Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-02-23
justification of his conduct on the occasion for
which he has been 80 many years under
Things IN Uenerni.

The coinage of the United States mints
during March was $13,055, ,816.
There are thirty-four men in Buffalo
whose property respectively amounts to
from $3.50, 600 to $3,5O0,OOO
| When you go to Wisconsin, be sure and
| do not invite friend to take smile.
The total recognized debt of Mexico is
| $142, 1871 ,546.59. The sister republic is oc-
casionally given to the practice Of "teadjust
! ing" hef outstanding obligations.
| John Ruskin is not in favor. of universal
suffrage. On being asked to deliver an ad-
| dress on woman sutirage, he replied that
he was not only opposed to extending the
| franchise to women, but was In favor of
taking the right from most men.
There are now ON file ut the navy depart
men t26 applications for the position Of as
sistant payInaster i'll the navy, and not a
| single vacancy.
| The San Francisco Journal of Commerce.
analyzing our trade with foreign countries
during last year, emphasizes the fact that
I'VE export to the Sandwich Islands more
merchandise and produce than to any ether
| foreign country outside of Great Britain
and China, while the Society islands, un-
| 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-
| pie"
The custodianship Of the gold pantry at
Windsor Castle, Just rendered vacant by
| the death of Mr.. Goring, is an Office of
| great trust, as may be inferred from the fact
| that when the queen entertained the EN-
peror Of Russia, shortly after the marriage
of the Duke Of Edin5urg, gold plate to the
value of some $40, ,0OU. 600 was used. At q
rough guess, the royal gold and silver ser
| vices ut Windsor palace are probably worth
about $l5, 100000.
The largest excess of males over females
in our population is in Montana, where it
is 15S per cent and the smallest excess is
in Mississippi, the per centage being four
tenths. Kentucky's male population is only
two per cent. larger than her female popu-
lation. In Arizona it is 1870 per cent. larger.
In Nevada 1913 per cent. larger. Girls are
needed badly in all the Western territories.
Fully seven thousand fessrns are report
ed to have visited the steam 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 in its construction
$4,000 feet of lumber, II kegs of nails,
and 5000 feet of three quarter inch hair
felt, 1t has capacity for / 200 quarters of
beef, and will require twenty-five tons OF
ice for the trip. The beef was slaughtered
in Chicago, and carried to Boston On a
train of twelve cold-blast refrigerator cars.
Travellers lin Egypt are surprised at the
large amount Of ophthalmia and blindness
prevalent among the inhabitants. Want of
cleanliness is the cause. An Egyptian
mother, under the influence of a widely
- 1,o,,
child's eyes until eight days after birth. By
that time the organ is frequently ruined
The 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 instruc-
tions in England that all the congregations
be requested to observe the customary three
days truce Of st. Patrick" This is u
foreign idea not yet importediintoIthe 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 dIinds are
sold.
A history almost as sad and romantic as
that of Romeo and Juliet is attached to
Green Mount, the we'll known cemetery at
Baltimore, Md. The property was once
owned by John Oliver, a wealthy English
merchant. His only child, beautiful girl
of twenty, was loved by young man whose
only unfitness to become her husband lay
in the fact that personal feud existed be-
tween him and the girls stern father. They
met clandestinely and planned an elope
ment. The father found it out, and gave
orders to his servants to patrol the grounds
by night and shoot all trespassers. Dis
guised in mans clothing the girl attempted
to escape, and was shot dead at the gate.
Grief stricken, her father erected mauso-
leum upon the spot, and decided the entire
property to the city for cemetery.