The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1904-05-27
Brief kilograms

There are words In the Chinese Ian
guage which have as many as forty
different meanings.
The Filipinos eat large quantities
of dried grasshoppers and also pre-
pare them in CONNECTIONS.
]. c. Doyle was nominated for con-
gress by the republicans of the TWEEN
tieth Illinois congressional district.
Fire at Montreal did damage of
$3.50. 600 to the carriage factory Of
B. Ledoux & Co., on Osborne street.
The winnings of the bank at Monte
Carlo are said to average nearly $25
a minute, or about $6,250,000 a year.
Much of the country through which
the Siberian railway passes had new
er been traversed by white men be-
fore the surveyors came.
The consistory of Lauterbrunnen,
Switzerland, has made the announce
ment that the old custom of smoking
in church will no longer be tolerated.
The total cost of the German fed
eral telephone system, operated in
connection with the German federal
telegraph system, is 60, 600, 900 up to
date.
The st. James Gazette informs it's
readers that a New York soap manu-
f%acturer is advertising a new soap
called "Parsifal, Because it is so
Pure"
THE best a~fter-dinner speaker l
ever heard" says Senator Depew,
was Gladstone at 80, and next in or
der, in my opinion, was Simon Cam
eron at 60"
Among the names for new streets
in Berlin approved by the kaiser are
Carmen SYLVIA Pasteur, Turk, Dane
and Flotow.
Chief Master-at-Arms Timothy Muir
ray and the only one of the L 5000 par
Elephants in the battle of Mobile Bay
still in active service in the navy, has
applied for his retirement.
Simultaneous raids on twenty-five
alleged pool rooms and pool room ex-
changes were made by the police at
New York, acting under orders from
Police Commissioner McAdoo.
Mrs. Maybrick's figure in wax,
which has been for many years in
Nine. Tussaud's exhibition in London,
has been withdrawn. Whitaker
Wright's has taken its place.
A census bureau irrigation bulletin
is devoted to Montana and shows that
in 1902 there were 1,140,694 acres IN
der irrigation in the state, covering
1896 farms and costing $5,576,975.
Miss Mary Gallagher, who has made
a bust of Edgar Allen Poe which has
attracted some attention in Baltimore,
owns up that one of the implements
used by her in her work was a hair
pin.
In the British museum is an ad-
vertisement of a reward for a run
away slave. The lad" is written on
papyrus and is 5000 years old. 1t
was exhumed from the ruins of
.-lebes.
Roulette and sale of lottery tickets
within the canal zone have been sus-
pended since the issuance of Cover
nor Davis proclamation Thursday.
This suspension does not apply to
the cities of Colon and Panama.
The Canadian government will have
an ice breaker built in England this
summer for the purpose of trying to
keep the st. Lawrence open later
during the fall and also to break up
the ice earlier in the spring. 1t is
claimed that the shipping season at
Montreal could be heightened by at
least a fortnight in the fall and about
the same in the spring.
Judge Amos M. Thayer, in the cir
cult court of st. Louis, handed down
a decision granting ~injunctions
against the sale of non-transferable
tickets by the ticket brokers engaged
in business in st. Louis. These in
functions, which affect ten firms. were
granted on application of the Louis
vile & Nashville Railroad company
and the Mobile & Ohio Railroad COM
pany.
Colonel A. A. Pope held a bicycle
experience meeting at Chestnut Hill
Reservoir, Massachusetts, on Sunday,
May 1, at which some five thousand
cyclers put in an appears, after the
fashion of the good old days of the
wheel. General Nelson A. Mics
obliged his friend Pope by appearing
in the colonel's touring car and stand
ing with the wheelmen for a group
picture.
President Clowry of the Western
Union Telegraph company said that
the abolition of the company's racing
department, announced by him on
Thursday, is to be permanent. He
also said that the company will not
lease wires to pool rooms. The
company's branch Offices at the race
tracks will be maintained for the
transmission of such messages as may
be offered in the ordinary course of
business.
Female slavery still prevails in
China. Out of a population of about
400,0 600, 900 nearly 10, 900 girls or
women are slaves.
The wholesale textile firms of Lem