Griggs courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1885-1902, 1901-08-15
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Ivy ASS0 q OoJs
Venice has q cafe which has been
open day and night for $50 years.
Germany exported over $4,000, 600
worth Of soaps and perfumes in 1885,.
The Ganges is 1870 miles long, and
drnins an area of 100000 square miles.
Germany owns 742, 900 acres in Cen
trail America, with 100000 coffee
trees.
On an average 1,700,oo0 of the
worlds population are constantly
afioat.
Munlch's Red Cross Hospital has for
a 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 s11O,O0O,-
600 invested in mortgages in foreign
countries.
Brazil produces $4,000 tons of cof-
fee out of tho worlds yearly crop of
100000 tons.
The interes. on the national debt
for the last year cost each person for
ty-four cents.
The Danube flows through coun-
tries in which SO 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 is
Belgium, with 51h gallons a head.
The shark holds the record for
long-distance swimming. A shark has
been known to cover 500 miles in
three days.
Two tons of beets are equal in feel
ing value to four tons of hay, but is
cultivation has proved too expensive
to be profitable.
America last year exported $780,
100000 worth of iron and steel, an
amount greater in value than her en-
tire exports of all kinds in 1890.
Oliver Hoplinson. 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
y German expedition which is about
to sail in search of the south pole.
In Kansas militarism bows to :,:.ri-
culture. The annual target practice
of one of the state regiments was in-
definitely postponed because the mem
bers were SO busy in the bee. sugar
fields.
10 finish the Panama canal a tun-
mel four miles long, 100 feet wide and
100 feet high will be necessary. It will
cost $4,000 a yard, worlds record in
expenditure, being four times greater
than the Mount Gents tunnel.
The late Baron Faber, the pencil
manufacturer once said of the arti-
Gle that had made him rich: s'It has
done more execution since it came in-
to use than the sword, while who can
enumerate the ibels it has written o''
Prof. Lester F. Ward of the geo.
logical survey and Frank La Flesche
of the Indian office have been appoint
ed to represent their respective bu-
1eaus as members of the congress for
Americanists to meet in New York
City in 1902.
A 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 be
begun at once.
The duke of Roxburgh, who is he
ing spoken Of as a possible husband
AOA NAASo <AoSOAS 40 JuSG hWCulS.i1S0
years of age and recently returned
from South Africa, where he served
with distinction as lieutenant in the
royal horse guards.
An institute of animal psychology
has been created in Paris under the
patronage of scientists for the pur.
pose of studying the psychical facnl.
ties of the brute creation. It is a
kind of school of experiment in men.
tai powers of different animals.
A burglar attempted to enter 9
creamery at Benton, Wis. the Other
day through trap door in the roof
He had a bottle of nitroglycerine in
his hip pocket, and the trap door, fall
ing, struck him on the hip. He was
literally torn to pieces by the force
of the explosion which followed.
Street cars without tracks, cable
trolley or horses, and, most of all
without franchises, soon will be run
ming regularly on the streets of Chi
cago.
Justice Brewer of the United State,