Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-09-19
NEWS GLEANINGS.

Literary fellers in France are long-lived.
There are scarcely any old maids in Russia.
Baltimore boasts the wickedest boys in Amer
| lea.
Longfellow pays tax of $2,2SO on property
in Cambridge.
Story, the sculptor, wears an Oxford hat and
keeps two dogs.
London possesses nine cemeteries, with a to-
tai area of 2,225 acres.
The Vassar college sylphs consumed $4,000
| pounds of meat last year.
The Great Eastern is being fitted up for the
| transatlantic cattle trade.
: The number of Paris women who wear mus
tachios is astonishingly large.
Schuyler Colfax, it is asserted, has read his
| Bible through twenty-one times.
| son of one of the late Siamese twins is
student at Chapel Hill Institute, N. G.
Summer visitors to the White Mountains
spend about 81, DOC, 600 a year in that region.
At the present moment the fashionable
drink of the English female aristocracy is gin.
There were 100 miles of tunnel in Great
Britain in 1877, which cost about $50, 600, 900.
On reaching home the Shah of Persia spent
the first day hard ct work kissing his ninety
wives.
cubic foot of standard gold is worth $780,
| 800. cubic foot of standard silver is worth
| $10.891.
The French have refused to award pre-
MUM to Edison's phonograph at the Paris ex-
position.
The prince of Wales receives FAC, 1000 from
the treasury and 100000 from the duchy of
G, rnwall.
Ex-Gov. Seymour has induced the war de-
partment to experiment in the use of cheese as
an army ration.
A ST. Louis justice offers to give any one who
will pay him 81, 900 his entire fees for one year.
marriages included.
The beauty of a mans parting his hair in the
| middle appears to be that it gives both ears an
equal chance to flap.
Before Plevna 1000 men, just the number
brought from India to Malta, were destroyed
| in thirty-three minutes.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher is in San Francisco
| denouncing Kearney and Kearney is in New
| York denouncing Beecher.
| For the first time sermon has been deliv-
cred in Westminster Abbey by a colored divine
the native bishop of Hayti.
| A New York manufacturer of chromos has
sold more than 100000 copies of Beatrice Cenci.
| A very sensible thing to do.
Jesse Pomeroy has made another attempt to
| escape from the Massachusetts State prison, his
| second within q few weeks.
Emigrants to Cyprus should take their throat
| wash along with them, as whisky is retailed
there at thirty cents a drink.
The Princess Louise is having private
| studio erected in the garden of Kensington
Palace. 1t is nearly finished.
No weather reports came from Vicksburg the
other nj ght; reason tersely stated in the dis
| patches, observers all dead"
An English husband about three weeks ago
| handed over his rights and titles in wife to
another man for the sum of S5.
The yearly revenue of Denmark is $12, 920,-
600, and its expenditure $11, 445, 900. Its pub
lie debt in 1877 was $51, $4,000,
Dynamite is being used in Australia as
means of discontinue in rabbit warrens. The
farmers rejoice proportionately.
New York Star: Beecher was beaten at GRO
quet up in Minnesota. We are afraid they
| didn't give the old man chance.
rich deposit of COAL sufficient for the sup
| ply of all South America for a long period, has
been discovered at Chala Alta in Peru.
Boston Post: An American girl once refused
Sir Garnet Wolseley. This is the first instance
on record of any girl refusing Garnet.
| A New York organist has been discharged for
| kissing the niece of the pastor, and she was
| quite young thing, too-only fourteen.
A young lady in tears said she had Just left
| bedside. When asked if friend was i'll, re-
piled sweetly, Oh, no, it was an onion bed.
Poor health has compelled Prof. Tyndall to
| abandon his scientific studies for q time, and
| he has been summering in the heart of the
| Alps.
| With Lord Salisbury's permission an Orange
| Lodge, at Liverpool has been named after him
| and will hereafter bear his portrait ON it's ban
ner.
President Hayes owns about the only brick
building in Duluth. It is the most conspicu-
GUS landmark in the town viewed from the
| lake.
| A fight between bear and a man was adver-
| tised in Montana, but sheriff interfered.
The man was to have been armed with
knife.
Within few days past, three cases of lynch
ing of unusual atrocity have occurred in three
different States-Ohio, Maryland and Ten
nessee.
| The statue of Titan, which was to have been
raised this month in his native village of Pieve
| de Cador, will have to be recast on account of
| defects.
| New Hampshire has hay fever association.
At the regular meetings of the body every
| member knows that he can relate his own ex-
| perience.
| Seventy tons of A. T. Stewards monument
have been shipped to Garden City. There is to
| be O,0O0 worth of marble consumed in this
structure.
The Rev. J. W. Armstrong, d. D.. who was
| Methodist preacher and the President of the
| New York State Normal School at Fredonia,
! died last week.
| The Duke of Westminster has hung a peal
of twenty-eight silver bells in the tower of the
chapel attached to his seat on Eaton Hall.
Cost, $4,000.
The Buffalo police force have subscribed $203
for yellow fever sufferers in the South. Here
after let nothing be said against the clubbing
| together of policemen.
The Paris press devote long editorials to the
determination of the United States government
to study the best means for accord between
capitalists and laborers.
Talmadge says that the average boy begins
the pernicious use of tobacco on cigar stump
which his father or some minister visiting the
house, has thrown away.
The city of Rochester claims a population of
60,000 and there is not sufficient amount of
enterprise among her inhabitants to establish
first-class reading room.
The Icarian community of French Socialists
in Iowa, is reported failure, and three trus-
tees have been appointed to wind up the af-
fairs of the community.
The Albemarle Guards, of Plymouth, N. c.,
went out recently for practice and shot down
the smokestack of Bailey's mills. They fired
in the opposite direction.
Get piece of smoked glass and search for
the planet Mercury this month. IL is within
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