Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1899-03-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

he appropriation LnIS year IOT III
dian schools will be s., 100000.
CANADA supplies about onc-four-
teenth Of the imported food of Great
Britain.
The Kentucky distillers are perfect
ing their scheme for carrying their
own insurance.
A SILK FACTORY, in which only wom-
en- are employed, has been opened in
suburb of London.
CHICAGO business men are urging a
system of municipal pawnshops to lend
money at per cent.
y BRIO. gems. GORDON AND OATES have
been discharged from the volunteer
army at their own request.
Two Mormon elders are reported to
have been tarred and fcathered by a
mob in Clay county, Tennessee.
ABOUT 90 of the commissioned officers
of the LIST Kentucky are applicants for
commissions in the regular army.
The work of constructing a huge
raft, which is to contain 4, 600. 900 feet
of lumber, has been begun in Portland,
Ore. ..
GERMAN teachers were once so poorly
paid that they used to sing in front of
houses in order to add to their incomes
by odd pence. "
THE annual report of Natural Gas
and Oil Inspector Leach, of Indiana,
shows that there is q marked decline
in the gas supply.
DRIED bananas arc now being ex-
ported from Queensland. They are in
tended as substitute for raisins in
British buildings.
VENETIAN coins of 1870 and 1877
bearing the name of ono Of tho dogcs,
have been found in Mashonaland, in
the interior of South Africa.
BRUSSELS has a tower clock which
has never been wound up by human
hands. BY an ingenious arrangement
the wind keeps it wound up.
THE American colony in Porto Rico
have petitioned congress for free trade
with the United States and for the re-
tirement of Porto Rican currency.
In Germany only IS per cent of deaf
mutes grow up without education. In
France the percentage is 40, in Eng
land "a, in Austria 70 and in Russia 80.
The pope recently refused to allow
the electric light to be introduced into
his apartments, remarking: There is
something superfuous about that
light"
The salaries of burgomasters in
Prussia are: $500 in Berlin, $6, 900 in
Breslau and Cologne, 5000 in Eber-
field and Kassel, and so on down to
Erfurt, 50, 500.
N. L. FRANCIS, whose engagement to
Miss Jane Fuller, daughter of the
chief Justice, has been announced, fell
heir shortly before leaving college to
nearly 81, 100000.
The Chicago Woman's club has been
discussing parks and takes strong
ground for small parks scattered
through the city with more playground
room for children.
CHESAPEAKE and Ohio has been maxi
ing good record of earnings and in
creasing it's profits over the large fig
ures of year ago.
PRUssIC acid is found in almonds,
and, indeed, the almond owes its flavor
to the presence of the acid. 1t is in so
small quantity, however, as not to be
at all injurious to life.
Mile. Thilikeza, a young Polish wom-
an, has passed brilliant examination
before the Paris Faculty of Medicine.
The subject of all her thisis was the
condemnation of the corset.
Two pulleys, with wooden handles
attached, are fastened to a window.
BY pulling one handle the window as
cends; by pulling the other the window
descends. This is q recent English in
The granite ware manufacturers
have com bined and they make no, Sc
cret that they intend to advance prices.
The recent advance of 20 per cent. in
tin plate gives them additional oppor-
tunities-
QUEEN VICTORIA has sent an auto
graph letter of the Prince Consort's to
the British museum. The letter was
written to the late Earl of Shaftesbury
to thank him for Chinese edition of
the Bible.
COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS BLISS reports
that the operations of the custom
house at Havana are proceeding
smoothly. Col. Bliss favors native en-
ployes under general supervision by
Americans.
In Northern China many of the ma
tives are dressed in dogskin. There
are many esta blishments where dogs
of a peculiar breed are raised in large
mum bers for the shaggy pelts. They
are killed when they are eight months
old.
The Railway Age statistics of new
railroad building in the United States
in 1895 show s.O1s miles, as against
1850 miles in 1897, 1,s4s in 1896, LOSS
miles in 1895, 1,s49 miles in 1884,
3, es5 miles in 1893 and 4,l9s mi les in
\sss2.