The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1883-12-28
General Notes.

Mrs. Marion Ha land writes to The st.
Louis Globe-D .mocrat in regard to her
last story, "Julith." In 60 doing she
orsAks rule adhered to for thirty years
shat stt SHE would not reply to critics.
character In the story, sprightly girl.
should have married Q rascal, to die
wretchediy, but adds that the episode
Was true history.
The paucity Of marrisees in Jamaica,
says Sir Anthony Musgrave In his recent
official report ON the con ition of that
island. is much to be deplored. In
intimate connection" with the Ot,serys-
ton the Governor notes the TACT that
the annual proportion Of illig,timate
births is more than So out. of every 100
born.
Will Carleton's first poem, Betsy and
1Are Out" got into tho waste. basket Of
the Toledo Blade, to " hich paper It was
originally sent, but It was after wards
fished out and published one day when
there happened to be 9 scar ity of
Copy" All good things have to 20 in.
fame. All Of Tennyson's poems are
placed in the waste-basket and reasoned
before publication.
Philadelphia has Sunday Breakfast
Association which gathers in the outcasts
every Sunday morning, warns them up
with hearty breakfast, and then talks
the gospel to them.
A Paris paper states with utmost se.
renity that . noble redskin who had been
converted to Christianity was sent to be
educated at Eton. Having been sound,y
birched he lay In wait for the master
who had inflicted this distayteful pun.
'shment and scalped him. an incident
which created great sensation about
forty years ago." The story reaches its
climax In the announcement that this
young Indian, who had for Q long time
bean lost sight Of, has been identified Is
Sitting Bull.
i. Life, In its latest installm emit of it, mis-.
sionary articles on American Aristoc.
facy," Describes an American gentle.
man who has very properly refused 10
loan his pictures to the horde of lower.
class sympath cess. who wish to disgrace
our chosen city with statue of Liberty,
which some misguided French persons,
thinking We took some pride in our
form Of government, have offered us.
What do we want with that bronze eff.
~? or with what it represents? or Will,
the compliment and sympathy 1t ex-
presses? Pah! II England, now, our dear
old mother country, whom We aristo.
Gratis are dreadfully sorry our arxndfath.
ers hra. hed-if England will only give
us colossal image Of Ge Drge IlI.-4h,
here y something We could and would
worship, gild and sing palms TO.
IAN allegorical representation of the.
north Wind" exclaimed the gruf old
man Of practical ideas, as he looked 1t
the artists work In clay. ooh. no." he
continued, - young woman with such
pretty and sensible face would never 20
out Of doors In tho winter with her neck
80 unprotected. her. head uncovered and
her back hair oil loose and allow the
north wind to blow her tresses all over
her face. Now T. you want an idea for
an honest representation OF the NORTH
wind take the head of On old chap like
myself with q hig bald SPOT on his crown
and his hair short and brislling. Have
his coat collar turned up veil under his
ears, and b0ky his chin In II. Let his
l.et dy In the wind while his hair turns
stlffiy 70 the front his eyes aasanwhils
ailsd With an anxious glare - 10 watches
tho tueacious hssdseaS. Why, my
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