Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-01-17
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ounce.
DIAMONDS have been discovered in
Tasmania.
holds 1000 hogsheads.
THERE are but six member of the
Harvard class of '33 living.
POSTAGE stamps are gummed with
starch paste made from potatoes
Our of every hundred lives insured
in England only five are women.
CONAN DOYLE made about ST., 900 dur
ing his lecture tour in this country.
A GERMAN chemist has found a means
of preserving the colors of dried flow
erS.
ONE turkey dealer at Athens, o., has
shipped East $4,000 of the birds this
season.
SULPHUR baths for horses are being
arranged at cost of $4,000 In Baden,
Austria.
QUEEN VICTORIA has not entered
shop since the death of the prince
consort.
THE average freight rate in the
country.
The duke of York will visit Canada
next spring and spend the summer in
Australia.
ONE-HALF the population of the Mis-
souri, penitentiary is under twenty-five
years of age.
THREE hundred thousand francs
have been raised by the women OF
France for memorial of President
Carnot.
JACOB and SARAH HILL.sR, of Huron
county, Mich, are each over 100 years
of age and in good health. They were
married in 1914.
IRRIGATION work now in progress in
Arizona when completed will add
ZOO, 900 acres to the cultivatable area
of the territory.
Col. JOHN II. BASS, the car-wheel
manufacturer, of Fl. Wayne, Ind, is
said to be the wealthiest man in the
state of Indiana.
AMONG nine prisoners in the Terre
Haute Qnd.) lookup, one night recent
~, there were six who were either
minus an arm or leg.
The first Japanese woman to study
law and become a lawyer is said to be
Nine. Tel Sono, who belongs to an aris-
tocratic family in Toxic.
The United States have now about
forty vessels engaged in whaling-the
remnant Of feet which once num-
bered five hundred ships.
LORD KELVIN estimates that the
running slow" Of the earth in it's
daily rotation round its axis amounts
to 20 seconds per century.
FIVE hundred Christmas packages
addressed to places in Ireland were
held back in the Boston post Office for
lack of sufficient postage.
The new Siberian railway traverses
regions where game is SO abundant
that the project of establishing cam
neries is being considered.
Six thousand fish, valued at $3.50,
were stolen in one night from the
breeding lake Of the Nassau Trout as
ISOLATION on Long Island, N. Y.
The architect of the Woman's build
ing of the Cotton States exposition, to
be held in Atlanta, Ga, is to be Miss
Elise Mercur, of Pittsburgh, Pa.
NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, of Boston,
is agitating the question of the estab-
lishment of chair of Russian LAM
guage and literature at Harvard.
The extreme cold Of the poles is
mainly due to the fact that the Arctic
ocean is certainly and the Antarctic
ocean probably, q land-locked sea,
"A MONUMENT in honor of the Negro
volunteers Of the state of New York in
the civil war is to be erected in Roch-
ester, the home of Frederick Douglass.
A NoRTH CAROLINA judge recently
granted a divorce to couple, and tn o
weeks thereafter married the divorced
wife, who had considerable property.
Miss EMILY DAVIS, who laid tho
foundation of Chiffon college in 1869, is
still living. Nine. odichon, who gave
the first endowment to Girton (s5, 900 ID
dead. {. - s.
The shortest electric road in the
country is said to be the st. Louis and
East st. Louis Electric railway. which
runs its cars over the Eads bridge
across the Mississippi river at ST.
Louis.
PROF. NEWcoMB has declared, from
astronomical consid creations, that the
earth went slow and lost seven seconds
between 1850 and 1862, and then went
fast and gained eight seconds between
1862 and 1872
{ The largest family in the world il
/. that Of the king Of Siam. His majesty
has two official wives, Lightweight
wives Of minor order and seventy-two
AhildrAq.