The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-11-24
Current Topics.

ed in Great Britain, and they are worth
double the amount of the national DEBT.
The rate of building now is about $50. GOO
per year. Forty years ago the rate was
40, 200 per year.
One of the most aristocratic orders 81
the country is established at Baltimore
and is called the Aryan Order. 1t reach.
es far back and aims to perpetuate
"kride of birth" All the members
must be descended from colonial FAM.
lies at least and must be distinguished
by coats of arms or some badges Of hon.
or. Yet with all its p~retensions this Or
der is a failure. It's members are few
and unimnortant.
People in Calcutta, India, have been
noticing some curious phenomena in the
appearance of the sky. On Sunday, Sept.
6, two shocks of earthquake were fol.
lowed by q lurid red light in the sky
which lasted for four hours or more, and
for four days afterward changes were
noticed in the color Of the sun. One
morning it appears unusually white, an.
other morning green, then blue and at
last accounts it has changed TO q blush
green.
A CHASTITY story comes from Bohemia.
A man at Uscheno who was apparently
dead had just been lowered into the
grave, when the mourners were horri-
fed to see the coffin lid begin to move
and the linen shroud gradually appear.
until the corpse at last sat up. The man
said that throughout his illness he had
heard all that had been said. He was
aware that they thought him dead, but
was unable to make any sign. He was
taken home, and there is now every
prospect of his recovery.
Mr.. G. Whittier wrote to Francis b.
Gummere, who was chosen in his stead
to read a poem ut tie s~emi-centeanial
celebration of Haverford college; 81
hope thee will say o good, clear, strong
word for Quakerism. That central doe
tTine Cf ours, the Divine imminenee and
universal light. viii yet be found the
stronghold of C~hristendOm, the sure,
safe place from superstition on one
hand and scientific doubt on the other.
| think Hayerford has in q great meas
ure kept the good old way. Long may
it live and prosper"
Friends of Asbury University, Indi,
ana, were able to raise only $4,000 un.
der Mr.. w. G.. De Pauw's agreement 10
give $500 coo if they would sai;e SI5g 600,
and 50 Mr. De PAW agreed TO give IN
the same proportion, or / 2 for each one
raised. Thus the college is TO have a
fund of $3.50, 900, with which the new
buildings are to be erected. Mr.. de
Paw promises also to carry out the
other provision of his original Intention,
TO bequeath 10 per cent. of his estate to
the university, which in the future Is 10
bear his name. Upon the present val
uation this will add about 81 ,0O9, 0e0 10
the endowment fund.
Susan r. Anthony recently visited in
England the former home of Harriet
Martineau, which now is occupied by a
Quaker family. az chatted with these
Friends" she says, in the drawing
room where Emerson, Garrison, Char
lotte Bronte and many of b other great
souls of earth had come TO honor LIAR
riet Martineau IL the days gone by. !
sat at the table in her library where she
had penned so many noble thoughts,
looked into the chamber where she had
slept, suffered and died, and out at the
beautiful landscape she enjoyed in those
last sad DAYS. In the Kitchen the same
range. dresser, table and chairs stand
there as she left them, and her fay0rite
black and yellow spotted cat, now SIX
teen years old, still keeps faithful watch
on the threshold"
81 have something particular-to say
to you. Miss Edith said Elmer de
Garcelone, as he drew himself where ne
could watcn the freight play in her face.
"Well, I've been expecting--some-
thing-of the kind" replied Edith, and
she tried 10 stare a live coal out OF coun-
tenance. There's a change-come
over my prospecte--l'm no longer the
wealthy Elmer de Garcelone who paid
you court at Saratoga the past season..
Don't mention it, / know all. / have
determined that | shall still be true to
you" Heavens! but that's just what
don't want you to be. I've liked up q
match with Ethel de Bullion, worth q
million and a half. and Just dropped In
to tell you about it." Breach Of pronaise
suit now on.-tiartford Post.
Cities Warmer Than the Country.
Those who happen to live at a little
distance from the heart of the clty must
frequently have noticed a lack of accord
between readings of their own standard
thermometers and the published obser.s
vations Of this Signal Service observers
of their locality. The reason of the dis
cord is plain, viz, the perturbing action
of the heat which the city emits; and,
however gratifying 1t may be to the out
slider to find himself s~uperiorto the gov
eminent observers, it is very little cred
it to the Weather Bureau that this par
ticular source of error was not long since
recognized and avoided. The remarks
of Prof. Whitney on this subject, as ap-
piled to observations made at London,
are pertinent and convincing. He says: