Willmar tribune., 1900-10-31
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Tribune.
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.Willmar, MINI.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 81, 1900.


der of Paris exposition awards.
! Under rational treatment the av-
erage yield of beehive in Palestine
is two pounds.
among the substances out of which
paper is made.
! Over 100000 worth of diamonds
are annually stolen from the South
African mines.
The corn crop of Spain for the
year 1899 is officially reported at a.
666,954 bushels.
Last year Germany imported 214,-
139 metric tons of potatoes and t.
370,s50 of wheat.
:, The Southern railway has furnished
the Birmingham division with eigh-
teen new engines.
It takes as much heat to turn one
pound of water into vapor as to melt
five pounds of iron.
Warm water is much lighter, bulk
for bulk, than cold. Water is heaviest
Just. before it freezes.
The Tennessee board of health re-
ports that smallpox exists in mild
form in six counties.
Blacksmith's aprons are made of
sEeep-skin, tanned with alum, which
renders them heat-proof.
American cabbages are being ship
ped to Europe, Germany, princip-
ally, where the crop is short.
The Cigar Markers International
union now has membership of over
$4,000 and is growing rapidly.
The smallest coin now current in
Europe is the Greek lepton. It is
worth one twentieth of a cent.
Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, has
proclaimed her betrothal to Duke
Henry of Mecklenburg- -Schwerin.
The fastest flowing river in the
world is the Sutlej, in India. It's
descent is $4,000 feet in $50 miles.
1t is alleged that flies stick more
closely just before rain in fear of
being blown away by sudden winds.
The receipts of the Birmingham,
ALA, post Office show an increase of
so per cent. in the last three years.
The London boycott of Irish cat
tie creates a good deal of ill feeling
among the farmers and grazers of
ireland.
The area of London is 6Ss square
miles metropolitan district); New
york, 3o6.o1; Chicago, 1902; Phila-
delphia, 1898.
The Queen Regent of Spain has
been appointed arbitrator on pend
ing international differences between
Chill and Peru.
Philip Ashley, discharged British
soldier, was the originator of the
modern circus. He gave exhibitions
of riding in ring in ITO.
Goats used to accompany strolling
musicians, just as monkeys do to-
day. Hence the expression, "cutting
capers." "Caper' is Latin for ''goat."
Forty-nine million gallons of Rus
sian and American kerosene oil en-
ter China each year, yet China has
enormous stores of petroleum in her
own inland provinces.
The Rajah of Matlan owns the
largest diamond in the world. It
weighs 367 carats and is shaped like
an egg, with queer little dented hol-
low at the smaller end.
In some Italian towns, instead of
giving books as prizes in public
schools, they give savings bank books,
with . small sum entered to the
credit of the prize winner.
According to report of the Ar
gentine commission for the extirpa-
ton of locusts, that body in 1S97-9S
destroyed over 2O,5OO tons of these
insects and over 33 tons of locust
eggs.
Gout is rarely known among the
Immunity from this complaint is
thought to be due to the fact that
their food consists largely of pota-
toes.
Human hair varies in - thickness
from the two hunderd and fiftieth
to the six hundredth part of an inch.
Mrs. Jane X. Sather, of San Fran
CISCO, mas. gwen $lOO,OOO to the uni
versity of California.
An electric railway 400 miles long
and to cost $4,000, 900 is to be con-
structed with government appro-
priation to the extent of $6,OOO,OO
connecting the states of Yucatan, To-
basco, Campeche and Chiapas, Mexico.
-, The late Mrs. Catherine Carcelon's
will has just been interpreted by the
United States supreme court, and
Bowdoin college will receive 100000
and nearly as much will go to: the es-
tablishment of a hospitalin Oakland,
Cal. '##l<. ~ =" =. aE -
The most splendid royal yacht
aaoat is the Hohenzollern. She is a
warship as we'll as yacht. To a
large extent, aluminium replaces
wood in her fittings. d.
Rosewood and mahogany are so
plentiful in Mexico that some of the
copper mines there are timbered
with rosewood, while mahogany is
used as fuel for the engines & .
The sea cucumber Of the GU
rious iel!yl;ke bodies that inhabit the
ocean=can practically efface itself
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