Willmar tribune., 1900-11-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

Inc Phlladelphla street railways are
to have smoking cars.
kiddville, Right Angle and Log Lick
are Kentucky post offices.
Twelve million one hundred thou
sand tons of timber are cut every
year.
Danish lighthouses are supplied
with oil to pump on the waves in
case OF storm.
The first treaty with China, which
opened it's ports to foreign trade,
was signed in 1s42. ~ IT,
Nearly one eighth of the popula-
tion of Canada gain their living from,
the timber industry.
If the earth's surface were level the
water of the oceans would cover it
to depth of 600 feet. +"
The furnace of an Atlantic liner
will consume no less than 100000 Gu
bic feet of air an hour.
Cairo is the largest town in Africa.
Its inhabitants number 5O0,c0o, Of
which $4,000 are Europeans.
Coal is worked SO easily in China
that in Shanghai it sells at less than
/ shilling per ton at the mines.
1t<has been calculated that the tele-
graph wires in this country would
reach 40 times round the globe.
Satinwood, used chiefly for veneer
ing, comes from both India and Bra
zil. 1t is of lovely yellow color.
About ten persons are every year
robbed and murdered in Russian rail-
ways, and the murderers are seldom
caught.
There are close upon 100000 pas
sengers carried on every week day
in London by public conveyances of
all kinds.
The quantity of fresh beef carried
on one trip by an Atlantic liner of
5000 tons would keep family of five
1s years.
Japanese wOrkmen bathe the whole
body once day, and some of them
twice. Public baths are provided in
every street.
All big vessels are provided with
copper lightning rods, which run
from their mastheads down to tho
copper sheathing.
The warrior ant makes raids
against nests of the small, yellow turf
ant. These, it. knows by experience,
make the best slaves.
There are more than 100000 pu-
pills in the schools of this country.
About 36,000,000 babies are born in
TO the world every year.
The" nearest approach of a comet
to the earth observed was IN ITO,
when one approached to within L.
100000 miles of our planet.
A modebof the human heart, work.
ing as in life and pumping blood
through artificial arteries, is the
work. of a continental physician. .
Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty is in
q deplorable condition and an expen-
diture of from $4,000 to 100000 will
be required to put in proper repair.
The inhabitants of Media, Italy, are
convinced that their fields were
taved by the 300 shots which were
fred during the prevalence of a
fierce hailstorm which devastated all
the surrounding country. }
R. G.. Kirk, newspaper man and
miner, who has just returned from
Dawson, tells of the finding of coin
. In the Klondike which would seem
/, to establish the existence there of an
unknown race centuries ago. u IN
The Philadelphia directory shows
nine men who bear the name . Of
Thomas Thomas and eleven known as
Robert Roberts. ! But William Will
iams outnumbers them both, as there
are eighty-six citizens thus named. Ia
u The newest labor union in Spring.
field, Mass, is an organization Of the
fruit peddlers Of the city. They Iave
banded together in order to fxht the
discrimination ct Il auction sales
4 charged against the Wholesale deal
ers.
n Perfumes are put up in tablet form
nowadays. A lady simply orders 4
dozen or more at q time, and pro-
ceeds 70 distribute them about IN ,hsr
pockets, her purse, OF within the
palms other gloves They como $
two si1es. 81 Is ii u
n new Maine statute prohibits the
placing of inscriptions upon the stars
and atripea, and several political
dagsab bearing the names Of candidates
Tor president vice president and gov-