The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-06-06
LIVELY TURNS or THOUGHT.

eWScA pucnOS AyCeS ana MOnCeVlQeO.
Twenty years hence no hunter will be
able to discover a wild elephant on any por-
ton OF this globe. The big beast must go.
An Indian woman, who has been induced
to join q circus, goes among her people by
the name Of "Hail- Stones-in in. Her Stom-
ach.'
A whiteoak tree, recently felled near
Baraboo, Wis, measured nearly seventeen
feet in girth and more than one hundred
feet in height.
A new process Of hardening plaster of
paris has been discovered, whereby it can
be adapted to the construction of flooring in
place of wood.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes''daughter,
Mrs. Turner Sargent, who has been seri-
ously ill with heart trouble for the past w
weeks, is better.
A rusty spot on an apple may contain the
germs Of yellow fever, smallpox, cholera
and may not. After the boy next door has
tried it ana escaped you need have no fear.
Mrs. James G.. Blaine has sold to Samuel
l.. Bryan, manager of the Chesapeake and
Potomac Telephone Company. two lots in
the rear Of her Washington house for $50
OOO.
An entire family, numbering seven per-
sons, at East Pembroke. Genesec county,
N. Y, has died Of malignant typhoid pneu-
monia, caused by decaycd vegetation In the
cellar.
Herr Hans Won Bulow, the eccentric it,
terpreter Of Wagner and Beethoven, is to
got SIC, 600, besides having all his expenses
paid, during his four weeks tour of the
country.
Adirondack Murray is lccturing on "How
to Make q Million Dollars" He has been
trying all his life to make $40, 00O, and hasn't
got the half of it, but there is nothing in
the title of q lecture.
Up to ninety years ago every shoe was
fastened with a buckle, and no man had the
least idea that the timc would ever come
when he would have to take his teeth to a
hard knot in a shoe-string.
LEAK Walton. who did not know enough
TO spell his front name properly, did not
catch half tho fish the average man does,
and why any one should be called his "dis-
ciple is a mystery and q fraud.
Countess Orosy, a lady of the Austrian
nobility and one Of the fines horsewomcn in
Gu1OlCS OCCOuIS a ClICuS MdLdSCF. Dig
has spent a large fortune in the erection Of
on enormous circus building at Vienna.
Harry Hill, although 60 years of age,
feels himself a match for the best man in
America, and that is why a Washington po-
liceman broke him in two and carried the
pieces to the police station the other night.
The United States will lave early in the
coming summer q now minister from
China. His name is Tsin HOOK Yam. He is
q man of scholarly attainments and holds
high rank as a member of the Imperial Acad.
envy of Prkin.
A r~evivalist at Tama, Iowa, recently ask
ed all of the congregation who paid their
debts to rise. All rose but an editor, who
explained that he didn't pay his debts be.
cause the rest of the congregation OWED
him on subscriptions.
Baron Varnbuehler, whose death has been
announced, was foreign minister Of Wur-
temburg from 1864 to 1870. 1t was through
his efforts that the customs parliament met
In 1867 at Berlin, an event which made
greatly toward German unity.
Colonel William c. G hurch is writing the
biography of the late inventor, John Erlcs-
son. Before MIR. Ericsson died he request
cd that nobody but Colonel Church should
have access to his private papers, and his
family have observed his directions.
The daughter of the celebrated Professor
Agassiz is busy in Boston establishing a
manual training school. Over two thousand
boys and girls shared in the advantages Of
this school last year. Efforts are being put
forth to have the school adopted by the
city.
Rev. Sterling Brown, formerly Of Glove
land, is pastor of Plymouth Congregation
al Church in Washington. MIR. Brown is a
rather slim mulatto about thirty-five years
old, with q slight black mustache,
and wears glasses. He is a pleasing
talker.
Mr. Gladstone dined recently with his
fromer private secretary, Mr.. Hamilton.
His host lived on the top fiat of the highest
apartment house in Park lane, London. and
the building is not supplied with an eleva'
tor. The aged ex-premier was therefore
compelled to climb eighty steps to honor
Mr.. Hamilton with his company.
Ex-King Milan, of Servia, was so afrait
Of assassination during his reign that h,
slept in a room with double doors cascd ir
steel. A powerful mastiff lay at the foot oil
his bed, and he always kept q loaded revol
yer on a table by his bedside. When eating
alone the king would not eat any made dishes
and satisfied his appetite with toast and
boiled eggs.
Father Agostino, an eloquent monk whose
preaching is the sensation in Rome, recently
made the following announcement from the
pulpit: II protest against reporters taking
down what I say and making it a source Of
profit. 1t is an infringement Of my right
If there is to be profit made by my sermons
or my words, ! am the person entitled to it
and should receive it."
Fresh fish are assured to patrons of the
better class of restaurants in Russia. In
each restaurant there is o large pool in
which fish Of various kinds swim about
The lover Of FISH goes to the pool, watches
the fish, and with his v marks the one he
would like to eat. A waiter is summoned,
and he captures the doomed fish with q
scoop. net, and it is sent to the kitchen to be
cooked.
Petrified Indians will soon be a new pro.
duct of industry, If we may believe the re-
port which comes from Black Rock, Col.
They have hot springs there so strongly
impregnated with certain minerals thai
they will thoroughly petrify vegetable and
animal matter in a few years. An enter
prising citizen has the bodies Of three dead
Indians submerged in some of the springs
and expects to make a fortune out Of then
when they are turned to stone.
A writer who met Campanini says: "His
voice in conversation is like q buzz saw;
harsh. grating, almost common to the ear.