Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1902-09-25
CURRENT TOPICS.

Boston - building three 1sw
theaters.
Chicago stablemen have recently
organized.
The Suez canal was begun In 1859
and completed in 1869.
There were $4,000 900 acres Of land
IN New Mexico open to entry. -.
st. Louis is tho center of the stick
candy trade Of the United States.
There is great demand for skilled
Iaborers Of all kinds at Ogden, Utah.
Joseph Jacques Tissot, the artist. IL.
illustrator Of the Life Of Christ" 10
dead. ...
Nebraska's crops for tho present
year promise to be the greatest on
record.
It is proposed to establish q Japan
csc Monte Carlo on an island in To-
kio Bay.
Two coal mines are now in success
ful operation in Alaska. They produce
good steam coal.
A calf with two tongues is the prop
erty OF Farmer William Sykes. Of Har-
per county, Kan.
There are by careful computation
shout 300,O00,0 900 coconut palms in the
world in full bearing.
Two Methodist missionaries in Mo-
roni. Utah. are the only gentiles in the
place. No converts yet.
The prince Of Wales. though a sailor
by training, is very fond of horses and
delights in riding to hounds.
The most expensive and rnomiest
railway station in the world IS that
of the Peninsular railway at Bombay.
The latest returns Of the population
Of Japan, including Fof1nosa and the
Pescadores, gives . total OF 46,444,-
624.
The total valuation Of Canada's min
eral product in 1900 reached over $685.
O0,O00, or $12 a head Of the popular
ton.
Hard times in Germany are said to
have caused large diminution in the
consumption Of wine and spirituous H.
quors.
There are no less than 1882 differ
ent species Of fish inhabiting the wa
tiers of America north of the isthmus
of Panama.
Within the last ten years more new
methods have been devised for dealing
with consumption than any other hu.
man ailment.
Mayor Jones, Of Toledo, O., IL q
somewhat late but most jealous con.
vert to golf. He plays daily and is fast
becoming an expert.
The total number of frams in Ala
bama is given at 223,22o, of which 129,-
1877 are operated by white farmers and
94,OS3 by colored farmers.
A white badger, which is almost as
great a rarity as white blackbird,
was killed recently by the Axe Vale
(England) badger hounds.
President Loubet has promised to
visit Algeria, which has not seen a
chief magistrate since 1865. The visit
will probably be paid next Easter.
In Portugal If the wife publishes it,
erary works without the husbands
consent, the law frees him at once
from all his matrimonial obligations.
q Russian officials are discussing the
ACCESSIBILITY Of following the example
of France, and making the sale of TO-
bacco in every form a government
monopoly.
By order OF the German war Office
the fortress walls around Mainz are
to be pulled down. The ground they
occupy, some 465 acres, is to be given
to the town.
Two classes Of the population of St.
Petersburg are especially addicted to
eating horse meat-the Tartars, be.
cause they like it, the students be-
cause it Is cheap.
Miss U. Yone Yanagisawa, of Japan.
Is LII. b. of the University of Cali
fornia and an M. D. of the Affiliated
Colleges OF San Francisco. She 10
four feet ten and pretty.
The many oyster canning and pack
Ing companies Of Mississippi, Louisi-
ana and Alabama have combined aud
will control all the fsh and canning
business of the three states.
A man occasionally takes day off 70
celebrate the anniversary of his birth, but
when woman celebrates hers she usually