Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-06-12
TOPICS OF INTEREST.

TOPICS OF INTEREST.
England has 42,Soo police; Scotland.
5000; Ireland, 12,400.
Canada had only 1900 saloons in
1850. She has now over $4,000.
Manitoba, equal in area to Great
Britain and ireland, has only 10000
inhabitants.
A cycle-racing track at Bordeaux
was destroyed by mob because, ow-
ing to the failure of the electric light,
the races had to be postponed.
An advertisement in a Hamburg pa
per dated 1901 shows that cigars were
in use Though very little as compared
with pipes) in Germany = century
ago.
The London county council some
time ago passed law that no one
should shout to the annoyance of the
public while hawking newspapers; but
the law is not enforced.
In the British home trade 1000 sail
tng-vessels and 1850 steamers are en-
gagged; but in the foreign the proper
ton is reversed-there are only 1,7OO
sailing-ships to nearly 1000 steamers.
The 1900 wool clip of Oregon was
about 100000 pounds; about 1901
900 pounds were produced in the Will
lomette valley, and the remainder in
the eastern portion of the state
According to the rule sanctioned by
centuries of Chinese observance, no
! document can have the authority of
the imperial throne of China unless
it bears red spot placed there by
the sovereign.
The annual report of the state mine
inspector, J, B. Hooper, of Alabama,
] which has just been issued, shows
that the coke production of Alabama
last year amounted to 2,119,917 tons
as against 1,79S,612 tons in 1899.
Arrangements are being made in
Paris for the removal of the body of
Gambetti from Nice to the Parthe-
non. The relatives of the statesman
have consented to the removal and
the date set is either July IA or Sep
TENDER 4, next.
Charles Wyndham recently cele-
DRAFTED the twenty-ffth anniversary
! of his management of the Criterion
theater in London. No actor mana
! ger before him has succeeded in hold
ing theater so long in London.
The total number OF copies of news
papers printed throughout the world
| in one year is estimated at 12,OOO,-
100000. To print these requires $751;
260 tons of paper. The oldest news
paper is said to be the Kin Pau. of
| Peling, which has been published
continuously for over 1000 years.
A child's savings bank has been dug
out Of the ruins of Ostia, the seaport
| of ancient Rome. The bank was an
earthen pot containing 145 silver coins
issued by Roman emperors between
| the years 200 and 10 B. C. The little
savings bank was almost perfect when
it was uncovered. 1t is 3 inches long,
and 2A inches wide, with slit in the
| top through which the money was
dropped.
Former Gov. James S. Hogg is cred
| tied with having made approximately
| 100000 in oil and kindred interests
at and near Beaumont since the craze
set in.
The Academy of Natural Sciences
has been enriched by one of the most
curious collections ever known-a COL
lection of locks of hair from the
heads of all the presidents of the
United States, from Washington down
to Mckinley. These are accurately
authenticated and neatly arranged in
an appropriate case, and in some in
stances are accompanied by family
coats-of-arms.
Mantua> after nearly 20 centuries,
has remembered that il is the birth
place of Virgil and set 20 work to
erect monument to its great poet.
The sum of $4,000 has been raised
and artists are called on to send in
plans in competition.
About a mile south of the Michigan
state line and near Cedar Lake, Ind,
is small spot of land upon which
vegetation absolutely refuses to
grow. The spot is less than twenty
feet in diameter and is located in a
grove which tradition declares to have
been the torture ground of the Baw-
beese indians.
The hard winter in Germany has
played terrible havoc with the game,
especially in the Hartz llountains.
Many stays have been found dead,
ind game birds that survived are so
weak that they fall an easy prey to
the foxes.
In the early Colonial days, the use
of tobacco was considered more sinful
and degrading than indulgence in in
toxicating liquors. Old-time legisla-
ton reveals some curious attempts to
check the spread of the ''creature
called tobacco" Landlords were fined
if they permitted it to be brought in
TO their taverns.
An authority states in medical
journal that the height of very tall
British woman was, so years ago, five
feet seven inches, while now the
height averages five feet six inches to
five feet ten inches.
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