The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-10-06
MiceIlaneous Matters.

termined how woman should act
when her hands hands! are Ia the dough alla
and an aggressive fly alights on her
nose.
Mrs. Senator Logan is a model
eongressman's wife. She is q fine,
matronly looking woman, with snow
white hair, clear hazel eyes, the merry
laugh Of schoolgirl, and the tender
kindness Of mothers@Alagnetlc IN
manner, she exercises a potent ntill-
ence over the senator, and does much
to increase his personal popularits.
She writes his letters, corrects the
proof Of his speeches, franks his docu-
ments, and distributes bis garden
seeds with rare judgment.
Among the notable American works
about to be undertaken is the c0n-
struction of a new aqueduct running
from vast reservoir to supply New
York city with water. This aqueduct
will be thirty miles long, and although
the first estimate is $14,500,00O, it
will probably cost ss25,900,000. Whea
completed New York will have awater
supply Of 100000, 900 gallons per diem.
Even should there be a year of drouth
there will be never less than 250,000,s
| 900 gallons per day, an amount suifi-
cient for a population Of 100000
persons.
a. French sayant asserts that t3lS
time may come when donkeys and
other inferior animals may talk With
out any miraculous power beng exer-
cised to make them do So. This cals
be done, he says, by careful breeding.
selection, and a,l education continued
Through several generations. Breeding
heretofore has been directed toward tss 81
certain physical characteristics, suchas
fleetness in a horse, milk in a COW, and
La fine and juicy meet IN the cattle
Breeders find it possible to create i
certain physical type Of pigeon, cow
or sheep--that is, they can sketch out
on paper what they want and tlfen
realize it by selections among the herli.
| According to this French scientist,
animals even now communicate by
sound. Certain birds, such as the
lparrot and the mocking-bird, can l5e
tssr;f SI5uatf, Drcatise uile strucIllrc
| of throat and mouth resembles those
of the human being. A good many
curious speculations have been ii-
| ldulged in respecting the man Of the
future, but what If the ass, the COW
and the sheep of the future should iEje
gifted with articulate speech, and wliat
seemed an Incredible biblical legend
become an everyday fact?
/ A correspondent uf the Boeton
Herald thus describes the petiiiiel
forest in Arizona: One might almost
lpass by and notice nothing unllsual
| But on looking closer the rocks ale
| found to be the trunks Of fallen frees
turned to stone. They lie about s0p
| here, there and everywhere, some prs
serving their shape and outlines, Others
| broken or cracked. The scene n Il
strange one. 1t smacks Of enchallt4
ment. Perhaps some potent magici;ssl
blew Upon this forest IN the vigof Of
its prime; and before his chilling
| breath the stout trees bowed theme
lselves, and froze into flint and agate
| Still You hardly see why You canles
lbut after the coffee had been beile.i
land breakfast eaten your Mexica1is
| slowly enhghten you. They bring oul
| hammers and drills, and selecting 4
| likely spot in stone trunk endeaTDf
| to force their way into ii, The stpne
| is like adamant. Again and again tlle
drill bounds away, hut finally pie,'rS
Iare shivered off the cracks made, -
that you see what the petrsfied forest
| has hidden in it. Eneralds, sapphireS
and diamonds are convenient nanlesfI
/ but alas, our discoveries would harlIy
be counted as such by Tiffany: Vet
they are singhlarly beautiful. los;
| find blocks of Stone, their sides bristtl
ing with great hexagonal crystals
some green, Others purple; and Others
a pure white. You cut through
goodies whose hollows are hned WitH
lprysnatie crystals sparkling with iAll
The colors of the rainbow. Mitch of
Isae stone il beautifully inaiked llints
Often you find pieces with brown
corrugated coating, which, / fancy, II
1.-THE petrifed bark. IN the stssra
| abounds in the most delicate sha{linef'
Of gray and white, with dark lines, hai
the CRYSTALS, lining fshures c1 gatheyes!
} lin the nests Of geodes. are the espelsla