Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-09-12
CURRENT TOPICS.

in the United States last year.
Prof. w. II. Mace has declined po-
sition in the Chicago university.
Gen. Wood has been made member
of the academy of science in Havana.
England now has seven admirals
OF the first fleet and ni:,e field mar
shals.
Miss Henrietta Homeicr, of Ingle-
side, L. l., dislocatcd her jaw chew
ing gum.
Eggs of flies taken as food is said
by an illinois scientist to be rcsron-
sible for epileptic fits.
Lord Roberts never smokes, drinks
but little, and is said to be most TEN.
perate in his language.
During the last thirty years more
than 100000 Germans have cmigrat-
ed to the United States.
The largest wroueht-iron pillar is
at Delhi, in India. 1t is sixty feet
high and weighs seventeen tons.
Of fifty-six glaciers observed in
1897, thirty-four were found to be de-
creasing, while five were stationary
and twelve were increasing.
There are forty counties in Texas
which have to seek legal advice out
side their limits, as they have not a
single attorney of their own.
Gen. De Vets ancestors, who set
tied in South Africa, was Jacobns De
Wet, who made his home on the river
l>:esbeck, where he died in I'LL.
Mr.. Edison holds the worlds rec
ord of having taken out 742 patents
since 1872. Prof. Thomson is credited
with 444, and Sir Hiram Maxim stands
third.
Charlotte Cipriani, graduate of
the University OF Chicago, is the first
woman to receive the degree of doc
tor of letters from the University of
Paris.
Beetles are strongest insects. 4
horned beetle has been known to
move q -a-quartcr-pound let
ter weight-that is, ID times it's own
weight.
Goust is the smallest republic in
the world in point of area. it is in
The Pyrenecs, is 600 acres in extent,
has 100 inhabitants and was estab-
lished in 1915.
The Pope pays daily visit to the
little menagcric in the Vatican gar
,lens, where he rewards the parrots
loyal cry of "Vive il Popa!" with
double ration.
4 telegram from Ponta Delgada
states that the international meteor
illogical observatory in the Azores
was iDaugurated by the hing of Port
ugal on July 10.
Herbert Crowbie Howe. for num-
Der of years secretary to President
Schurlnan, OF Cornell university, has
been appointed professor of English
a: the University of Oregon.
France, with 81 gallons head, is
the greatest consumer of wine: the
United States, with half gallon 4
head yearly, the smallest. English
people average fraction more.
a movement has been started
among the Catholic women of St.
Louis for the raising of q fund of
$4,000 for bronze monument in
honor of the late Archbishop Ken
rick.
The method Of canoeing postage
stamps in vogue throughout the
world was instituted by the French
government in 1880, hut was not
adopted until comparatively recent
years.
Thomas G. Shanginessy, who suc-
ccetled Sir William Van Horne as pres
i,lcnt of the Canadian Pacific railway
system, entered the services OF that
road as general storeleceper as late
as 1882.
Work is almost completed on the
statue of Gen. John Egan Howard,
the Maryland soldier, and it is OK
Tected that the bronze will be set up
in one of the Baltimore parks early
in the autumn.
When the sultan of Johore is at
tired in his state clothes he is a most
gorgeous ruler. He wears gems worth
S12,000,000, which sparkle in his
crown. on his epaulcts, in his gildlc,
and in his cuffs.
For every man, woman and child
in this country there is an average
of two farm animals. There arc
about l0.OO0,000 each of sheep and
swine, about 45,O00,OOo COWS and 9TH
or cattle, and about 100000 horses
and mules.
Curse cards are being used in Swift
zerland and Germany to check pro-
family. People go about with the
cards in their pockets and, whenever
they hear bad language. present one
to the swearcr to sign. The card has
printed on it pledge to obstain
from swearing for specified time
or to pay Il small fine for each oath
to some charity. Nearly 10000 of
these cards have been distributed in
Switzerland alone.
Judge James Humphrey, who died
few days ago at his home in Wey-
mouth Nights, Mass, was the Oldest
active judge on the bench of Massa-
chusetts. He was born in Weymouth