Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-07-01
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR
MINOR NEWS OF THE WORTH
The Business PrOgress-Facts for
the CuriOus-Accidentn and Grim.
Notes Of PersOns-Church.. AM,
Religious News.


it is no larger than Minnesota.
Antwerp has just been the scene Of a,
important art sale, the pictures in tn
kums museum having been sold TO
l.35O,OOO francs, about $4,000.
The island of Key West is of coral for
nation, contains about 2OOO acres an,
has IA population of some 25.OOO-Amer
leans, Cubans, negroes and Chinese.
A cabinetmaker at Frankenberp. n
>"Aony, now "a years of age, boasts tina,
he helped build Goethe's coffin in ls3,
and saw the poets body laid away in it
Signals used by ships at sea date from
1865. They were invented by the duke
of York, afterward James ii.
"l.lanfair-pwllgwyngylr" is the name
OF village in Wales that enjoys the
privilege of being counted as one word in
kilograms.
In Palestine the swallows are allowed
the freedom not only of the houses and
living rooms, but of the mosques and
tombs, where they build their nests and
rear their young.
The common soldier in Russia receives
three rubles per annum-about So. 25. The
day rations consist of two pounds of such
airy, which is very coarse kind of bread
made of cracked rye, baked hard at first
then cut into small pieces and further
dried in heated oven; small quantity
of salt and some soup.
A centrifugal gun, discharging 10000
bullets a minute, has been invented by
an English engineer. The bullets are
poured into case from hopper and
guided into disk, three feet in diam.
eter, revolving in the case at the rate of
$4,000 revolutions minute. They are
discharged from the edge of the disk.
DR.. Chan, Chinese physician of Cleve.
land, Ohio, offers to organize in this
country regiment of Cinnamon and to
convert the Chinese of the Philippines in
to allies of the United States.
The value of agricultural products ex-
ported from the United States for the
year ending with this month is larger
than for any previous year in the history
of the country. 1t amounts to over
100000 900.
The president has authorized canned
salmon to be added as one of the army
rations. Fresh beef will be issued to the
troops six days in ten, salt meats three
days in ten, and canned salmon one day
in ten.
The miners of Colombo are changing
the names of many of their mines to those
pff 70 of ho
Of the best-paying copper mines is called
Sigsbee. 1t is claimed that it never paid
until now.
Geronimo, the noted Apache chief, who
has caused the government so much
trouble in his time, is 80 years old. He
is still physically active, and his favorite
amusement is hunting, in which he in
dulges whenever he can get permission
to leave the reservation.
According to the Financial Chronicle,
this years cotton acreage is practically
the same as last year. insuring low
prices. Government estimate, however, is
OF 6.S per cent reduction in acreage and
correspondingly higher prices.
A report that wild dogs are creating
havoc among cattle and sheep along the
border of Arizona and New Mexico is re-
ceiving good deal of attention. 1t is
eorroborated by the deputy sheriff of
Navajo county, who recently returned
from an extended trip through the noun
tains along the border.
Testimony in a contest to annul the
will of deceased Maryland farmer has
developed the fact that he was in the
habit of digging holes on his farm for
the purpose of filling them with water
OF the Atlantic, so that he might empty
the ocean and enable the farmers to plant
potatoes on the dry bottom.
The price of beer has been advanced 81
barrel and ice 25 cents hundred
pounds in Chicago.
There has been a sharp advance in the
Wholesale price of cheap teas, on account
of the war tax.
The queen regent of Spain has offered
70 abdicate, it such step will allay pop
ular discomfort.
The British government is preparing to
store 100000 tons of coal at Esquimalt,
British Columbia.
Lord Wolseley, commander in chief OF
The British army, has been offered the
governor generalship of Canada.
An English traveller reports 100000
acres of marvelously rich unimproved
farm land in the Philippine islands.
There is treasury deficit 80 far this
month of $9,OOOOOO, owing to war and
navy department expenditures.
The navy department has reliable in
formation that the Spanish fleet at Cadiz,
spain, under command of Admiral Ca
mara, is totally unfit for sea.
The senate has passed bill authoriz-
ing the appointment of non bipartisan in
oustrial commission, to recommend laws
needed by laboring, agricultural and cap
'tal interests.
A Chicago doctor claims to have cured
consumption by COMPRISING the lungs
with nitrogen, permitting self-healing.
Inc state department Is now issuing
oh'y about 60 passports day, which
SHOWS that the tide of foreign travel from