Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1900-02-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

Hungary leads in glass jewel pro-
duction.
Paris has the biggest quill tooth
pick mill.
The German empire had in 1898,
1859 post offices.
The lighter all chocolate is in color
the more free it is from impurities.
Miss Edith J. Enswood of New York
is the only woman patent attorney.
The collar bone is more frequently
broken than any other bone in the
body.
The total candy output of the Unit
ed States last year was at least $751;
100000.
The present season has been one Of
particular benefit to the oyster
farmer.
The total number of paid employees
of the New York state government
is 1891.
The young king of Spain is reported
to be great student of history and
geography.
The salesgirls in New Jersey town
have started crusade against the
use of slang.
One years sweepings of the British
mint yielded over $4,000 in particles OF
gold and silver.
Pretoria, the capital of the Trans
vaal, is small city of about 5000
white population.
Nearly so per cent. of the people Of
France and Germany are engaged in
farming pursuits.
A miners lamp, using acetylene gas.
has been introduced into the Setback
mines, of Germany.
There seems to be veritable craze
for some sort of physical culture in
New York this winter.
The last was the greatest year for
pears that the New Jersey farmers
have had for decade.
Washington's time was Philadelphia.
1t had $4,000 inhabitants.
New York park commissioner is is
suing permits to automobile owners
to the number of two or three a week.
Competent judges have estimated
the number of deer slain by sports
men in Maine in one season to be
10000,
A pioneer sheep feeder of TT. Col
Inns, Col, is feeding $4,000 sheep-thc
largest number ever fed by one in
dividual.
There are sixty-two lawyers in tho
present legislature of New York, less
than one-third of the membership of
the two houses.
Omaha is making strenuous efforts
at Washington to secure the proposed
new mint, to be located somewhere
in the middle west.
The average number of horses kill
ed in Spanish bull fights every year
exceeds 5000, while from 1000 to 1900
bulls are sacrificed.
Kamschatka may soon become as
popular resort as the Klondike, as
gold has been discovered there in
promising quantities.
During last year 1,465 persons were
inoculated for hydrophobia at the
Pasteur institute in Paris, and of
these only three died.
This year the United States will ex-
port about 2oo,ooo,ooo bushels of it's
wheat crop, about s0,0oo,00o of which
will be in the form of flour.
Skating has been taken up with I'M
usual zeal this winter by that portion
of the community of New York gener-
ally referred to as "society." O.:
Coal mining is developing rapidly in
Canada. In Nova Scotia both the
areas worked and the number of
mines show great Increase
Frost has a variety of effects upon
different products. Under the same
influence eggs will burst, apples con-
tract and potatoes turn black. ~
One dollar and seventy five cents a
day has been adopted by the New
South Wales government as min
imum wage to railway laborers.
Up to 1852 the 25th of March was
the beginning of the legal year,
though the LIST of January was uni-
yersally recognized as New Years day,
When you hate man, either tight him S
ray nothing. -Atchison Globs.