Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1900-03-15
CURRENT TOPICS.


An American woman's club has been
organized in Porto Rico.
Greece expects to come out with .
treasury surplus next year.
Physicians in South birmingham
agreed on a schedule Of rates.
New Zealand's export of gold was
100000 greater in 1899 than in 1898.
New York city owes $3.50, 100000 and
has taxables amounting to $500, OOO,-
900.
Hamburg added forty new steamers
to its fleet last year; it now numbers
1856.
The total paid for college education
III this country is about 100000
annually.
Winter suspends the activity of GER
tain microbes, but does not destroy
their lives.
President Kruger's ultimatuu is the
first that has ever been received by
Great Britain.
In the Carbohydrates war all the
Japanese soldiers were supplied with
binocular glasses.
For many years the income of John
Ruskin from his literary work was
100000 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,O0O.0OO pairs
OF gloves yearly, and of these 1s,OoO,.
600 pairs are exported.
The Lancet says the climate OF
Egypt may, without exaggeration, be
described as magnificent.
The president of Switzerland only
gets $4,000 per year, and the law for
| bids him to succeed himself.
Thirty years ago there We're only
about 25 explosive compounds known.
Now there are more than LOO.
Like nearly all Natal rivers, the Tu-
gela is not navigable, ind bar OF
sand stretches across it's mouth.
Gen. Theodore Schwan, who is dis
tinguishing himself in the Philippines,
| enlisted as a 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 every S.
100000.
Max O'Rell, the French author, says
1 fhnf hn hO, A
woman who could be considered real
" ugly.
Since the war of 1894 the popula-
ton of Shanghai has grown from AGO.
900 to 100000 The attraction lies in
the many new industrial establish
ments.
Gen. Joubert, by way of being a
huomrist, complains that the English
countermanded an order to attack his
troops without notifying him, and
thereby deprived him of a whole
nights sleep.
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 1913 shots which strike some
soldier 43 will lodge in the legs, 33
shots will lodge in the arms, 90 strike
between the neck and the waist, one
in the neck and II shots some part
of the soldiers heads.
In killing game the Beers use bull
let of which the lead point is exposed
so that it mushrooms" when it strikes.
On entering the bullet expands and
tears an ugly hole. If it strikes side
wise the effect is horrible.
The Cathedral of St. John, in course
of erection on Morningside Heights,
In New York, will be the largest eccles-
iastioal edifice in the United States. 1t
will be $50 feet long and 2o5 feet
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. Into
the space between the pole and the
pipe is poured a mixture of sand and
resin.
Frederick Stearns, of Detroit, who
presented the University of Michigan
q year ago with one of the finest col
lections of musical instruments in ex-
istence, has added collection of mu-
steal scores and compositions of the
old and modern masters.
Ann Ruth Seneca, an Indian prin-
cess, is studying medicine at the Med
ical Chirurgical hospital, in Philadel-
phia. She took classic course in the
Carlisle Indian school, where she de-
veloped her love for nursing the sick.
Two of her brothers were on the Car
Isle football team.
Some people enjoy any weather but the
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