Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1900-11-01
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built in the solid rock Of Gibraltar.
In Germany clock has been made
that is warranted to go for 5000
years.
In ls9s the tobacco monopoly yield
ed France an income OF 329,oU0,ooO
francs.
The island OF Guam is $500 miles
from Honolulu and LOGO miles from
Manila.
There are now 5o,712 Christian En-
dcavor societies in the world, with
S,5O0.oOo members.
IN India a spoon is always used for
eating curry, a fashion only lately
understood here.
The advocates Of cremation in Ger
many have their own periodical, call
ed Flamne CLANCY.
Lymph taken from the Emphatic
glands of goats is now being tried
10 cases of apopleNy.
ut has been observed in the hos
pitfalls that nails on amputated fin
gers continue to grow
London economist calculates that
the Transyaal war will increase the
English debt 5O,OOOO0O.
The 1IamburgA line has
announced reduction in second
cabin rates of from S. to $40.
American exports to Germany dur
ing the past ten years have increased
more than $lO,0OO,OOO in value.
Meat has been preserved in a frozen
state for 80 years, and found perfectly
eatable at the end of that time.
There are in the United States 30
Berlins, 21 Hamburgs, 23 towns bear
ing the name of Paris and Is London.
1t is said that no fewer than 255, 900
books for the blind are borrowed an
nually from the free libraries in this
country.
Each year about $4,000 is expended
in sprinkling the streets of London
With sand to prevent the horses from
slipping.
The state of Colorado and the cat
tie barons, working together, are Of
fering $50 for every coyote scalp
presented.
The most magnificent tomb in the
world is deemed to be the Palace
Temple of karnak, occupying an area
of nine acres.
1t is iinprudent to keep an oil or
gas stove burning in a sleeping room.
They consume the oxygen and thus
vitiate the air.
A child ,,cicnnoI in
Niddletown, Ct, recently by eating
sample pills left on doorsteps by a
distributing agent.
British army officers report that
they successfully used the Marconi
system of wireless telegraphy in the
South African war.
Excepting grape wine, the oldest
alcoholic beverage known to man is
sake a rice wine. 1t has been used by
the japanese for over 1000 years.
Golden and diamond weddings were
celebrated by GA couples i'll Prussia
last year, and the state distributed
medals to each husband and wife.
The largest cotton ginning plant in
the world is now under construction
at Corsicana, Tex, and the next
largest is being constructed at Bry-
an. Tex. The third is being put in at
. MeXia, Tex.
A French statistcian has calculated
that the human eye travels over 1000
yards in reading an ordinarysized
novel. The average human being is
calculated to get through $500 miles
of reading in a lifetime.
The German schooner Kate" took
four months in crossing from Olden.
berg, Germany, to Granton, England
She ran out of food, and for 20 days
her crew subsisted by chewing straw
used to pack bottles, which formed
the cargo.
The mercury Of Cape Nome, Alaska
from January Is to January 2;
ranged from 16 degrees below zero
to IS degrees below. January 26 il
\ rose to degrees above, and till Feb
ruary it continued above, reaching
20 degrees.
In the agricultural portions of Bel
gium the work performed by womet
includes going to the fields to hell
the horses pull the pillow, Of aiding
the dogs in hauling carts. In TIL
mines they work as hard and receive
the same wages as the men.
Seeking the Details He died Of hear
failure said the doctor. "Of course, o
course returned the peryerse man; Every
body does that, but what made his hear