Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-06-09
Things i'm General.

pondent of the London Times, is fast be-
coming a source of disease. The numer-
Gus settlements that have grown up
along it's banks have allowed their sew
age pipes to run into the canal, and oW-
ing to this fact, the stencil is sometimes
intolerable and many diseases are pre-
valent.
1t is said that the Indians of Alaska
do not belong to the same race as the
North American Indians but that they
are probably an offshoot from the Jap
anese or Coreans. The missionaries who
have been laboring among them say that
in many respects their conceptions of
moral law are better than those of civil
lied nations.
Indian girls in the Indian Territory
university are studying German, French,
Latin and Greek, moral philosophy, po-
litical economy and other collegiate
branches, and this in spite of the fact
that the first one to graduate went home
to her tribe, married and three days af-
ter was killed by her husband.
The remarkable Indian relics which
are said to have been recently found at
Athens, Penn, are exciting the curiosi-
ty of archaeologists. The skeleton of an
Indian was found i'll sitting position,
his face looking toward the east, his feet
drawn up under him, and his right arm
raised to his shoulder, holding an earth
en- vase. Many vases have been found
of strange pattern, and some of them
contained q compound which upon ana
living proved to be burnt ochre, proba-
bly used as war paint. Many other arti'
cles have been found which indicate
that this vicinity was once an Indian
burying-gronnd.
The thirty-seven Methodist colleges
in this country have 2.7S6 students and
S4OO. 900 income; the thirty-one Baptist
colleges, 4,GO9 students S49l 900 income !;
the twenty six Congregational colleges,
1852 students and $529,000 income, and
the the thirteen Presbyterian colleges,
l,477 students, and $2l2,O 900 income.
In making excavations for building
in New Orleans recently, the remains OF
a boat so feet long were found about
ground. Within it's hull lay imbedded a
number of human bones. The place
where it was found was probably once a
part of the Mississippi river; but there
is nothing known about the Joss of such
boat.
A Glens Falls farmer, few days ago,
put way large egg which he had
found in his barn among the other eggs.
On breaking 1t open short time alter
wards he was surprised and Mortified to
see that it contained lively snake five
inches long. He is willing to make an
affidavit to the fact that there was no
hole in the shell before he broke ii.
People who have heard GA Life on
the Ocean Wave" sung to threadbare-
ness quarter of a century or more ago
may not generally know the man, Hen.
ry Russell, who composed an first sung
it in pubic, is still living, hale and hear
ty. But he is, and he walks London
streets AMI Ramsgate pier and sands like
a ghost of the past, albeit a happy, gen.
ial a ID substantial ghost. He has COM
Portable fortune, and lives contented in
the growing fame Of his son, Mr.. w.
Clarke Russell, the novelist.
The Old William Penn house on Lett
tia street, Philadelphia, is being taken
down in sections, and will be carefully
rebuilt in Paramount park. The work
men have their hands full to. hold in
check the BOYS who are hired to steal
bricks and boards for antiquarian pur-
poses. There was once saint whose
teeth after death were considered L COM
plete protection to the owner against
the pangs of the tooth-ache, and when
these dental charms were ordered by
the king to be brought together, there
were several cart. loads of them. In all
probability when the king comes to col
iect the fragments of the Penn house he
will have material enough to build a
block of buildings large enough to lodge
all of PENIS descendants.
Gen. M. F. Force, in paper which he
lately read before the Loyal Legion OF
Ohio, described the methods pursued
by "Shermans bummers" in their for
aging expedition during the march to
the sea-" It was common practice
with planters to bury their provisions
and hide their stock in the swamps, for
both armies, national and confederate,
foraped alike. But the men soon gained
a wonderful facility in discovering the
hidden stores. From the general APP
pearance of the barns and smoke-houses
thew quickly and unerringly made up
their minds where something was hid
den. By indications which themselves
would find it hard to explain, they de-
termined the general locality where the
cache was made. Advancing in line in
open order, driving their ramrods into
the ground, q few minutes would reveal
the hidden stores. A negro one day
said to General Leggett, in Georgia:
"Dese Yankee soldiers have noses like
bounds. Massa hid all his horses way
out dar in the swamp. Some soldiers
come along. All at once dey held up
dere noses and shifted and shifted, and
stopped still and shifted, and turned into
de swamp and held up dere noses and
shifted, and, Lord a. MASSEY, went right
to where de horses was tiedi n de
swamp"
The recent parade of colored troops in
Charleston was enlivened by whistling