Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1908-04-09
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Foreigners of various n%ationalities
are busy HI Colombia exploring for
minerals.
A pet dog of John Case of Long Is
land bit off his owners nose while Case
was caressing the animal.
William u. Robinson in his zeal to
catch a rabbit chased it across a ceme-
terry in st. Louis and was fined $40.
High tide the other day drove out
rats from the piers at Boston, and in
two hours business men and boys kill
ed thousands.
Italians to the number of 10000 emf
grated last year to South American
ports as against $4,000 who came to
the United States.
A sick lion in the Bronx On. W Zoo
logical park became excited by noises
and roared until he had a hemorrhage,
which caused his death.
There are parts of Spain where the
hat is unknown, except in pictures.
The men when they need a covering
tie up their heads, and the women use
flowers.
Twin sisters named Moore of Chica-
go are so much alike that DR.. Charles
A. Street, a dentist, in love with one
OF them, was forced to Identify his
sweetheart by her teeth.
Fishermen at Calvi, Corsica, were
sure the other day that they had seen a
sea serpent over sixty feet long. They
We're so terrified that they begged the
government to send a torpedo BOAT to
protect them.
A hog weighing 24O pounds, fed in
Brooklyn on beer and whisky by some
]okers, Knocked over two policemen,
boarded a trolley car and caused a
panic and was finally caught by a re-
serve force of twenty policemen.
About sixty-four years ago there
were twelve Joneses OF Jones Hill, in
Enfield, N. H., INC now none 6f that
name is left there. There were thir-
teen Cloughs at North End and ten at
Enfield Center, none of whom is left.
An index of prices just published in
Milan shows that with a single excep-
ton During an unusual period about
twenty-five years ago. prices Of food
M food products have never before
been so high in Italy as they are at
present.
A statue in Wells cathedral, England,
representing The Fruit Stealer," is al
most an exact copy of the features of
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. The
statue is carved IN a capital in the
nave of the beautiful church and is
about 600 years old.
The judge at the C%lerkenwell (Lon-
dom county court said that disputes af-
fecting the internal parts of motor ears
were becoming so frequent that he
thought of taking a course of technical
instruction at the Northampton insti-
tute to help him in deciding them.
In digging over the earth dredged
from the Kennebec river (Maine) chan
mel workmen found IN anchor that re-
minded many of the days of Captain
Kidd. The fiukes have Il spread of
nearly four feet. and the anchor was
roughly hand forged. 1t is covered
with rust.
A negro wonan named Eerden went
W &AidShd tilileeu years : 10 Work
to keep her parents from starving. She
recently returned to Des Moines load
ed with jewelry and worth Il million
dollars. She got a start by keeping e
hotel, where every man paid 500 q
month for board.
Although the sovereignty of China
has been theoretically restored in Man
churia, the South Manchurian railway
refuses to carry Chinese mails unless
they are sent through the Japanese
postoffice and international rates paid
on what is considered to be Chinese
inland correspondence.
Students in the Carnegie technical
schools at Pittsburg are practicing ur-
veying at night in Schenley park. The
object is to instruct in night work
those who are to become mining and
railroad engineers. Lanterns are used
for placing sights and small electric
lights for taking vernier readings.