Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-07-07
FOREIGN

leopard credited with destroying 154
persons.
A tiny electric light, attached to a
pencil, enables French reporters TO
take notes in the dark.
1t is reported that tank steamers
are to be built at Bremerhayen for
the American petroleum trade.
A Rio Janeiro dispatch says that
the government is bombarding Porto
Allegro, in Rio Grande do Sui,
T~wo-thirds of the total number of
children under 10 years of age in the
United Kingdom are insured in one
form or another.
The independent consular repre-
sentatives OF Norway in certain
countries will soon be granted by the
Swedish Government.
Queen Victoria dissolved parliment
on Tuesday last and thanked the
body for the work which it had done
during the past six years. The
writs for a general election have been
issued.
Great Britain has entered a protest
with the government of Ecuador
against reciprocity with the United
States, claiming the ''most favored
nation" consideration.
Railway managers of Holland have
found it impossible to get men to
work the switches who can be
depended upon to let liquor alone,
and have therefore substituted
women.
There are in London $50 common
lodging houses, which have nearly
$1,000 inhabitants. In these warrens
are about $500 women and girls, and
of this number some 1900 are under
the age of %.
Brigands have killed Jose Miguel
Velasco Colapas on his hacienda, six
brutality treated his wife and two
daughters. The military and police
are after them.
A new puzzle has appeared in Lon
don shops which is said to be a
patience-prover after the style Of pigs
in clover, only a good deal more so.
1t is called the bicycle puzzle. The
chance of solving the puzzle is but
one in ten.
Frederick Schwatka, the noted
Arctic explorer, and who visited this
state some years ago, once experienced
a temperature of III degrees below
zero in the Arctic regions, near
Burke's Great Fish river. II is said
to be the coolest ever endured by
man.
An agent of the Turkish govern
ment has started for Chicago to
superintend the construction of the
Ottoman pavilion and a Turkish
village, accompanied by some native
masons. The Sultan and all the
authorities are taking a lively
interest.
English capitalists are complaining
at the number of steamers that are
lying idle in that country. In the
Tyne and Wear $50 steamers are tied
up while a great number are to be
found at West Hartlepool, Cardiff.
southampton and other ports. 1t is
estimated that altogether there are
600 vessels not in service.
The late Daniel Lewis, a trader of
Liverpool and Manchester, left s. .75O.-
600 in trust for the benefit of the
working classes in those cities. The
bequest will probably be employed in
the erection of industrial dwellings
on the Peabody plan as the best means
of aiding workingmen and their
families to live well and Clearly.
Leonard Wilton of Brighton.
brother of the cheese inspector,
James Whitton of Belleville, has
continued to gain in flesh, and is now
classed as the biggest man in Canada.
He weighs 400 pounds. His measure
ment is as follows: Around the
shoulders, 5 feet 6inches; chest, 5 feet
2 inches; hips, 6 feet 2 inches: neck,
1 foot IL inches; arm at shoulder,
l foot 2 inches; arm below elbow.
l foot 5 inches: thigh, 3 feet 9 inches:
calf, 2 feet. His head measurement
around the temple is % inches. Ten
years ago he did not weigh more than
$50 pounds. He is under 40 years Of
apa