Griggs courier., 1897-12-31
CURRENT TOPICS.

RUsKlN'S g. books bring him in SO.
600 q year.
The railways of the world carry over
forty million passengers weekly.
THE biscuit trust has been complet-
ed. 1t has capital of $50, ,000, 900.
The Chinese are said to have used
era.
ANTHONY HorE charges $3.50 for
magazine story, reserving the copy
right.
A BALI.ooN1sr q mile above the earth
commands o field vision 96 miles in
radius.
The number of the electric lighting
stations in Great Britain has now
reached 122. ..
ZoLA's first Ia books returned him
$230, 200, and in 90 years he has made ut
least $S75, 600.
WILLIAM w. THOMAS, JR, of Maine,
has been appointed minister to Nor
way and Sweden.
KANGAROO tails for soup are shipped
from Australia to London, where they
sell for S. per dozen.
The skeleton of a man over nine feet
tall was dug up in q mound near Ma
| pie Creek, Wis, the other day.
TENNYsoN is said to have received
$60, 600 a year from the Macmillans
during the last years of his life.
SCIENTIFIC men say that the hair
from the tail of the horse is the strong.
est single animal thread known.
Miss ELLEN NussEY, who was brides.
maid at Charlotte Bronte's wedding,
has just died ut the age of IS years.
THERE is q clock in Brussels which
has never been wound up by human
hands. 1t is kept going by the wind.
A NEW TESTAMENT jammed in
switch made q train on the London &
Northwestern railroad jump the rails
recently.
IT is said that cold weather increases
the consumption of bread, 30 per cent.
more being eaten in frosty than in mild
weather.
IT is estimated that there are incau-
descent lamps aggregating over 400,-
0o0, 900 candle power in use in all parts
of the world.
1T is told of two men of Brewer,
Maine, that one of them ate a bushel
of peaches and the other ten pounds of
grapes at one sitting.
The pearl fishing season in Ceylon
only lasts % days, and during that
time II, ,000, 900 oysters are brought to
the surface by the divers.
SIXTY years ago the first electric car
was run, but the first commercial line
was not built until 1881, when q line
near Berlin was opened.
WHEN cotton thread was first made
$40 yards of it weighed one pound.
Hence it is No. 1. A pound containing
twice that number of yards is No. .,
and so on.
A CoLoRLEss ink for writing upon
postal cards, ETC., is made by mixing
together water and sulphuric acid, the
writing becoming permanently visible
when heated.
If Chinese children do not obey their
parents, and the latter whip them to
death, the law has no punishment for
them, as obedience to parents is the
cardinal virtue.
AN expert declares that he knows of
at least 600 counterfeits Of the old mas
ters which are now hanging in private
galleries in the United States, all pur-
chased at high prices.
Mrs. HUMPHREY WARD received $40,-
600 for Robert Elsmere." $50, 900 each
for David Grieve" and "Marcella,"
$75, 600 for "sir George Tressady" and
$4,000 for "Bessie Costrell."
If two tuning forks of the same pitch
are placed facing each other, the one
sounding, the other silent, in few
seconds the silent one will be giving
out distinctly audible note.
Mr.. MOODY is believed to have beat
en- all others, as more than 81, zoo, 900
has been paid in royalties for the Cos
pei hymns and tunes issued by him in
conjunction with Mr.. Sankey.
ABOUT 1000, 900 false teeth are manu-
featured annually in the United States,
silver and platinum, to the value of
800. 600, 900, are used in stopping teeth.
GREEN rests the eye, the resting the
eye often means to rest the nerves,
and the refreshmcnt of the eye is as
necessary to comfortable life as the re-
newal of the other bodily forces by
food.
The largest congregation in America
is that of st. Stanislaus Kostka, in Chi
cago, which has 10000 communicates.
The number of attendants at the sew
eral Sunday services frequently ex-
ceeds $4,000.
RACINE, Wis, has passed an ordi-
nance requiring all lighting, telephone
and other companies using poles in the
streets to paint them a distinctive
color, the color being decided by the
city authorities.
The Brazil nut contains from Is to "a
seeds, which all germinate at one time.
The most vigorous one gets first
through small hole at the top to the
open air and thereupon it strangles
and feeds upon the rest.
| A PICS tail is said to unerringly in
dicate the condition of the animal. II
it hangs loose it shows that the pig is
not we'll, and that the food should be
| changed. If it be coiled tightly the
| pig is healthy and happy.
Ready for Him.