The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-11-15
CURRENT TOPICS.

Inc ~Phlladelphia street railways arc
to have smoking cars.
Kiddville, Right Angle and Log Lick
are Kentucky post offices.
Twelve million one hundred thou
Sane tons of timber are cut every
year.
Danish lighthouses are supplied
with oil to pump on the waves in
case of a storm. q
The first treaty with China, which
opened its ports to foreign trade,
was signed in 1912.
Nearly n eighth of the popula-
ton 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 a depth of 900 feet.
The furnace of an Atlantic liner
will consume no less than 7,500,0 900 Gu
bic feet of air an hour.
Cairo is the largest town in Africa.
Its inhabitants number 100000, 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
gil. 1t is of a lovely yellow color.
About ten persons r every year
robbed and murdered in Russian rail-
ways, and the murderers are seldom
caught.
There are close upon 5000, 900 pas
sengers carried on every week day
in London by public conveyances of
all kinds.
The quantity of fresh beef carried
on n trip by. an Atlantic liner of
5000 tons would keep a family of five
Is years.
Japanese workmen battle the whole
body once a 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 m~astheads down to the
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 16, oOO, 900 pu-
pills in the schools of this country.
About $4,000, 900 babies are born in
to the world every year.
The nearest approach of a comet
to the earth observed wal IN ITO,
when one approached to within l.
100000 miles of our planet.
A model of the human heart, work.
ing as in life and pumping blood
through artificial arteries, is the
work of. a continental physician.
B%artholdi'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
saved by the 800 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 a coin
in the Klondike which would seem
to establish the existence there of an
unknown race centuries ago.
The Philadelphia directory shows
nine men who bear the name of
Thomas Thomas and eleven known as
Robert Roberts. But William Will
liams outnumbers them both, as there
are eighty-six citizens thus named.
The newest labor union in Spring.
field, Mass, is an organization of the
fruit peddlers of the city. They lave
banded together in order to fgIt the
discrimination at auction sales
charged against the wholesale deal
ers. @ .
Perfumes are put up in tablet form
nowadays. A lady simply orders q
dozen or more at a time, and pro-
ceeds to distribute them about in her
pockets, her purse, OF within the
palms Of her gloves. They come In
two sizes.
A new Maine statute prohibits the
placing of inscriptions upon the Stars
and stripes, and several political
flags bearing the names of candidates
for president, vice president and gov
ernor have had to be taken down in
consequence.