The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-11-20
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1t Is reported that Ireland Is threat.
ened with q famine.
Rom university has opened sall its
departments to women who are prop
erly prepared and have obtained the
professors consent to their attending
their lectures. ~.
\ An official denial has been made Of
the report. originating in a dispatch
from Berlin to the London Times, that
it had been decided to postpone the re-
form Of the Russian currency.
Bedfordshire has a magistrate 81
years Of age and still in active service,
who recently, on the occasion Of the
dedication of some new church bells In
his parish, climbed to the top Of the
belfry.
| The new sultan of Zanzibar Is q re-
former. He has ordered that women
convicted of crime shall be kept in pris-
on, and not, as hitherto, forced to work
in chained gangs ON the streets Of his
capital.
Prof. McKenrick Of Glasgow universe
ity, showed at meeting of the British
association a new apparatus, prepared
by himself and Lord Ktlvin, by which
the deaf might be enabled to enjoy the
| rhythm of music.
Her majesty, the queen consort Of
the king of Siam, bears the distinction
Of possessing less beautiful features
and more sound, intelligence than any
Of the women that surround th SIAM
csc court.
An unpublished manuscript of Bos-
suet, containing the lost second vol
ume Of ".rhe Etats de Raison," the ex.
istence Of which had come to be doubt
ed, has Just been discovered in the IL
brary of the st. Sulpice seminary in
Paris.
That much-talked-of little girl, he
queen of the Netherlands, is not as
strong as she might be, and it has been
! decided to take her to Italy, and per-
haps to Egypt, for good part of the
| winter.
"From the Prince Of Wales. For
aud lang syne." These words We're
inscribed on wreath Of white blooms
and delicate green ferns which Sir
Francis Knolly's placed the other day
on the coffin of Mrs. Mary Ann Thurs
ton. who was for many years nurse
and housekeeper in the queens house
hold.
The monument to Lobachevsky,
erected at Kazan, is O square which
bears the name of the great geometer,
was unveiled on Sept. Ii in the pres
ence of the bishop of Kazan, he gov
ernor of the province, the university,
the local Physical and Mathematical
society and great number of sympa-
thizers.
"Cut off both my legs il only Emper-
or William wins the battle" These
words were spoken in the battle Of
| Villejuif, 1870, by wounded soldier,
I, who is now living in great poverty in
a German village. The emperor, hear
ing recently of his straits and his pat
riotic utterance, sent him a present Of
$50 marks.
Carl Goldmark, the Viennese COM
poser, whose latest opera, ''Cricket on
| the HEARTH has met with success in
! German apera houses, has been dec
Grated by Emperor Francis Joseph OF
Austria with the knights Cross Of the
| Order of Leopold. This is the highest
decoration that is ever conferred upon
artists and learned men in Austria.
\ miscellaneous.
William +. Clemmons, dealer in
woolens at New York, assigned to ia
cob II. Semel, without preferences. As
sets, $4,000; liabilities, $4,000.
Arizona has appealed for statehood.
The annual report Of the Governor
! shows great increase in the output
of the mines during the past year,
and general prosperity in every line.
The board of directors Of the Penn
sylvania railroad net in Philadelphia
and declared semi-annual dividend
Of 21-2 per cent, upon the capital stock
OF the company, payable on and after
November 30.
Rev. =. III D. Capen, ID. D., president
Of Tufts College, Cambridge, Mass. has
fled q voluntary petition Of insolvency.
The cause which led to the assignment
do not in any way affect the institution
with which he is connected.
The creditors Of the individual e.
tate Of Franklin 4. Greenleaf Of the
Greenleaf- Tenny company, insolvents,
Minneapolis, will have their claims
| paid in full. Judge Jamison made an
order to that effect this morning.
Mrs. Phoebe ]. Clymer Of San Fran.
cisco, who had been totally blind for
thirty-six years, last week recovered
her sight. Her family believes that
this was divine dispensation granted
to them in response to constant prayers.
After having escaped work and ar
rest for twenty years, vagrant known
as Dad Stephenson, of Springfield, Mo-.
/ who was taken into custody, said that
until his night in jail he had not in
oil that time once slept in q bed.
| The Boston Transcript says: Ellis
Em!nence Cardinal Gibbons sent his
approval Of the work Of the
Massachusetts Prison reform committee
to ameliorate the needless suffering Of
convicts to Mrs. III. T. Spooner. who
has just returned from Maryland.
where she has been working arainst
the evil Of corporal punishment"