The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-01-17
Said and Done.

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Greenland has according to the last
census of 1880, 10000 inhabitants, against
SIPS in lS40. Of these, only $50 are
Europeans, almost all Danes, partly IN
the service Of the monopolized royal
commerce, partly working at tie cryo.
lite quarry. The women are in an un-
usually large MAJORITY ,1A against
number of casualties for the men at sea
an kaiak, in South Greenland. Of l ,00o
persons. only Fl reach an age of60 years,
against 100 on the Zero Islands, 90 in
Denmark, and II in Iceland.
Within the past few years good
many professional gamblers have found
it TO their advantage to travel on the
steamers plying between this country
and Europe. These gamblers make it a
point to play with wealthy young
Americans, who are on their travels,
and sometimes they follow their victims
all over Europe. One notorious gambler
carried roulette wheel in the top of
his hat. For layout he carried large
sheet of paper in his pocket. AS GEN.
eral thing, however, ali faro and roulette
games at sea are played quietly in a
room. Men play poker for light stakes
in the smoking room, and ladies are fire.
quently seen playing for small stakes in
the dinning room.
Speaking of the American trotting
horses, E. E. Nipper, well-known au-
thority says, it is very probable that the
trotter will soon surpass the running
horse. Besides mathematical evidence,
he advances the following. The trotter
carries his body more steadily-with
less of rise and fall-than the runner,
and it seems very reasonable that this
should result to the advantage of the
trotter, when the process of developing
and adjusting his muscles and chest shall
have been sufficiently carried ON, so
that the contest between the two ami
mails shall have been reduced to mat
ter of muscular capacity. He concludes
that it Is very evident now that our
good ancestors, who thought it wicked
to run horses, builded more wisely than
they knew when they began the evolu-
ton of the American trotting horse.
President McCosh of Princeton Col
iege is an evolutionist, and in recent
lecture said: 'My grst position is the
Ger talnty of evolution. Evolution is
but the coming of one thing out of an
other. Ne scientific man under 80
years of age in any country denies it,
TO my knowledge. To oppose it is to in
lure young men. | am at the head of a
college where to declare against it would
perplex my best students. The,
would ask me which to
give up, science or the Bible
There Is general progression in nature.
The theory that the world was once
vapor, from which the earth evolved, is
not inconsistent with the Scriptures, FOR
they speak of its being void without
form. The natural struggles for exist
ence lead to the survival of the fittest,
most benevolent law, and also in accor-
dance with the Scriptures.
At the coronation of William and
Mary, the cha npion of England, dressed
in armor ofcomplete and glittering steel,
his horse richly caparisoned, and him
self and beaver finely decorated with
plumes and feathers. entered Westmin-
lister Hall, while the king and queen were
at dinner On giving the usual chal lenge
to any that disputed their majesties'
right to the crown of England (yhen
this functlonary has the honor to drink
the soverelgn's health out of a golden
cup-the latter always his fee, after he
had flung down his gauntlet on the pave
ment an old woman, who entered the
hall on crutches (which she left behind
herr, took it up, and made off with grea;
CELEBRITY, leaving her own glove, with
challenge in it, to meet her the next day
at the appointed hour in Hyde park. A
person in the same dress appeared the
next day at the place appointed, though
1t was generally supposed to be good
swordsman in disguise. However, the
champion of England politely declined
any contest of that nature with the fair
sex, and never made his appearance.
The "Long hiIl' in the Elk lumber
region was the scene of frightful coast
ing accident on Sunday night last. On
that night party of nine, four young
men and FIVE girls, went from Stokes
mill to enjoy the sport, utilizing one
horse cutter. The speed that the sleighs
attain is sometimes terrific. About 10
O'Clock they made preparations for the
final trip. The sleighs were approach
ing the first bend in the road when one
shaft broke. Being thus left without a
plunged from the high bank to the creek
below. Jennie Mitchell sprang from
the cutter and alighted in a tree. When
the cutter was half way down it turned
over and all the rest of the party were
precipitated into the creek. The shouts
and screams of coasters were heard, and
two or three persons hurried to the
scene and the party were rescued from
the stream. Two of them are badly in
jured and will probably die, while 9TH
ers had ribs and other bones broken.
The shock of the fall and struggles in the
icy water have left all of them in very
critical state.