Morris tribune., 1882-06-08
Facts and Fancies.


the most unintellectual people l have
met in America.
Mr.. Labouchere advises his readers to
look after their spoons. The following
well known advertisement has appeared
again in London: MRS. T. very unhap-
Ply in not hearing from Mrs. M. Jones,
was in hopes to have seen her at the
beginning of the new year. Been very ill. u
1t is said that its appearance has never
failed to herald a successful robbery.
Somebody got possession of the chime
of bells in a New England church not
long ago, and summoned the congrega-
ton to worship by playing one of the
jolliest of opera bouffe airs. AS the good
people of that church never go to the
theater, they naturally mistook the piece
for new Sunday school tune.
Some of the heirs of the Springer es-
tate, which comprises large portion of
the city Of Wilmington, Del, held Sc
cret meeting at Fort Wayne, Ind, We'd
nesday night. It is stated that thew re-
ceived an offer of $S0,0O0,000 to COM
promise, which they will accept. There
are 600 persons among whom the sum
will be divided if accepted.
There was man in this town this
week with patent lock for sale, and to
demonstrate its superiority over all 9th
ers he would pick any kind of lock ina
few seconds. Sheriff Gordon put him in
irons to test his ability, and he unlocked
the handouts and shackles with small
piece of iron as soon as the sheriff could
have done it with the keys. He was so
expert that the mayor and marshal for
babe his giving public exhibitions oflock-
picking.
The difference between snobs, accord
ing to the New York Post, is that in
America the snob looks down on others,
while in England he looks up to others,
and tries whimperingly to climb up
where they are. Away out west a snob
is fellow who wears ''clean billed
shirt" and uses pocket handkerchief
and tooth brush. Evidently snob is
a very variable factor, but he is equally
best definition in this latitude is given by
the Springfield Union: A fellow who
ostentatiously parades himself as a little
better than his neighbor, while his NOR
al and intellectual backing is obviously
deficient.
A writer in the London Lancet gives
the following statistics of travel: Off,
564, 644 persons who left Europe for
New York between 1870 and 1880, 2,519
died in transit, the average duration of
passage being Is days Ii hours. OF A.
S74 persons who embarked on Is ships
in 1880, 81 died. One ship, carrying -
331 emigrants, lost IL in the course of a
16 days voyage. All were submitted to
medical examination, and passed as
healthy at the start. The figures seem
to show that in crossing the ocean a man
is about hundred times more likely to
lose his life by disease than by ship
wreck.
Another noise is to be added to the
many which make the streets of Paris
hideous by night and day. Hitherto the
approach of steam fire-engine has been
announced by the sound of small
trumpet much resembling those used on
the tramway cars. The authorities, in
order to avoid the confusion arising
out of the similarity between the two
sounds, have adopted new kind of
trumpet of doubled-distilled screeching
power, which, ifit does nothing else,
will effectually frighten the horses it en-
counters into fits.
In Lock, part of Alaska where the
natives still keep the ir old laws in force,
all the members of a family supposed to
be in the service of Satan were recently
condemned to death by native tribun-
al. In execution of the sentence they
were tied to trees, by etiquette the grand
mother was first cruelty tortured by the
mob; when she asked for a drink she
was given salt water; finally she was cut
to pieces with knives; the rest of the
family escaped and reached Fort Wran-
CELL