Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-07-28
GeneralitieS,

A dee1 OF property near Fort Davis,
Tex, recently made over to the United
States reads: "To the United States or.
its successors" The officer who passed
upon the deed very promptly erased
the words ''or its successors" saying
that the United States has not and will
not have any successor.
Boston fashionable women held off
from contributing the work of their
hands for charitable fair, lest they
night be thought pledged to some ul-
erior cause, like woman's suffrage; and
thls prejudice was only removed by the
assurance of the newspapers.
The opium that Is being imported at
San Francisco in such large amounts is
prepared opium for smoking. Those
who are best qualified to judge estimate
that before July !, when the tax is in
creased from 81 to $40 per pound, over
| 3,0O0,0O0 worth of the drug will have
been imported and held for use in San
Francisco. Tais heavy Importation
shows to what anextentopinm ia smoked
| there. FE
The approaching Luther celebration
in Germany has directed attention to
the buther family, and it is learned that
the male line became extinct in l742
But from Luther's daughter has descend
ed the present family of Won Saucken
in East Prussia, to which belong the Pro-
| gressive members of the Prussian House
| of Representatives Won Saucken-Tar-
putschen and Won Saucken Julienfelde.
1t is said that one member ofthis family
| is married to Berlin banker of Israel
| ltic origin.
A Richmond religious editor advises
! pastors not to take up collection at the
| end of the service when his hearers are
| tired and hungry. He once asked m an
| for a contribution before dinner, and
| was alphabetically refused after dinner
III answer to the same question he as
empathically replied Certainly; | wi
give yon thousand dollars with very
great pleasure"
At the unusually shallow depth of 200
feet a vein OF natural gas was struck by
the town authorities of Oheriin, Ohio,
while drilling an artesian well with ref
| erence to future water supply. The
| gas was remarkably pure, being absO-
| luteiy odorless. and emitting a clear,
steady, white blaze. BY confirming the
| jet for a time, and then applying Il match
| as the cap was suddenly removed, q
blaze would leap ten feet from the orr
fee. At depth of $50 feet a more pow
erful vein of gas was struck, and at a
depth Of 800 feet still another, six times
| as strong as the two previous ones put
together. Finally, Thursday afternoon
| at depth of 3l2 feet, the climax was
| reached when vein was hit which gives
| blaze the full size of the we'll, five and
| one-half inches in diameter.
A large glass punchbowl just COM
pleted at Corning is intended as a pres
ent to William Ii. Vanderbilt, from Gen
eral George Magee, of Watkins. Around
panels, representing different railroad
and coal scenes. The first shows the
iron railroad bridge over Watkins Glen
with Vanderbilt's private car. The Sec
| Ond shows the Fall Brook Coal COM
pany's coke oven at Tioga, Pa. The third
represents Falling Springs on the Jersey
Shore, Pine Greek and Buffalo railway.
On the fourth panel is engraved a coal
breaker and train of coal cars, represent
ing place of interest ON the Philadel-
phia and Reading railroad All the
scenes have been engraved from photo
graphs.
The London society discusses the ques-
ton why buttons are placed on the back
of coat, and says the only reason for
the existence of these two buttons is
that they are a survival of the time
when they were of use, when men but
toned back the long flaps of their coats
in order to walk more freely, or found
them useful in sustaining their sword
belts. Likewise the little buttons that
appear at the end of the sleeve
were of use when sleeves
we're maize tight at the wrist. Another
inevitable feature of the coat, the collar,
was of some service in old times. 1t
was large and turned up we'll in incle-
ment weather; in order to admit of
being buttoned properly around the
neck nick was necessary. But though
We hardly ever think of turning up an
o, binary coat collar, and find it of little
use if we do, we still preserve both it
and the nick as survivals. The stove
pipe hat, too, is only the carcass on
which our ancestors were wont to dis
I'ay ribbons and knots and other
gtuds. In itself it is both ugly and
uncomfortable. Then we wear absurd
neckties that do not tie, and pins that
do not pin.