The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-06-19

CALIFORNIA; youth are going to the bad
with alarming rapidity. Alloy of seven
teen, said to have been reared under
the best home influences, was one of
gang who lately robbed stage coach
in Shasta county, and since then six
boy burglars, all sons of respectable
parents, have been arrested in Los
Angeles. They have probably been
feasting their imaginations on dime
novels.
The Monitor Republican, of the City
Of Mexico, commenting on certain
criticisms of the Mexican government
by the New York Sun, to the effect
that it was republican only in form,
but not in reality, says unfotu1s.tely the
criticisms are true, and that 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 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 few moments,
and then gave a leap into space. four
hundred and thirty-four feet is good
deal of Jump, but she landed on the
ground alive, making the greatest leap
an racord
Out of total area of nearly 81 ,000,-
600 acres the woods and copses of Ire
land are now less than 33O, 900 acres. In
Great Britain out of nearly 81 900, 600
acres, .2,500,000 are thus returned.
The forests of Europe are estimated to
cover 500, 900, 900 acres, or nearly 20 per
cent of the surface of the Continent.
Bertram, in his Harvest of the Sea, y
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 3,4O0 900 in
founders, l $50, 900; in soles, /, 600, 800,
and in mackerel, 500, 900. Where do the
fish go? But few of them go to the
tables as food. They have the delight
of eating each other. The smaller pass
their time in guarding against the larger
fish eating them. Ii one-half survived
there would be no need of restoring our
shipping, as navigation would cease.
That lively old gossip, Mrs. Grundy,
finds abundant opportunity to use her
sharp tongue anent recent occurrences
in New York, as the following from her
savings in the Mail and Express show
chat nowadays good name is better
than great riches" That it is very
difficult to find an apartment house that
is not heavily mortgaged." THAT now
is very good time to buy frst-class
carriages and horses at secondhand
prices, - THAT hundreds of uptown
families have left town forgetting to is
| sue their p. p c. cards.
If high functionary of the United
States were to visit Japan, or Siam, for
instance, and the papers of those king
doms should refer to the complexion OF
the distinguished visitor in terms of rid
icule, we should probably say that the
foreign press was not only ill-man-
nered, but licentious, 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 is
seen a description of the complexion of
| the Siamese Prince as being "a cross
between old gold and the color of a
brass kettle possibly the Censor
of the Royal Court of Siam, if there be
such functionary, might report that
the press of the chief city of the Amer
lean Republic is semi barbarous