Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-07-12
CURRENT TOPICS,

The Boston poor department ex-
pended last year SITS, 43O. s.
The muscles Of the human jaw
exert force Of 534 pounds. .
A ten-story Office building is to be
erected in Birmingham, Ala.
A big portion of the Georgia fruit
crop is to be canned this year.
The citizens of Calhoun, Ca, have
subscribed 100000 for a cotton mill.
In Illinois during the last fifteen
years. birds have decreased 3S per
cent.
The Russian people are only begin
ming to realize the advantages of life
insurance.
Munster, Germany, has high
school which has been in existence
1,1oo years. #
London newsboys are now prohibit
ed from yelling forth the contents Of
their wares.
New Zealand has now sent nearly
two thousand men to the front in
South Africa. =
j. Public story-te1lers still earn good
livelihood in Japan. III Tokyo 600 Of
them ply their trade. @
IA sign. outside a Lombard street
(Philadelphia) restaurant reads:
Pigs feet. Walk in
In China, twelve miles from Lion
Chek, there is "a mountain of alum,
which yields. 100. tons yearly. 3
In 1870 there were 5000 Shakers in
the United States. At present they
do not number more than 100. =.
The catalogue of the Paris expo
sition contains the names sof nearly
10000 exhibitors Of all nations.
According to the School Review
only 41.51 per cent. of the pupils lin
American high schools are boys.
Louise Chandler Moulton, the poet,
has just sailed for Europe, where she
will spend the summer in travel.
In Kansas it is proposed to start
a magazine which shall be contrib
uted to only by residents of Kansas.
The aging of timber, which former
~ required long storage, is now COM
pleted by electricity in a few hours
Twelve dollars and thirty cents is
Sthe annual: allowance of 7,O51 pen
sioners:of the statesof South Carolina.
Twelve womeneout of sixteen were
successful; ,cand ID atese at Ean examine
ton for sanitary instructors in Lon
L. s5s ~ JH
49, The last. descendant Of John Bunyan
has just died in Lincoln, England.
She was Mrs. T. M. Keyworth, and
was 30 years old. J. ~
I. Lord Roberts has been in the Brit
fish army for forty-nine years, having
started in the service when he was
twenty years old.
The franchises of nearly 1000 cor
porations in Texas have been revoked
recently because of their failure to
pay the state taxes.
The British government expects q
drought in India about twice in every
nine years-and great famine like
the present about twice century.
In Indiana there are 1902 miles OF
telephone and telegraph wires, valued
for taxation at $4,695,650, and 6,39e
miles of railway, assessed at $153,659,.
34s. F[% s
Stephen Crane used to do nearly all
his writing very late at night, fire.
quently working until s or o'clock
and then sleeping for six or eight
hours.
AS there is very little cold weather
in Mexico, no necessity exists for lay
ing in winter stores of honey, and the
bees is, therefore, as lazy as grass
hopper.
There were LOST ,93S acres seeded to
sugar beets in Germany last year.
The yield is about eleven and quar-
ter tons per acre Of beets, containing
1.7.per cent. Of sugar.
+ Ii Hung Chang maintains at his own
expense force Of 5000 soldiers as a
sbodyguard. They are no part of the
Chinese army and are the best paid
soldiers in the empire.
American lard sells in Singapore
1 dl&Gf#COACS IL POOAA>A SeaAAS
American canned fruits, vegetables
and meats, as well as American bug
gies, are also sold there.
Cups and saucers are never used fol
| tea anywhere in Russia. The teacuI
| is an unknown article. The drinking
vessel for tea is the ''stakan,' a glass
tumbler in silver holder. No Rus
sian ever drinks milk in his tea.
Brazil has practically monopoly
of the carbonate or black diamond
which is used in diamond drills anc
for other abrasive purposes. It il
found in Cape Colony and some Other
places, but is commercially important
only in Brazil.
The number of Mohammedans ha
| been estimated at 1876, 100000. O.
these 1s,OOO,0OO are under the rule o
the Turkish government, 23,O0O,0O0 ar,
ruled by other Musselman sovereigns
36,5Oo,o00 are subject to African
princes, 2o,ooo,00o live in China, an,
9g,oOo,o00 are under other rulers. O
these last about 5s,ooO,OoO belong t,
India and Beloochistan.
! .Mrc Kr11 orer saws in an interview