Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-08-08
CURRENT TOPICS.

Hetty Green is said to be investing
in oil lands at Hartsell, Ala.
Ambassador White expects to leave
Berlin for home in September.
Out of 5000 islands in the Indian
Ocean only $40 are inhabited.
The population of Northern China
is most completely vegetarian.
John Alexander Dowie has become
a naturalized American citizen.
An advance of So ton in the price
of steel rails has been agreed upon.
In certain London hotels wine left
on the tables is the walters perquis-
-ite. H.
A dressmakers' trust has now been
organized and incorporated for $780,
900. Ill.,
The average depth of the Atlantic
is $4,000 feet, of the Pacific 1900
feet.
.The population of the German En-
pire includes 100000 who use the Po-
lish language.
frances new prison at Fresnes,
some eight miles from Paris, is the
largest in the world.
A little girl. named Beatrice, who
was only 3 years old, travelled by her.
self from Dallas, Tex, to New York.
Mud is the newest skin beautifier.
the latest fad for thu improvement
Of the complexion. lust common,
everyday, unromantic~ dirty mud.
Judge Jas. Humphrey, who lied a
few days ago athis homein Weymouth
Nights, Mass, was the oldest active
judge on the bench in Massachusetts.
British farmers and ilairymen are
to-day milking 1900. 900 COWS and pro-
ducing. annually in their dairies e22.-
00o.0 worth of milk, butter and
cheese.
The wooden church, with tower and
spire, built for the members of the
baptist Communion of Santa Rosa,
Cal, was built from the wood of q
single tree.
Y'he imports of precious stones at
the port of New York during May
amounted in value to $3,1S9,273,
against s1,32s,357, the value of the
imports during May, 1900.
The municipality of Berlin receives
1900, 900 marks for benevolent pur-
POSES under the will of DIR. George
Nierling, the Berlin composer, who
died in Wieshaden recently.
There are in circulation in this
country $4,000, coo:. worth of bank
notes made from old state bank of
New Jersey plates, which were sup
posed to have been destroyed.
Daniels Wells. Jr., who celebrated
his ninety-third birthday recently,
has lived sixty-six years in Milwau-
kee, and is now the only ante-bellum
congressman living in that city.
The American Tract society was
organized seventy-six years ago. and
since that time it has printed and
circulated books, tracts apd period
icals in 153 languages and dialects.
1t is said that the king and queen
of England will follow the custom
of Queen Victoria in-giving to the
poor people in the hospitals of Lon
don flowers and fruits from the roy
al gardens.
When Cardinal Gibbons sat down in
weighing chair at an underground
station in London the other day
British editor found occasion to call
him the least formal of the four En-
disappearing cardinals.
The establishment of an American
bank in Berlin and London is con-
templated. 1t is believed that this
will open the way for American in
dustrial undertakings and exports in
the countries of the old world.
The four states in which there was
no prohibition vote cast at last years
general election were South Carolina,
in which the dispensary system of IL
quor selling by the state exists: Wy
oming, Nebraska and Mississippi.
The late ex-Gov. Pingree of Michi-
gan subscribed to a clipping bureau,
and kept all the printed comment
about himself. This was kept in set
Of scrapbooks, which are said to- con.
tain $4,000 columns of newspaper
print.
: In the city Of Mexico there are
1,071 private artesian wells and elev-
en- public ones. This number will soon
be increased, for, at the present time.
many property owners in the neigh
sborhood of Guerrero are having wells
bored in their yards.
1t has been calculated that some.
thing like 1880, 600, 600 pints Of tea
are imbibed yearly by Londoners,
and that the teapot necessary to con-
tain that amount. if properly shaped.
would comfortably take in the whole
of St. Paul cathedral.
Sweden has the lowest marriage
rate of any country. The yearly mar
riage rate is only 1876 per 1000, as
against e0.6 per 1000 in Hungary. In
England the number of marriages IS
given as 255,379, or at the rate of 16.3
per 1000, England's marriage rate
having risen steadily for the past six
years. 81
The yeddahs, or wild hunters Of
Ceylon, mingle the pounded fibres OF
soft and decayed wood with the hon.
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