Dakota will spend nearly a million and a half for school purposes this year.

King's Opera House and several adjacent buildings at Knoxville, Tenn., were burned Monday night.

A child in Philadelphia has just been attacked by hydrophobia from the bite of a dog three years ago.

Captain Traynor, who once crossed the Atlantic in a dory, now proposes to make the trip in a rowboat.

During the present century 150,000,000 copies of the Bible have been printed in 226 different languages.

The Governor General at Trieste was surprised Tuesday by the explosion of a bomb in front of his residence.

The man who fired the first gun in the battle of Gettysburg lives in Malvern, Iowa. His name is Dick Gidley.

St. Patrick's Day was appropriately (as the custom goes) celebrated in Chicago, and the other large cities of the country.

Kansas has 420 newspapers, including dailies, weeklies, semi-weeklies, monthlies, semi-monthlies, tri-monthlies, and quarterlies.

A Dubuque watchmaker has invented a watch movement which has no dial-wheels, and is said will create a revolution in watch-making.