Griggs courier., 1897-10-01
CURRENT TOPICS,


Lewiston, Me.
EDUCATION is compulsory in Japan,
which has 10000 comfortable public
schools.
CHARLES NJ. DICKINSON, Of New York,
has been appointed consul at Constan-
tinople.
THERE are 81 carrier pigeons in the
regular service of the United States
government.
A PENNSYLVANIA COW recently gave
birth to five calves, of which two are
living and thriving.
In q season of about II weeks $4,000
worth Of blueberries were sold in Mar
quette county, Mich.
One Manchester IN. W textile mill
that resumed operation few days ago
employs 6, 500 people.
TERRA GOTTA sleepers are used on
japanese railways. They cost more,
but are indestructible.
A JERSEY lady unable to attend
church receives the benefit of sermons
and singing ty telephone.
WHITE bids fair to become feature
of both fall and winter gowns; some
touch, at least, being held essential to
distinction.
In England, where the engineers
have been on a strike for some time,
not single injunction has been is
sued against them.
KNOXVILLE council invites northern
U. G. T.s to participate in that city's
annual street fair and carnival, to be
held October 12 to Is.
A HUNGARIAN farmer of Beeville, La,
has invented a machine which, it is
said, will brush away all kinds of in
sects from cotton plants.
ALPHoNsE DAUDET has decided to
keep back a realistic novel drawn from
life, which he has just finished, until
the original of the hero dies.
The British government is preparing
to send fresh troops to India. It is
thought the government is in posses
sion of information of serious char
acter.
ONE young British nobleman is q
groom in johannesburg livery stable,
while dukes brother-in-lawi is bossing
a gang of blacks in mine outside the
town.
YEARS ago Prince Bismarck used to
spell his name without the &C." The
present spelling does away with none
tary significance of the name Bismark
two marks.
GLASS manufacturers of Kokomo,
Ind, have begun to draw on the sand
banks of the lake shore about st. Jo.
seph, Mich, for white sand at the rate
Of from five to ten car loads per day.
The emperor and empress of Japan
and their chief officials and mobiles
are greatly interested in and have sub
scribed literally toward the Women's
university at Tokyo, which is to cost
e175, 900.
B. F. VAUGHN, Philadelphia mill
lionaire, is just completing one Of the
finest hunters lodges in one Of the fin
est game parks in the United States,
on north Elk creek, few miles from
White river, Col.
A MAN employed at the sewage farm
Ut Batchworth in Hertfordshire asserts
chat quite recently, when working on
ais farm, he has often seen an old blind
:at carrying piece Of stick IN its
mouth, with two other younger rats
leading it about with one end of the
stick also in their mouths.
A CONNECTICUT farmer has rival to
the unicorn in q colt provided with .
pair of hard, clean horns Immediately
between the ears, which horns it uses
readily if provoked. A deep crease ex-
tends through the hoof from the coro-
net to the tip Of the toe, and its move
ments are bovine rather than equine.
QUEEN VICTORIA is to have new
yacht within two years. It will cost
81, 500, 600, and will be the most luxu.
rious craft afoat. Other European
sovereigns use war vessels for pleasure
trips. Queen Victoria's yacht will be
built after designs submitted to her,
and will have guns only for firing
salutes.
AMERICAN turkeys, either from Cana
da or the states, are preferred by the
British to continental birds, their dest
being considered winter, sweeter and
} higher favored, and are in demand
from the middle of November to April
At Christmas large cock turkeys sell
, we'll, but at other times birds ranging
, from 8 to 10 pounds are preferred.
! GEORGE, the coachman who heroical
! ly aided in saving life at the burning
/ of the Bazaar de la Charlie, in Paris
, has been decorated with the cross o.
the Legion Of Honor, and has beer
given position by the government
He also received $40. 600 from the fam
lily of his mistress, whom he had
saved by carrying her from the burn
ing building.
The city council of Zurich, Switzer
land, has ordered that there be posted
in every street car on the municipal
lines the following notice: "Womeu
have the first right to the seats in the
interior of this car" Heretofore when
q man has offered his seat to woman
it has been regarded by her as an in
sulting familiarity, and it is predicted
by the Swiss and German newspaper
that the attempt to enforce this ordi
nance will encounter obstacles from the
women themselves.
A Good Boy.
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