Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1898-10-28
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The Spanish commissioners all talk
English. ....
THERE are 1853, 900 insane persons in
the United States.
PASSENGER fare on the new Congo
railroad is 3311s cents per mile.
The ancients had Suez canal known
to have existed as early as 600 B. c.
NICKEL is practically supplied by
two countries only. Canada and New
Caledonia.
RUSSIA is said to own 8, 900, 900 horses
nearly one-half of the whole mum Der
in existence.
The crown prince of Siam writes
, children's stories in English for Brit.
ish magazines.
IT took seven years to make a hand
Russia paid 81. ooo
The monkey wrench gets its name
| from its inventor, Thomas Monkey, Of
, Bordentown, N. J.
In three years the expense of run.
/ ming an Atlantic steamer exceeds the
, cost of construction.
NAZARETH has three hospitals, seven
converts and twelve schools under
European supervision.
w. S. W1THAM, of Atlanta, is presi.
dent of % banks, each one entirely in.
dependent of the others.
ALUMINIUM tubing used in the
sciences is made so fine that 1000 feet
of it weighs only a pound.
SWEDISH doctors have no fixed
charges. Patients are expected to pay
in proporti ton to their ability.
IT is customary in China to con.
graduate fat man because it is taken
for granted that he must be rich.
A LlFEBoAT made of pumice-stone
has been tested. It continued afoat
with a load even when full of water.
DEWEY only used ammunition to the
value of SAT. 900, and it can be said that
not a dollars worth of it was wasted.
THE bullion vaults in the Bank Of
England are flooded with water each
night as safeguard against rob-
berry.
The post office department has from
500 TO 500 applications daily for posi-
tons in the postal service in Porto
Rico.
A JAPANESE bride gives her we'd
ding presents to her parents as some
slight recompense for their trouble in
rearing her.
THE oyster is one OF the strongest Of
creatures, and the force required to
open it is more than 1900 times its
own weight.
A PUMPING engine in the Birming-
ham canal station was recently re-
moved. after having been in steady use
for 100 years.
THE historic Palais Royale is to be
rebuilt for the Paris exposition and
| peopled with characters in the cos
tunes of 1900.
DURING the last 10 months the retir-
ing lord mayor of London. Sir George
Faudel Philips, has raised S.. 500, 900 in
charitable funds.
THE cartman who hauled sand to
Rome for builders work 10 hours day
for IS cents and slept in the stables
with their mules
DR.. DUBOIS, the French savant, has
discovered in Java the bones of an ape
which walked upright Scientists ad-
nit the proof of evolution.
A New YORK woman has been grant
ed divorce from her husband because
he would not permit her to have pie as
part of the domestic fare.
The Oregon and the Iowa will not
reach Manila much before Christmas,
Is they must make slow progress on
account of the coal conveys.
RED TAPE" became immortalized as
in{i nh S,1ri in.
vestigation of the conduct of British
generals in the Crimean war.
A 4O0-poUND bear, in quest of its
breakfast, coolly strolled into barn
yard in Probstel, Wash, and marched
off with a calf in its embrace.
ARTIFICIAL legs and arms were in
use in Egypt as early as B. c. 700.
They were made by the priests, who
were the physicians of that early time.
Ten princes of royal blood are suit
ors for the hand of Queen Wilhel-
nina, of Holland. She threatens to
marry a commoner and make him
noble.
PORTO RICO must be very clean
place. The principal article of inn
portation is SOAP In 1896 the soap inn
portation reached the gross value of
e340, 900.
IT is said that Princess Ena of Bat
tenberg, who was born in 1887, is the
only royal child born in Scotland for
nearly 800 years-that is, since the
birth of Charles L, 1900
Mrs. MARY WARNER SPRAGUE, who
has just died in Salt Lake City, 95 years
old, was the wife of Brigham Young's
| physician. She and her husband en-
braced the tenets of Mormonism in
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