Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-04-27
Pith and Point.

The following letter to French states
man is printed in LIE Temps: Il have the
honor to give fair notice to the first minis
ter that if he refuses me the pension for
which I have applied, shall! henceforth
vote as my conscience dictates"
Another marriage in high life is impend.
ing at Berlin, the parties being the Hun
garian giant Drasal and the Prussian giant
ess Marian. Each is said to be over eight
feet high. This will be the third union of
the kind in recent years.
The city of Charleston, s. G., is one of
the cities which has entered vigorously up
on the policy Of reducing its public debt.
In 1870 the debt of the city was S., PAL
709,77. It is now little over 81 200, e0O
areduction of about 81 900, 900.
At Mentone, a fortnight ago, was made
balloon ASCENSION that came near ending in
fatal disaster. An aeronaut named Jovis
assembled at five o'clock in the morning, ao-
companied by a Paris journalist. At the
outset they were carried over the hills so
that they had fine view of the snowclad
Alps, but suddenly the balloon got into an
air current that bore it rapidly forward to
the sea, where it fell with tremendous ve-
locity. There was heavy sea at the time,
and once or twice both men came very near
being carried away by it and drowned. But
by sacrificing their instruments and some
of their clothes they contrived to keep af1oat
until whaler sent from Mentone had tax
en- them up.
Oscar Wilde who is in New Orleans look
after his claim to share in an estate down
that way, which, it is thought will change
the worshipper of a sunfower into full
blown millionaire, was greatly impressed
With the wierdly strange scenery along the
Mississippi What particularly impressed
him were the fantastic lines of picturesque.
| ness the moss hung swawps, and the roars
of hi2eous, scaly alligators." Oscar regards
New Orleans as city for one 10 dream, to
paint, to chisel and to plan in"
Great Paul, the new monster bell for st.
Pauls Cathedral in London, was SUCCESS.
fully rung two weeks ago at the foundry in
Loughborough. 1t was swung at the time
on its own head stock, being supported
two feet from the ground on temporary
timbering. 1t was lifted by 50-ton iron
crane and 10 men were required to ring il
properly, though four men could make it
speak. While shut in by walls and houses
the bell was heard seven miles away. It is
said that this is the first case of bell of
anything like the weight of Great Paul be-
ing swung. ALI the large bells Of Russia
are struck (they are never swung, while
the great bell In Notre Dame at Paris is
worked by treadle or some other mechan.
ical arrangement.
The determined mutilation OF Andres
| monument recalls paragraph in Charles
Lambs Essays of Ella. He is pleading
| with the keeper Of Westminster Abbey for
the privilege of free admittance to the
poor. Answering the objection that indis-
criminate admission might lead to mutila-
ton of the monument, he says "For forty
| years that have known the fabric, the on.
| ~ well.attested charge Of violation adduced
| has been ridiculous Acknowledgement com.
| mitted upon the efigy Of that amiable spy.
| Maj. Andre This was but the wanton mis-
chief of some school. boy, fred, perhaps,
| with raw notions Of transatlantic freedom.
It is singular that poor Andre is SO pertin-
aciously followed beyond the grave.
| A proof reader, while doing his spring
painting, fell seventy feet from a scaffold,
but, as he was tough, the fall did not in
convenience him much. "Are you hurt2
reader angrily retorted, Sir, in an acct
nation, not an interrogation" We'll, re.
turned the passer, i know that, but I've
observed that in your paper there is Otter
an interrogation point where all authorities
agree there should be point OF exclama-
ton. It was entirely in Difference to your.
self, sir, that made the interrogation.
Here the proof. reader, with his foreinger
made in the dirt he had loosened by hil
fall the sign for more space, and the passel
moved mournfally around the corner.