Willmar tribune., 1900-06-13
CURRENT TOPICS.

VA week. . .t.5.vxs 80
New York pipe calkers get So for
eight hours.
Georgia and Alabama have fine
wheat crops. -
The population of Oklahoma is
something over 100000.
Steamers are, for travellers, 50 per
cent. safer than sailing vessels.
OF eighty balls fred in battle, only
one, on the average, hits its mark.
A contract is to be let soon for TO-
600 spindle cotton mill at Columbus,
Ga.
The mines of South Africa give
work to between $4,000 and 10000
men.
Mrs. VIM. Neill, of Augusta, Ca, has
a mockingbird which she has taught
to talk.
A -four war is on in Chattanooga,
and prices have been cut fifty cents
q barrel.
Grasshoppers are playing havoc
with the cotton crop in the Missis-
sippi delta.
On the 110 square miles of London's
area, it is said 1000 tons of SCOT set
ties yearly.
The Chattanooga opera house is to
be remodeled and made q ground
floor theatcr.
There are 10000 more exhibitors
at the present Paris fair than there
were in 1889.
Portland is the largest prison in
England. Nearly 1000 convicts are
located there.
The annual production of jute fab
rics in Germany now amounts to $l1,-
900, 1000 in value.
New Orleans has an ice war, and ice
is sold at eight cents a hundred
pounds at the factory.
Joseph Quong, Chinese laundry
man, is a candidate for a seat in the
city council of Toledo, o.
For some years the Nova Scotia
government had expended about $685.
600 yearly upon agriculture.
Queen Victoria never removes from
her hand the three rings connected
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Schofeld, of
New Canaan, Ct., have been married
sixty years-the record for the state.
Russia's war debt has been wiped
ont. In eight years the remaining
total, ~, 100000 rubles, has been paid
of.
Nine important British steamship
companies earned in 1899 net profit
of $4,96o,o 900, against $4.743,ooo in
1898.
Henry James, the novelist, has
turned mountain climber and will try
his prowess this summer in the Swiss
Alps.
Tarantulas are being raised in Aus
tralia for their webs, which are being
used in making threads for war bal
looms.
A new substitute for celluloid re-
sembling horn in appearance is now
manufactured under the name of
mariod.
Since pigs were introduced into the
New Hebrides the natives, it is said
have come to regard human food as
second best.
A Russian count and French
prince are among the prisoners cap
tured by the British and now enjoy
ing the sea air of St. Helena.
Charles A. Towne, nominated for
the vice presidency by the populists
at Sioux City, is ~ years old-two
years older than Mr.. Bryan. He was
born in Michigan, and all his fore
fathers on both sides were repub-
licans.
During the czar's recent visit to
Moscow his sanction was obtained
to the project for the erection of a
church in commemoration of the lib
Grafton of the serfs nearly forty
years ago. Only half the money has
as yet been collected.
! From Manila to Australia is ''like
going down a river, for one is out of
sight of land only two days." The
voyage lasts twenty-one days, but the
course is through the South Sea
islands, which accounts for it's resem-
blance to river nagigation.
The French authorities controlling
the athletic events to be held in con-
nection with Paris exposition have
announced that, as concession to
Americas desire to eliminate Sunday
games, the sports which were sched-
uled to begin Sunday, July IS, will
instead commence Saturday, July IL,
the great French national holiday,
and will continue on the following
Tuesday and Thursday. The finals,
in which Americans are entered, will
be put ahead, and the games will con-
clude on Saturday, if possible.
Two persons named William McKin-
ley are on Unclo Sans payroll. One
draws a salary of $4,166 month as
president, and the other $100 a month
as engineer in the Louisville custom
house. There are forty-eight Bryans
and three of them were christened
William. There used to be two Grover
Clevelands in the public service, but
there is only one now. He is assistant
farmer at the TT. Peck Indian agency,
and receives a salary of $3.50 month.
800 Reward 800.
The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
strength by building up the constitution and