Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-09-11
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:.; There ;. are IA railroads In thes
New Workers consume one Ton or
frog legs = day.
Venice: has . cafe which has been
open day and night for $50 years.
Germany exported over $4,000, 900
worth OF soaps and perfumes in 1899.
The Gauges is 1870 miles long, and
drains an area OF 1900 square miles.
Germany owns 742. 900 acre. in Gen.
tral America. with 2o,ooo,ooo coffee
trees.
On an average 100000 of the
worlds population are constantly
afloat.
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 e110,Ooo.-
600 invested in mortgages in foreign
countries.
Brazil produces $4,000 tons of cof-
Tee out OF the worlds yearly crop Of
100000 tons.
The interest on the national debt
Tor the last year cost each person for
ty-four cents.
The Danube flows through coun-
tries in which 50 languages and dia-
1ects 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 31A gallons head.
The Chincha Islands, on which not q
plant grows, have yielded to the Pc
ruvlan government guano worth $780,
100000.
Denmark leads the world in agri-
culture. Each inhabitant has on an
average a capital of $685. invested in
farming.
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 It's
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 autho,
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 thu
Baltimore & Hamburg liner Batavia
has been appointed captain Of thu
German expedition which is abou,
to sail in search of the south pole
In Kansas miitarism bows to agri
culture. The annual target practics
of one of the state regiments was in
definitely postponed because the mem
bers were so busy in the beet suga,
fields.
To finish the Panama canal tun
mel four miles long, 100 feet wide ant
160 feet high will be necessary. It viii
cost 81 900 yard, a worlds record il
expenditure, being four times create,
than the Mount Cents tunnel.
The late Baron Faber, the pencil
manufacturer once said of the arti
Gle that had made him rich: 1T ha,
done more execution since it came in
to use than the sword, while who cal
enumerate the ibels it has written ?
Prof. Lester F. Ward Of the geo
logical survey and Frank La Flesch,
of the Indian Office have been appoint
cd to represent their respective blu
reaus as members of the congress fol
Americanists to meet in New Yorl
City in 1902.
A number of Yale graduates hav'
completed the subscription list TO
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
begun at once.