Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-14
CURRENT TOPICS

Javs furnishes two-rn1rds of tho
quinine used.
1t costs for food about $50 a week
IT, keep an elephant.
Prussia has begun appointing f.
male factory inspectors.
Grmany has twenty-three boats OF
over $1,000 tons capacity.
There are 6,oo3 pieces in the mod
ern high-grade locomotive.
The height of the atmosphere is
supposed to be about so miles.
The average amount of sickness in
human life is ten days per aunum.
In China, the members of a mans
family are held responsible for his
debts.
There are as many shades of face
powder as there are shades of color.
almost.
The agricultural implement trade
in Russia is practically controlled by
America.
Our lead pencils, the most common
OF all writing implements, is over 200
years old.
The percentage of recoveries in the
Milwaukee hospital for the insane last
year was 33.
Miniatures of their pet dogs is the
very latest affectation among New
York women.
Illinois monument dealers want a
law enabling them to seize tombstones
for bad debts.
In consequence of Russian usurpa-
tions there is a great exodus of the
people of Finland.
Vienna policemen are required to
understand telegraphy and to be able
to swim and row boat.
There are 10 Harvard graduates in
the diplomatic and consular service,
not counting secretaries of legation.
If our southern states alone were as
densely settled as Germany they would
have population of over 190,000,O00.
The brass candlesticks used by
Burns in his little parlor at Ellesland
were sold at auction recently for $57,
Texas is the greatest pecan-growing
state in the union. It produces two.
thirds of the pecan nuts that are mar.
keted.
During the last IL months, at least g
| dozen elephant trainers have been
killed-more than have been killed il
10 years previous.
But three states in the union pay
| their governors an annual salary o1
$4,000. They are New York, New Jer
sey and Pennsylvania.
It has been discovered that thu
bark of the acacia tree which viii
grow in almost any soil, is an excel
lent tanning material.
| Omaha, Neb., has labor temple il
which IS local unions hold their regu
lar meetings. It has six halls which
are under constant rental.
China's new railroad from Cantor
to Hankow, which, with it's branches
will be 1000 miles long, is to be bull
entirely by American capital.
America sells nearly three times a
much as she buys; Germany buys owe
H50,000,000 worth more every yea
than she sells; while Great Britain
last year bought twice as much as sh
sold.
AS the government of France coul
not be persuaded to vote 100000
for the purpose, syndicate is bein
formed to lay net of wires that wi,
connect telephonically all of the 36
900 communities of France.
A woman hanged for child murde
in Vienna few days ago was the frs
woman executed in that city since 18C
and the first in the Austrian MOI
archy since 1867.
There is movement on foot anon
foreign powers to do away with til
limitation of age of ambassador
making the tenure CT office Deepen
solely on a mans capabilities.
Congressman J. C. Needham, of Ca
ifornia, began to collect postag
stamps when he was a small boy an
has never given up his collection
which is now one of the best in tt
United States.