Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-09-17
Tarietles.

The Richmon water famine suggests to
the state the remark: The Federal cav
airy once ,boasted they would water their
horses at the fails of the James. We would
like to see them undertake it now.' 81
Out of the 5000 or 5000 persons who
graduated from Harvard college between
1912 and 1904, only four lived beyond 100
years, and the Oldest Of these was not quite
l02 at his decease. College students, the
majority of whom are representatives
of the great middle class, the least likely
to suffer from either privation or excess,
ought to make an exceptionally favorable
showing of longevity.
real estate operation worth mention :
ing was the sale in New York last week Of
100000 acres of woodland. situate in the
mountains OF Georgia, to n party of Eng
ish capitalists, for $4,000. The buyers
of the property are now in New York for
the purpose of purchasing $500, OOO m ore
OF these lands.
A correspondent of the London paper,
Vanity Fair, who has lately visited Hayti,
and who appears to have made careful
examination of that nominally Christian
island, af6rms that out Of its 700, eco in
habitants there are not over "a, coo who do
not, more or less, practice the heathenish
youdoo rites. Initiation into them involves
the killing of some human being-a child
is deemed preferable.
"A colored' school marm in this county,"
says the Marion County (Ga.) Argus has
number Of men with families attending
her school-ore forty years Ole. Among
the number is the man with whom she is
boarding, and one Of the first to receive
the rod Of correction was her landl' rd.
Two weeks ago, the forty year old student
was told his next failure to know his les
son would bring upon him the rod, Ger
TAIN He says she IS right, and his duty
is to submit to the chastisement without
complaint"
One OF the greatest reasons for the pop
ularity Of the White Sulpher Springs in
Virginia is that it is selected by southern
people as rendezvous for family reunions
A mother here met last week her fourteen
children and countless grandchildre n.
Families that have been separated for years
are constantly meeting upon this common
ground. So for this reason there is an
unusual air of intimacy and sociabi:ity to
be seen everywhere that is especially in
teresting 10 strangers.
Gen, Noyes, who had just returned from
Paris, in answer to an inquiry about Bar
oAAoAu 0WaccO u .'OSAey, cd1u. AO
money is oil raised, and it was expected
that the statue would be in place tor the
Worlds Fair Of 1882 Il will be completed
in two or three years" The statue of lib
e1ty was proposed by the Union Franco
Americana Of France, to commemorate the
one hundredth anniversary Of American
independence in 1876. It is to be erected
on Benloe's Island, in New York harbor, TO
be over 100 feet high, surrounding Pc
destal Of about ninety feet in height.
Call it bribery, or expenses or what you
will, the cost OF becoming member of
Parliament is frightful to contemplate
Mi. Courtney, a member Of the house, and
one of the leader writer's of the London
Times, has been computing the cost of the
last general election, with the following re-
suits: The cost for the city of London was
$4,000; Greenwich. over $4,000; South
wark, $75, 200; South Essex, 100000;
Middlesex, $4,000; Yorkshire, over $780,
900; Durham, $3.50. 900 Zone candidate paid
$60,00o);3 Montgomeryshire, SlOO,O0O
Here IS 1910, GOO among some half dozen
constituencies, after all the reforms OF the
past fifty years And Mr.. Courtney re-
marks that unfortunately it has become too
evident that in many cases the official re,
turn of expenditure represents but 3 por-
ton OF it.