The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1883-11-22
Things In General.

President Barnard o. Columbus Col
ege, who has made careful exam
nation of the Egyptian obelisk that has
stood In Central Park for two years,
says there is very slight dislntegrati9n
change would not be noticeable at the
end of six thousand years.
It is said by q paper published in
Portland, Me-, that ono OF the lottery
companies sells more than 5000 tickets
every month to patrons in that city. The
outgo is, therefore large, but the return
ia, of course, Insignificant.
Ice men stick to prophecies as do sail
ors. The sun having crosse1 the line
when the wind was in the south, they
hold that the wind will continue in that
direction for the next six months there
after, giving us a mild winter.-lking-
ston Freeman.
The Electrical Power and Storage
Company of London recently sent
secondary battery, charged and ready
for rse, into the country: The raliroad
company charged 22s. 6d. ior the ou1-
ward Journey and only It's. %. for the
return, and in reply to remonstrance
at this difference of rates explained that
the cells went fully charged, but returned
empty. The Joke is on the railroad COM
panv. which has since learned that
electricity is an imponderable agent.
"What is needed" says the New York
Mail and Express. "are laws increasing
the legitimate supply of material for the
dissecting table, and more severely pun
ishing the purchasers of stolen corpses,
AZ we'll as those who steal them. The
bodies of ali executed murderers, ana OF
all convicts who die in prison, and OF all
persons who commit suicide in public
places, ought to be delivered to medical
colleges for scientific purposes, and then
| it ought to be made q state prison Oh
Tense to purchase a corrse, as well as 10
rob q grave. The depredations of ghouls
make one of the terrors which turn the
thoughts of many toward cremation as a
| substitute for burial"
Texas is prolific in marvellous stories.
and here is one of them. Thirty years
ago family named Taylor, In Milan
county, were attacked. by Indians. but
| with the aid of a stranger, three vi the
sayages were killed and the rest put te
flight. One of the daughters became at
tached to the stranger and they were
soor to be married; but one day the
lover told his betrothed that be coulo
not marry her until he had killed one
of the Indians; they had met and recog
nized each other, and 1t was to be war tt
the death. Years passed, and the gir
hearing nothing of her lover, finally
married prosperous farmer. Recent
the BODY of the lover and that of The In
dian he had to kill were found together
both completely petrl6ed. The white
man had been cut to death and the In
dian fatally shot.
| A Burlington correspondent says tina
| the Vermont law giving women thu
right to vote for school offices, which
has been in force three years, is prac
ticallv failure. The law is Obsc ire i
lis terms, and too little interest has bee
taken bv the women in its. provisions t
obtain judicial Interpretation OF 1t. U
the 24l towns in the state 20 have this yea
chosen woman for superintendent o
schools, but in no case, so Tar as tn!
CORRESPONDENT knows, has such cholc
been bl ought about by the votes of VIC
men. o. the 20 the majority are clergy
mems wives. Female superintendent
we're not a novelty in the state even
the time of the passage of this law, BIT
the legality of their election had nc
previously been formally recognized.
According to the tradition of tn
Greek gecgraphers, Atlantis was lara
J island in the Atlantic ocean to the we!
of the northwest coast of Africa. 1t We
fabled to possess numerous populatio
begotten by Nepture of mortal wome1
atetv wicked, and the island was swel
away py deluge. Plato mentions tt
, island in his "Timeus." On the o.
Venetian raaps Atlantis is put to tt
, west of the Azores and Canaries.