Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-04-06
Facts and Fancies.

The only objection the average man ha
to the coming of spring is that with
comes house cleaning.
The governors of New York and Pennsyl-
vania each receive $1,000 per annum, the
governor of Louisiana $4,000, and the 9TH
ers from $4,000 to $1,000. A great many
men in the former states would rather be
governor than be right.
The importance of these two items as
branches of the lumber trade is not gen.
orally understood. We have in the United
States about $4,000 miles of railway. Each
mile requires the use of about !, 900 ties; so
that the enormous number Of 24O. 600, 900
ties are in constant use. One tenth of this
number or "a 100000 are annually cJnsu-
med in the United states for repairs alone,
aside from those necessary to the construc-
ton of new lines. The amount Of railway
construction for the present year, which
will aggregate 1000 miles, with the annual
number of ties required for repairs, will
give a consumption in the United States
for 1881 of the vast total of As 900, 900.
Seth Green says there is always great NOR
tality among fish in ice-locked waters. He
says: After every long steady winter like
this, many more fish die than anybody sup
poses. People have an idea that all fish
float when dead, and that the only dead fish
are those that they see Oh the surface of
the water. The fact is that in the case of
dead fish but one in ten comes to the top.
We have determined that by actual count
Mt the state ponds" This mortality is cas-
lily prevented, Mr.. Green says, by chopping
. holes here and there in the ice, and thus
giving the fish fresh air.
A marriage service was in progress at St.
Johns church, New Orleans. A closely veil
ed woman with an infant in her arms, walk
ed up the centre isle just as the clergyman
asked if any one objected to the union. "I
do" said the intruder, pulling off her veil,
and laying her baby at the feet of the bride
groom. Here is your child. You are my
husband. I am lawfully your wife and
YOU shall not marry this woman" She
made a furious attempt to attack him,
but was restrained by the ushers, while the
bride screamed and tainted. It transpired
that the woman was not the mans wife,
though he had for years made her believe
so by means of forged certificate.
For the first time in four years an execu-
ton has taken place in Prussia. The cul-
prit, wife murderer named Gohrke, was
recently beheaded in the jail yard of Coslin
bya man named Krantz, the eXecutioner of
the would be regicide Hodel. The eXecu-
ton was conducted in the old style, and
with an AK and block instead of a guilotine.
AS soon as the head fell into the basket a
number of superstitious bystanders rushed
forward and dipped their handkerchiefs IN
the culprits blood in the belief that their
business would thereby prosper.
Some Of them I never heard of BEFORE, "
was a comment made upon the Cabinet by
Il very worthy Boston gentleman. as if this
lack Of knowledge implied that sew
tral nobodies had been selected by Pres
ident Garfield. This is p great country land
even the reading men of Massac husetts can
not be supposed to know great deal about
AL the big men of the great west, while bus
mess men have little time to follow the Ca
1eer of rising men. The Boston Journal
says A man is not nobody because he is
not known in Massachusetts,. There are
not to day fifty men in this city who can
tell you the name Of the.governors Of the
six New England states.