Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-03-24
Thingsin General.

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Thingsin General.
When the Texas Legislature passed
what is known as the Fifty-cent act four
years ago, spectators seized upon the
public domain in almost millionaire
block, $50 that it would now" says
Texas paper, take the eye of a fox and
the wing of wild goose to find any
lands not surveyed in Texas" Every
alternate section was, however, set aside
for school and educational purposes, so
that there are now 10000, 900 acres of
school lands left.
Vienna is to have an elevated railroad
to connect the termini of the surface
steam roads with the business part of
the city, and with the suburbs. 1t is to
cost 60, 900 600, and be four years build
ing, and all the material used must be of
Austrian production. 1t is thought that
electricity will be used by the locomo-
tiyes.
The number of disbanded statesmen
was probably never so large in this
country as it is to-day. If all of them
return to honest work for living there
is danger of the labor market becoming
overstocked. The only consolation they
can have in their retirementsis in look
ing forward two years in the expecta-
ton of aspiring statesmen pushed
into obscurity.
Not long ago new member of congress
was invited to dinner. He describes
it thus: 'There wasn't nothing on the
table when he got there but some forks
and spoons and bricky-brac. Presently
they brought in some soup. As | didn't
see nothin' else, thought I'd rather eat
all the sonp l could, though soup is a
mighty poor dinner to invite fellow to.
So was helped four times: and then
come on the finest dinner, l
ever see, and there l set," groaned he,
"chock full of soup"
Isn't it about time for people to stop
fooling with pistols? A party ofamateur
Garden City, L. L., on Monday evening,
to take train, and the waiting room
being closed, Charles S. Clark, New
York lawyer fired his pistol to arouse
the Waterman. After firing one shot,
the hammer caught in his overcoat and
the pistol was again discharged, the ball
striking the breast of Miss Mary Smith,
the daughter of John w. Smith, re-
tired merchant of Hampstead. The
doctors say she cannot recover, and her
aged father, who is suffering from paral
ysis, is likely to die from the shock.
Clarke is nearly crazy, as he deserves to
be.
The dwarfs, giants, bearded women,
one-armed men, two-headed children,
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various fairs which are held every year
in the suburbs of Paris, live through the
winter in an isolated hotel in an obscure
quarter of the city. Visitors con-
slider the feeding of these people great
curiosity. No less than fifty or sixty
human beings-or perhaps, they should
be called monsters-gather around one
large table, and the devices which many
of them have TO resort to in order to get
their food to their mouths, are very
laughable. The building is large wood
EN- structure, and except the spacious
dining-room and kitchen, is only mean
ly furnished.
A Montana stage-driver few weeks
ago showed as PRACTICABLE comprehension
of the maternal instincts as did the 'nurse
of ninety rears" in Tennyson's ballad,
"Home they brought her warrior dead"
He was on the trip from Deer Lodge to
Missoula, and the cold wave was so in
tense that his two passengers woman
and her little child, were in great danger
of freezing to death. The mother placed |
her own wraps around her baby, and the |
driver after time, in pity gave the |
mother his overcoat; but the mother was
chilled and the fatal drowsiness began |
to creep over her. Then the driver had
an inspiration. He halted, lifted the
woman out of the stage, set her down in |
the snow, and whipped up his horses. |
ooh, my baby!' screamed the mother,
shaking off her lethargy and dashing af- |
driver pulled up, lifted the woman to |
her seat again, wrapped his overcoat |
around her and drove on. She would |
have been grateful for fan the rest of |
the way to Missoula.
Alcouple of hideous savages, man and |
woman, Having been dragged from a
cave among the mountains of New Mex
leo, where they were found two months |
ago by Capt. Lovett, and placed OIL .ex-
hibition in Denver. They were entirely |
naked swhen discovered, frightful to |
look upon, utterly devoid of intelligence |
but possessed ofamazing strength. They |
seem to be able to communicate |
with each other by inarticulate sounds |
and gestures as beasts do, and though |
now tractable, they are manifestly idiots. |
They are supposed.to:be Pueblo Indians.
This, at least, is the story told by the |
Western Press, and it may be true. 1t |
is worthy of remark, however, that |
most of the wild men now on exhibit |
ton in various parts of the country may |
be found, when the performance is over |
and the lights are out, smoking short |
clay pipes behind the scenes, and ask
ing for the latestsnews1. from .ould DIRE
land.