The Wahpeton times., 1889-08-15

our salt 3, 81 @ s rs Is
Names Ice crop d short quarter ofa
million tons. .{s- 5
Indiana has increased the cost Of LIQUOR
licenses to $3.50.
In Denver, Col, during 1883, 1000 build
ings were erected.
Great Britain has 203 tin plate mills. em.
ploying 10000 men.
Scranton, Pa, is to have new silk MIN.
to employ 800 hands.
Yale college has about 1000 volumes add
cd to its library annually.
Negro laborers in Louisiana are being
supplantcd BY white families.
The proportion Of colorcd people to white
is steadily increasing in Mississippi
England has 1000 -four mills which can
make 81, coo barrels Of flour year.
The Mexican government proposes to.in.
terdict the importation Of American lard.
The Salt Trust TO be established in this
country will have capital Of SIS 600, 900.
There are 623 newspapers and periodicals
published in foreign languages in this re-
public.
A spring OF natural cologne. with tho
perfume Of patchouli, has been discovered
in Algiers.
The largest paper makers in England
have formed Trust, with a capital of
$l0.0000O0.
The plans for the new war vessels for
the government are to be completed as
soon as possible.
A bill before the Minnesota Legislature
proposes to have fruit vegetables, eggs,
etc., sold by the pound.
Hungarians in large numbers. who have
been working in the Lehigh coal regions,
are returning to their homes.
A whist player, who has counted the
number OF games he has played during
fifty one years, has recorded 7s,ssa
The leading lumber firms of Maryland,
Virginia and North Carolina have formed
a combination to control North Carolina
pine lumber.
The total Indian population of the United
States in 1885 was 247, ,761, and the Indians
had 2l2, 466 square miles Of territory resery-
ed for their use.
The saw Is largely used now instead Of
the ak in bringing down the giant red
woods In California. The tree 10 sawed
partly through, and then is forced over by
wedges.
There is superstitution among miners
that every ten years rich diggings will be
discovered somewhere The record so far
is: California, 1s49; Pixies Peak, 1859;
Nevada, 1869; Leadville, 1879.
Shop girls at Ansonia have effected an
nHN2nf1aHInn
several street 'tmashers" to behave or take
the consequences. Whitecapism is not q
thing TO be encouraged but If it is ever ex-
cusable 1t Is against these cattle.
The process Of manufacturing India ink
has been secret with the Chinese for many
centuries, but firm of English chemists
claim to have discovered Q process of treat
Ing camphor with sulphuric acid that pro-
duces pigment identical with India ink
There seems to be q general disposition
on the part Of the courts to deny to juries
the innocent diversion Of playing poker
during their deliberations, yet the Judge
who sat In the Kerr trial in New York fined
three men because they didn't play whist"
The Texas umbrella tree is becoming .
favorite for shade and ornament purposes
In California. 1t is q large and beautiful
tree, resembling an umbrella in the spread
OF its foliage, which is SO dense that it af-
fords perfect protection from either rain or
sun.
According to q denominational paper it
cost this government Sl,s4S,O9O to support
2,9O0 Dakota Indians for seven years while
they were savages. After they were Christ
ianized it cost $1,000 to care for the same
number for the same time, q saving of g.
72S,001
The wife Of Tolstoi, the great Russian
novelist, does not sympathize with her hus-
bands extreme religious views, and threat
ems, If he attempts to carry out his plans of
selling all that he has for the benefit of the
poor, to ask for an Official investigation of
his sanity.
The newest cure for rheumatism is the
sting of bees. The insects are applied to
the afflicted part and called name or two,
whereupon they so right on and attend to
the rest of it No man who has taken this
treatment has been known to complain of
rheumatism thereafter.
youth Of II at Greenville. Tex, who had
frequently been refused a pistol by his
father, secured possession of weapon. The
father demanded an explanation, which SO
angered the boy that he shot his father
dead. The name of this prccocious murder
er is McGangie Giddens.
A Pennsylvania Botanical society has re-
ceived Rose of Jerico from Persia, of
which species Of flower it is said that when
dry weather is prevalent it wraps itself in
to ball. and Is to all appearances dead.
The wind blows it from the stalk, and it
goes bounding slopg until it reaches a
moist spot where it unfolds its leaves,
drops its seeds, and garden of roses soon
appears.
A well-known farmer from Fauauier
county, Virginia, appeared at the surgeon
Office in Washington the other
day and demanded pension, as he was al
honorably discharged confederate soldier.
He said as the republicans were again in
power he knew he would get it, as they
were more favorable to granting pensions
than the democrats. He was passed along
to another Office.
Says Prof. Had'ey: 1.-THE speed Of rail-
road trains is restricted within three theo-
retical limits: First, physical limit of eieh-
ty miles an hour, beyond which it is found
Impossible for train to keep the track
second, an operating limit of sixty miles an
hour. beyond which practical experience
has found trains can not run without much
damage to life; third, . commercial limit Of
thirty miles per hour, at which, all thing.
it is found most economical tn
run Q train.
The famous Barker will case ha. ba.r