Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-03-01
CURRENT TOPICS.

LoNDoNERs pay $40 head in take
yearly.
PERUVIAN mummies are on exhibi-
ton in New York.
ONE Alaskan volcano puffs at inter.
walls like a locomotive.
The annual cocoanut crop of the
world is worth $50, 100000.
The photograph is now used in
schools for teaching purposes
The Boston public library has $685.
600 volumes, that of Chicago $50, 900.
GIANT human tracks are said to exist
in the solid rock near Rushville, Mo-
COYOTE hunting has been introduced
in southern California and is meeting
with much popularity.
Two CENTURIES ago liquors, without
exception, were invented and manufac-
tured in the monasteries.
A ''MoRNING SESSION. in the house of
commons begins at 2 o'clock in the at
ternoon and lasts until Z.
The Dirigo, recently launched at
Bath, Me-, is the first steel sailing ship
ever built in New England.
The civil engineers of the navy, an
arm of the service that may soon be
abolished, number only ten.
In some parts Of Australia earth
worms grow to a length Of six feet and
are three inches in diameter.
IT is said that on several Russian
railways iron telegraph poles are to be
substituted for those OF wood.
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., is said to look
more like an English town than any
other city in the United States.
THEopu1LUs BLAND, of Pitt county,
N. c., has seven sons, each of whom
weighs over two hundred pounds.
AN ingenious Kansas hog stealer
chloroformed the pigs he stole, and
not one of them ''squealed" on him.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Mississippi legislature authorizing tho
city Of Meridian to issue bonds to pur-
chase and construct water works and
for other purposes.
M. PoUssET, the founder of several
noted drinking places in Paris, who
died recently, bequeathed about $780,.
900 to the twelve oldest customers OF
his first establishment, whose patron
age caused his success.
MRS. MARY AHRENs, president Of the
Cook County Suffrage association, OF
Chicago, rented two rooms out of her
own pocket and circulated requests for
supplies to fill them. AS a result 49,.
600 men have been fed.
JAMES HERON, who died the other
day in San francisco, was one OF the
party from Commodore Sloat'ss squadron.
that raised the American flag at Mon
terey on July Z. 1916.
So great is the echo in one OF the
rooms of the pantheon that the strik.
Ing together of the palms Of the hands
il said to make noise equal to that OF
underground cannon.
QUAINT old customs still survive in
many parts of London. In Ely place.
Holborn, watchman cries the hour
nightly with the same, formula in use
for centuries past, 'Past one o'clock
and cold, wet morning"
THE public lands Of Wyoming are
estimated at 63, 600, 900 acres. OF this
only 6, OOO, 900 acres are said to be irri-
gable or agricultural land. The re.
mainder is all grazing lands
MEN do not give up their seats to
women in the public conveyances in
London and Paris. They might DO 60
polite if called upon, but laws Of both
cities forbid passengers to stand.
THE simplest way to tell iron from
steel is to pour on the metal a drop OF
nitric acid, and allow it to act for one
minute. On rinsing with water . gray
ish-white stain will be seen If the metal
4 iron; . black ono il it Is steel