Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-06-26

grows to the height of twenty feet, and
which is also used for the manufacture of
artificial flowers and certain toys and fan
cy articles. = "A
KING CETYwAYO is described as black
head-ringed man resembling his father,
the late King Pands, and firm in flesh.
He is large, but his body is firm, not fab
by, like the bodies of other large men
among the Zulus. His favorite attire is a
spotted blanket. sr,-s- .----..-.. 4.
CARDIAC hypertrophy or muscular en-
largement of the heart-a very serious dis
ease--is often induced by an excess of
muscular exercise, fact that should not
be forgotten by those men and women
who indulge in contests ofstrength, endu-
rance or agility.
BUsHRANGING Is once more active in
Australia. A gang lately captured the po-
lice of Jerilderie, small town of New
South Wales, and held the town for two
days, taking $4,000 from the bank. A
reward OF $4,000 is offered for their cap
ture.
TIE longest subterranean construction
in the world is in the mines of Freyburg,
in Saxony. A series of galleries, which
were begun in the twelfth century, reach
ed in 1885 length of 1873 miles, and had
yielded an immense quantity of silver.
In 1888 a new gallery was commenced,
which was finished a year ago, and is eight
miles long.
AT the Church of England Chapel Je-
rusalem prayers are read on Sunday, first
for Queen Victoria and the royal family,
next for Edward Albert, Prince of Wales,
and his family; then for his Royal High
ness, William, Emperor of Germany, and
his family; afterward for the President of
the United States; and finally for his
most gracious Majesty the Sudan of
Turkey.
A SYSTEM of weather signals will short
ly be put in operation along the line of the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road, un-
der the supervision Of the signal corps at
Washington. Bulletins will be posted
along the road at distance of twenty-five
miles from each other, by which the ap-
proach of storm can be learned several
hours in advance of its arrival.
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NINE. FoULD, the widow of the French
Finance Minister during the Napoleonic
era, has just bought the American paw
lion which was used by Gov. Mccormick
and the United States Commission during
the season of the Worlds Fair in 1878.
Madame Fould intends to have her acqui-
sition erected ON her property near Nice.
In France one-half the people, or fully
100000, live by agriculture. That
country has 1,815,O0O farms under ten
acres in extent; and as fully 10000, 900
acres are owned by $4,000 persons, there
are hundreds OF thousands of so-calle,I
land owners who are forced to work on
farms for the larger and richer proprietors
E, "a CoIoRED boy from Perry, Ca, recent
ly arrested for stealing, declared that LIE
derived his kleptomaniacal propensites
from wearing pair of old shoes which had
belonged to convict, and that the said
convict had put "a spell' on him. He in
Toned the Sandersville Courier that this
plea was considered sound by the intelli.
gent court and jury before whom he was
tried, and he was discharged.
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AFTER forty years of careful considela.
ton committee of the English parlia.
ment have declared that all statutory regu,
lations of freight rates are disastrous tt
both the railroads and the people. The
Massachusetts, railway commission, after
K an experience ola dozen years and the trial
Of many plans suggested, have finally re-
jected all attempts to settle by law the re
lations between the railways and their pa,
irons.
Col. JOHN HANNAH died on Sane
Mountain, Jackaon County, Ala, few
days ago, aged 1876 years. He served un
der Gen. Washington in the French war
and obtained the rank of Captain. He
knew the great Irish-American orator
Patrick Henry, when he was but mers
boy IN Virginia. Capt. Hannah had new
er been i'll until he was acentury old, and
his eyesight was perfect at the time of hi
death.
A CHESHIRE England policeman n
Gently, while in plain clothes, assumed
the role of an intoxicated WelI-to-do trade
man, and the trap he laid tempted two
villagers to take advantage of his suppos
ed condition and lead him astray Ths
Constable allowed one of the men to tax.
hiswatch from him, and then accused thu
two Of theft. The men were tried in tht
Knutsford Sessions and acquitted. The
Jealous policeman was less fortunate thar