Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-03-30
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ment store.
George Mortimer, an actor who left
his company at Fargo starved to death
in New York.
A tax collector in a Long Island viii
lage is 81 years of age and has held his
job for thirty-two years.
If all the money in the world were
divided equally among the people,
each person would get about $50.
Within three years William Jennings
Bryan has travelled nearly 100000
miles for the purpose of speechmaking.
Bishop Vidal, the Roman Catholic
bishop of the Fiji islands, has arrived
in San Francisco, on his way to Rome.
Babe Daubner, a we'll known resi-
dent of Fargo and Moorhead, is dead
at Chicago, where he has been for some
time for medical treatment.
: If the increase in passenger traffic
keeps up the Northern Pacific will
have to put on its double train service
before the time advertised.
Fifty sports Of the cities of Fargo
and Moorhead gathered in the latter
city and witnessed seven battles be-
tween game cocks owned by Fargo
people.
Steam carriages cannot as yet run
freely in Paris. An application has
been made to the minister of public
works for permission to run such car
riages.
A fashion of wearing bracelets, said
to be common among the English Off
GERS, has been taken up by the British
volunteers who are going to South
Afrcia.
Great Britain's government is en-
deavoring to purchase five automo-
biles of the "%tracteur' class, each cap
able of drawing two tons. They are
for use in the Transvaal.
President Loubet of France has
fought three duels. In two. he was vic
torious. In the third he was not SO
successful. His opponents sword
pierced entirely through his hand.
The south is ringing for expansion.
Protection has started southern devel-
opment, and business men there know
that we must have Foreign markets in
which to sell u surplus products.
A court milliner of Queen Victoria
who died some years ago left strict in
functions that her body should be en-
tirely drapped in point lace, and her
shroud cost several thousand dollars.
John Addison Porter, secretary to
President Mckinley, has completed a
collection Of crayon portrait photo
graphs of his twenty-five predecessors
in the White House, to be hung in the
,s~ecretary's Office.
A horseshoe caused the tie-up Of
three surface "a lines for over half
an hour in New York city the other
evening, by getting into the slot Of the
Sixth avenue under-trolley road at
Thirty-fourth street.
Casimir Zalewski's death is reported
in Warsaw journals. He was the
editor Of a newspaper and the Oldest
lawyer in Poland, noted as having re-
ceived the largest fee ever given to a
lawyer in Poland-15O,OOO roubles.
Rev. William I. Fee, who died re-
Gently in Cincinnati, was n of the
most famous of the old-time Methodist
preachers of Ohio. He was the author
of "Gleanings from Harvest Fields in
Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia."
The public debt is decreasing at a
rapid rate notwithstanding extraordin-
airy expenses for the Philippine trouble.
During the last democratic admins
tration the public debt increased, in
time of peace, in just about the same.
ratio that it now decreases.
More naval officers and more ships
of wal are recommended by the Sec
rotary of the navy and Admiral Dewey.
And the record which these men made
in the hour of the country's emery
ency quite justifies the country in
agreeing with them.
Senator Vest recently sent a ews
paper clipping to the secretary to be
read to the house. The latter got the
wrong side of the clipping, and in
stead of an editorial on the money
question began: ridiculous! We are
giving away these goods at half-price."
1.-THE other side!!" cried Mr.. Vest.
In a new emergency cutoff valve
for engines a pair of magnets are used
in conjunction with an electric system
controlled by push bottoms located at
convenient points to lift a bar out Of
connection with a weighed lever con-
trolling the throttle.
A handy litter and strainer for
cooked vegetables, eggs, etc., is formed
of a small central disk, around which
are arranged radiating fingers, with
central vertical stem to lift the strainer
by, the device being paced in the ket-
tie when the vegetables r put in.
A table printed by Bradstreet's
shows that $500 New York business
houses, which had on their pay-rolls
299,957 employees in 1896, have in
creased the number to 356,278, while
the increase in wages in 1899 as COM
pared with 1896 was over $4,000 900.
Lent affects the saloon business
says a Philadelphia saloonkeeper. "In
some of the large cafes and hotel bars
the force Of ~bartenders is sometimes
cut down during Lent. Lots of men
who are steady drinkers knock off en-
ttirely, and others limit themselves as
an act of penance."
Paper bags can be rapidly and Sc