Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-06-25
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The funded debt of Boston increased
over St, OOO,O 600 in the last fiscal year.
ireland has one Of the smallest sui
eide rates in Europe-only ten to the
million.
The largest store IN Williamsburg,
Va. is owned by negro. He has nine
clerks. all white.
or the twelve bridesmaids who at
tended Queen Victoria on the day OF her
marriage only three now survive.
The young men of Larned, Kan, nave
banded together under solemn oatn
not to marry until they are 30.
The woman teacher Of physical cul-
ture in Louisville. KY. resigned rather
than lecture to colorcd teachers.
Scotch residents of Barre, VT. are
making efforts to have a monument in
memory of Robert Burns erected there.
The substitution of electricity for
steam as motive power for the BROOK
lyn bridge cars will, it is stated, save
$4,000 year.
A Buffalo firm is now turning out
what is claimed to be an absolutely fire.
| proof wood 1t is red birch treated by
some secret process.
| The grand jury Of De Kalb County.
Georgia, recommended that the Geor-
gia railroad be compelled to discontinue
running freight trains on Sunday.
/ A Nortonville. Kan, man drank a cup
| of yeast under the impression that 1t
was buttermilk. He rose little after
midnight.
There are now in Missouri three wo-
men lawyers who may practice before
the State Supreme Court. They are
Phoebe Couzins, Victoria Whitney and
Daisy Barbee.
The cotton industry is growing more
rapidly in New England than In any
other part Of the country. Forty per
are in Massachusetts,.
All the negro institutions in North
Carolina. such as the asylums for the
insane, the blind, and the deaf mutes,
and the normal schools, will hereafter
be managed exclusively by negroes.
The arrests for drunkenness in Dub
lin have gradually fallen from 15.445
cases in 1891 to 7.172 in 1895. the great
drop being attributed to the efforts
made by the clergy and temperance ad-
vocates generally.
An association in Roxbury, Mass, is
endeavoring to raise money sufficient to
erect handsome monument to General
Joseph Warren. He was born there,
and the city appropriated 10000 Of the
10000 needed.
There were shipped abroad from Bal
timore during the winter months 1906
$50 bushels Of grain in December. 4,
471,O11 bushels in January, and $3.50
421 bushels in February. Baltimore
also shipped in February 1,15O,O15 gal
Ions Of refined petroleum.
A strange and startling incident is re.
ported from Forsyth County. Georgia.
A man died. and two of his neighbors
volunteered to sit up with the corpse
During the night both were taken sick
and died within twenty-four hours. All
three We're buried from the anne house
A committee of Quakers appeared be-
fore the Oklahoma Legislature the
other day and asked for the abolition OF
capital punishment One Of them start
ed in to read from the New Testament
when backwoods member interrupted
him with the remark that he "needn',
bring any Of the Eastern law books In
here"
A Portland girl worked hard fol-
three years. saving up enough money t.
buy an elaborate wedding outfit. Th.
wedding should have occurred las
week. but when she came to the poin
Of taking her hard-earned money out Of
the bank and spending 1t for clothes
She backed out and the engagement /!
now off for good.
The government Of Sweden has no
titled the government Of Canada tina
Professor Andre will start from Stock
holm about the end Of June with hi
balloon in search Of the north pole. l
is requested that instruction be givel
the Canadian officials at differen
points in the northwest territories an,
, along the Hudson bay to report If sight
, ed.
| A member Of the school board of To
: rontO Ont, expressed the opinion tn
: other day that lessons on geography
l and resources Of the country would d.
/. more to instill patriotism in the pupil
, than much singing Of patriotic songs il
: the schools. He thought there was to
. much shouting patriotism" nowadays
r and that it degenerated into jingoism.
The London Pelican Is authority 70
the statement that leather tires ar
bound to supersede the rubber one
now in such extensive use on carria q
wheels. 1t Is claimed for leather tina
1t Is measurably cheaper, much NOR
q durable and quite as flexible as rubbe,
!, that it is n perfect substitute in ever
: way and Is destined to usurp the sof
noiseless buggy tire trade.
e Henry Lembach, an old resident @
r Dubuque. just dead. had a singula
Il dread Of the numhar which ho olu,o -