Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-01-27
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Over one hundred millions of the public
debt wse paid last year.
How to avoid s:eeping at church-pay
no attention to the sermon.
Old maids are described as LENDERS
from which the sparks have fled"
There are eighteen persons in the New
York Tombs charged with murder.
The new style of spring bonnets may he
photographed by slamming ripe tomato
against a board fence.
Mike, did you ever catch frogs" yes
sorr." "What did you bait them with?"
Bate EN- with stick. sorr"
According to the figures just published,
there are 1854 newspapers and period
Gals in the United States and Canada.
On Saturday, of last week New York
City was entirely toff. by storm, from
telegraph communication with the rest of
the country lie formed on the wires to
such an extent as to break either the wire
or poles OF all the lines.
A Jersey man wanted to kill musquito
on the back of II friends neck, and with.
out stopping to mention his design hit the
insect with the but of his rifle, and when
his friend got up and brushed the sand out
of his mouth and eyes. four men had to
hold him willie the matter was explained.
In view of the favorable results of the
experiments recently made with the object
oi tunnelling the British channel, an amaz.
ing project has been Put forth for connect
ing Great Britain with the United States
by u trans Atlantic railway. The advisers
of the scheme propose to sink upon the
Atlantic bed an iron tube 1000 miles long
and twenty.six feet in diameter, through
which two trains might travel simultane
ously. with perfect convenience and safety
Mr. Edison, it is said. believes he can per-
feet an electric locomotive to draw the
trains through the tube in fifty hours from
shore to shore. The cost of the whole
line rolling stock included, is not to ex-
coed one hundred and sixty millions
pounds sterling. Tie project almost be-
wildcrs one by its magnitude. and yet in
this age of almost superhuman effort. who
shall say that it cannot be donc?-Ex.
At tie request of a render we give the
famous Mother Shipton's" prophecy, of
which much is being said at present, as the
last and most important event is set for this
year:
Carriages without horses shalt 60,
And accidents fiji the world with woe.
Around the world thoughts shall fly
In the twinkle of eye.
Waters shall yet more wonders do,
Now strange, yet shall he true,
The world upside down shall be,
And gold he found at root of tree.
Through hills men shall ride,
And no horse or ass by their. side.
Under water men shall walk,
Shall ride shall Sleep shall talk.
In the air men shall be seen,
In white. in black, in green.
Iron in the water shall float,
As easy as u wooden boat.
Gold shall he found. and shown,
In a land that's not now known.
Fire and water shall wonders do.
England Mt last shall admit Il Jew.
The world to an end shall come,
In eighteen hundred and eighty one.
This so called prophecy purports 10 have
been written several centuries ago; hut the
fact is,-it was a clever joke perpetrated
some years since by Mr. Carl Hindley,
Of Brighton. England. and before that time
all the wonderful things mentinned in 1t
had been accomplished. Singular as it
may seem, many people were deceived by
this absurd piece Of nonsense. and mot only
was this the case with supcrstitious per-
SONS but also with some Of the very elect.
Tie famous comedian e. A. Southern,
better known as Lord Dandrcary," died
IN London last week.