The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-06-06
mIscs1iansous matters.

appropriately be called "Rushers"
chiefly toward mischief. But heaads
that whan they marry they will turn
0yer a new leaf and settle down. And
the young men whom they marry will
settle up.
DR.. Farr, an English scientist, says
if we take the march Of 1000, 900 chill
dren through life, the following viii be
the result: Nearly 100, 900 will die the
first year, SO, 900 the second year, %, 600
the third year, and less than 1000 in
the thirteenth year At the end of As
years SOC, 900 will have died. AT the
end of go years 100000 will be still
living; at the end of go years, $40, 900
will be still living; at the end ESQ years,
$1,000; at So years, 5000, and at 80
years Sugars, 2, 100. At the end of 100
years there will be 223, and at the end
Of 108 years there will be one survivor.
A writer in the Wheeling Intelligent
Ger is sorely puzzled in his inability to
tell why it is that society allows a man
to place his arm around a young
Iady's waist, and draw her to
him as with hooks of steel during q
dance, and yet shrieks With the widest
horror and dismay if by chance he is
caught in a similar position when the
pair are standing still
Rev. James Freeman Clarke, in his
new volume, "tAnti-Slavery Days" says
it was a long time before the north be-
lieyed that tho south was in earnest
when it threatened to secede after Linz
coin was elected. II remember. " said
Mr.. Clarke, "that Wendell Phillips
nsed to laugh at the idea. He said it was
likea set of paupers in a poor house
saying that they were going to dissolve
their union with the town."
The starch sugar industry in the
United States onsumes daily 10000
bushels of corn and produces grape
sugar and glucose syrup Of the yearly
value of $40 ,000, 900. There are thirty
factories in the United States, furnish
ing their product to brewers and for
She manufacture of table syrup and the
a6ulteration of zane sugar. 1t is also
largely used in confectionery, in can
ming fruits, making fruit ~iellies, and in
cooking. Artificial honey is made from
it, and SO, also, is vinegar.
The finest rubies are found in Ava,
Siam AMI Peru; others are found in
India, Ceylon, Australia, Borneo and
,Sumatra. The Burmese mines have
been famous; the working Of them is q
royal monopoly, and the king has among
other titles that of Lord of the Rubies.
The Brazilian ruby is declared to be o
pink topaz, inferior to the true ruby,
in it's natural state, and colored
artiicially.
"The ingenuity of newspaper editors, /"
says the Pail Mall Gazette. "is often
sorely tried by correspondents demand
ing answers to questions which it would
take more than twenty-fonr hours q day
to answer. Various as they are, and
duh as the sense of the ridiculous must
eventually grow at the astounding inno-
cence of the questioner, there is some
times a query at which even a grim jour
nalist cannot forbear to smile. Al Hun
lady, for instance, fond of recita-
ton, recently wrote to q leading Ger
newspaper inquiring whether, in
r~eciting X. A. Poe's well-known poem
The Raven the refrain 'Neyermore'
In recjting, be spoken or croaked.
II was seriously meant.
New York claims to have more than
thousand women who speculate in
grain. oil, whiskey, and every
other way known to the sterner sex, but
brokers, us a rule, refuse their custom.
The reason for this was expressed by
q broker thus; "Their risks are small,
and if they lose-phe-w-w!' "But sup
they make a hit?p well, then
they grow confidential. They tell you
they knew it was coming SO. They
dreamed Of a black cat or a baby cried
twice in its sleep or something like that.
They swear by their dreams. Ifs wom-
an has a certain dream and puts her
money on that dream, and then the mar
ket goes the wrong way, why she has
been swindled by the operator.
The late Charles Reade is quoted by
Don Piatt, in the Sunday Courier, as
that American jokes were exag-
gerations. with a cheerful disregard Of
all that the rest Of the world regards
with solemn respect. He told, in Illus
of an item he had read in one of
our newspapers to the effect that Mr..
Jacob Tomkins, an old and valued citi-
zen, had entered a forge the day before,
nth . peaaa of powder ia his coat-tsil
and shortly after went out quite dnex-
pectedly through . hole IN the roof.
you know, ! exclaimed the novelist,
sthat-if such . statement Of a shocking
casualty were to appear In an English