Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1882-02-23
Things In General.

1nlngS lnG6neral.
The coinage Of the United States mints
during March was $133, 058, SIS.
There are thirty four men in Buffalo
whose property respectively amounts to
from $3.50, 900 to So, 500, 900. #s
| When you go to Wisconsin, be sure and
do not invite q friend to take q smile.
The total recognized debt Of Mexico is
I 42,ISl, 546. SO. The sister republic is oc-
casionally given to the practice de areadjust-
ing her outstand ding obligations.
| John Ruskin Is not in favor Of universal
| suffrage. On being asked to deliver an ad-
dress on woman suffrage, he replied that
ne was not only opposed 70 extending the
| franchise to women, but was IN favor of
! taking the right from lost men
There are now on file at the navy depart
| men / 26 applications for the position Of as
sistant paynlaster in the navy, and not a
| singh vacancy. s3 $$
| The San Francisco JoitrfGl of Commerce,
| analysing our trade with foreign countries
during last year, e emphasizes the fact that
I'VE export to the Sandwich Islands mora
merchandise and produce than to any ether
| foreign country outside Of Great Britain
| and China, while the Society islands, I'm
| important as they are on the worlds map,
/ take from US more than does the great Ger
man Empire, with its forty millions Of peo-
| ple.'''
| Fl The crlstcdianship of che gold pantry at
| Windsor Castle, Just rendered vacant BY
| the death Of MI Goring, is an Office Of
| great trust, as may be inferred from the fact
/ thas when the queen entertained the En-
| peroT of Russia, shortly after the marriage
| of the Duke of Edi,iburg, gold plate to the
| value Of some Sic, coo, 900 was used. AT a
| rough guess, the royal gold and silver SER
wees as Windsor palace are probably worth
( about $l5 ,00e,000.
The largest excess Of males over females
+ in err population is in Montana, where it
is l5S per cent. and the smallest excess is
in Mississippi, the per centage being four
tenths. kentueky's male population is only
two per cent. larger than her female pepu-
lation In Arizona it is $50 per cent. larger.
In Nevada 12S per cent. larger. Girls are
needed badly in all the Western territories.
Fully seven thousand pee-sans are report
ed to have visited the stean ship Partisan at
Boston, to Inspect her Accommodations FOR
the transportation of grain and fresh meat.
The huge refrigerator in which the meat
cargo is carried required ia it's construction
$4,000 feet of lumber, Ill kegs Of nails,
and 6. 900 feet of three quarter inch hair
Felt. 1t has a capacity for [ 200 quarters;of
beet, and will require twenty five. tons of
ice for the tnp. The beef was slaughtered
in Chicago, end carried to Boston on
train of twelve cold blast refrigerator cars.
Travellers in Egypt are surprised at the
large amount Of ophthalnia and blindness
prevalent among the inhabitants. Want of
cleanliness IS the cause. An Egyptian
mother, under the influence Of q widely
prevalent superstition, doeg not wash her
chila's eyes until eight days after birth. By
that tune the organ is frequently ruined. f
This teachers in the American and British
mission schools Of Cairo say that Egyptian
mothers become invariably angry when
urged to wash the eyes Of their newly born
Infants, and can rarely be persuaded to
comply with request OF the kind.
Cardinal Manning recently issued instrue-
tons in England that all the congregations
be requested to observe the customary three
days truce of St, Patrick" This lisa
foreign idea not yet imported Sintosthe United
ed States. 1t means that Irish Catholics
will voluntarily blind themselves to abstain
from all Intoxicating drinks on the eve OF
the national festival Of Ireland's patron saint,
on the feast day itself and the succeeding
day, and that during this interval they will
not enter houses where such drinds are
sold.
A history almost as sad and romantic: as
that of Romeo and Juliet is attached to
Green Mount, the well known cemetery. at
Baltimore, Md. The property was once
owned by John Oliver, a wealthy English
merchant. His only child q beautiful girl
of twenty, was loved by young man whose
only unftness to become her husband Lay
in the fact that personal feud existed be-
tween him and the girls stern father. They
met handsomely and planned an elope-
mant. The father found it out, and gave
orders to his servants to patrol the grounds
BY night and shoot all trespassens,. Dis
guised in mans clothing the girl attempted
so-eseape, and was shot dead att the gate.
Grief stricken, her father erected a naRso.
leum upon the spot, and decided the entire
property to the city for cemetery.
Pigeon in French.
/ An amusing story is waited froaa The sun
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