The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1901-02-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The supreme court of the United
States wear gowns of black silk.
In the mining town of Windbar,
Pa, there were forty fights and two
murders on New Years day. The town
has record of eighteen murders in
seven months. This beats Kentucky.
The ministers of Newton, Kan,
have just completed religious cen
sus of the town. They found $3.50
persons in 1,453 families, anu of these
people 2,316 OF less than half, pro-
fessed to be church members.
Georgia paper thus sums up leg
islative work done at the session IF
1900: "One sOlOn blew out the gas,
another stuck a knife into a fellow
member and the entire aggregation
succeeded in repeating the dog law"
The Philadelphia board of health
az it's last meeting discussed the CUES
ton of the compulsory registration
of all cases of consumption. The
society believes this step will act as
a check for the disease.
The Alaskan Indians have a violin
closely resembling in form the primi-
tive instrument of the same kind used
among the Persians and Turks. If
has two strings, and is played with
small bow.
Pearson-Pd like to know who sent
me this abusive letter. I'll bet it was
that crank next door. Mrs. Pearson
i don't think SO, John. 1t must
have been some one who knows you
much better than he does.-Tit-Bi
According to Governor Crane, 40
per cent of the population of the
state of Massachusetts is included
within a circle including ten miles in
every direction from the state house.
Several members of a church in
Kutztown, Pa, having fallen far be-
hind with their dues the board of
trustees has decided that in future
the bell shall not be tolled for a fun
eral in any family which has not paid
up it's Indebtedness and year in ai-
vance besides.
Boston newspapers assert that the
conductors on their local traffic lines
are the most cultured ticket collect
ors to be found any where. They in
hot Nf tI,D
speak several languages and carry
college diplomas in their inside peck
cts.
"Giggtone says he will not recog-
niZe any one who ..ves below Four
teenth street" TOO bad. l was 60
ing to introduce him to one of the
richest girls in South America"
'I-er-beg your pardon, Miss Clara
but that was an awfully strong punch
you made for me last night" why,
it didn't do you any harm, did it,"
We'll, | don't know. l have been
worried to death ever since for fear
| proposed to you."-Life.
He-Clara Dimpleton has more tact
than any girl | ever met. She has
just refused to marry me. She-YOu
don't seem to feel much cut up.
| That's the strangest part of it. She
respected me in such a way that
have been sorry for her ever since
Life.
Pennies do not consist of copper
alone, there being in them per cent
of tin and 3 per cent of zinc to 95 of
copper. They cost the government
about AZ cents a pound exclusive of
stamping, and there are 14S in
pound. so that the government makes
a fair profit on every pound minted,
since, while they are redeemable in
gold, but few are ever presented.
Railroad men in Atchison, Kan, are
puzzled over question of duty or or
ders. On one of its sections near
Atchison railroad has just two men,
the foreman and one hand The
printed rules of the company require
that in case rail should be found
broken one section hand must 60 in
one direction and another in the 9TH
er for the purpose of tagging trains.
Now, the question troubling Atchison
is how could the rail be mended with
the entire force away tagging trains?