Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1901-03-14
CURRENT TOPICS.

VIM. McAleer has the whitest hair
In tho house.
Sir Henry Stanley has celebrated
his Goth birthday.
Pittsburgh parties are goDbling up
Oil lands in Texas.
De Wet is the swamp fox of the
South African revolution.
The people of Oregon are nick
named Hard Gases" and "Webfeet."
The newly-seeded area of winter
wheat is estimated at 30,2S2,564 acres.
There is but one woman ruler in
the world, Queen Wilhelmina of Hol-
land.
There were only ten fatal accidents
in Tennessee mines during the year
1900.
Ex-senator Roger Q. Mills now has
an income of $1,000 a month from
his oil wells.
1t is computed that at the second
inauguration of President Mckinley
S4,OOO,OOO was spent.
There are several large factories in
the. United States devoted to the man
u1acture or rose water.
Woman suffrage was beaten in the
New Mexico house by vote of 81 to
?, one of its opponents shuddered.
Every mineral and metal of value
in the arts and industries is found
within the limits of the United States.
Boston bootblacks have finally sue
ceeded in getting the Massachusetts,
legislature to pass bill legalizing
Sunday forenoon work of the sinners.
Nine million birds nests, for soup
making, are brought into Canton in
year. 1t takes so to make pound,
and they cost $3.50 an ounce.
Twenty-six per cent of the entire
population of the world lives under
British sway, per cent under Rus
sian rule, 6 under French, and nearly
under American.
When royal personages get tired Of
the glaring light that beats upon
them they often assume borrowed
names, which, not being generally
known, insures a certain amount of
privacy.
The elaborate plans that have been
prepared for the extensive news sew
erage system for Havana are wholly
dependent on electric pumps directly
connected to electric motors for their
operation.
The inha bitants of Palmyra get all
their salt by dipping buckles into the
neishboring salt lake and allowing
the water to evaporate. The Turkish
government has a monopoly of the
salt business.
United Austria has no greater prob
lem to solve than the funding of its
enormous debt. Although the six
colonies have population of only
four million, in round numbers, their
debts total $9s5,0O0,00o.
The steady decline in the birth-rate
recently noted in Great Britain was
maintained in 1900. In 1899 the rate
was 1913 per 1000, the lowest ever re-
corded; in 1900, however, the rate
further dropped to $3.50 per 1000.
Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, Or
ders every day in the senate restau-
rant "a steak done just as like it,
The other day he found it necessary
to ada, "And, Tom, remember not to
have amy of that darned grass on it,"
So far, the best emergency ration is
one devised by American army Off
GERS. 1t consists of one pound of raw,
lean beef and one pound of bread,
seasoned with salt and pepper, eaten
dry, without cooking. Ole pound of
the mixture sustains soldier in good
condition for twenty-four hours.
The king of Portugal is an expert
in ichthyology, and has written sever
al scientific memoirs on the subject.
He is very fond of fishing in the sea
off the coast of Portugal, where, ow-
ing to the extraordinary depth of the
water, the forms discovered are of
great variety and scientific interest.
King Alexander, of Servia, has re-
Gently sought to insure his life with
a certain British company for $780,
600, but that company, having had to
pay 100000 in consequence of the
murder of King Humbert, declined
the risk, having firmly resolved never
again to insure the lives of crowned
heads.
When Congressman Sulloway, of
New Hampshire; Patrick Henry, of
Missouri, and Berry, of Kentucky, met
in the house restaurant the other
day some one observed that there
were nearly twenty-one feet of con-
gressmen there" Each of the men
nana1 is over sir feat in harht Mr.
sulloway being six feet eight inches.
Progressive dinners" are becoming
popular in some Of the western cit.
les. One of six courses was lately
enjoyed in Jonesville, Wis. At the
first house twenty guests ate oysters
and then fastened to the second
house, where they partook of soup;
then on to the third house, where
they had fish; and then they contin.
mod until tho ci~f1, o1nrco ,or1,ol