Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-01-18
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PoIatoeS never $@ 8eL
larger than marbles. i INV 30
OVER on the other continentth there
are seven volcanoes in operation
APHlLADELPHAC hinaman glories in
pigtail feet 1lrinches in length.
). HODGE TYLER was the other dav
inaugurated governor of Virginia.
SOLDIERS in the Italian army are per-
mltted to sleep a couple of hours at
midday.
MANY women are EMPLOYED as car
conductors in Chile and the Argentine
republic.
SILVER coin loses one per cent. of its
weight in 20 years, gold one per cent.
in so years.
BRANDY was first used incidentally.
and miraculous cures were ascribed to
its employment.
THE hardest known wood is cocus
wood. 1t turns the edge of anv ak.
however we'll tempered.
The work of the arbitration court in
the British-Venezuela case is expected
to begin about the middle of February.
KNOXVILLE and West and North
Knoxville, Tenn, have been consoli-
dated, giving the town a population Of
so, 00O
The latest edition of Berlin comic
paper has been confiscated for publish
ing cartoon which offends the en-
peror.
UNDER the new charter of Greater
New York no munici pal franchise can
be granted for a longer period than %
years.
HE elephant can neither trot, canter
nor gallop. Its only pace is walk,
capable of being fastened to a fast
shuttle.
The largest collection of coins in
the world is in Vienna. They are
placed in the public cabinet of ANTIGUA
ties, and Humber over 125, 5000.
TALKING is pronounced by doctors
to be healthful occupation-good
for heart disease, and to some extent a
substitute for bodily exercise.
The latest and most appropriate UNI
brella has a duck head handle-signifi-
cant of the fact that the water will run
off the umbrella, which is it's back.
SKINNED milk is now turned into
champagne by an electric process, and
the beverage is clear, beady and de-
licious in flavor, though non-alcoholic.
WHILE smoking, lack Cameron, Of
White county, Tenn, stumbled and fell
on his face. The pipe-stem was driven
through his neck and he died in few
hours.
IN the British museum there are
books written on bricks, oyster shells,
bones and fat stones, and manuscripts
on bark, ivory, leather, iron, copper
and wood
LONDON has $4,000 policeman, Paris
has 6 1000 and New York has $500. The
ordinary arrests in New York in a year
are 5000, in Paris 100, 900 and in Lon
don 10000
SUcc1, who recently completed his
sixty-fourth public fast in Rome, has
abstained from food in his perfor-
mances for 800 days of his life-ncar-
ly seven years.
The largest tortoise living is said to
be the one lately acquired by the Royal
Geological society. It is 4 feet z inches
long, 2feet 10 inches broad, and weighs
about 500 pounds
FRANCE consumes every year 1876
600, 900 gallons of wine, beer, cider and
alcohol, of which 967, ZOO, 900 gallons are
wine, 395, 900, 900 cider, 202, 500, 900 beer
and So, 800, 900 alcohol.
IN Antwerp alone nearly 1000 horses
were slaughtered last year for human
consumption. The number of shops
dealing exclusively in horsefesh in the
Belgian ports exceeds so.
mented on her improved health, said
that she owed it all to the training
which it was necessary to undergo in
order to sing Wagnerian roles.
AS one testimony to the rapid growth
of Palestine's population, it is stated
on good authority that while ten years
ago there were nearly $4,000 residents
in Jafa, to-day there are nearly 1000.
Some people are not satisfied with the