The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-05-02
Popular Gossip.

hy., a~uJOufned couL6 Oh Auop9@1
enough to take +. 2. Strauss, an insult
ing young lawyer, out into the jailyard
and give him a good whipping. When
he resumed his seat he said the court
hoped there would be no necessity for
any more extraordinary adiournments
during its session but that they would
occur as often as the exigencies should
demand.
George Sumpter, of Georgia, had
Just finished a cyclone pit in his back
yard when a black and angry cloud arose
in the west. He hustled his family into
the pit and closed the trap doors.
They went to bed and slept in perfect
security. although the storm ragged
furiously, but when they got mp in the
morning the doors were found to be
swollen so that they could not be opened
from the inside at all. The neighbors
h d to come and dig the family out.
Gotham furnishes this little idyl: A
rich citizen accidentally heard some
young ladies talking of him. One re-
marked, HE is so awkward, but he is
so rich: :" to which her companion re-
piled, well, l pity him. He is nice
fellow and would make agood husband.
I wish he were not so rich, and then /
could encourage him without being con-
sidered a fortune hunter" There could
be only one result. The sympathetic
damsel and the awkward " fellow arc
married, and live in a palatial mansion.
DR.. J. H. Zukertort, who has gained
the title of the champion chess player
of the world, is playing at present in
Pittsburg. He will visit the principal
cities of the United States and then go
to China. After he has been in the
will return to England. The doctor
combines profit with pleasure, and while
he was in New York sent home a draft
of 81, 900 as one of the results of his
American trip up to that time.
News has just been received Of the
death, at Cordova, South America, on
the 10th of February, of Mr.. Stevens,
assistant to the we'll known astronomer,
DR.. b. A. Gould, in chargeof the Ma
tional Observatory of the Argentine Re-
public. While seated at the break
fast table he was instantly killed by
lightning during one of the sudden
th~under-storms of those ATTITUDES. He
was graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1877. When in 1873 DIR. Gould
wrote from Cordova for o competent
assistant to aid him at that observatory.
Mr.. Stevens was selected by professor
Newcomb.
Frank Rulette is a boy of nine years,
whose mother keeps a boarding house
on Seventh street, New York. Not
wishing to attend school a few mornings
since he notified the health department
that there was a case of smallpox at his
mothers house, after which he strolled
Ieisurely to school and impaired the
same startling information In strict con-
fidence to his school teacher, and was
hustled off home with very scant cere-
mony. Meantime his mother had been
scared out of her wits by the appearance
of the health departments ambulance,
which came to remoye the smallpox
sufferer to the Island pest house. Ex-
plantations followed, and by the time
Master Frank reached the house his
parent was ready for him, and accord
ing TO the police no roulette table was
ever turned quicker then was that smart
urchin turned across his mothers lap.
He says that he prefers going to school
to creating smallpox scares after this.
Ithas sometimes been brought against
Bismarck th.s he does not believe in
resting on Sunday" and that he is
rarely seer at church. This as DIR.
Busch shows in his recent book from
long personal observation, is partly due
to the great amount OF work that press
es upon him. "There is SO many q
must in my life that the would can
rarely be considered Bismarck writes
to his sister, and to the author he re-
marked that the day ought to be six or
seven hours longer for him. Anoth er
reason for not going tot church, he
gives in q letter to ii clerical friend
6 with regard to going to church, it is
Incorrect to say that | never enter a
church. I willingly admit that /
might 60 more frequently, but it is not
SO mulch from want of time as from
consideration Of my health that / do not
go, especially in the winter. TO these
wins feel themselves called to be my
judges in this respect / will with plea
sure give further Information about the
subject"