The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-06-14
CURRENT EVENTS.

ton. But oven that hardly settles
tho vcxcd question.
NEW York CRY has one physician
to about every four hundred people;
Paris, one to about ,4755. In the
whole of France there is about one
physician to 5000 inhabitants; in
England one to every 1000. and in
the United States oneto every $40.
CuIEF SHAY, of the New York Fire
Department, has been retired at his
own request for disability. He will
receive $2,330a ycar-half the
amount OF the pay of IL chief in act
i've service. As Mr.. Shay is not yet
~ years OF age, this pension seems
like n royal reward for civil service.
THE chattcl-mortgagc shark is u
man who has II ,leep-very decp-in-
ter,st in his patrons. A case has
brcn exposed hy the New York press
in which II har,l-hcartcd wretch is
seeking to compel a woman to pay
$l1l.76 for the Use of $500 for
three months.
MASTER JABEz BAILEY. of Fitch
vile, Conn. has broken six sheep to
harness, and he drives them about
the village daily. lie is not Is years
old, but has broken oxen and horses.
He is going to tackle pigs next, and
il he is successful with them will try
breaking IL team Of hens, and next
geese or turkeys;
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AT READING the other day a young
man who had hired u livery team
returned to the stables, when it was
seen the horses had been overdriven.
Without any ceremony the young
man was lifted up bodily and
thrown into trough. 1t is said
to he an old custom in Eastern
Pennsylvania to duck men who abuse
horses or fail to pay their bills.
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Ar CERTAIN seasons of the wear
there is IL mysterious disappearance
mania. 1t is strange that such
things occur in cycles, and that in
this country, where the communica-
ton is SO general and minute, at GER
tain intervals u number of people
may disappear from u place and
their whereabouts remain II mystery.
Where do they all go to and what
becomes of them?
THERE is ii most wonderful poplar
tree growing just beyond Sharp Top
Mountain. q few miles from Jasper,
Ga. 1t has two trunks, both. per-
frctlv developed, and standing two
or three feet apart at their bases,
and look exactly like two smooth,
straight poplar trees. At a height
of 30 or 4Oftct these two trees come
together and form on" perfect body
from where they join to the top.
THERE has been discovered, four
miles south of Kattlcsnake Springs,
Washington Territory. an extensive
ledge OF marble, in which beautiful
trees or plants of moss are as fire.
quent and as clearly defined as i'm the
moss agate, though the marble is
not translucent. The body of the
stone is mostly white, with splotches
of pink and blue between Il he lunches
OF moss.
HENRY c. WHlTE, of New York, in
alctter to the Tribune, says: There
is really no ground for the theory OF
the formation of Il deaf race of men,
simply because out of the $4,000
deaf mutes, fully eighty per cent. lost
hearing from sickness or from purely
accidental causes, and the defeat is
not repeated in the offspring; on the
other hand, rongenital deafness ha
been decreasing, as is shown by the
annual reports of every State insti.
tuition in the land"
A GIGANTIC whale that has been ex.
hibited for some time in Berlin was
recently transported to Vienna. hut
on reaching the Austrian frontier the
custom authorities refused for u
long time to pass the monster of the
deep, on the ground that "such a
thing" was not registered in the GUS
tom tariff! The Austrains seem to
have n prejudice against whales, for
this one does not seem to have had
Il friendly reception from the popul.
ace in Vienna either.
A YOUNG Hollander, who had been
working Sin disguise" as an ordi
nary laborer in several of the large
furniture factories of the West, turns
out to be the son ola wealthy cotton
goods manufacturer at Henejtoff
He came to the country to learn the
wood manufacturing business, and
will return to his native country
where he will establish a sash. door
and blind factory, equipped with the
latest American machinery. This is
an Improvement on the general run
otforeignels who came to this coun
try Gin disguise as fortune hunters
and disturbers ofpeace-loving minds
He Will We'd Princess,
| A year ago Jacob T.. Doty WINS