The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-02-08
Things in General.

Sonora, old as that state is, has not
more than $500 inhabitants, and 75,-
600 of these are pure Indians. The are
about 5000 natives OF the United States
In that state, mostly spectators. Fabu-
lous sums are said TO have been taken
out of her mines, n now and then a
vase filed with gold nuggets left by the
Spaniards.
OF the six largest sugar producing
countries Of Europe, Germany this year
carries of the palm, with 100000 tons,
or 80 per cent. of the whole. Next comes
Austria with 475, 900 tons, France with
10000, Russia with ESQ., 09, Belgium,
rs, 1000, and Holland with $4,000. Ger
many has not only the greatest number
of ~reinerfes, S57 out of1,2Q4. bnt the
largest also. 3
The chair which was used by her roy
al highness Princess Louise it the opens
ing and closing Of Parliament, during her
residence in Canada, has been sent to
her royal highness as q souvenir Of her
~sojourn in the Dominion. The following
inscription has been placed on the back
of the chair; Presented to her royal
highness Princess Louise by the Minis
ters Of the Dominion of Canada, advisers
to his excellency the governor general,
the Marquis of Lorne. 1885,
The set Of sapphires owned by the wife
OF Mr.. Mackay, Of bonanza fame, ia
valued at $500, 900. and comprises the
diadem, bracelets, ring, earrings and
necklace, with a large pendant. The
contents other jewelry chest is valued at
81, 900, 600.
An oleander tree near S~panishtown,
Fla, covers a space Of ground thirty-six
feet in diameter; from the ground to the
topmost limb is twenty-five feet; at the
surface Of the ground the trunk is divi-
ed into twenty or twenty-five seperate
stems, the group being at least five feet
through, and one single stem is by
actual measurement fourteen inches
thick.
The compiler of English as She is
Wrote" claims to have found in an
otherwise sober account Of a shipwreck
the following passage: ssThe captain
swan ashore. Sodid the chambermaid;
she was insured for a large sum and
loaded with pig iron"
While on his way from England to
Australia, Mr.. NJ. ID. Conway, who is
making a tour around the world, saw q
very peculiar sun. One morning. he
says, that in place Of the usual orb, an
intense blue sun rose above the horizon
md maintained its startling color the en-
tire day.
a noker game lasting for three DAVIS
md nights was played recently at Marys-
vile, Cal. The "ante" was S., and the
pots we're big. AIT one tin q there was
over $1,000 in sight on the table. New
players came in from time to time, and
,thers retired, but one man stuck to the
game pretty closely until it closed, and
cleared about 5000.
A prominent and prosperous farmer
,f Michigan is quoted as saying recently:
When / was a boy and trudged along
10 school I was taught to take off Ia hat
Ind make obeisance whenever I met a
yrown person. How is it now2 Why, q
nan is fortunate if he an pass by a
,chool-house without being snow-
0alled."
There were IS. 76o patients IN the Luz
iatic asylums Of France last year. of
whom about ~ 900 were men and $1,000
women, showing that females are the
most liable to insanity. That they are
ess influenced by treatment is shown
~ the fact that the average duration Of
treatment for men Is 20 days while for
women It is 295 days.
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