The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-04-04
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single grain of wheat in one of his OAK
fields. From il grew - stocks each
bearing a full head. These yielded $50
grains, T60 of which were planted the
next year, producing one-fifth OF a bush"
eI of splendid wheat. This wa plant
ed last spring, yielding II bushels, max
ing 1920 pounds of wheat from one
grain in three years.
The use. of the telephone has rapidly
increased in London. January /, 1881,
there were 81 subscribers to the Lon
don Exchange; in 1882, 1888; the next
year, 1886; and this year, 1896. In the
last quarter of last year there were
L697 AZ messages sent through the
London wires. The proportion of tele-
phonic to Geographic messages is as
thirteen to twelve.
The modern railroad brakeman is not
the gentleman in neat uniform who
helps ladies and children on and off the
train, and rides in a comfortable seat in
the parlor car. The real brakeman is
on top of a freight car, whether it be
covered with ice Oh not, who is only at
the place he calls home long enough to
catch three or four hours sleep, fill his
dinner pail and then go off for another
night.
The Pennsylvania railroad maintains
at Philadelphia school for persons who
want to become conductors. Candi-
dates are tested as to their ability to
write, their knowledge of mathematics,
etc. and are then instructed as to the
rights of passengers, the uses of differ
ent kinds of tickets, the situation of sta
tions, etc.
A singular coincidence in connection
with the late cyclone in Alabama is that
one occurred twenty-five years ago in
the same month and on the same date,
and very nearly at the same hour, in a
part of the recently afflicted section. 1t
was much more severe this time, how
ever.
An anxious" father writes In the
London Times hat instruction in geo.
graphy is gradually dying out in the
English schools. We have for some
time noticed a lack of geographical
knowledge among Englishmen who
write on American topics. When a
man refers to the Mississippi river as
being u Rocky Mountain trout stream,
and Indiana as q suburb of Philadelphia,
you may take it for granted that there
is something wrong with his geography.
A snowshoer took a slide after enc Of
| the Nevada billiards. had subsidized to
see what he could find. As he approached
& place where there was q running
stream before the five or six feet d
snow had been drifted, he thought he
heard ducks squawking. Making a hole
in the snow with his pole he was sur.
prised to find q large sized cave com,
pleteiy filed with fine canTassbacks.
They began coming out one at a time,
and he knocked them down until he had
more than a hundredin a single pile.
In Syracuse there is ahouse occupied
by $50 Italians, each of whom pays
cents a day, or $3.50 q. Month, for his
lodging. All board themselves. AT
the present time they live almost eg
clusiyely on bread, o single loaf a day
usually sufficing fora man. They wraT
themselves in their blankets or shawls
and lie down on the floor at night
hnddled together like so many hogs
The SHORES of the sleeping crowd SOUND
like the roar of Niagara. When thej
are awake. everybody is talking anG
g~esticulating, and the house seems tx
be apandemonium.
AT q recent meeting Of the st. Louis
Medical Society, Doctor Dean said
when / was q small boy I ate a rose
bud and was very sick from it, and from
that time on for fifteen years I could
not endurethe smell of a rose without .
tickling sensation over the whole body.
Afterward / couldn't eat strawberries
and my mother also could not. Vege-
~tarians claim that any idiosyncrazy il
regard to vegetables could be over
come, and although / have no faith in
their doctrines, / thought they ought
10 know If any n did: and / have
tried, perhaps for seven or eight years.
single strawberry, but it affects me al
badly as il / ate a large dish. Ihavs
been compelled to go to bed on account
Of it several simes. My face and eye
lids will swell"
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