The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-01-24
wlNOEO mis- SIEES. 4
Chicago is disposed 70 be little TIT n
has Twentieth Century club.

Miss Clara Barton, tho philanthropist, Is
tic only person in America entitled TO wear
the Iron cross OF Prussia.
Prince Bismarck is said 10 have the de.
sire to write play before he dies. Great
men have peculiar weaknesses.
General Sherman is . great diner out.
Ills list now runs far into the new year
1nd is nude up forevery evening.
Edison has an eye open to the main
chance. He says he cares more for business
orders than for foreign decorations.
French, the Boston sculptor, Is making q
bust OF A. Bronson Alcott. 1t will be un
Image OF good nature and bencvolencc.
Strange how peoples tastes differ. An
autop'y on Wisconsin man few days
aso revealed five jackknives in his stomach,
A tract Of land which included the muiu
portion OF tho original plot of Johnstown
was once bought for sG.lS ut q forced sale.
The manufacture Of oil of roses Is TO be.
gin ON large scale in tho Crmea, whero
the roses grow in great profusion in tho
mountains
AT White Haven gunner fired fourteen
shots ut duck betOro lie found out that it
was decoy placed OH tho water by two
school boys.
Nearly ninety members of tho present
Congress wcro in the Confederate army in
stations ranging from private soldier to
major general.
1t is said that ono of the English novel
lists Is able to repeat from memory every
word he has written, anl lie is the author
Of many books.
babies born with teeth arc becoming
numerous in Ohio. a New Lisbon mother
has bato that had two front teeth beforo
it was u day old
Tho Kentucky university this year
opened its doors to female students. and
now the names Of twenty young women ara
entered upon its rolls
Recently complied statistics show that
during tho last ten years to evcry forty.
nihe marriages performed in New Jersey
there has Gcen one divorce
The scientists ut Harvard University
are engaged in experiment, whic. they ura
confident will result in determining. the cx.
act location of tho north pole
Minneapolis has an anti treating society
Inc badge is u white collar button worn on
Tho lapel OF the coat. Usually the badge is
A west Virginia girl has saved money
enough to buy herself gold watch Dy
trapping lnusk-rats, skunks and other
animals and selling their hides.
There is in Windsor Custle a gold punch
bowl and ladlc for which George Nv. paid
iooO guineas, but in which there Luy
never been drop of punch made.
Professor John S. Newberry, in "a lectur,
ct Columbia college, Saturday, on tho
Geological History Of Man." said thcr,
ore signs that man livod 5000 years ago.
You cannot depend altogether OH tho
cool. Georgs Eliot says: "The blessed
work OF helping the world forward happily
does not wait TO be done by perfect ncn.n
Tho girls will bc sorry TO hear that tho
spruce gum supply Of northern Maine is
giving out, and that in regions usually pro.
lille it cannot now bo bought ut any price
Last year Germany granted only 1921
pensions, against Enslands 9,TIJ and tho
United States :O,43O The number granted
in Germany has fallen of .a1 in iiv. years.
William Harrocks, Philadelphia brake.
man, was killed by tho cars Il few DAYS
ago Three nights bcfore his death one of
his neighbors dreamed That he had been
killed.
Ed. Howe has discovered that s.it is hard
10 distinguish the man Who is WORKING YOU
IRON the man who adinres you" 1t
usually takes Q little time to make the dis.
covcry.
One hundred and sixty seven bears wero
KILLED i'll Maine during the year. The stat,
has paid out &.3,, or 81 per head bounty.
Over 81 ,Ut1 will be paid as bounty for kill
ing crows.
A Philadelphia undertaken who has
much use for his telephone, las had it
riggel up on y dumb-waitcr arrangement
50 that lie can answer Il call from any
part Of the house
Tho Presidential responsibilities bea-
lightly upon Harrison When they como
too thick lie ''lrocurcs his iowling piecc''
und goes duck hunting. This is better than
having the dumps.
Roadmaster MOlloy, OF tho Central Paciiic
railroad, was attacked by wild cat nea.
Winncmucca recently. The cat had two
kittens and Mr.. Mo!loy happened upon
them unexpectedly.
Tho Sandwich islanders pipe is madsaf
virgin cork lined with meershaum and is
curious by reason of the pattern on tho cork
made by the insects Tat fecl on trees il
is like delicate lace work.
The latest and most mil lue invention is a
machine for but t'eriay bread. 1t is used in
connection with great patent bread. cutter
nnd is intended for usc in prisons, work.
houses and other rcformatory institutions.
Mnjor Wissman with force of men and
several steamers las gone to meet un attack
Ar, ,I,a
tucked IL German detachment Il few days
ago, woundiny an officer and killing IL mum
Der Of men.
A professor up iu Northwestern New
York has discovered another ncw comet.
There seems to be great many heavenly
bodies over tEut state, judging from the fire.
1uent announcements malo by local astron-
Diners OF New YORK..
Here arc few definitions given by pu-
pills Of til, Gardiner, Me-, grammar school
ut recent examination: Exile, u part ofu
wagon; byword, q word that has gons by:
u kind of IL maid; turmoil, u kind
IF oil; rcpast, 10 pass BY"
Mrs Z. L. Huntington, tho wife Of tho
railroad millionaire, for good luck wears u
pair OF yellow gartcrs bucklcu with fine
opaz, set with diamonds. II money is
blessing she has it most abundantly. 1t did
not coue BY luck. however.
Tho British boat Brisk has given tho
most conclusive proof that o torpedo may
DO effective. She fired ono OF hers ut u
buoy which had beea lowed out as u target
oy her steam cutter, ana, missin. I'll, buoy,
l.t tho cutter and sank her.
In Georsia, when YOU ask man how far
II Is TO th. next plantation, he will answer
thut 1t is "a peek and u right smurt
scrccch." He means that it is q, far as you
can sec from where you stand and then u.
much farther us strong vo.co can 10
heard.
Mrs. Libby l'hillipa the last survivor OF
The Pcquot tribe Of Connecticut Indians, and
dead, turned UP ut birmingham,
Conn, recent y, alive and told iier friends
that she proposes - live u Ion, while yet
although now seventy years Oh anu waI-
ders from town to town.
An Allentown hotclkoepcr, while working
In lis barn, disturbed II colony Of rats.
Aided BY his hostlcr, he began lnalsing war
m them. One OF the big rodents ran up
Ihe gentleman's les. inside his pant.loons,
md before ho could bes expelled bit and
laccrated tholimb terribly. III
To show the capacity 81 his stomach . !
visitor at the Neversinx Fire House Mt 3