Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1897-10-29
CURRENT TOPICS.

DETROIT has cooperative cigar fac
tory.
Boston has Chinese laundrymen's
union.
LIE bubonic plague is again spread
ing in India
CLEvELAND's city clerk wants to tax
clairvOyants.
BELFAST Qreland) engineers won the
eight-hour day
| IHE golN finds in Whatcom county,
| WASH, are reported as very rich
LIE Union Veteran legion adopted
a resolution calling for more pension
legislation.
NEA"I.. one thousand barrels of SUI
| gar cafe have been raised on Tennes-
| sees state farm
! ENGLISH employers are importing en-
| glneers from Germany TO take the
| place, Of strikers,
! IHE Natchez MISSY board of health
has lnte:dictcd the sale or receipt of
! New Orleans newspapers.
| I!IE anti-cigarettc law Of Tennessee
is &c 1e tested in the federal courts by
the American Tobacco Co.
| lie United States consul at Odessa
reports that the failure of grain crops
IN Russia covers an extensive area.
! TIE 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
II Russia and Japan take part in it.
A SAFETY envelope has 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 latter 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 REMARKABLE eel has been discov-
cred in the Fiji islands. 1t has pecu-
liar formation in its throat, which
causes it to whistle when in an excited
state. The eel is Is 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.
| SAM STONE BUSH is organizing a COM
pany of Louisville Ky.) men to con-
struct tranway 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
a unique gift for DR.. Nanscn. 1t will
be a carpet, with 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
Jew from Victoria to New Zealand in
three days. The distance is about
1000 miles, and the bird must have
flown without rest at a speed of about
Is miles an hour.
A NEW invention is a fan for an at
tachment to sewing machines. The
blades arc shaped like those of electri-
cal fans, and it can be quickly and
easily attached to or removed from a
movable member of the machine. by
whose motion it is actuated.
%n1 0Io n
of the bridal feasts in Brittany is an
artistic and elaborate butter structure,
as fanciful and elegant rs 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 glidcs along.
REV DIR. PAEKHURsT says, in recen
letter to a friend in New York: Il cal
not stand by the Sunday saloon pur'
and simple, but I do believe in allowin!
the sale of beer and light wines on Sun
day, provided they are the accompan1
ment of an honest meal, honestly pal'
for
THE duke Of Argyll lately offere
himself as living proof of the advan'
ages of desultory reading. He ha
never been to school or college. but
had always read everything he could Ia
his hands on. To this he attributed nj
success in public speaking, for he loft
en- found he had read what others ha
not"
In digging at Herculaneum there ha
been brought to light pillar covere
with bills. one on top of another TIL
paste used to stick them was made {
gum arabic. When separated and eN
amined they were found to be pro
grammes and announcements of publ
meetings, and even election proclama
tons.
THERE is genuine wild man out IL
Appleton. Wis. and he has a trait tina