Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-07-16
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'many crowned heads are bling ~
their shoes"
An eighty-year-o man of Williams
port, Pa, has tasted for forty five days
and still lives.
A chewing gun concern in Brooklyn
has become stock company with o.
capital of 81, 600 600.
OF the 100000 square miles Of
Africa only 2, 100000 remains in the
hands of the native rulers.
The king of all the Holsters was
caught off Monhegan, Me-, recently.
He was thirty inches long and weighed
fourteen pounds.
There are twenty-six monarchies and
twenty-five republics in the civilized
world today; sixteen republics are in
South America.
German medical papers report the
failure following immersion in cold
water for baptism.
So disgraceful has become the peni-
Tertiary system in Georgia that juries
in many cases acquit women rather
than send them there.
Rose Hawthorne says that Emerson's
memory became so weak at last that
he used to 90 out looking for himself in
the streets of Concord.
The output of whisky last year was
1870 900, 600 gallons. and the transact
tions in whisky are by no means con.
fined to the output.
The funeral ceremonies over the re.
mains of the late Prince Chun, father
of the Emperor of China, began on
January 10, and are still going on.
A Wichita Kan. farmer within year
has sold corn from one crib at 13 cents,
26 cents. 80 cents and IS cents, and has
some left for which he expects to get
s. cents.
Unless Kansas editor lies there is
an old gentleman in Boonville, that
state who has carried the same um.
brella every day in the week for sixteen
consecutive years.
There are $1,000 women studying in
the various colleges of the country:
Aud yet it is only twenty-five years
since the first college in the land was
opened to women.
One of the members of the Ohio
Legislature is a blind gentleman named
Palmer, who, when he is in the chair,
can instantly recognize the voice of
any member rising to address the
House.
President Balmaceda, of Chill, is a
stern and arbitrary man, with cold gray
eyes, thin lips and an angular chin.
He possesses more energy and ability
than are usually found in South
American dictator.
These are fine days for the Kiplings
Papa Kipling has written book about
Indian beasts; and now comes the an.
nouncement of novel by Miss Beatrice
Kipling, the sister of Rudyard, 1.-The
Heart of Maid"
Dallas Hunter, the fat boy of Green
County, Indiana. is dead. He was only
fourteen years old, but he weighed 249
pounds, and he died in his sleep, prac.
tically smothered in his superabund.
ance of adipose matter.
Boston is much cast down, because
the Concord School of Philosophy will
not meet this summer. Boston wants
too much of the Thisness of the Thus.
She had the Theosophists in convention
and ought to be satisfied.
M. Bowler, the French Minister of
Finance. is still young man. who has
already made a reputation of extraor-
binary ability as a statesman and
financier. He is regarded as one Of
the coming men in France.
Ibsen was entertained at banquet
of journalists and actors at the Hotel
Continental in Vienna on April 20. B.
Won Sonnenthal, the actor, toasted him
as the greatest living dramatist,"
whereupon Ibsen kissed him.
A farmer near Topeka, Kas., stored
away 100 bushels of corn. Soon after
storing it. he sold seventy-five bushels
and realized $3.50 A year later he sold
fifteen bushels and realized $3.50. And
recently he exchanged the remaining
ten bushels for $3.50.
An artist has been looking through
the Boston cemeteries and finds to his
surprise that there is no monument in .
any of the cemeteries there that is
worth over $1,000. The Chadwick
tomb cost about $25, 900, but this is not
classed with monuments.
As Senator Stanford could not induce
the Government to loan money to the
farmers he has concluded to cater to
another class, and will begin the manu-
facture of champagne on his big Cali
fornla farm. He has brought a French
man over from Lyons to take charge of
the experiment.
The French Society of Men of Let
ters, which held its convention in Paris
has pension fund of $780,
300 for old and INDECENT members. Its
whole property is worth between $780,
300 and 100000. Its annual expendi-
lures are 800, 900 or about $4,000 less
than its receipts.
The Paris street extending from
Neuilly to St. Denis is lined with tum-
tenements that are said to
shelter more vice and iniquity than can
be found in any other spot in the
world. The houses throng with GRIM
inals. The street is known as the