Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-16
CURRENT Topics.

ollk dresses were worn in China
$500 years ago.
connecticut twins celebrated their
eath birthday recently.
- The worlds coal mines yield AGO.
oOo,oo0 tons of coal a year.
A fort built by mound builders was
discovered near Wayne, 0.
VIM. Marconi, the inventor of wire
less telegrophy, is only Is years old.
The duke of Manchester's family
name Is William Angus Drogo Mon
tagu.
1t is said that France is trying to
buy 100000 square miles of land from
Brazil
In Berlin sign painting is added
to the list of trades practiced by
women.
Pecksburg, Ind, has a haunted
house in which balls of fire rol,
around the rooms.
. There have been 257 popes, who
have reigned on an average for seven
and half years each.
There are 100000 namas, in Peru.
The skin weighs six pounds and is
worth twenty. shillings
In proportion to it's size, England
mas eight times as many miles of rail-
road as the United States.
In the Arctic regions there are be-
tween 700 and 500 varieties of flowers.
They are all either white or yellow
AronDr no ;cI +rooo. =.
Africa there We're $4,000 cases of ty-
phoid fever, of which 3,642 proved
fatal.
The letter X only occurs once in
thousand letters in the English Ian
guage. In French it occurs five times
as often.
Mans ordinary temperature is es.6
degrees when in good health; that of
snail rs degrees and of chicken
Ill degrees.
A $4,000 library erected by H. c.
Frick, of Pittsburgh, in honor of his
father and mother. and presented to
the Wooster co., university, was ded-
icated recently.
The restoration of the bloody tower
In the Tower of London is now COM
pleted all but few repairs to tur-
ret, aud the repairs to the ieuten-
ants lodgings are finished.
A Russian engineer has invented
an electrical apparatus manipulated
from the stage of theater, by which,
at one touch, all doors and exits are
opened toward the outside.
There is talk in Kansas of appoint
Ing a rabbit commissioner for the
state, the reason being that 100000
pounds of jack rabbit meat goes
to waste annually in the state.
The biggest match factory in the
world is the Vulcan match factory,
at Tidahalm, Sweden. 1t employs
over 1900 men, and manufactures
daily 100000 boxes of matches.
One-fourth of the inha bitants of the
world die before they reach the sew
enth year, one-half before their sew
enteenth year. OF every 1000 persons,
only one reaches the age of 100 years.
From potato buttons to wooden
silk is only step. Remarkable to
relate, wood can be utilized for soft,
flowing gowns. Wood pulp silk has
long been staple industry in the St.
Etienne district of France.
Prisoners in Morocco are compelled /
to pay the officers for their trouble !
In arresting and escorting them to
jail. This plan makes the police
watchful and always alert for bust
ness.
There is great demand for hands
by the planters in Hawaii. No less
than 10000 men are needed there
In the. cultivation of sugar and efforts
being made to secure them in this
country.
Among the fossil animals that have
recently figured in geological liter
nture is a fossil camel from Rou-
mania which enjoys the distinction
of being the only one so far known
in Europe.
The present population of Athens
In Greece is only $4,000. There is no
accurate census of the city when in
it's ancient glory, but it is supposed
at one time to have contained $780,.
GEO inhabitants.
A lot of society women in New
York city are organizing boycott on
firms dealing in sweat-shop goods on
which are placed Paris labels. They
have had careful investigation made,
and they intend to publish the re-
suits thereof.
A Serious Pow-wow-'Hush, not so loud!
We're having conference of the powers"
"Eh! Who is conferring?" MY wife, my
mother.in law and the cook!"-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.