Willmar tribune., 1900-02-28
CURRENT TOPICS.

An American woman's club has been
organized in Porto Rico.
Greece expects to come out with q
treasury surplus next year.
Physicians in South Framingham
agreed on schedule of rates.
New Zealand's export of gold was
$2,000,000 greater in 1899 than in 1893.
New York city owes $3.50, ,o0o, 900 and
has taxables amounting to $3,500,0 ,0o0,-
900.
Hamburg added forty new steamers
to it's fleet last year; it now numbers
436.
The total paid for college education
in this country is about $1oo,oo0,o0o
annually.
Winter suspends the activity of Ger
tain microbes, but does not destroy
their lives.
President Kruger's ultimatum is the
first that has ever been received by
Great Britain.
In the Chino-Japanese war all the
japanese soldiers we're supplied with
binocular glasses.
For many years the income of John
Ruskin from his literary work was
$4,000 annually.
Out of 1,54S,654 votes polled in the
recent election in Mexico, only 92,172
were against Diaz.
The war in South Africa is said to
have ruined the diamond trade for q
long time to come.
France makes nearly 26,ooo,0o pairs
OF gloves yearly, and of these 1s,O0O,-
600 pairs are exported.
The Lancet says the climate Of
Egypt may, without exaggeration, be
described as magnificent.
The president of Switzerland only
gets $2,7oo per year, and the law for
bids him to succeed himself.
Thirty years ago there were only
about rs explosive compounds known.
Now there are more than LOO.
Like nearly all Natal rivers, the Tu-
gela is not navigable, and bar of
sand stretches across it's mouth.
Gen. Theodore Schwan, who is dis.
tinguishing himself in the Philippines,
enlisted as private soldier in 1857.
The yearly loss in value of gold coins
by wear and tear while in circulation
amounts to about $4,000 in ev~ry S..
100000.
Max O'Rell, the French author, SAYS
that he has never seen an American
woman who could be considered real.
ly ugly.
Since the war of 1894 the popula-
ton of Shanghai has grown from 400,-
900 to 100000. The attraction lies in
the many new industrial establish
ments.
Gen. Joubert, by way of being q
huomrist, complains that the English
countermanded an order to attack his
troops without notifying him, and
thereby deprived him of whole
nights sleep.
The Boer is no mean fisherman. Civ.
en- pipe and goodly supply of his
favorite weed he will sit for hours
angling. Very fine sport, indeed, may
be had in any of the streams north
of the Orange river.
Of every 103 shots which strike some
soldier 43 will lodge in the legs, 3;
shots will lodge in the arms, % strike
between the neck and the waist, ont
in the neck and II shots some par
of the soldiers heads.
In killing game the Beers use bull
let of which the lead point is expose,
so that it mushrooms" when it strikes
On entering the bullet expands an.
tears an ugly hole. If it strikes side
wise the effect is horrible.
The Cathedral of St. John, in cours
of erection on Morningside Heights
IN New York, will be the largest eccles
iastical edifce in the United States. I
will be $50 feet long and 295 fee
across at the widest point.
A new method of preserving tele
graph poles is to surround the por
ton in the ground with an earthen
ware pipe like the drain pipe. Int
the space between the pole and tn
pipe is poured mixture of sand an
resin.
Frederick Stearns, of Detroit, VIII
presented the University of Michiga
year ago with one of the finest CO.
lections of musical instruments in e.
istence, has added collection of mt
steal scores and compositions of tn
old and modern masters.
Ann Ruth Seneca, an Indian pri1
cess, is studying medicine at the Met
ical Chirurgical hospital, in Philade
phia. She took classic course in th
Carlisle Indian school, where she d.
veloped her love for nursing the sicl
Two of her brothers were on the Ca
;lisle football team.
Some people enjoy any weather but tn
kind prevailing.-Chicago Dispatch.
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