Willmar tribune., 1899-07-19
CURRENT TOPICS.


New YORK has 4OO-foot-high Office
building.
ENGLAND's stock of coal will last two
centuries.
SHREVEPORT, Ala, is to have a $780,
600 cotton mill.
FRANCE has 5oo 900 places in which
wines are sold.
ANOTHER spinning mill for Anderson,
s. c., is now assured.
LONDON is to have school of instruc4
ton for wireless telegraphy.
GEN. WooD says the death rate in
Santiago is now less than IN PhilE
delphia.
The Swedish mile is the longest mile
in the world. 1t is exactly II, 700 yards
in length.
SOLDIERS in the Italian army are al
lowed two hours in the middle of the
day for nap.
In Jetmorc. Kan. every house is oc-
cupied by its owner. The population
of the place is $50.
WHEN Capt. Coghlan was in COM
mand of the Raleigh, he was the small
est man on that ship.
In several European countries, in
cluding France and Belgium, elections
are always held on Sundays.
PROF. HADLEY, the new president of
Yale, recently declared himself as 1.-The
most nervous man on EARTH"
SIDNEY COOPER, now 96 years old,
has had four pictures on exhi bition at
the London academy this year.
A BALTIMORE man is trying to COM
bine $50 of the largest clothing estab-
ishments in the United States
SOME Industrious individual has as
certained that most of the great men
of the world have had blue eyes.
A COUNTERFEIT presentment of Rud-
yard Kipling can now be seen at Nine.
Tussaud's wax works in London.
The city of Pekin has only one
where foreign ambassadors reside.
IN Cuba women are now able to dine
alone in restaurants-a thing that was
never possible under the old regime.
A KIND of paper is made from sea-
weed which is so transparent that it
may be used instead of glass for win
dows
The income tax in India is levied on
all incomes of $165. and upward, and
then only one man in 70 comes within
its scope.
THE production of soap in Great Bril-
tain is about 1000 tons per week, of
which between 5, 600 and 4, 900 are made
in London.
THE Mexican government intends to
make experiments to see if the quality
of canned goods can be determined by
the use of X-rays.
JUDGE JONAS BROOKS, of Mcpherson,
Kan. adjourned his court at noon the
other day and then walked seven miles
to attend circus.
A NEW word applied to Americans is
''quinophagists," indicating that they
consume more quinine than any other
people in the world.
THE mainsail of the new boat to rep
resent the United States in the coming
cup contest will contain over 1000
square feet of canvas.
In memory of the Poet Cowper a new
museum, library and town hall is to be
erected at Ofney, in Buckinghamshire,
| at cost of about SIS, 900.
MRS. GEORGE GoULD's children have
a head nurse, two assistants, two gov
ernesses, two grooms and two footboys
| to minister to their wants.
SCIENTISTS say that the whole human
body is full of microbes, and that a
person is healthy as, long as the mi
crobes are in good condition.
A CLOCK is being constructed for a
Liverpool street station in London.
The interior of its case could allow
five persons to dine comfortably.
JOHN MILTON, of Gardiner, Me-, has a
cow that can be milked three times a
day. She recently gave in three milk
ings in one day 34H quarts of milk.
TIE Japanese are taking to Gig
arettes very kindly. More than $2s5,
600 worth were sent to Japan from
the United States alone last year.
1t may not be generally known that
the original idea of the Chinaman's
pigtail was that it formed a convenient
handle by which one day he would be
lifted up to paradise.
| You needn't stretch it to put quartz in
pint cup.-Golden Days.