Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1901-10-03
CURRENT TOPICS.

In Japan many horses are shod with
straw.
There are 1874 railroads in the
ISLAND of Cuba.
Now Workers. consume one ton Of
frog legs day.
Venice has b cafe which has been
open day and night for $50 years.
Germany exported over $4,000, 900
WORTH of soaps and perfumes in 1895.
The Gauges is 1870 miles long, and
drains an area of 100000 square miles.
Germany owns $4,000 acres in Gem
trail America, with 100000 coffee
trees.
On an average 100000 Of the
worlds population are constantly
afoat.
Munlch's Red Cross Hospital has for
visiting surgeon the crown prince of
Bavaria.
St. Petersburg has the highest
death rate Of any European capital. 81
per 1000.
Residents in England have G11O,000,-
900 invested in mortgages in foreign
countries.
Brazil produces $4,000 tons Of COT
fee out of the worlds yearly crop Of
100000 tons.
The interest on the national debt
for the last year cost each person for
ty-four cents.
The Danube flows through coun-
tries in which 50 languages and dia-
lects are spoken.
A society for the protection Of hus
bands from drunken wives has been
formed in London.
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
will spend his vacation salmon fish
ing in New Brunswick.
English beekeepers average fifty
pounds of honey from their hives,
American twenty pounds.
The British Official Gazette has
announced the reappointment of AL
fred Austin as poet laureate.
Only one country brews more beer
per inhabtant than England. That il
Belgium, with 31h gallons head.
The Chincha Islands, on which not q
plant grows, have yielded to the Pc
ruvian government guano worth $780,
100000.
Denmark leads the world in agri-
culture. Each inhabitant has on M
average a capital of $6S5 invested in
farming.
The shark holds tho record for
long-distance swimming. A shark has
been known to cover 500 miles in
three days.
Two tons of bcets are equal in feel
ing value to four tons of hay, but ,ts
cultivation has proved too expensive
to be profitable.
America last year exported $780,
100000 worth of iron and steel, IN
amount greater in value than her en-.
tire exports of all kinds in 1890.
Oliver Hopkinson, son of the author
of "Hail, Columbia!" is eighty-nine
years old. He is the oldest living
graduate Of the University Of Penn
sylvania.
Grief Officer Hans Russer, of the
Baltimore & Hamburg liner Batavia.
has been appointed captain of the
German expedition which is about
to sail in search of the south pole.
In Kansas militarism bows to Agri-
culture. The annual target practice
of one of the state regiments WAS In
definitely postponed, because the men,
bers were 50 busy in the beet sugar
fields.
10 finish the Panama canal tun-
mel four miles long, 100 feet wide and
100 feet high will be necessary. 1t will
cost $4,000 yard, worlds record in
expenditure, being four tines greater
than the Mount Cents tunnel.
The late Baron Faber, the pencil
manufacturer once said of the arti-
Gle that had made him rich: 1T has
done more execution since it came in
to use than the sword, while who can
enumerate the libels it has written?''
Prof. Lester F. Ward of the geo.
logical survey and Frank La Flesche
of the Indian Office have been appoint
cd to represent their respective bu-
reaus as members of the congress for
| Americanists to meet in New York
City in 1902.
n number of Yale graduates have
completed the subscription list for
the placing of memomrial window
for Elihu Yale in the church at Wrex.
ham, Wales, near which Yale lies bur-
led, and work on the window will b