The weekly intelligencer., 1892-03-26
The United States Official
MISCELLANEOUS.

Last year 26,174 persons offered to
enlist in the u. S. Army, and 6,647
were accepted.
Within seventy years, forty-one de-
grees below zero was recorded but
once in Minnesota; January 81, 1885.
The Chemical Bank, New York, has
six and half millions surplus. An
nual dividend one hundred and fifty
per cent.
Denmark has a system of beneyo-,
lence by which the honest poor of
sixty years of age are insured against
want. 1t is on the presumption that
they have always paid taxes.
The latest Edison achievement is
method of communication without
wires or cables, making it possible TO
communicate between ships at sea,
as well us between distant land points.
The most reliable authority on the
population of the earth makes it
|, ,4s0, 100000. The figures fors China
have been reduced by So ,000,000 The
increase since 1880 has been 19 ,000,-
600
Within three years, the United
States has bought from the Indians
about thirty millions of acres. Yet
there remain five times that area, 50
that the Indian Is not shut-in nor
likely to become So in hurry.
Insanity appears to be on the in
crease in Minnesota. In 1870, of each
million of population four hundred
and seventy were insane; in 1880
there were nine hundred and thirty;
| in 1881 there we're ! ,547 10 the million.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, re-
plying to the invitation to visit Canada,
says that il is quite impossible, though
it would greatly delight him "to see
the great sights, the great life, and
the great men beyond the Atlantic
Thirty-one nations and fourteen
colonies have arranged for representa-
ton Mt the Worlds Fair. The sppro-
priations of few of them are Mexi-
co, $3.50, 900; Japan, $500 900; Brazil,
$3.50, 900; France, 100000; Ger
many, Szou,ouO.
The opposition party in the Japanese
Legislature being able TO defeat certain
government measures, the emperor
dissolved the House, as provided tor
by the constitution. This will afford
the people an opportunity to express
their will by fresh election.
Lieutenant Glave, writing from Cen.
tral Alaska, speaks of an immense
valley, thickly covered with luxuriant
grasses, stretching away in all dirre-
tions. There are deep, swift streams,
lakes well stocked with fish, rich
pastures, and wild fruits beyond meas
ure.
Miss Bowen, of Gaysville, VT, one
hundred years old was asked: s.Would
you accept the offer of marriage. ii
you were to live your life overp" She
replied: sI do not know what would
do. Married women are said to live
longest, but am living long enough"
The Mardan Indians are supposed
by many to have descended from
Welshmen who sailed westward in the
twelfth century and were never heard
of, except in the doubtful story that
they reached the Mississippi aud
worked up the river. The Mandans
use words resembling the Welsh.
Their complication also favors the
story.
The men of a factory in San Fran
cisco struck for nine-hour day, though
the proprietor offered to pay extra tor
the tenth hour and could not fill his
orders without it. This taking advan-
tage of busy time as furnishing the
occasion for strike cannot help work
ingmen as much as it can harm them.
, Some one calls attention to the re-
semblance between affairs in Russia
to-day and the conditions in France
just before the revolution. Every
thing is said to depend on the army IN
Russia, as was the case in France.
When the bayonets were pulled from
under the throne, down came every
thing.
| Of sixty-tive divorces granted in the
: Circuit Court, Sioux Falls, S. D.,
+ fifty-one were of parties who were
= married in South Dakota; that is, in
: only fourteen cases did the parties be-
long outside. The frequent newspaper
, mention suggests that divorce-seekers
y by the carload are landed daily in di-
yorcing Dakota.
e The great German soldier, Won
n Moltke, and his brothers, never los
o love and respect for their mother. A.
ir long as she lived, they could write
d such language as this sGoodby TO
l. to-day, dear Mother; only keep wei
and take care of your strength. Lit
down and rest little; you may vel
=, do so, for you have worked LONG
:, enough for us.
~ Says DR.. W. T. Harris: If science
n progresses and its concomitant, usefu
al invention, progresses as fast Tor th'
l. next hundred wears as it has done fol
" the past forty years, the vision OF I'd
II ward Bellamy of comfort for all will
N be realized without the necessity o.
Ie any form of socialism. There will be
comfort and even luxury for all who
will labor moderate amount o
= time
ID In France, one must attend law
i school six years before entering upon ths
4 practice. A Roumanian girl who had wor
,f ihe degree of bachelor of letters snC
:. science, presented herself before the
as Law School in Paris for admission,
d The novelty confused the faculty. the
is apprehension being that she might b,
4 annoved. She lost only one day il
4 six wears, was graduated with honor
and Is practicing in Bucharest.