Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-04-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

order forbidding the use of mourning
envelopes.
Nero left at his death $11s .125,O 900,
which his successor is said to have
in a year.
The Passion play will be enacted at
Oberammergau twenty-seven times
during the coming summer.
OF the 10000 Washington govern
ment clerks, nearly one-third are
women, who receive from 5000 to
$1,000 annually.
Archbishop Feehan Of Chicago went
to the scene of his present labors in
1852, making the trip from New York
by stage and steamboat.
Another trainload of immigrants
is expected to arrive about April 5,
to settle in the James river valley and
the western part of the state.
Earl B. Pinney has been appointed U.
s. court commissioner for Towner and
McHenry counties-the position is
said to be worth $1,000 a year.
Among Japanese a daily hot bath is
the rule. When people are too poor
to have a bath in their own houses
they %patronize the public baths.
The influx Of immigration coming
in over the 500 to Minot is large and
with a fair harvest this year will be
even greater next year. The immi-
grants are a good class of people.
The will of the late Prof. Hughes, F.
r. S., inventor of the Hughes print
ing telegraph, bequeaths $4,000 to the
Royal Society for the Furtherance of
Physical Science.
Representative Jefferson M. Levy
of New York owns and maintains
son, Tin keeping with it's distin-
guished traditions"
Emperor William of Germany has
designed another palatial yacht for
himself. The plans are completed
and work upon the construction is to
be begun at once.
Gov. Chandler of Georgia is another
of the public men who do most of
their own letter writing, he writes
nearly all his letters, except official
ones, with his W hand.
April 1 next will mark the two hun
dredth anniversary of the day when
the ancestors Of Lord Roseberry, the
family of Primrose, became ennobled
under the title Of Roseberry.
The other day the Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales dined for 8 cents a plate
at the Upton eating house in London,
and still some of us everyday folk hate
to be seen going into a cheap restau-
rant.
Mark Twain was recently asked
what were his boyish ambitions.
First" he replied, II wanted to be a
circus clown, but I modified that and
decided to be a Mississippi congress-
mar"
Sergeantht-Arms Randall of the
senate is a very busy man. He moves
around the senate wing of the capital
several times each day, making a tour
of the committee rooms, the galleries,
and the press gallery.
There are but two confirmed snuff
takers IN the United States senate at
the present time, Senator Turner of
Washington and Senator Carter of
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| snuff has about died out.
James Oliver, who is probably the
richest man in Indiana, laid the foun-
dation of his fortune by saving from
his salary of so cents a week as a
farmers "chore boy" enough to buy a
house and lot on the installment plan
and then selling it at a profit.
May and November are the most
marrying months. Fewer people are
married in March than in any other
month. When bachelors marry wild
ows, the widow is generally the older;
but when the widowers marry maids,
the maid is usually the younger.
M. Anagnos, the principal of the
Perkins institution for the blind, in
Boston, will be one of the three United
States representatives at the interna-
ti0nal congress in the interest of the
blind to be held in Paris during Aug
ust.
Mr.. James Lynch Williams, the
author Of several widely read volumes
of newspaper stories, has resigned his
post as one of the editors of Scribner's
Magazine and will go back to Prince
ton as the editor Of one of the college
papers.
Bret Harte is said to be at work on
a new series of CONDENSED novels
The first series appeared in 1867 and
were very successful. In this new one
it is supposed that he will parody
modern novels that have had a greater
or less vogue.
Thomas Wentworth H%igginson, after
some close study of the subject, re-
ports that he finds law and journalism
the most attractive professions to
young hen just leaving college, the
latter calling being the more popular
because a man can earn a living at
once in it.
Senator Hoar, in beginning a speech,
mas a little series of motions which he
unconsciously never fails to go
through. First his. hand goes to his
throat and tie, then he pulls down his
waistcoat, then he fingers his watch
chain, shakes his cuffs loose, clears
his throat and begins.
Charles Kiralfy is at present in this
country for the purpose of selecting
four young mn to represent the
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