The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-02-07


Kate Field says: Matthew Arnold
nay talk about the superiority Of
american women over men, and know
,etter. Don't quote foreigner-man--
o me. All man wants from woman
Usually is receptivity. American women
ire more sympathetic to him than men,
hence in his estimation superior. Don't
ak to me of the superiority of my sex.
When women are superior to men they
will demand the suffrage, and several
'ther things"
American women owe bow to the Pail
Mall Gazette, which says American
girls have deserved reputation for gen.
srai courage above all their sisters else.
shere.n
A German doctor says: "Melt some
suspected butter, soak worsted or q
wick in 1t. when cold light it like can
lie. blow it out; if it Is olegmaroarine, 1t
will smell like blown-out candle, if it
butter, it will smell like butter
The total number of children OF
school age" which varies in each state
rom four to sixteen, is estimated at 49,
62, 2S3; the school rolls for 1882 show q
membership of Isl .53l, however, and
daily average attendance of 5,7Oo,342.
The furniture interest in this country
enormous. Three years ago it
amounted in New York to 500 families
md product of nearly $40 .000.OOO. Gin.
annati had ll9 factories, with profit of
4.50o,000. Chicago turned out above
5000, 900; Philadelphia, 81 ,000, 900, and
Boston, s4,oOe,00
According to the last statistics there
are in Paris, l9l, 800 dwellings inhabited
~ RIGA or well-to-do people, amounting
o 500. 900 individuals. and Az, 900 houses
or l 500, 900 workmen or poor people.
About 200, 900 human beings are living
n IL ,753 ''garnis" or second-ciass tene-
nent houses.
The Baltimore Sun says: "Woman is
,luxury-loving and generous buyer,
md it is to her demand for beautiful
abrics that the manufacturer, under the
new social conditions of the last two GEN.
;uries, has looked with most confidence
or his reward. This demand did not
exist to anything like the same extent a
anndred years ago. when woman, being
-egarded in the ordinary walks of life as
somewhat inferior creature, was re-
stricted in her liberty, her expenditure
md her discretion as to number Of
Kings, dress included, affecting her
aapp77ess."
Ques: old China is the only civilized
:ountr, .1ths world which has not re.
orted to gas as means Of lighting, and
even among the rich the methods of IL
Eliminating are primitive in the extreme,
;hough kerosene oil is now rapidly COM
ng into use withina considerable radius
f the treaty ports.
A foolish man In San Francisco adj
rertised for 800 red-headed girls; must
De good looking" and not one response
vas received, At the suggestion of his
wife. who is red-headed, he advertised
or $50 golden-haired Beauties and be.
ore the paper was out two hours the
street in front of his office was crowded
WITH lust the style of beauty he desired.
The Mobile Register SAYS if intelligent
northern people would visit the south
Turing political campaign and election,
hey would mo longer express surprise
that race SO ignorant and unframed as
he negro can not withstand the arts and
devices of a superior race"
The New Orleans Picaynne says that
On Sunday mornings the French market
N that city is visited by an unusually
iarge crowd OF strangers who do the
market. taking coffee, etc., attend the
line services at the Cathedral, and wind
up with breakfast at some quaint, out
ot-theway little French restaurant.
The last census gave Texas total pop
llation of 1891 49, of which S37, SAC
were males and 753, 900 females. Native
born, 1,477,l5S; foreign born, 114.616;
whites, l.le7 ,237; eolored 1914 5l2. The
area of the state includes 15S, 423, l6C
acres of which only 6,S41, 7G5 acres are
under cultivation, ana 1866, 800 are
covered With timber. In 1880 there
were under cultivation, in corn, 3,0OO;.
zoo acres; in cotton, 2,S10,113 acres; in
IN wheat. 400. 600; in sugar cane, 1S1 SO:
acres. OF the religious sacts the Roman
Catholics are the strongest, having 8
membership of II ,00o in the state; next
are the Methodists, S2,939; then the
Baptists, 1850,