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Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
MUSICAL MISCELLANY.


 A CmcAdo vocalist earns fifty dollars a day by singing for phonographs.
 HERR ANTON SErDL is to direct the Wagner concerts in London next sea son
 FIFTEEN girls about ten years of age form the choir in Congregational church at Atohison,
 Mn; CowEN's "Ilarold,n to be given soon at Covent garden will be the first opera by an English composer, sung in English, ever given during n grand opera season.
 "PETRUccIo," by Mir, Maclean, won the prize of ono hundred pounds ster- ling offered for the best one-act opera by m English composer. There were forty-three competitors.
 MR. AND MRs. HENsCHEI are coming to America next season on Q concert tour; so are Mme. Albani, Mile. An. toinette Trobelli, NJ. oudricelI, the vio- linist; Morris Rosenthal, the pianist, and PaderewslSi.
 III TBoyAToRE' has just been per formed for the three hundredth time at the Vienna opera house, q record equalea by no work bya living com poser, and only by some of Mozart's and Webcr's operas,
 Mss BLANCHE DNGLEY, of Auburn, Me, has signed contract, at a gener- ous salary, as harpist aud pianist in . concert company composed entirely of ladies, which Is to give a series of con certs in western and southern cities the coming season.
 SmERIA is becoming civilized. A Ger man flute player named Terschak has just ended tour of concerts in which he played at OmslS, lrlSutsll, TobolslS, Tomsll and many other towns, and pianist has been engaged for next year to begin a tour at Nladiyostock on the Pacific and to travel through Siberia back to Europe.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
SHORT CONNECTIONS.

THE human skeleton contains two hundred and sixty bones,
 TuE National Temperance Almanac gives a list of eighty papers published in the United States devoted to temper ancc.
 THERE is an apparently growing sen timcnt iu Auburn, Me. against the con tinuanoC of public bathing in the town reservoir.
 THE illuminated manuscript copy of the gospels sent tO Mir. Gladstone by the Armcuians is said Co be finer than anything in the British museum,
 PEOPLE who are learning French can get the exact pronunciation of many difficult words by using phonograph cylinder expressly prepared for that purpose.
 VINEGAR and yeast shonld never be kept in stone jars, for there is m acid in them which attacks the glazing, and mixing with it has poisoning prop ertv
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
ODD HAPPENINGS

A GIRL in Lancaster, Ky, died of fright in a dentists chair the other day while preparing to have a tooth cx- tracted
 Two NoSAGESARIANs died within a few miles of each other in Fayctte county, Pa, one day last week. They were two widows, one aged 95 and the other 0L
 A DUCK in East BluehilI Me. was struck by lightning recently and lost one eye and a part of its head but is now seemingly quite recovered from the stroke and goes around with wary look in its weather eye.
 JUDGE BEEEY, of Marion, h., had an exciting experience while coming to town at night during a high wind Upon reaching the top of one of the hills near the Blanden farm the wind blew dp his right coat sleeve and peeled of his underclothing from head to foot, leaving him shivering in the hurricane.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
ABOUT THE WOMEN.

MRs. CoRSELIA PHHLIPs SPEScEK, of Cambridge, Mass, has been made a IL. D. by the University of North Carolina.
 MARY ANDERSON (Mrs, De Navarro), having recovered from her illness, is now said to be looking better than ever.
 TuE will of Mrs. Mary Jean Brad ford, Q South Boston lady, provides a e4,000 trust for the care and mainten- ance of her parrot-a bird which she owned for twenty years.
 Mas. HAITIAN is almost ofas large and generous build as her husband, Mir Justice Harlan, who is six feet two inches tall. When seen together they attract much admiring but surprised attention.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
FOUND IN TIE WEST.

NEVADA is so sparsely settled that there are nearly two and one-half square miles to each inhabitant
 WITHIN a few days of first using scales for weighing gold coin, instead of counting 1t as heretofore, tho Seattle custom house has rejected moro than two thousand dollars of undorweight coin.
 TuE summit of Mount Baker, Wash ington, which is just becoming visible through the melting snows, is said to have changed it's shape A new peak, between the dome and tho south peak, is said to be plainly visible from New Nhatcom.
 TuE skeleton of Q white woman was found recently at the mouth of White Bird creek, on the salmon river, in northwestern Idaho, It is believed to be that of Mrs Manuel. who was cap tured by the Chief Joseph Indians from Q pioneer train in that region in 1877.
 Ir wasa hardened western trampwho broke into o morguc recently and stole a suit of clothes belonging to a suicide. And now another of the brotherhood has broken into the sherihs office in Wichita, Kan, and stolen money be- longing to the local Christian Endeav- or society.
 A PRosPEcPoB from the Pend d'Oreille district came into Hope, Idaho, a week or so ago to sell the furs he had gath cred in odd moments of trapping dur inc his winters mining operations. He had the skins of seven bears, eight beavers, eighteen martens and num- Der of wolf. fox and other pelts
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
IN POLITICAL CIRCLES.

THoMAs r. BAYAED, 90 it is stated, first mentioned Gresham to Cleveland for the head of the cabinet
 LAWYER CuoArE's fee in the income tax ease has now been reduced by the newspaper gossips from SlOOOOo to el5,O00.
 GEoEGE W. JULIAN, who is living in Q suburb in Indianapolis, k thought to be the last of the free-sojl party leaders now living. He is seventy eight years old and in good health.
 HUGH S. LEeERE, of South Carolina, Abel P, Upshur, of Virginia Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts, and Walter Q. Gresham, of Indiana. all secretaries of state, died while In that office.
 Gov. MORTON, of New York, has been made a member of the Society of May flower Descendants. The governor traces his ancestry bacl, to stephen Hopkins, who was one of the pilgrims to reach these shores in 1C29,
 SENATOR GEoRaE F. IloAR, of Massa- chusetts, has found that John sherman, the first town clerk of Watertown, Mass, who served about two hundred and fifty years ago, was his ancestor and also an ancestor Of Gen. sherman.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
DolNGs OF EUROPE.

IN many European countries tue practice has been adopted of planting nut and fruit trees in place of merely shade trees along the highways.
 NEXT September the second Italian geographical congress will be held at Rome, during the celebration of the twenty-Gfth anniversary of the unidca- ton of Italy.
 PARIS keeps up it's moral crusade. The police have closed the caves dharmonic," in the Latin quarter, where singing was kept up after mid night, because they were noisy and the songs were indecent.
 No FEWER than ,93o estates are to be sold at auction by the State Bank of Russia, which has forccloscd the mort gages, They nearly all belong to no- blcs who arc hopelessly insolvent, in Q few cases through a succession of bad harvests, but generally through ex- travagance and neglect
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
GATHERED ABROAD.

PORTUGAL abolished capital punish ment in 1867, Holland in 1870, Switzer- land in 1874 and Italy in 1889.
 MosT of the land in the republic of Mexico is held in almost feudal tenure by about seven thousand families.
 THE head of every Chinese male in fant Is shaved when he is about a month old, and a banquet is part of the ceremony.
 TOXIC is more like a great group of little villages than like a city. and be- tween oil of these arc beautiful wood ed parks, some left entirely as nature made them, some quaintly executed in the Japanese manner
 FEoN the top of the cathedral spire in Mexico you can see the entire city, and the most striking feature of the view is the absence of chimneys. There is not chimney in all Mexico, not a Eratc, nor Q stove, nor a furnace. All the cooking is done with charcoal in Dutch ovens
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
PERSONAL PARTICULARS.

LEWIS LoNa, of Lyon county, Ky, has been kept poor because of the number of little shoes he has had to buy. He Is the father of twcnty-cight children, md has had five wives.
 PAUL GEE, Of Lamar, Mo, is col ored man eighty-hvc years of age who has thirty-eight children distributed over Virginia and Missouri.
 EDIsoN's great-grandfather lived to the age of ono hundred and two His grandfather died at one hundred and three, and oue of his aunts at one hun drcd and eight, while his own father is still alive at ninety.
 ONE of the smallest men in Maine, and doubtless in the country, is John II. Robbins, of Belfast, native of Deer Isle. He is thirty-one years old, is thirty-six inches high and weighs thirty-scyeu pounds and six ounces.
 JAMES FOSTER, remarkable old ne gro of Allen county, Ky, is dead at the age of eighty-seven. He never asked for one cent credit, never owed dime in his life. and when he died owned three hundred acres of land unincum- bcred and plenty or stock.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
FROM SOUTHERN CONTINENTS.

oSEHUNGA in New Zealand had a woman uiayorlust year. She wiped out the floating debt of the town, and added to the sinking fund, but was not re- elected
 As AN indication of how the slave trade survives in Africa, it is stated that last summer a caravan of 10000 camels and 1000 slaves left Timbuctoo for Mo- rocco.
 IS Astrakhan the Kalrnuclys are dying out. They are afflicted with some mysterious mental disease that is GlI- ing the asylums and hospitals, and the mortality is SO great that there will probably soon be not one of tbe race left in the district
 THEEBERs to Lake Ngami, in South Africa, send back word that beyond the Kalahari desert there is an abundant and permanent supply of water, while the country is magnificent and healthy, surpassing both the Transyaal and the Orange Free State
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
MuLTuM IN pARvo.

THERE is no place like home.-J. II. Payne.
 PEOPLE do not lack strengthi they lack will. Hugo.
 TIE weak have remedies, the wise have joys.-Young.
 A MAN must become wise at his own expense.-Montaigne.
 IIE who seeks the truth should be of no country.
 WHEN tho stomach is satisfied the food is bitter Swedish.
 LIKE virgin parchment, capable of any inscription.-M -Massinger.
 UNGRATETULNEss is the very poison of manhood.-Sir F. Sidney
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
STUDYING NATURE.

THE skin of the rhinoceros, in some parts, is two inches thick
 CoRALs are not found within the range of rivers flowing into the ocean, as fresh water is fatal
 TUsKs of the mammoth have been found oi length of nine feet, meas ured along the curve.
 THE only bird that sings at night is the nightingale, and the only one that sings while flying is the lark.
 TIE bones oi tho human body be- como brittle as age advances, This is because aged persons have an excess of lime in their bones.
 IT is believed by microscopists that the highest powers of their instruments have not yet revealed the most minute forms of animal life.
 TIE lea is unsuitable. After gorging itself, and observing another chance to feed, it cjccts the contents of its stom- aeh and attacks a fresh victim, or an old victim in new spot.
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
PRODUCT OF CITY MILLS.

CnIcAGos manufactured products are valued at S600, ,0o0, ,000,
 CINCINNATI makes every year over $50, 100000 worth of goods.
 PHuADELPHIA manufactures every year s525, ,OoO, 900 worth of material.
 TIE manufactures of Brooklyn arc annually valued at s22s, 100000.
 ST. LOUIS annually makes up and sells S225, ,o00,0oO worth of goods.
 TIE manufactures of Baltimore are valued annually at nearly s15o, ,000, 900 TIE value of the manufactured prod- uets of New York exceeds s75o, 1000, ,O0O SAN FRANCISCO manufactures each year about s15O, ,000, GOO worth of goods
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
CRIMINAL NOTES.

TIE banks of the United States dur ing the year 1894 lost over s25, ,0OO, 900 by theft.
 IT is said that in some parts of Ja- pan robbers are convicted on majority vote of tho community.
 Ar the Bon Marchc (cheap marlSet), Paris, last year, COZ persons were ar rested for lslcptomania.
 A WOMAN arrested in Fond du Lac for masquerading in mems clothes had a curling iron in her pistol pocket.
 TnE statistics of Russia show that in the last ten years at least three thou sand persons, accused of petty thefts, have been lnoutea to death The czar has abolished punishment by the lSnout
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
An Alnhnhotin.1 N..,.

Arthur Hopper, a laundryman of London, England, has daughter who rejoices in the possession of twenty-six given names, one for every letter in the alphabet. This wonderful aggregation of praenomens, which, taken together, make the longest given name" (names) that has ever been bestowed upon any civilized person, is: Anna Bertha Ce- celia Diana Emily Fanny Gertrude Fly pathia Inez Jane Kate Louise Maud Nora ophelia Pearl Quince Rebecca Sarah Trixy Unice Venus Winifred Xenophon Yeola Zeus Hepperl
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
IN ODD PURSUITS.

WE have 3,oss men engaged as seam stresses.
 FoRTY-Two women of our country are brick and stone masons.
 WE have 2,275 women salooukeepers and 147 women barkeepers.
 FoRTY-sEvEN of our American women are stationary engineers and fremen.
 WE have 23 women architects and 337 women dentists in this country.
 THERE are 2S7 women draynen, hack drivers and teamsters in this country
Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-10
Isolated Towns.

Although the counties of Maryland lying between the lower Potomac and the Chesapeake are only from twenty to cue hundred miles from Washington. they are curiously isolated from the rest of the world and out of the line of travel Calvert and St. Mary's and the eastern part of Charles preserve many antiquities, and are difficult to reach Tho county towns arc mostly small vil- lagcs, and ttc news of the region tray. els slowly to tle outer world.
 Black Iako in Mexico.
 In the midst of the volcanoes of Mex leo is the Lake of Ink" which covers aboutaa acre of ground. The body of water, Or ink, or whatever it is, is SO covered with ashes from the adjacent as to appear part of the sur rounding ground which is nll of the same dull gray tint Where this liquid comes from, what it's chemical proper ties may be or what the supply is, are matters of conjecture.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-02

Ra ilroad Commissioner Currie re-
turned to his home in Dickinson Friday
morning. Mr.. Currie has travelled over
the state rather extensively the past few
days, and in the matter of cars for the
shipping of grain, says it will be a ques-
ton whether cars enough can be placed
at the disposal of shippers, without some
delay. The railroads, however, are max
ing every effort to get their cars so dis
tributed as to meet all immediate de-
mands, and they are beng placed at all
stations and shipping points where they
will be needed.
Attorney General Cowan returned Wed
nesday from Devils Lake, where he has
been busy for some time with cases be-
fore the United States court. MI.
Cowan was at the Lake upon the oc.
casion of the McNamara-M aher shoot
ing, and was within a short distance of
Maher when the last shot was fred. He
says McNamara welded q A caliber
gun, and was within three feet Of Maher
when he shot him in the back. The es-
cape Of Maher was a narrow one, as
ordinarily such a shot would have gone
clear through the body, but as it was
the bullet did not enter more than half
an inch over its length, and Maher was
not seriously hurt.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-02
CITY AND COUNTY.

F. J. Burt of this city has been
granted an original pension.
Mrs. M. P. Martin and daughter of st.
Paul are guests of Mrs. John Davidson,
returning from a tour Of the Yellowstone
park.
Major Hamilton and daughter Nellie
came in from Grands Forks on Wednes-
day mornings train.
Editor George B. Winship of the
Grand Forks Herald, came in from the
east on Wednesday mornings train.
Henry Suttle has one of the finest
pieces of wheat and oats in the county,
just southeast of town.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Lamb and Mr.. and
Mrs. I'M. W. Hutchinson left Wednes-
day for. Medora, where they will visit for
a day or so at the ranch of Howard
Eaton.
G. D. Edick has purchased the prop
erty on Ninth street next to N. +.
Boucher's residence, and will move
therein this week.
Mrs. Charles Kupitz has returned from
Detroit Lake, where she and her daugh-
ter Lulu we're for several days on a
pleasure trip.
Nearly 300 cars have been ordered for
stock west of here, to be loaded previous
to August 10, and $50 additional between
that date and the 18th.
The storm of Saturday was accom-
panied by hail up about Glenv,ew, but
the path of the storm was narrow and
not much damage was done.
Supt. Perkins is back from a trip up
north, where he has been visiting schools.
he reports them all in good s~hape-edu-
cstional matters hourishing.
Farmers are in the city getting ma
chinery and extras, and are preparing
for the harvest that is to come.
Secretary Phelan came up from Fargo
Monday morning and will be busy in the
city for a few days with some railroad
commission work.
The maximum temperature Sunday
was but SO, although the intense stiffness
made the heat extremely oppressive and
the day sultry and disagreeable.
Barlow Skeels, a son of Mr.. M. P.
Skeels, came in from Green Bay, Wis,
Sunday morning, to visit for a time
with his father and sister at this place.
It is learned that A. J.. McCabe, for
merly superintendent of this division, is
now train master on the east Minnesota
division, having recently been appointed
Supt. E. J. Pearson of the Missouri
division of the Northern Pacific, was a
west-bound passenger on Friday morn
ing's train, returning from st. Paul to
Glendive.
Joe Sorg, a Mclean county farm
hand, waslbrought?to the hospital Friday
night with a broken leg, having been
kicked by a horse while driving a hay
rake.
W. T. Perkins is conducting one OF
the progressive rafaes for a wheel-ofer.
ing the winner his choice of a lady's or
mans wheel. Since the return of his
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-02
NoiCeofbondSa|e

Notice is hereby given that I will re-
ceive sealed bids at my Office in New
Rockford, Eddy county, N. D. till 2
o'clock p. NJ, Thursday, August Is, 1896,
for six per cent semi. annual ten year
Eddy county funding bonds for the
amount of $4,000, to be dated Septem-
Der l, 1895 and of the denomination Of
$500 each. The county commissioners
reserving the right to reject any and all
bids. F. 0. Getchell,
County Auditor.
Per order OF the board Of county con
missioners.
Bonded debt, sl2, SOC; aoatingdebt$50oO;
assessed valuation $979,483; amount on
hand in sinking fund s1,208.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-02
Special Excursion to Boston.

The Knights Templar conclave will be
held in Boston from August 26th to Both
inclusive. Tickets will be on sale via
the Nickel Plate road from August 10Th
TO 25th inclusive. Rates always the low
est; through trains; drawing.room Sleep
ing cars; unexcelled dining cars; side,
trips to ChautauquaL Lake, Niagara Falls
and Saratoga without additional ex-
pense. For additional information call
on or address J.. Y. Callahan, general
agent, Ill Adams street, Chicago, III.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-02
LIABILITIES.
The Latest Sensation,

The surprisingly low rates offered by
the Nickel Plate road to Boston and re-
turn on account of Knights Templar
Conclave and a choice of forty routes.
Tickets on sale Aug. 10Th to 25th inclu-
sive; longest return limit; service
strictly frst-class; sleeping car space re-
served in advance. For further infor-
nation address, j. Y. Callahan, General
Agent, Ill Adams street, Chicago.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-02
The Worlds Fair Tests
showed no baking powder
so pure or 50 great In leav-
eni1g power as the Royal
Choice of ROutes

To Knights Templar conc]ave. Boston.
embracing Chautauqua Lake, Niagara
Falls, Thousand Islands, Rapids of the
st. Lawrence, Saratoga, Palisades of the
Hudson, Hoosac Tunnel, and a ride
through the Berkshire Hills by daylight.
Tickets on sale August 10Th to 25th, in
elusive; lowest rates; quick time, and
service unexcelled, including palace
sleeping and dining cars. Address J. Y.
Callahan, general agent, Ill Adams street,
Chicago, for further information.
Enterprising men in Grand Forks are
erecting a 9 wooden mill, the main
building to be 50x1O6 feet, and three
stories high. The making of North Da-
kota wool into blankets, cloths and
yarns, with power furnished by North
Dakota native coal, is what this firm is
demonstrating can be done.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-02

Dan Stewart, the Great Northern
agent at Grand Forks has been bound
over in $500 bail for alleged embezzle.
ment. Stewart is also to be tried for
forgery.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-02
Condition of State Banks.

State Examiner Langlie furnishes the
following summary Of the condition of
the seventy state banks of North Dakota
at the close of business July l, 1895:
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-08-02
Scrofula in the Neck

Is dangerous, disagreeable and tenacious,
but Hoods sarsaparilla as a thorough
blood purifier. cures this and all otber
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-06-29

silas Spoke From an Open Heart.
errors, the address will be a fairly
close copy Of the speech of the aver
age rural New Englander.
The distribution Of the applause may
strike the reader as peculiar, and pos
sibly indicative Of a divergence from
the sentiments of the speaker. 1t
would seem as if all references to
greatness, glory, etc, had been well
received. while the real ideas of the
orator had awakened NJ enthusiasm.
He who thinks so. may now learn
that public applause, in that part Of
the world. is invariably al expression
of sympathy with the speakers family
who may be present in the gathering,
and not with him. The theory is that
when Il man is making a fool of him
self in public, his friends must feel
very badly and must need to be cheer
ed up. But when he is doing we'll,
everybody is happy, so what's the
use of making any special effort to
seem so?-Howard Fielding in Balti-
more American.
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-06-29

The conditions surroul ding us as we
prepare for the celebration of the H.
dependence Day bring back to my
mind with startling distinctness the
able aud eloquent address which l
heard from the lips Of Silas Swayback,
in Amity Dam, Me-, last Fourth of
July. His subject was The Need of &
New National Bird" l baye rarely
heard a matter of grave public impor-
lance so frankly and logically present
ed. Silas spoke flom an open heart.
whereas our statesmen nowadays,
when they think we are listening to
them. persistcutly omit to consider the
real issue, namely: what do l get out
Of this for myself?"
The ,oraticn III Araity Dam is always
delivered on the common, which is a
sad Little patch of ground where the
school boys fight, the Dam Cornet
band practices, and other breaches Of
the peace that occur to the minds Of
tile citizens may be conveniently com
mitted.
IF anybody has stayed away from