Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-27
Miscellaneous Items.

AAAAOCSo LOu1S0 lS DObu D6duLlIu1 anu
profuse.
hollow metal carriage pole has been patent
ed in Germany.
Green grass already carpets the northern Cal
ifornia hillsides.
Liberia imported over 5000 barrels of Amer
lean -four last year.
Ireland counts on visit from Marshal Mac
Mahon next summer.
Port Huron, Mich, gets up great midwiD
ter trotting matches"
let received at Antietam.
Leavenworth, Kan, bubbles at the presence
of champagne factory.
The Cincinnati Commercial says the country
is as rich as ten years ago.
A Port Jarvis barber gives shave and cup
of chocolate for ten cents.
Bluebirds are seen at present in great num-
bers near New London Conn.
The latest slang phrase is ''Oh, you're too
new; the dust sticks to YOU"
A mammoth petrifed skeleton has been
found in Mclean county, Ill.
The expansive force of water is used in
splitting slabs from quarry.
The fishing village on Saginaw bay, Mich,
numbers about 1000 shanties.
A Shelby, o., somnambulist walked agains
stove and was badly burned.
Columbus, o., lady, wants 5000 damages
for alleged unskiIlful dentistry.
St. Louis man recently hung himself from
a chandelier with shawl strap.
May Clemmer accuses Senator Burnside of
being chiefly devoted to his clothes.
The new Cardinal Newman will be nearly 70
years of age when his new hat arrives.
1t is rumored in Washington that Minister
Welsh is tired of London and desires to return
home.
The hippodrome balls in Paris, despite the
attractions of Strauss leadership, have proved
failure.
Over 100000 pairs of striped stockings
were made, sold and worn in the United States
last year.
In London is society the members of which
agree to use their influence to abolish the prac-
tice of wearing mourning.
The reports of the insane asylums of Iowa
for the year 1873 show that whisky furnished
1872 patients and religion 100.
, Out of 1900 guns made by Krnpp, only six
teen have burst. and nearly all of these when
being tried to test their power.
Mrs. M. s. MacTavish, of Baltimore, daugh-
ter of Gen. Winfield Scott, has hired a cottage
at Newport r. l.. for the summer.
The deepest mine in the world now worked
is said to be the Adalbert lead and silver mine
in Australia, which is $3.50 feet deep.
A man in Toledo is now under arrest,
charged with being the husband of seven
wives-a sort of latter day saint, as it were.
The accommodating man of the Boston Com
n1ercial thinks that even though dancing is for
hidden during Lent fish balls may be INDUCED
in.
Bishop Corrigan says that there shall be but
twelve carriages to funeral. Thus the fune-
raj business is being gradually shorn of all its
charms.
According to the ReOie,U, Burlington (Vt.)
belle made free to ask young gentlema an Wis
itor if he wouldn't like to run her chewing
gum SPELL"
The pavement found to answer best in Lon
don is wood laid on asphalt, which is allowed
to harden before the wood is laid on. Asphalt
is too slippery.
M. Leon Say is accused of playing into the
hands of the Rothschilds, and all France, on
reading the news. exclaims with shrug:
''What you, Ssy?'
It is now reported that Mrs. Bayard Taylor
houo a hut hot
the inconvenience of poverty will not be added
to her great sorrow.
A woman lawyer has been admitted to prac-
tice in the United States supreme court. Her
name is Lockwood, and malicious people say it
ought to be Lockjaw.
life size statue of a young woman clothed
in long robe, has been discovered near Porto
d. Anzo, in Italy. 1t represents priestess of
one of the temples of Actium.
Mrs. Lunsford, of Auglaize county, O., who
lost her husband and six children by the burn
ing of their residence ten days ago, died of
grief on Saturday afternoon last
visitor observed to Meissonier that he
seemed to have none of his own pictures. "Too
dear, my dear madam" said the great artist. I
SoA v oAOAO DuOA VI tt0toO NS teestCs
In Michigan etiquette permits bride to be
married without Gloves" which induces the
abandoned Buffalo Express to remark, ''pre-
cisely the way she handles her husband"
Am eminent English mechanic thinks that
foreign competition would be impossible if the
trades unions spent their money in educating
their men instead of fighting their masters.
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the degree of doctor upon young lady of Dali
NATHAN origin, named Helen Druschkowicz.
She won her laurels with a study upon Byron's
don Juan"
Blondeau, the French aeronaut, sent his pu-
pill, Coulter, up in balloon, near Naples, on
Feb. 20, and on its descent in the suburbs the
populace Immediately cut it in pieces and ran
away with them.
Word has been received at Winnipeg
that large number of emigrants for Manito-
ba are at Breckenridge and st. Vincent, but
unable to go on, on account of the stoppage
of trains on the Pembina Branch.
The latest agony in popular songs is 1.-THE
Babies on our Block" of which it may be said
that the melody is trihe less ear-splitting
than that produced by infantile beings during
the progress of teething.
The projected dinner to Mr. Bret Harte in.
London, over which Lord Roseberry was to
preside, must be indefinitely postponed, as Mr..
Harte will be unable to leave his consulate at
Crefeld at the time named.
Mrs. Frank Leslie viii probably publish in
pamphlet form a chapter on 'The Chinese in
California" from her recent work. She is de.
scrihed as beautiful little woman witha
delicate easily-suffnsed complexion brown