Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-01-04
CURRENT TOPICS.

Sailed whale meat is Japanese
delicacy.
The number of Buddhists is comput.
ed to be 455 900, 900.
CUBAN farmers want protection
against American corn.
LAND in England is so times as val
liable now as it was 200 years ago.
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS is to make
her permanent home in New Orleans
THERE are $50. 900 men in the world
who make livelihood chiefly by fish
ing.
William M. EvARTs lives in almost
complete seclusion at his home in New
York.
EEAsTUs LATHRoP, of Westfeld,
Mass, in his will left SIS, 900 to D. l..
Moody.
In France the bread is baked in rolls
about the size of man's-arm and four
feet long.
A NEW public school in st. Louis is
to be named in honor of the late Eu-
gene Field.
THERE are scores of places in this
country where only one mail comes ev-
cry IA days.
AMONG professional women hospital
nurses, it is said, head the list of mar.
rying women.
MORE than half of the phosphate in
the world il now supplied by the
United States.
AT meetings of the British cabinet
no official record OF any kind is kept of
the proceedings.
AT Olympia, WASH. oysters sell at
81. so gallon and 1878 a sack for the
oysters in shells.
GERMAN pianoforte manufacturers
have virtually secured monopoly of
the Austra1asian trade.
MEXICAN dollars are current all over
China, and when they can not be had
uncoined silver is used.
OVER half a million dollars worth Of
cocqanuts were imported into the
United States last year.
COTTON manufacturing in Mexico
continues to incease. Each year finds
more looms in oper alton. =
The Philippine islands now produce
considerable indigo. The exports for
1897 were 446, 500 pounds
SIR REDvERs BUTLER bought $o5
worth of the latest books just before
starting for South Africa.
TRAINED nurses in German hospitals
get from SIS to 5000 year, with board,
lodging and all their clothes.
NAVAL experts are endorsing strong
~ the project of national naval re-
serve, with four-year terms of service.
AT Woonsocket, R. l., the River
Spinning Co. is to run its mill night
and day, as soon as necessary help can
be hired.
THE social democrats in Germany
now boast Is newspaper organs The
largest, Vorwarts, has circulation of
So, 900 copies.
A GROWING Vermont industry is the
| canning of corn, this seasons output
in the southeastern part of the state
being 5000, 900 cans.
| IT is estimated that Missouri FARM
ers received over IS, 600, 600 for their
! mules last year. The number shipped
! from St Louis was III, $685.
The next portrait to be hung in the
treasury department will be that of
the present secretary, Mr.. Gage. The
portrait is now being painted.
| For 300 years Mexico has produced
one-third of all the silver that was
mined. The production at present ID
more than $50, 600, 900 annually.
! In New York trade is so brisk among
the brass workers that employers are
finding difficulty in securing enough
men to keep up with their new or
ders.
| RUSSIANS never eat rabbits as they
say they nest with rats, nor will they
touch snais or turtles, which are
found in great numbers all over the
country.
PRESIDENT STEIN of the Orange Free
State is proud of his humble origin.
My father" he once said, twas wag-
onmaker. and, am glad to be able to
say. good one"
Mrs. GULLY, wife of the speaker .ot
the house of commons, has the invid-
ious task of dispensing tickets for seats
in the select portion of the ladies' gal
lery in the house.
ne I" SSIcfA PAX VI ASlSia - AuAd Y
tied by species of camel which is the
Epigmy of its kind. It is snow white,
I and is on that account almost wor.
SHIPPED by the people.
! The main reason why consumptiyes
are sent 10 New Mexico is that it is}al-
ways warm enough there to stay out
doors. Staying out of doors is the
! specific for almost every i'll.
Some people demand that the world no
only be patient with their foolishnesS bu
that it applaud.-Atchison Globe.