The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-06-20
CURRENT EVENTS.

31-agalnsU Ule QOcIrlne or EvOlu.
tion, But even that hardly settles
The vexed question.
New YORK Cry has one physician
to about every four hundred people;
Paris, one to about 1,475. In the
whole of France there is about one
physician to 5000 inhabitants; in
England one to every 1900. and in
che United States one to every $50.
CHEF SHAY, of the New York Fir.
Department, has been retired at his
own request for disability. He will
receive $2,35O a year-half the
amount of the pay of a chief in act
i've service. As MI. Shay is not yet
IS years of age, this pension seems
like a royal reward for civil service.
The chattel-mortgage shark is a
man who has a deep-very deep-in-
terest in his patrons. A case has
been exposed by the New York press
in which a hard-hearted wretch is
seeking to compel a woman to paw
$111.76 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. He 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 a team of hens, and next
geese or turkeys;
At READING the other day a young
man who had hired a 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. It is said
to be an old custom in Eastern
Pennsylvania to duck men who abuse
horses or fail to pay their bills.
Ar CERTAIN seasons of the year
there is a mysterious disappearance
mania. It 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 q number of people
may disappear from a place and
their whereabouts remain a mystery.
Where do they all 60 to and what
becomes of them?
THERE is most wonderful poplar
tree growing just beyond Sharp Top
Mountain. a few miles from Jasper,
Ga. 1t has two trunks, both per-
fectly developed, and standing two
or three feet apart at their bases,
and look exactly like two smooth,
straight poplar trees. At a height
OF 80 or 40 feet these two trees come
together and form one perfect body
from where thcy join to tho top.
THERE has been discovered, four
miles south of Rattlesnake Springs,
Washington Territory, an extensive
ledge of marble, in which beautiful
trees or plants of moss are as fire.
quent and as clearly defined asin the
moss agate, though the marble is
not translucent. The body of the
stone is mostly white, with splotches
of pink and blue between the punches
of moss.
HENRY c. WHITE, of New York, in
aletter to the Tribune, says: There
is really no ground for the theory o.
the formation of deaf race of men,
simply because out of the $4,000
deaf mutes, fully eighty percent. lost
hearing from sickness OF from purely
accidental causes, and the defeat is
not repeated in the offspring; on the
other hand, congenital deafness ha;
been decreasing, as is shown by thu
annual reports of every State insti
tuition in the land"
A GIGANTIC whale that has been ex
hibited for some time in Berlin wal
recently transported to Vienna, bu'
OH reaching the Austrian frontier tn
custom authorities refused for
long time to pass the monster OF tn
deep, on the ground that "such {
thing was notregistered in IN Gus
tom tariff The Austrains seem t.
have q prejudice against whales, TO-
Ills one doesnot seem to have MAJ
~ friendly reception from the popul
ace in Vienna either.
A YOUNG Hollander, who had Dee1
working Sin disguise" as an ord'
nary laborer in several OF the larg'
furniture factories of the West, turn
out to be the son ola wealthycotto1
goods manufacturer at Henejtof
He came to the country to learn tn
wood manufacturing business, anf
will return to his native country
where he will establish a sash. doo
and blind factory, equipped with tn
latest American machinery. rms !
an Improvement on the general run