The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-09-12
JOB II oEPARrmen
WINGED MISSILES
An Englishman recommends ton

| An Englishman recommends tomatoes -
o remedy for dyspepsia and biliousness.
| Six female doctors were received into the
faculty of medicine in Paris in one week.
A Philadelphia mendicant known as
"Blind Johnny" is said to be worth $4,000.
France has the accumulation of ages.
and there arc sevent.--six millinn:.i,as in
the republic.
The centennial Of the discovery of coal
in Pennsylvania is to be celebrated in Sep
tember, 1891,
tits well enough for all to aspire
Thackeray used to say s'all claret would be
port if it could.
good many states have laws forbidaing
tho sale Of cigarettes to boys, but generally
it is o dead law.
1t is estimated that fully 1000 Pennsy!-
| vanians are in the employ Of the United
States government.
1t was John Henry Newman who said:
"Some mud sticks longer than other mud
but no mud is immortal"
The Milwaukee Jour7ss1, tflissasytA-. Mistakes
are gentle reminders that we are becoming
too confident in ourselves"
The business section of New York is
growing so fast that the gentry are being
crowded out of Fifth avenue.
Men who are sCrly and arc wot not To
speak to you, only show their boorishness.
Gentlemen don't do that way.
A boy in Peeksvillc. N. Y, is said 20
have looked in succession two ecls whose
combine length was seven feet.
Five ipuc NJ opo f,,,,;I,. on.
their photographs in a single group at
Springfield, Pa, Il few days ago.
or course if there is failure in Ireland
of the potato crop there will certainly be
IA tale Of woe" and there may be famine.
a military Gordon has been established
around Lisbon to prevent the entrance of
any person from cholera infected district.
The frozen meat trade of New Zealanl
has developed remarkably. More than
,0OOO0O carcasscs are now sent yearly to
England
The abolition Of the slave trade at Zanz-
bar, is the first good effect of English infiu-
encc there. Now let us see if it will STAY
abolished
Germany has one doctor to 1909 of popu-
lation, France one to 3lG7, the United
Kingdom one to l,2234, but the United States
one to GOO
Denmark besides being several other
very useful things is u sort of universal
"hcnncry." 1t annually exports over III
million eggs.
1t is claimed that Tulare county, Califor-
mia, will lose round half million dollars
this year for want of ships to carry it's
grain to Liverpool. y
All employees Of the New Jersey Central
railroad have been notified that they must
abstain from the use of Intoxicating liquors
while on or off duty.
The long rains In France have ruined the
wheat harvest, and the farmers are greatly
depressed. Fancy prices are paid for the
leftover grain of last year
Many Settlers in the Big Bend. WASH.
country have been driven away by the
ravages of squirrels that swarm in count
less numbers in that region
a prominent physician says that there
arc thousands of epileptics in this country
and that we possess no asylum where they
may be treated for this disease.
The Russian government has made. an
appropriation Of 800 roublcs annually for
the maintenance offs Pastcllr institute in
Tiflis for tho cure of hyd,nphobia.
AT L'Oricnt Arsenal, in France, a--r-
ironclad war vessel Of ll.00O to;ls is "A
completed. 1t is strongly armed with
mense cannon i'll revolving towers. sasasss
1t is said that there are 1000 vacant
houses in Kansas City. Mo, and that it
has lost many Thousand of population the
past two years since its "boom" collapsed,
While sleeping i'll tho railroad station a,
Pittsburg Il traveller dreamed that his father
was drowning before his eyes, and his pitt
full appeals for help almost created n panic.
An English medical writer asserts that
cancer is not hereditary in the vast majori-
" OF cases no less than 50 per cent being
caused by external influences upon the
sufferers
The Italian minister of agriculture has
recently purchased in England u splendid
stallion named Melton for $4,000. 1t is
intended for the royal stables ut ycnara
and Pisce.
The most valuable metal in the world is
said to be galliuin, which is worth s.. $50 AN
ounce. Calcium brings 81 500 pound and
cerum Sl,?2o per pound. Gold is worth
$40 pound,
After forty years of work in the employ
OF York, Me. manufactory the corpor-
alton has rewarded the faithful services OF
Fannie Hutchins by placing her in an old
ladies' home.
An eighteen-year-old youth ut Cleveland
went to the circus and laughed SO much
that he has been unable to stop laugn-
ing since. Doctors say the show af-
fectcd his brain
faithful dog in Hamilton, Ohio, didn't
abandon its attempt to arouse it's drunken
owner who had fallen asleep on the rail,
road track, until an engine cut off its leg.
The man escaped injury
A bookbindcr in Vienna was called upon-.
20 bind n volume of lUO leaves worth 100,
0O gulden, Each leaf was Il bond for
] ,o0o,OOO gulden. the book being the owners
gift to his onl. daughter
China was an old empire long before
.''t!us Caesar was master of the world so
far as he knew it, but up to date it has only
one railroad of cighty-one miles The cost
of building it was 50, 600 per mile.
]. W. H. Haley, of Gainesville, Ga. is
the champion fisherman OF that section.
Ho caught all eel from w. c. Halls carp
pond that was 3 feet inches long. 8 inches
in circumference and weighed six pounds.
Fifteen millions of dollars is mentioned
ss tho value of the art treasures accum-
llatcd in Halford House by Sir Richard
Wallace, and 1t is ruGorcd that all this
will go, under tho will, to the English
nation
R:azil and other countries south of lis
are forming huge steamship companies,
With view to covering the entire coast;ns
.raffic ct South America. But they will
aartiiy be able to supply all the steamers
needed.
Peter B. Sweeney is trying to get New
York to undertake improvements along the
banks of the Hudson similar to those i.r
London beside tho Thames He wants u
grand driveway extending several miles to-
be created.
Wilson Zackery. coloIcd, OF Su,auler, s.
T., had ii leg burned when IL caild. but it
gave him no trouble until he severely in
urcd ii two years ago. The sore refused
% heal, and day ur two ago it had to be
,mputalcd.
a hesro draynian while driving drav
heavily loaded with nerchandiss, at Macon.
ost his balance and fell Off. and the draw
passed directly over lls neck Strange to
say, it was no! broken. but the negro's i'll
uries We're serious.