Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-09-05
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CURRENT TOPICS

The United Kingdom has $50 blast
fslrnaces; France $40. EsE Il,
Science is now studying drnnkara.
ny the use of machines.
New Zealand crown lands are now
disposed Of for 9s9 years.
Colorado leads all the states in the
/ production of both gold and silver.
a vessel going from Montreal to
Port Arthur idisatos ascend 600 feat
The sarious countries of the worll
use ls,4oo dIherent kinds Ct postage
stamps. 81 81 IL .5s
During the year ending June 80 last
there were 1900 cases of smallpox in
Tennessee.
The Bible used in Queen Victoria g
orohation vas sold BY auction recent
for 10 gtiiheas.
The Irish river, in Siberia, is 1900
miles in length and drains 100000
miles of territory.
Kangeroos can jump eleven feet in
1 height, against o deer's best record OF
nine feet six inches.
s It is estimated that the electric or
gan of lively electric fish would give
9 discharge Of 200 volts.
1t is said that the representative
ofMaGermany at the coronation of Ed
wsrd5sNIL. will be the crown prince.
e a Prince Edward Island fisherman,
Philippe Gallant, has saved the lives
ofano less than twenty-seycn people.
For the first summer in the mem
DRY Of the oldest inhabitant there
haa beehs no gambling at Long Branch
this year. y
& The most c.lrious cemetery is sit
uafed at Luxor, on thei Nile. Here re-
pose the mum1niiied bodies of millions
OfSsacred cats.
Recording to the anthropologist,
J. Alfredo Niceforc, North Italian diff
fers less from German than he does
from Sicilian.
The largest sponge ever found came
from the Mediterranean. 1t was
abput three feet across and ten feet
in circumference.
The searchlight at the Buffalo ex-
position casts light SO miles away,
but still lacks good deal of the white
glsre of publicity.
Gen. Palmer, commander-in-chief in
India, is physical giant, with iron
gray hair and mustache, eloquent eyes
and a CHEEKY smile.
Beaumont, Tex, claims the highest
telegraph poles lin the world. They
are Western Union sticks" rising
150 feet from the ground on either
side of the Neches river.
The use of the Bible in the public
school at Oxford, Chenango county,
N. ~, will be discontinued within the
neAr future the district having de-
cided that question by vote of SO
tote. Z
i. Jenkins Haines, the author of
sea tales, owns a yacht of his own,
which is, most of the time, his home.
HeHhas been u captain for merchant
man and is consequently an expert
sailor. = '''7' -
Prof. Sylvester Warehouse, for
forty-four years member of the
faculty of Washington university in
st. Louis, has had to resign the chair
of Greek there on account of severe
illness. y
us AT least half dozen scientists are
now carefully studying snails. The
leason, according to one of them, is
because these little animals are ex-
traordinarily sympathetic and intel
ligent.
Baron Mount-Stephen, of London,
/ liaannounced gift of $500, 900 to the
Ifksbyterian church of Scotland, the
inSOme to go to ministers in his ma
tive district of Aberdeenshire and
Banffshire.
Jehn w. Bowler, general superin-
tended and director of physical train
ing in the public gymnasium Of Bos-
ton, has accepted fve-year appoint
ment as director of physical training
ut Dartsmouth college. s.es
A portrait of Gov. Joseph Dudley,
royal governor of Massachusetts, from
1909 to 1714-l5, and a son of Thomas
HA1O0AGyS SOSOAuOA uhOOA AlSU
charter in 1884, 40, '45j and $50, has
been presented to Massachusetts,.
Prof. Waldemar Schmidt, the Dam
ish archaelogist, intends to visit all
the great museums of Europe in or
der to collect material for the publ
cation of a catalogue of the Egyp-
tian antiquities contained in them.
The Nebraskan state game warden
has forbidden the farmers to fight
the grass-hoppers longer with poison,
saying that the loss of birds and game
is too costly price to pay for the de-
struction Of comparatively few in
sects.
The duke of Cornwall and York will
Z be asked to press the button at Que
u lee, which will open the Central Do
minion fair on September 16. The
duke will be in Ottawa on the last
dayssof the fair, and an effort will be
made to have him visit it.
CattIe-carrying steamers vary in ca