Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-03
Miscellaneous Items.

Cheese is accused of producing diphtheria
and scarlet fever.
Two female tramps robbed q young man in
Savannah of 5000.
The city of Lexington, KY, is about to eele-
brate its centennial.
Senator Cameron will build Cameron man
sion in Washington.
President Hayes and family will visit New
York next Saturday. FH Ef#EES
1T is said that Mississippi exempts printing
Offices from taxation. El
Delaware farmers are contracting to deliver
tomatoes at sc ton.
In the island of Cyprus boys of fifteen marry
girls of tenr4r twelve. y = - E
One million hands are engaged in raising and
manufacturing tobacco.
Chicago is now shipping cattle to Great Brit
ain by way of Baltimore. = u . -
Admiral Porter's health is much better than
it has been for some years. -- ..-.--.
John Swine is a candidate for constable in
Cincinnati, the city of pork.
Boston shipped $121 900 worth of brown cot
tons to Madagascar last week. tT
The Jail birds in Kearney, Neb., are tied up
in pairs, to prevent their escape.
A little girl at Marquette Mich, drank three
drachms of chloroform-and lives.
Where is the organ grinder who can play one
thousand tunes in one thousand hours.
A Marshalltown, Ia, girl scattered bur
glar" with the click OF an empty pistol.
Two feminine attorneys have recently been
admitted to the United States courts at Toledo.
We regret to learn that in $4,000 years this
earth will again encounter another glacial
period. .# Ft5a
Ingersoll is still fighting Moses. Bob can
keep this up with perfect safety. All of Moses
relations are dead.
Until last week Montreal did not have an Or
dinance for the punishment of persons giving
immoral shows in the city.
The late duke of Newcastle is said to have
insured his life in different Offices to the aston
ishing amount of $3.50 900.
The Texas legislature is made of 81 farmers,
"a lawyers, doctors, s merchants, 2 mechanics
and professional demagogues.
A Kentucky dancing master has been placed
in the lunatic asylum in Lexington, made in
sane, it is asserted, by hair-dye.
"A Californian who, uses bad grammar and
lights his cigar with ten dollar bills soon has
the reputation of being millionaire.
The Prohibitionists of Michigan have deter
mined not to make any nominations for the
State offices to be filed at the April election.
L.. xl~oGI Ill al 4<-
in his house. $50 he has" chimed in his wife,
sand he keeps it in the cupboard in bottle
Next month the comet viii be visible through
powerful glasses. It will probably keep agood
many husbands out late at night looking for it.
printed copy of the proposed new consti-
tuition for California is being sent to every
voter in the State, by direction of the conven'
ton.
Mr. John Burnham, of Boston, has made g
gift of money to Harvard college for the cree
ton of dining hall for the theological semi
nary.
Munkacsy. the Hungarian artist, who has
recently sold one picture for $4,000, was
formerly carpenter, andahas painted only .
few years. -~s ~ s
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soliloquizes: SIN the race for matrimopy il
isn't always the girl that covers the most lapi
that WINS
/ "A Western editor thus kindly alludes to {
contemporary: he Ia young yet, but he car
sit at his desk and brush cobwebs from the cell
ing with his ears.
Lillian Evans, of Tyringham, Mass, who's
| hro Nd r&ol bor ov,I &k,osr fou
months ago, after only ayear Of married life
died the other day of grief. 's's
4 A lawyer who tried to break o mules will
found out that there is such thing as being
too well healed. A card now on his door reads
"Wnl be back in three weeks"
The Detroit Free Press has noticed that onl,
one man in six knows how to light ciga
properly. ALI smokers will admit this, bu
every smoker will claim to be that one.
The legislature of Florida imposed upol
grand juries the responsibility of determining
within certain limits, the rate of taxation to b
assessed for county purposes in their counties
A windfall of $4,000 has just come from
England to Samuel Mousley, one of Yelling
toms soldiers at Waterloo, who has been Living
humbly at Oxford, N. a., for the past thirt.
years.
Remarks an exchange: Full many ros
is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweet
ness on the desert air, fun many pound o
butter that seems, is but the hiding place o
yellow hair"
It is in the wind at Newport that the Mar
quis of Lorne and Princess Louise will hire.
4 e.. -
ward Thornton viii lease the cottage for tn
Canadian twain.
., About the happiest man seen in New Yorl
for many day was a st. Louisian, to whom
the thought suddenly occurred that he shoul
not live to endure Chicago's celebration of tn
centennial of It's big fire.
II school boy in Racine, Wis, is deliriou
and apparently fatally i'll from the effects o
! punishment by his teacher, who whipped hin
with ruler, and accidentally struck hir
three times on the head.
The physicians of North Adams, Mass, al
tributed the udden death Of Miss Leonard, VIII
dropped dead on that town few days since, I
. the drying MP of her blood from her habit q
eating large quantities Of cloves every day.
Thurlow Weed goes every Sunday afternoo
to one of the rooms of the Y. M. @. A., in Ne
York, 10 take part in the Service Of song.
He used to follow SankeY from church |
church when that singer was on this side of th
ocean. q N 3 rrff
A lady in Racine, Wis, awakened by bul
: glar few nights ago, sprang from her bed an
seized him by the hair. She cried for assis
ance and the ruffian threw down the plunde
i he had seized, struck her cowardly blow
the face. knocking her down, and fed.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican says ths