The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-08-23
WINGED MISSILES.

WINGED MISSILES.
Turkish women eat rose leaves with but
ter to secure plumpness.
It is stated that oysters ton inches long
are found in New Guinea.
Keep anything long enough and you have
use for it, is an old saying.
The Russian government has Just ordered
four new ironclads put on the stocks.
A citizen of Baker City, Oregon, paid
sl2o freight on two terriers from England.
A limited liability company has been
formed in London to build q new crema-
tory. =.
The last eyewitness Of the battle of
Trafalgar, q centenarian seaman, has Just
died in England. .-.
A lazy man in the East has an alarm
clock which will also touch off the match
and light the fire.
ALondon magistrate has decided that
servant cannot be discharged summary
for reading in bed.
The New York postof1ce is a good invest
ment. It Melted the government nearly 4
mllllons last year.
Prunes are a very profitable. crop in
California. One grower expects to get
$1,000 for his crop.
The Car of Russia INDUCES his youthful
pleasures. He is still a collector Of postage
stamps and BIRDS eggs.
The work on the Congo railroad is max
Ing rapid progress. About one thousand
negroes are employed upon it.
Few large trunks are seen on the rail-
roads. 1t is evident that the baggage
smasher has little occupation.
There is a woman at Sedalia who becomes
thoroughly charged with electricity every
time she rides on the electric road.
One car building company in Pennsylva-
mia has on hand orders for $4,000 freight
cars. The largest order is for 10000. ,
Eighteen newspapers have been started
at San Diego, Cal, in the past three years,
and all have gone into the graveyard.
A South Carolina paper contains an ad-
vertisement for bids from undertakers who
will agree to conduct funerals "r%everently."
Whenever Potter Palmer patronizes his
w hotel and restaurant he pays his bill
like any other mar. He can afford to do so.
A newly discovered cave in Josephine
county, Oregon, is said to be three miles
long and to contain several mineral springs.
The Chinese yellow table spreads are in
style. They are in vogue in the east, where
many foolish fads have their rise 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 a
nest in the running gear of a farmers
wagon and makes a trip to market every
week.
Certain European neutrality-suspicious.
ly Englishmen are now the owners OF
about $1,000 acres of land in the United
States.
People who do a great deal of moving
can do something toward solving the ques'
ton ''what becomes of all the old news
papers,"
The Maori women in New Zealand art
killing themselves in the efforts to veal
corsets since they lave seen them on mis-
sionary women.
Guests at st. Louis help themselves sine
the walters strike, and the best of it
they are not so long about it and they hav
no walters to tip.
MI. J. J. Cravens is the wheat king o
California. His possessions are in Tular
bushels Of wheat.
The queen travels on a pass, and ye
every trip she makes to Balmoral costs thu
English government $1,000 to defray the
railroad expenses.
The largest sheep ranch in the world is II
the counties of Webb and Dimnet, in Texas
It contains 400, 600 acres, and yearly past
ures 100000 sheep. .
The saloonkeepers of st. Petersburg have
been warned not to sell liquors to factory
operatives on credit, or to entice them tc
drink in any other way.
Fruit raising in California is not al
profit. Not less than 10, 1000 fruit trees were
lost on q ranch at Woodland last winter
At the low estimate Of $4,000.
During the marriage service in a church
in Virginia the other day, a goat walked IL
and broke up the ceremony by summari1y
ejecting the groom with his head.
The reason why frecrackers are always
covered with red paper is that red is thu
festive color in China, and that firecrackers
are used chiefly or festive occasions.
Emin Pasha will write a book. Ten Ger
man publishers have solicited his work. Il
is not expected that his book will agree
with Mr.. SANKEY'S ''In Darkest Africa"
The bones of some prehistoric giants
have been unearthed near Admission, Ala
One of the thigh bones was 60 inches long
and the skulls averaged "a inches in cir
conference.
It is said that a bunch Of clover hung uI
in a sitting-room or bedroom will clear il
of flies. This remedy must be equally
agreeable to the inhabitants of tho roon
and to the flies.
Puck offers the following definition