The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-03-01
TOPICS.

An American woman's club has been
organized in Porto Rico.
Greece expects to come out with q
treasury surplus next year.
Physicians in South Framineham
agreed on a schedule of rates.
New Zcaland's export ct gold was
100000 greater in 1899 than in 1893.
New York city owes ss5o,ooo, 900 and
has taxables amounting to So, SOC, ooo,-
600.
Hamburg added forty new steamers
to it's fleet last year; 1t now numbers
436.
The total paid for college education
In this country is about 500, 900, 900
annually.
Winter %suspends the activity of GER
tain microbes, but does not destroy
their lives.
President Kruger's ultimatum is the
first that has ever been received by
Great Britain.
In the Chino-Japanese war all the
japanese soldiers were supplied with
b%inocular glasses.
Fol many years the income of John
Ruskin from his literary work was
$4,000 annually.
Out of 1,54s,e54 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 $4,000, 900 pairs
OF gloves yearly, and of these 1s,000,-
600 pairs are exported.
The Lancet says the climate of
Egypt may, without exaggeration, be
described as magnificent.
The president of Switzerland only
gets $2,7O0 per year, and the law for
i d him to succeed himself.
Thirty years ago there were only
about IS explosive compounds known.
Now there are more than LOO.
Like nearly all Natal rivers, the Tu-
gela is not navigable, Ind n bar -oi
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 teal while in circulation
amounts to about $4,000 in every S..
100000.
Max O'Rell, the French author, says
that he has never seen an American
woman who could be considered real
ly ugly.
Since the war of 1894 the popula-
ton of Shanghai has grown from AGO.
900 to zoo, 900. The attraction lies in
the many new industrial establish
ments.
Gen. Joubert, by way of being a
huomrist, complains that the English
ceuntermanded an order to attack his
troops without notifying him, and
thereby deprived him of a whole
nights sleep. .5
The Boer is no mean fisherman. Civ.
en- a pipe and a 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 1O3 shots which strike some
soldier 43 will lodge in the legs, 80
shots will lodge in the arms, 20 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 a bull.
let of which the lead point is exposed
so thatit 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
i~astical edifce in the United States. II
will be $50 feet long and 295 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 anc
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 a collection of mu
steal cores and compositions of thu
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 a classic course in thu
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