Morris tribune., 1884-07-02
Tillor and McFaddcn renamed ror

of their express robbery in St. Louis,
and mingled freely with III" crowd, 1t
never occurred to the shrewd detectives
to look right under their noses for the
thieves
When the Indians of Chilli desire rain,
they plant sacred tree, which sorcer-
ess climbs to pray, while the others
dance around and howl. Then they all
oct drunk. Ii it doesn't rain, they get
drunk again, and remain drunk until
they fetch u shower.
A prize of $4,000, open to all ma
tionalities, is offered in France, in De-
cember, 1877, for Il discovery enabling
electricity to lie applied economically
either rs source Of heat, light, chemi-
cal action, mechanical power, or as y
means of transmitting intelligence.
During the year 1889 there were
posted in Great Britain 100000 let
ters, of which one in every thirteen
was franked. Next year the number
arose to 1863, 900, 900, although Thanking
was abolished. At the present time the
number reaches the grand total OF l.
$50, 100000 year.
Bv the last official returns, pa per
cent. of the births in Nalrnshirc, Scot
land, are ilegitimatc, while in Aber-
deenshire 50 per cent. are Of the same
kind. In the county OF Wigton 1.24 of
the births arc iIlegitlmate, and most of
{he northern counties present an I'M
clean bill of health.
About $50 miles north of Mssoula,
NJ. T., q region has been discovered by
IN exploring party in which are twen-
ty-five cascades over 800 feet in height,
and true glacier with II mile of 'front.'
AGE and five hundred feet fall. 1t is
said to be more wonderful region
than the Yellowstone.
The Chattanooga T3mcs says that
that city is now really but nineteen
years old. The war left it wreck. In
1867 it had not u single wholesale
house. Iron mills ana furnaces began
in 1871. In 1872 the population was
5000, now 24,OO0; manufacturing capl-
tai in 1880, s., 1890 in 1884, $4,000
900.
On the occasion Of Baker Pasha' S
battle at FL Feb an English officer placs
ed revolver to the hc%l Of an Egyp=
tan and commanded him TO advance.
The Egyptian, quietly putting aside the
weapon, said, i'll an "st0niShcd tone: 81
advancew adding proudly, mo; | am
an Egyptian" and he took to his
heels.
Nearly fifty years ago q woman
named Lois Lyman, of Cabot, Vermont,
began to plait the combings OF her hair
into rope 1t was half an inch thick,
and of various shades, the hair having
changed very materially during the
half century. When she died q few
days ago the rope was nearly 100 feet
long.
A new and formidable fighting ship
has been built in England for the gov
crnment of Brazil. She is named the
Riachuclo, and is q steel armOred turz
ret ship, 305 feet long, having n Ills
placement of 5, 700 tons. She has fifty
eight water tight compartments and 4
belt OF steel armor eleven inches in
thickness.
The Sunny South newspaper declares
that 4 woman makes q bungling mess
of it whenever she tries to carry an UNI
brella on the street II declares: "Shc
can no more carry an umbrella as it
| ought to be carried than she can throw
q stone without those indcScribablc
gyrations, or catch q ball when size
| doesn't wear an apron,
George fritohard, who spontso much
time and labor, and underwent so
many hardshiDs in bringing the C@ur
d'A.Cne mines into prominence. has
been robbed of his property in the new
mining district, and now ali that he
has to show tor his years Of toll i2 one
very ordinary lin Hatue} placer Calm,
everything else having been gobbled by
the insatiate jumpers,
Apropos OF the proposition to erect q
memorial Of Dickens, q correspondent
of London daily paper quotes pass
age from the noYelist's will which will
probably prove fatal to the project: 81
coniure my friends on no account to
make me the subject of any monument,
memorial or testimonial whatever. ]
rest my claim to the remembrance OF
my country upon my published works, "
Carl Schui4 Franz Sigel and August
Schelfert were lust friends in theil
youth. S@el and Schelfert were in the
same military class in q school in Ger
many, the former being graduated for
ty-seyeptA and the latter fifth in class
of fifty. The three came to America
together. Schurz IS the noted pOliti-
clan and editor, Sigcl became the ia
nous general, and Schelfert is o bar
Der ut Atlanta, Ga.
Henry Watterson's short, trim, mar
tial figure is becoming very familiar t.
Neutrality-suspicious.. He looks like IN ae~
tive young general rs he shoots along
the sidewalk OF through the capitol cor,
ridors without gloves or overcoat-his
right hand sheltered from the March
wind in the pocket of his sack coat.
He has lived SO much that you are apt
to think that he has lived so long as tc
be old. But he is only A. 1ou see his
youth in the quickness with which he
walks and talks and works. He is s
very active man. You see him on the
floor of the house, in the corridors, or
the street, at a reception, at q dinner
in his office on Fourteenth street, in his
room at Welcker's, at John Chambers
lain's late in the cvening-alWays busy.
He goes in for pleasure with the same
earnestness asthough it were work. He
is thorough master of the art of liv
ing. He gets moro out of q day in the
way of both work and play than & doz
en- ordinary men.