Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-08-31
General Gatherings.

In Germany the sofa is the seat OF
honor, and to omit to offer its privil-
eyes to an invited guest is to write ones
sci down ignorant of the usages Of pc.
lite society. But gentleman may not
sit upon the sofa; to take a seat there
unlimited is very presumptuous; and to
ask even an intimate acquaintance tc
place himself beside her on that sacred
resting place, would be highly indecor-
Gus in a young lady. Such is custom OF
the country.
Gotham is boasting of the cleanness OF
her streets, which have not been so free
from filth for many year. The Graph
ic remarks: "The huge mounds of de-
cay ed animal and vegetable matter are
no longer to be seen fostering in the sun
around the markets and in the streets
in the tenement districts, and
pedestrians now can pass through
the worst quarters of the city without
inhaling the poisonous odors which I'M
der the old regime sprang from the gut
tiers.
A Boston paper is responsible for the
statement that the disgusting habit Of
snuff dipping has spread among the fe-
male operatives in Massachusetts facto-
ries to such an extent that fifteen tons
of snuff are annually consumed by them.
A year ago the Catholic bishop of the
state publicly forbade this use of the
weed, and for time there was consid-
cradle falling off in the sales of snuff, but
the prohibition has now become practi-
cally dead letter. ...
|. Acting on the theory that in every
house there is a skeleton in the closet, a
plicate notes to this effect: II will re-
veal all unless you send hundred
francs to D. L., Poste Restante Paris"
1t was evidently good day for skele-
tons. At least ten persons promptly
sent the sum demanded, and the swind-
Ter was congratuiating himself upon hav-
ing secured temporary affiuence and a
prospective fortune when the police
swooped down upon him.
No costume better combines modesty
and prettiness, SAYS Coney Island OBJ
server, than those of dark blue serge,
decently skirted in fat kits, with blouse
or Jersey of the same, lightly trimmed
with braid; the trousers reaching at least
to the calves of the legs, and straw hat
tied down at the sides, to afford protec-
ton alike against the sun and against
recognition from the shore. AS a rule
it is not the women who offend in the
matter of bathing costumes. 1t is the
men.
A lady correspondent complains Of
the treatment of her sex in England
She says; ''The inferior female sex a..
pears to me to be sat upon and suppressed
IN almost every way in England. Mer
are waited on first at table. I.saw row
of perhaps dozen ladies at dinner, with
one man near the center. The walters
went past the ladies at each side of him
to attend to his wants first. He was 8
superior being" a
In many parts of Germany the crops
have recently suffered incalculable in
Jury f: ON an incessant fall of rain dur
ing ten successive days. There are sec
tons in which the harvest has been com
pletely ruined, grain crops which ought
BY this time to be harvested lying in a
rotten condition upon the fields. Be
fore this rainfall everything had prom
lsed well for the German or, ps. Not fol
seventy years had the outlook been more
| favorable.
A Salzburg wine merchant, who was
punished by two months Imprisonment
and S125 fine for adulterating wine, wal
forced to betray the secret of his opera
| tons. It was this: Three thousand
small casks of wine, by the addition O
water, alcohol, potato sugar, wine dregs
and salt, were made to yield the enor
nous quantity of fffty-two Thousand
casks, which he sold at about fifteen
| times its value.
A COW standing in front of the large
windows of store at Walton, Ga, the
other day, happened to see her shadow
! in the glass. She bowed her neck anc
prepared for fight, and seeing the GOV
| in the glass assuming the same warlikt
attitude, with a quick snort and a.heavy
| plunge landed herself inside the store
| with the fragments of the glass fallins
over her back. 1t was question which
was the most surprised, the bovine O.
the proprietor. @
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, Of Eng
land, has accepted the invitation Of TIL
Bar Association of New York to visit thi
country as their guest. He will come Il