The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-07-11
MISSING

An eighty-year-old man of Williams.
port, Pa, has tasted for forty-tive days
and still lives.
A chewing gun concern in Brooklyn
has become a stock company with .
capital of 81. O0O, QUO.
OF the IL. 900. 900 square miles OF
Africa only 2, 300. 900 remains in the
hands of the native rulers.
The king of all the Holsters wa
caught off Monhcgan, Me-. recently.
He was thirty inches long and weighed
fourteen pounds.
There are t%wenty-six monarchles ana
twenty-five republics in the civilized
world today; sixteen republics are In
South America.
German medical papers report tho
death of a young woman from heart
failure follo owing immersion in cold
water for baptism.
So d%isgraceful 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 20 out looking for himself In
the streets of Concord.
The output of whisky last year vas
100, 600, 900 gallons. and the transact
tons in whisky are by no means COM
fined to the output.
The funeral ceremonies over the 70.
mains of the late Prince Chun. father
of the Emperor of China, began n
January 10, and are still going On.
A Wichita. Kan. farmer within a year
has sold corn from n crib at IL cents,
26 cents. so cents and 70 cents. and has
some left for which he expects to get
IS cents.
Unless a Kansas editor lies there 70
an old gentleman in Boonville, that
state. who has carried the same m
brella every day in the week for sixteen
consecutive years.
There are 40, 900 women studying Ia
the various colleges of the country.
And yet it is only twenty-five years
since the first college in the land wa
opened to m
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 .
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 a South
American dictator.
These are fine days for the KiplingA
Papa Kipling has written a book about
Indian beasts; and now m the an.
nouncement of a novel by Miss Beatrice
Kipling, the sister of Rudyard, Tho
Heart of q 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 s%mothered in his su%perabund-
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 T%heosophists in convention
and ought to be satisfied.
NJ. Bowler. the French Minister Of
Finance, is still a young man. who has
already made a reputation of extraor-
binary ability as a statesman and
financicr. He is regarded as one Of
the coming men in France.
Ibsen was entertained at a banquet
of journalists and actors at the Hotel
Continental in Vienna on April 20. B
Won Somewhat, the actor. toasted him
as the greatest living dramatist,"
w%hereupon lbsen kissed him.
A farmer near Topeka, Kas.. stored
away 100 bushels of corn. Soon after
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 throe<
the Boston cemeteries and finds to -
surprise that there is no monument in
any of the cemeteries there that 10
worth over So, 900. The Chadwick
tomb cost about S25. 900, but this is not
classed with monuments.
As Senator Stanford could not induce
the Government to loan money to tho
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
recently, has a pension fund Of $780,
900 for old and INDECENT members. Ito
whole property is worth between $780,
900 and $500, 900. Its annual expendi.
lures are 500, 900 or about {, 1000 less
than its receipts.
The Paris street extending. from
Neuilly to St. Denis is lined with tum-
bledown 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
Route de In Revolte."
The commander of the St. Peters
burg police has issued an order that II
q house owner is in arrears with his
water taxes he is to be compelled by
police measures to pay them. But tho
water supply is not to be cut off. in
order that the tenants shall not suffer
for the delinquency of the landlord.
In 1922 Arthur St. Clair, of Cincin.