The Wahpeton times., 1889-03-14
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.


8UPERFlclAL SURVEY. s
New York city has 10000 Russians.
Business IL very dull In the glass factories
IN New Jersey. a. f
Illinois broom corn growers talk Of reduo.
ing the acreage. 9+'-9 1900,
Alaska is suffering from the most severe
winter since 1875.
England buys S400, 900 worth Of California
canned goods annualls.
st Louis has twenty-five Methodist
churches, worth $ess 900.
The Standard Oil Trust has obtained
control Of the Ohio oil field.
ID The English. government has prohibited
the importation Of French cattle.
Tho czar Of Russia wears q ring in which
/ Is imbedded piece Of the true cross.
The state Of Louisiana has instituted q
suit to break UP the cotton oil monopoly.
Bismarck has sent orders to Samoa to
modify the action Of the German officers
there
Il is pretty ws,ell decided that there will
be an extra session Of the Fifty first con-
gress. ..ni !; a
Awoman died while kneeling at prayer
In q Methodist church in western New
York. ,..i. -.
A company has been formed at Whining
ton, Del, to use ammonia as an accessory to
steam. %'r' '' - -
The strike among the street car men in
New York city and Brooklyn proved a
failure, - t'"Yf... - 49,
It is said that a foreign government wants
to purchase the new dynamite cruiser
Vesuvius.
w. M. Clemens, who is now living in Cali
fornia, is said to be engaged on a life Of
Mark Twain. ..''
The crate war between the express COM
panies has ceased, and former rates have
been restored. ''~
A corps Of American railway engineers
have gone to Chill to survey number of
new railway lines.
Maple sugar was made in December and
january in Maine and Vermont. A very
unusual occurrence.
The tomato canneries put up 79,6GS, ,4SS
cans last year, MARYLAND and Virginia lead
ing, with New Jersey next.
Ireland's GO spinning mills employ 6l,749
persons, and other industries dependent on
these mills employ 6o,O0o more.
There were 679 strikes in this country
last year, involving 211, ,S41 persons, being
decrease of % per cent from 1887.
The ''monthly concert" originated with an
association Of Baptist ministers at Noting
ham, England, about 100 years ago.
The further extension of the Tien Tsin
railway in China has been prohibited, the
Imperial astrologists having Illuminated
against it.
Japan legally recognizes the Christian
Sabbath and it is observed as a day of rest
by all government offices, public schools,
banks, etc. -tw
A botanical explorer has discovered on
the PHILIPPINE islands a wild flower that is a
yard in diameter. The petals are oval and
creamy white.
The Jews free school at Spitalfields, Eng
gland, is said to be the largest school in the
world. 1t numbers :, 500 pupils-2.250 boys
and 1 ,25O girls.
The heaviest leather belt ever put in an
establishment is GO inches wide and no feet
long and weighs 1000 pounds. 1t will drive
1,0OO-horse power machinery.
An authentic silver dollar of the Confed-
crate States is valued by coin collectors at
$l,0)0. Only few were coined before the
Confederate mint ran out Of silver.
The wonderful change from tho past in
Japan is almost incredible. There are now
10000 communicants connected with the va
rious missions, and they increase by 500 q
month. .
John McKeown, of Washington, is the
richest oil producer in Pennsylvania. He
has fortune of ssOOO,OOO. Twenty-four
years ago he was working for 50 day as o
laborer. -"
Forty tons of stone have been left on
scaffold fifty feet high in Mark lane, London,
for two years past and the people have just
woke up to the fact that they may feelsolue
thing drop. -,
The Sale Rivole, long notorious as a
wicked den, in the very heart of Paris, has
been transformed by the McAl mission in
to gospel temple where religious services
are held every night. f
Strange what queer languages are spoken
in this country. A western paper in local
item recently told of .s'a regular old ra-
cooper, who, having got skate on, INDUCED
in glorious razzlc- dazzle"
The commissioner of pensions reports q
probable deficiency of 100000 in the
amount necessary to pay pensions for the
current fiscal year, and asks congress for an
appropriation for that amount. lt
Lord Tennyson is feeling 30 much strong
er that he has resumed his literary work.
It is said that he is writing a now play for
Mary Anderson founded on the story of
Robin Hood and Maid Marian. =
Gen. Harrison is something Of horse
flesh fanc.er, but he says he will buy none
but bays. His theory IS that they arc gen.
tier. in disposition than the handsomer
blacks and the wooers Of ed-headed girls
Some succulent statistics are that there
are in the Chesapeake 57s,224,O0O square
yards of oyster beds, yielding about 10000
coo bushels Of oysters annually, and dis
tributing about s., 600 among $1,000 peo-
pie.
Sir Charles Atchison, an Englishman in
India, says that sin Purjab the Hindoo and
Mohammedan religions are practically sta
tionary, that of the Sikhe has declined,
whereas the Christian religion has increas-
ed SSla Per cent"
"Uncle, Daniel Sickle, an aged Illinois
pioneer now living in Pratt county, was ex-s
Governor Oglcsby's music teacher when the
future governor was boy, and taught him
his favoritc tune on the fiddle, "How Tedi-
GUS and Tasteless the Hours"