The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-06-26
Things ii General.

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with alarming rapidity. Aboy Of seven.
teen, said to have been reared under
the best home nfuences VA one -of a
gang who lately robbed d stage coach
III Shasta county, and since then si1
boy burglars, all SONS off resp ctable
parents, have i. been arrested in Los
Angeles. They have probably been
feasting their imaginatiols on dime
novels. q u s .sss 4.
/ The Monitor Repnbl icano Of the City
Of Mexico, commenting on certain
criticisms Of the Z Mexican government
by the New York Sum- to the effect
that it was republican only in form,
but NOT il reality says nfotunately the
criticisms are true, and thst the gov
eminent must rescue itself from the
marasmus into which it has; fallen, and
return to the right path, if it does not
seek the death Of the republic.
The other day q gaunt, hungry old
cat made her appearance on the plat
form at the top Of Washington monu-
ment and went purring round among
the workmen. She had climbed up to
that dizzy height by the stairway. She
looked about her. for o few moments,
and then gave leap into space. four
hundred and thirty four feet is o good
deal of a jump, but she landed on the
ground alive, making the greatest leap
on record. Sc. Z. =
III Out of q total area Of nearly 81 ,OOO,-
900 acres the woods and copses of Ire
land are now less than $50 900 acres. In
Great Britain out Of nearly 81 900, 600
acres, 100000 are thus returned.
The forests Of Europe are estimated to
cover soc, 900, 900 acres, or nearly 20 per
cent Of the surface Of the Continent. n
Bertram, in his Harvest Of the Sea, =
says that he counted the separate eggs
in the roes Of some Of our fish. He
counted exactly 81 900 900 eggs in stur-
geon. In Goldfish he gives 8, 400 900 in
founders, /. $50, 600; \ in soles, 1, 900 900,
and in mackerel, 800, 900. Where do the
fish go !? But few Of them go to the
tables as food. II They have the delight
of eating each other. The smaller pass
their time IN guarding against the larger
fish eating them. If one-half survived
there would be no need Of restoring our
shipping, rs navigation would cease.
That lively old gossip, Mrs. Grundy
finds abundant opportunity to use hel
sharp tongue anent recent occurrences
in New Yors3 las the following from he1
sayings in the Mail and Express show;
"That nowadays a good name is better
than great riches. That it y is very
difficult to find an apartment house that
is not heavily mortgaged."' 'aThat now
is a very good time to buy frst-class
carriages and horses at second hand
prices. That hundreds of uptown
families have left town forgetting to is
sue their P.,P. @. cards $.s3 ID
# ahigh functio nary Of the United
States were to visit Japan, or Siam, 70,
instance, and tie papers Of those king,
doms should refer to the complexion o.
the distinguished visitor in terms of rid.
icule, we should probably say that the
foreign press was not only ll-man,
nered, but icentious, in the sense Of
being unduly licensed. When the "lead
ing American Journals" get out to Siam
| if they ever do, and in some Of them il
Eseen 8 description 81 the complexion o
the Siamese Prince as being "a cross
between old gold and the color Of !,
brass kettle, /" possibly the Censo:
Of the Royal Court of Siam, if there b
such functionary, might report that
the press Of the chief city Of. the Amer
lean Republic is semi barbarous.