Griggs courier., 1897-10-08
CURRENT TOPICS.


BosroN negro voters have organized.
DUBLIN, Ireland, has IL, 600 unionists.
DETROIT has cooperative cigar fac
tory.
BosroN has q Chinese laundrymen's
/ union. ,45.,.,.
The bubonic plague is again spread
ing in India.
CLEvELAND's city clerk wants to tax
clairvoyants. 's
BELFAsr Nreland) engineers won tho
eight-hour day.
The gold finds in Whatcom county,
WASH, are reported as very rich.
The Union Veteran legion adopted
resolution calling for more pension
legislation.
NEARLY one thousand barrels of SUI
gar cane have been raised on Tennes-
sees state farm.
ENGLISH employersare importing en-
gineers from Germany to take the
places of strikers.
The Natchez (Miss) board of health
has interdicted the sale or receipt of
New Orleans newspapers.
The anti-cigarette law of Tennessee
is to be tested in the federal courts BY
the American Tobacco Co.
The United States consul at Odessa
reports that the failure of grain crops
in Russia covers an extensive area.
The Musicians union claims that
non-union men were employed in one
| of the bands on Labor day at Milwau-
kee.
GREAT BRITAIN has notified the state
department that it will not participate
In the seal conference at Washington
If Russia and Japan take part in ii.
AsAFETY envelope has a gummed lock-
ing tongue attached to the sealing flap
folds down across the bottom OF the
letter, rendering opening without mu-
tilation impossible.
AT Port Royal, Jamaica, for six
months in the year thunderstorms are
almost Of daily occurrence, and guests
to picnics and garden parties usually
invited to assemble after the thunder
storm"
Lo Bing Nam, a Chinese athlete, says
that his extraordinary strength is due
to his diet, which consists chiefly Of
boiled rice and boiled ducks heads.
The brains Of the duck, he asserts, are
very strengthening.
| A REMARxABLE eel has been discov-
cred in the Fiji islands. 1t has q pecu-
liar formation in its throat, which
causes it to whistle when in an excited
state. The eel is 15 feet long and sew
eral inches in girth.
The longest distance that shot has
been fred is few yards more than If
teen miles, which was the range Of
Krupp's one hundred and. thirty ton
steel gun. The shot required for this
gun weighs 1900 pounds.
SAN STONE BUsH is organizing . COM
pany of Louisville (Ky.) men to con-
struct tramway between Dyea and
Lake Lindemann, over the Chilkoot
Pass. Mr.. Bush has just returned from
an inspection of the route.
Some women in Russia are preparing
q unique gift for DR.. Nansen. 1t will
be carpet, with q map of the north
pole regions embroidered in silks.
The places visited by him in his voy.
age will be worked in silver and gold
thread.
ACCORDING to the premier of New
Zealand, homing pigeon recently
few from Victoria to New Zealand in
three days. The distance is about
1000 miles, and the bird must have
flown without rest at speed of about
Is miles an hour.
A NEW invention is fan for an at
tachment to sewing machines. The
/ h0nl ~hov ~ ola n<rs-
cal fans, and it can be quickly and
easily attached to or removed from q
movable member of the machine. by
whose motion it is actuated.
CONSPICUOUS among the adornments
of the bridal feasts in Brittany is an
artistic and elaborate butter structure,
as fanciful and elegant as the most
beautiful bridal cake, and into this
structure the guests stick split sticks
bearing coins of gold or silver.
A NEW kind of ice skates will be in
vogue next winter. The skate will be
made with slots in the runners to sup
port the shafts Of several pairs of roll.
ers, which are mounted loosely on the
shafts and have sharpened edges to cut
the ice as the skates glides along.
REV. DIR. PARkHURsT says, in recent
letter to friend in New York: 81 can
not stand by the Sunday saloon pure
and simple, but do believe in allowing
the sale of beer and light wines on Sum
day, provided they are the accompani-
ment of an honest meal, honestly paid
for"
The duke Of Argyll lately offered
himself as living proof of the advant-
ages of desultory reading. He had
never been to school or college. but he
had always read deverythingh he could lay
his hands on. To this he attributed his
success in public speaking, for he ''oft-
en- found he had read what others had
not"
In digging at Herculaneum there has
been brought to light pillar covered
with bills, one on top of another. The
paste used to stick them was made of
gum arabic. When separated and ex-
amined they were found to be pro-
grammes and announcements of public
meetings, and even election proclama-