The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-08-22
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The Russian government has Just ordered
four new ironclsds put on The stocks.
A citizen of Baker City, Oregon, paid
bl2O freight on two terriers from England
A limited liability company has been
formed In London to build Q new crems-
tory.
Tho last eyewitness Of the battle Of
Trafalgar, u ccntensrian seaman, has Just
died in England
A lazy man in the East has an alarm
clock which will also touch OF the match
and light the tire.
London magistrate has decided that's
servant cannot be discharged summarily
for reading in bed.
Tho New York postofice is good invest
mcnt. It netted the government uearlyA
millions last year.
Prunes are very profitable crop in
California. One grower expecta 10 got
tll 900 for his crop.
The Car Of Russia indulges his youthful
pleasures. He is still collector of postage
stamps and birds eggs. j
Tho work OH tho Congo railroad is max.
ing rapid progress: About one thousand ]
negroes arc employed upon IT. I
Few large trunks ara seen on the rail- /
roads. 1t Is evident TINT the baggage 4
smasher has little occupation. 81
There is q woman at Sedalia who becomes
thoroughly charged with electricity every
time she rides on the electric road.
| One car building company In Pennsylvs
mia has on hand orders for q, 600 4reixhtss.s
cars. The largest order is for 10000 W
Eighteen newspapers have been started
at San Diego, Cal, in the past three years,
and all have gone into the graveyard.
ASouth Carolina paper contains IN ad-
vcrtiscment for bids from undertakers who
will agree to conduct funerals 'reverently.n
Whenever Potter Palmer patronizes his
own hotel and restaurant he paya his bin
like any other man. He can afford TO do 20.
newly discovered cave TN Jossphina
county, Oregon, is said to be three n,iles
long and TO contain several mineral springs..
The Chinese yellow table spreads are in
style. They arc In vogue In the east, where
many foolish tads have their risc and fall.
People who are carried away by their
own emotions are never reliable. You
never know how far they have been car.
ried.
A sparrow at Colestown, Pa, built o.
nest In the running geas of-a farmers
wagon and makes trip to market every
week.
Certain European noblemen-prinoipsl-
" Engalshmen - are now the owners Of
about 81 ,0OO acres Of land In the United
States. -
People who do . great deal Of moving
can do something toward solyina the ques-
ton 'iwhat becomes of all The old news
papers,"
The Maori women in New Zealand are
killing themselves in the, etsorta to wear
Golsets since they have seen them on mis-
sionary women.
Guests at ST Louis help themselves since
the waitcrs' strike, and the best of II ia
they are not SO long about it aud they have
no walters to tip.
MIR. j. j. Cravena ia the wheat -kirs = =
California His possessions 80
county, and this year he will 81
bushels of wheat.
The queen travels on q pasa. and yel
every trip she makes to Rallnoral costs the
English government N,0O0 to defray ths
railroad expenses.
The largest sheep ranch IN the world fs In
.he counties Of Webb and nmnet in Tsxss
1t contains 100000 acres, and yearly past
ures 10000 sheep.
The satoonkeepers of St. Petersburg hsyo
been warned not to sell liquors to factory
operatives on credit, or to entipe them to
drink In any other way.
Fruit raising in California IL not an
profit Not less shan TO- 600 fruit trees were
lost on y ranch at Woodland last winter.
AT the low estimate Of s6O,O0O.
During tho marriage service In . church
in Virginia the other day, goat walked In
and broke up the ceremony by summaIily
electing the groom with his head.
The reason why frecrAolsers are slwaya
covered with red paper is that red is the
festive colclih China, and that firecrackers
are used chiefly ON festive occasions.
Emin Pasha will write book Ten Ger
man publishers have solicited his work. It
is not expected thai his book will agree
with MIR. Stanley's "In Darkest Africa"
1t IL said that u bunch of clover hung up
ia q sftting-room or bedroom viii clear it
OF flies This remedy must be EQUALLY
agreeable to tho inhabitants Of the room
ana TO the hies.
Puck aiters tho following deanitfon:
Liberty consists in being able to do ss you
please yourself, while you aee that your
heigh6or does as you please to think he
should properly do
poor N..shorwoman at Fayetteville.
ARK. WHO "a few days ago was notified that -
she had been granted . pension and would
receive 5000 back pay, was SO overcome
with Joy that he died.
Tho school board Of Shippensburg, Pa,
has determined to furnish for acholors this
year free text books, stationery and other
articles. For THIS purpose mill has been
added to the school tax.
a. Hunt sunk an artesian well $50 feet
two milcs from San Bernardino recentlv.
ihc water rises thirty inches above the ton
OF the casing, and stones Of eighteen pounds
weight are occasionally thrown out,
Carriage wheels are now being made
from cold-raited steel. The smkes are
tubG:...as and adjustable The wheels are so
put together that any pas& can be replaced
without taking of tho tire or felloe
Nearly one thousand heads of families in
the Province OF Quebec alone have made
''Uk''~~s>S'H .S' shS oSotC OOuuLy On &CE68
Of land voted to Canadia1.s who are the
fathers Of twelve childpon or more,
Most of the red hnterns used Ia larades
during the Harrison Cleveland contest in
Now York in 1883 now serve q redlight
signals of obstruction over the subways
which are ha.iiding up over the town
IL France they let their Idols fall easily
md quickly but while one IL up their praise
IS unstinted. Az present President Csrnot
u tho republic, Is favorite. They hail
lm us "Carnot, organizer of pcace,n
The longest day Of the year ha, nineteen
hours at st. Petersburg, seventeen hours
1t Hamburg, sixteen and oue-fourth hours
II London, fifteen houra at New York and
hrce aud one-half months at Spitsberreu.
A yoYAg Englishwoman has Just died
'I>4n An excess Of Toaais. She worked 10
lard to prepare for tournament, playing
'ften in the hot sun, that she brought on
lralN tever and died. She raved ahoat the
,aue In her last hours.
A pack of hyenas is reposesa by the Ia.
liam papers to have appsSred near
Nonghyr. The animals are maaing great
lcDreNEtiOnS. One njohx ., xt2{a - oho.~