Griggs courier., 1894-02-16
CURRENT TOPICS.

CURRENT TOPICS.
THE birth rate is declining in the
United States.
Plum trees are now in full bloom at
Pleasant Valley Cal
FRANCE gathers n window tax on
more than 8, 600, 600 houses
The Eye is the name of the local
newspaper at Needles, Cal
Missouri has twenty-eight counties
that produce lead and zinc ore.
THE assessed value of property in
California has doubled since 1850.
The catacombs of Rome contain the
remains of about 5000, 900 people.
The Boston Phillips Brooks statue
fund now amounts to about $50,
A NEW alkaloid has been extracted
from the coffee bean and named coffea-
rine.
DANISH lighthouses are supplied with
oil to pump on the waves in case of
storm.
BELLS toll for the making or break
ing of engagements in some German
towns
SATISFACTORY gas pipes are now
made of MANILA paper coated with
asphalt
WAYNE MAcVEAaH, ambassador to
Italy, carried with him a new bust of
George Washington for the legation at
Rome.
The United States is first in the val.
ue of horses, Great Britain coming
next, France third and Germany
fourth.
Ex-JUDGE LAMBERT TREE, formerly
q. S. minister to Belgium, is about
starting for tour of the African coast
to Asia.
A WRITER, who claims to speak with
authority, says that Texas felt the
hard times less than any other state in
the union.
The people of the United States con-
sumo nearly one-half of the seven mil
lion ounces of quinine produced in the
world every year.
A PROPOSITION for great shipway
through France. between the English
channel and the Mediterranean, meets
with much approval abroad.
If a piece of Negroes skin be grated
on a white man, the transplanted piece
will gradually assume the color and
texture of the surrounding cuticle.
A SQUARE copper coin, struck by the
Swedish government in the sixteenth
century, is nearly one-half inch thick
and weighs pound and quarter.
GEN. MALTzEFF, great Russian
landed proprietor, who died recently,
owned twenty-nine mines, in which
about IS, 600 workmen are employed.
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. beggar of
Pesth. Hungary, attempted suicide be-
cause he was no longer able to support
his parents, who are 125 and 100 years
Did.
A SCHOOL building at Southampton,
Pa, was blown down by a recent gale.
The building was filed by scholars,
but all of them escaped without serious
injury.
JULES CLAREr1E paid a visit to Mile.
Rosa Bonheur. recently, and he says
that in spite of her seventy years she
is bright and alert and quite youthful
in manner.
A NEW YORKER. weighing over 500
pounds fell of dock into the East
river the other day. It required the
united efforts of six men and tackle to
rescue him.
In the most crowded precinct Of Bos-
ton, the recent tenement house census
found the average number of persons
in house to be 1881, and the average
number of persons in a room L6S.
H1sToRIc old Castle Garden has been
converted into magnifcently appoint
ed aquarium. The work ON the build
ing has been completed. and but little
remains to be done in the interior.
CAPT. r. D. BELL. Of ALASKA. says
that the Indians OF that territory are
being cleaned out by disease and bad
whisky at such rate that in ten years
IN Alaskan Indian will he almost q
curiosity.
WITH its tributaries. many Of them
large and important rivers, the waters
Of the Amazon form an inland naviga.
tion of not less than fifty thousand
miles, line double the circumference
Of the globe. y
RAB1x WISE. Of Cincinnati. who Is
trying to find out how many Jews
there are in the world. has come to the
conclusion that there are over 4.o00,.
O0O Of them.
THERE are more than 3, 900 articles Of
various descriptions that were lost by
r visitors during the Worlds fair season,
stored away in q room of the old SER
vice building at Jackson park await
ing claima IT'S:
ONE of the shortest willis on record.
document containing but forty-two
words. was fled for probate in San
Francisco recently. The maker OF the
will. Mime. Lerda. devised q large es
tate to her husband