The Red Cloud chief., 1880-09-16
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fifteen yesr old committed suicide with
. revolver because her father whipped
her 20 prevent . marriage q which be
disspproved-
A cExsCs enumerstor IN Washin3ton
County. Penn, reports . family in which
there are four children who have not
been assigned given names The Oldest
Of the four il aged eleven years.
The census enumerators throughout
Virginia found numbers Of negroes lac
cording to the negroes Accounf) from
one 70 two hundred years old. but no
white person above tho age Of ninety
eight.
BROOKLYN takes . dog census every
year. Last year it had 1915 dogs. This
year there are 10, 232 CANNES in the
city. A tax Of - on each dog is i'm
posed. Brooklyn seems to be the chap
py land Of Canine"
OSE of the dangers incidental TO
bathing is that Of diving into shallow
water. Recently . boy plunged into
water which was only three feet in
depth. his head striking the bottom.
The result was Immediately fatal. As the
conclusion produced q fracture OF the
spinal column.
The "baby stare" is considered
pretty for young girls now. II is done
by opening the eyes as wide as posi-
bic without raising the brows. and
slightly turning the corners Of the
mouth upward. Saying mouse" five
or six times gives the right position 10
the lips.
The burnt body of a woman. in a
deep and narrow grave of prehistoric
times. vas recently excavated in Berk-
shire, England. The bones were per-
fectly free from any admixture Of earth
or charcoal. and beautifully white in
color. No implement. ornament or
pottery had been buried with the
body.
A SWEDISH colony was located in an
Aroostook township of Maine ten years
ago. New Sweden is now prosperous,
with five hundred and seventeen souls,
who have kept themselves wonderfully
like what they were in the old country,
except that they fare far better. They
are about to celebrate the tenth an
niversary OF their arrival with a speech
by the Governor and several days of
festivity.
A swINDLER has been selling to resi-
dents of the lower Pennsylvania coun-
ties boxes of what he called electric
light. They contained simply colored
bOrax, which he declared was extract
of electricity and would last a hundred
years. The secret Of how to use it was
to be impaired when ten purchasers, at
ten dollars each, had been obtained in
tn town.
AMERICA started with the civilization
of a highly civilized age. She did not
rear her own civilization on her own
soil. She started with prosperity, and
the first use she makes of her prosper
ity is not to cultivate the fine arts in
her W people, but to laugh at them
in others. Up to now only one class of
transatlantic writers have challenged
the attention of Europe, and that was
humorous and prOfane. Emerson, Bry-
ant, Cooper, Poe, Lowell, Holmes aud
Irving are merely Europeans born in
America. But Harte, Twain and Brett
mann are original and American.
America is undoubtedly the literary
prOmise-land of the future. 1t has done
nothing up to this. Its condition has
forbidden it to achieve anything, but
great triumphs may be anticipated
from it.-Tinsley's Magazine.
SOME of these authenticated pre-
sentiments of death are very strange
says the New York Hour. A lady re-
siding in ~Cheltenham, England, had 1.-TWO
sons one in the navy and stationed i'm the
West Indies, the other in the army at
the Cape. One day the mother received
a letter from the soldier asking anxious
ly after his brother. The mother wrote
back that his last letter gave q capital
account of him. Shortly afterwards
two letters arrived simultaneously-one
from the son at the Cape, saying that he
was delighted at hearing good news of
Charley, as he had been frightened by
a dream. in which he saw him lying
drowned at the bottom of deep blue
water; the other contained the news OF
Charley's death. He had been drown
ed while bathing in water so clear that
they could see his body lying at the
bottom.