte Is In Washington
studying the natives
At Minneapolis, MINI. $4,000 barrels OF
-four are made per day.
An expedition Is being formed In Berlin for
the relief OF Emn Bey.
lreland's butter export 70 England Is AZ,
10000 pounds annually.
One OF the largest powder factories in the
world Is located In China.
Large deposits OF salt and gas have been
found at West Point KY
Russia has signed the Convention for the
abolition Of sugar bountles
bridge across the English channel to.
eoaf RIM 900 0lD n canfainnlafaI
Japan laborers are complaining OF the
growing arrivals OF Chinese coolies
A gold mine near silka. Alaska, Is said to
be the largest producer In the world.
man at Fairfield. s c., died last week OF
hydrophobla, caused by a bite OF a cat.
All the trunk lines OF railroad are cutting
freight rates from Chicago To the seaboard-
one-half OF the corks produced In thIs
country are manufactured Ia Lancaster, Pa.
King Charles OF RoumapIa IL said to DO
the most expert trout fisherman OF Europe.
The mean temperature for June was higher
than during any preceding ] une for 7years.
A cloud burst In Iowa last week did con-
siderable damage over large area OF coun-
try.
Every man is poor who spends moro
than he has; no man 10 poor who spends
less.
oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, ia JUS
tIcc OF the supreme court OF Massachu-
sets
A large number OF deaths by drowning oc-
Cured In different parts Of the country last
week.
A dirty old portrait OF Robert Burns which
was bought In Toronto for o., Is nov held al
R3000
The French revenue surplus for che FIRST
six months OF the year amounted to Is, Ooo, 200
francs.
Garrett once President Of the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad, is only an ordinary million
are now
1,S70 miles OF railroad are to be built in tho
southern districts OF Italy, where there arc
now no roads.
In Holland women do the tagging for the
railroads, and also many kinds OF the most
laborious work.
The latest estimate OF the Delaware PENN
sula peach crop Is 12.OOO, OOO (lye-eighths
busheD baskets
IL Is barborous 10 torture a child through
life with a name that proyokes a sInlle when
ever II is spoken.
How can man expect TO keep cool " he
eats and drinks heating stun aud rushss
about In the stunt
Again comes sad tales OF destItution and
poverty from the northern part OF the island
OF Newfoundland 3
All the doctors say the American people
are taking too much quinine. The drug Ia
not 10 be fooled with.
IL Is stated that after next December Rus-
STA win abandon any further interference In
the affairs OF Bulgaria.
Senator Joe Brown--thaps what they all
call him at bome-psys taxes ON 1851. 900 OF
real estate In Atlanta alone.
The novelist Il. p Roe, runs fancy farm.
lie has been able TO come out even by writ
Ing half a dozen novels year.
The Prince OF Wales has seyenteeu broth.
ers-in-law, sixteen uncles, hfty-scven cousins
and nfJ-elght nephews and nleces.
Mr.. A. W. Fairbanks was the only Ceye.
land newspaper man who was honorcd with
an invitation TO the Garfield weddings
Dr. Taiamage occupies a sensible attitude
toward Sunday newspapers Let tholn have
good reading is the sum Of what he says.
The movement OF brcadstuffs from tha
United States to Europe IL taking the shape
OF Hour more decidedly than ever before.
An arrangement IL being made between
England aud the Dominion by which the
Scotch crofters are 10 be given farms ia Can
ada
A constant and disagreeable sweet taste in
the mouth has been reported In one case AZ
result OF the substitution OF sacchariue for