Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-11-06
Matters of Fact.

According to Judge Thsyer, of Phila-
delphia, engaged people must look sharp
4 suit has recently been decided In favor
Of a widow who sued for some $1,000,
disposed of by her deceased husband
prior to their marriage, but during their
engagement The money was placed in
the hands of trustees for the benefit Of a
first wife's children.
And now they are starting a crusade
against cigars. A bill was introduced in
the Vermont legislature'yesterday, max
ing it a crime punishable with SO fine
to offer person nnder is years of age
q cigar or cigarette. There is no rest
for the wicked"
Gas for Illuminating purposes was first
used by William Mudroch, who in 1892,
lighted his house and office at Redruth
in Cornwall, England, with gas made
from coal. The manufacture of gas in
tuis country was first successfully at
tempted at Baltimore in 1921. 1t was
introduced into Boston in 1922, and in
1923 the New York Gaslight company
was started, though it was not in sue
cessful operation till 1927 Fredonia,
n. Y, was lighted fifty years ago with
natural gas from gas wells in the vicinity
There are now probably 400 to 900 com
panies in the United States with an az
gregate capital of 500, 100000 or more.
A Fall River nan!who recently amassed
fortune and retired, was not long
since witness in the superior court OF
that city. He was asked his age, etc,
followed by the usual question in regard
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some time, but finally replied: I am a
gentleman" ''How 1cng have you been
a gentleman?" asked the lawyer
about six msnths," he promptly an
swered. But then some men are not
gentlemen for the space of even six
minutes.
The Alps have been crossed by bycicle
riders on their hycicles, which must have
been great feats. since going up hill is the
severest work save perhaps going through
sand, that the rider encounters. Very
recently an attempt to cross was made,
but it does not appear to have been en-
tirely successful. 1t has, however,
brought out letter from Mr.. Brown,
who says he crossed twice in 1878, once
by the Bremen to Venice. and again by
the Gothard in his return to London
He has never heard of an earlier trip
than his, and thinks it not likely that
there have been earlier ones.
Before Ice became universal luxury
people were in the habit of hanging but
ter in their wells to keep it cool and
sweet; and that is doubtless the custom
still where ice is scarce and dear. II
must have happened thousand times
, klaA 10 l,,,%f n
appeared but there can't have been many
cases where it was recovered after thirty
years. Such an incident has just given
ocal fame 10 Mr.. Goodman's we'll in
Bloomfield, Conn. A workman who was
cleaning 1t found ball of butter and the
dish in which it was suspended thirty
years ago. It is pure white and has the
consistency and odor of spoiled cheese
The census of Scotland shows that the
population of the country on the 4th o.
April, 1881, was 3,735,573. This is an In
crease of little over II per cent. since
1871. At the beginning of the present
only 10000, 900. The increase is very re.
markable considering the drain by emf.
grafton.
A good lady III Calf, Canada, who went
out to attend church service on recent
Sunday evening, took from closet before
starting, as the sky looked like rain, 8
garment which she supposed 10 be hen
doiman. She passed down the stree,
amid crowd of people and into the ga. &c.
tuary, and and kneeling in her pew she
cast the wrap that she had brought over
the seat before her. As she did SO she
perceived with horror that the article
was pair of her husbands trousers, and
hurriedly jerking them under the seat
she left them there until the close of the
9. rvice, when she managed to smuggl,
them home again without being detect
ed. But it Is said that she was hardl,
| able to keep her countenance when the
choir very appropriately opened tn,
beautiful anthem. AS Pants the Heart.
The tax levy for Milwaukee the coming
season will be t2oeA 06o.