The Grand Forks Miner
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alternative: [The Miner]
is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-11-30
issued: 1898-02-12
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note: #jf T^-umI^ THE QRAND FORKS MINER SECOND YEAR. NO. 92 GEAND FOURS, B. C, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1898. PRICE FIVE CENTS. Timely Topics. *: The renl seal questiou: Will the seals te settled before the question ls? A Minnesota man has been found who Is too stupid to be a Juryman. And yet his friends allow him to roam at large. You mny always congratulate ou the birth of n daughter, but for a son —wult till he has passed bis thirtieth year. German; recently celebrated thc centenary of Huron Munchausen. Who knows what time may do for the campaign liar In this country? The Houston 1'ost tells of a Dnllns barber who wns In a trance, but awoke, and "iludlug he wns still iu Dallas died dead." Wns the death fatal? Ex-Senator Henderson of Missouri, ln an open letter to young meu, says: "Keep out of public otUce." Good advice can rarely be followed so easily. Some obtuse persons begin to dimly realize that there Is a distinction to be made between scrimmages of raw, undisciplined schoolboys uud a scientific game of foot-bnll. Now that helium and argon have been found In the Caucasus as minerals In a pure state, for the first time, the center of scientific and chemical investigation may be found In Asia for a time. Though, as Is said, $4,000,000,000 have been disbursed by tlie United Stntes In pensions since the close of the wnr In 1805, It Is well to remember tliat the money has not been hoarded, nor L* ; it gone out of the country. It seems scarcely worth while to Imprison anybody in Kansas for violating the prohibitory law, since the paraphernalia for a first-class Joint, smuggled In by two whisky sellers, was recently discovered In the county Jail at Lor- ued. Tliat Connecticut preacher who ckilms that he can get gold from ordinary sen water says the idea struck hlm while he was riding In a palace cor. The Idea of getting money from some source or other usually strikes the average citizen before taking such e trip. British Influence goes ou in far Asia. It bas Just com* to l…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Grand Forks (B.C.)
spatial: Grand Forks
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0081732
language: English
lat: 49.0311110
long: -118.4391670
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Grand Forks, B.C. : F.H. McCarter and Son.
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