Morris tribune., 1884-07-02
FILLER and McFadden renamed 10


and mingled freely with III" crowd. 1t
never occurred to the shrewd detectives
to look right under their noses for the
thieves.
When the Indians of Chilli desire rain,
tbey plant Il sacred tree, which u sorcer-
ess climbs to pray, while the others
dance around and howl. Then they all
oet drunk. If it doesn't rain, they get
drunk again, and remain drunk until
they fetch q shower,
A prize of $4,000, open to all ma
tionalities, is offered in France, in De-
cember, 1877, for II discovery enabling
electricity to lie applied economically
either as n source Of heat, light, chemi-
cal action, mechanical power, or as q
means of transmitting intelligence.
Durino. the year 1889 there were
nosted in Great Britain 100000 let
tiers, of which one in every thirteen
was ranked. Next year the number
arose to 1863, 100000 although franking
was abolished. At the present time the
number reaches the grand total of l.
$50, 10000 year.
By the last official returns, PA per
cent. of the births in Nairnshire, Scot
land, are illegitimatc, while in Aber-
deenshire so per cent. are of the same
kind. In the county Of Wigton LA of
the births are illegitlmate, and most of
the northern counties present an un-
clean bill of health.
About $50 miles north of Missoula,
M. r., 4 region has been discovered by
an exploring party i'll which are tWen-
ty-fve cascades over 500 feet in height,
and q true glacier with II mile of 'front.'
ace and five hundred feet fall. 1t is
said to be more wonderful region
than the Yellowstone.
The Chattanooga Times says that
that city is now really but nineteen
years old. The war left it q wreck. In
1867 it had not u single wholesale
house. Iron mills and furnaces began
in 1871. In 1872 the population was
5000, now "a, 900; manufacturing capt.
tai in 1880, $2,7S9, 900; in 1884, 81, OOO,-
900.
On the occasion of Baker Pasha' S
battle at Ell Feb an English officer placs
ed revolver TO the head Of an Egyp=
tan and commanded him TO advance.
The Egyptian, quietly putting aside the
weapon, said in an astonishcd tone: 81
advanced! adding proudly, mo; L am
an Egyptian" and he took to his
heels.
Nearly fifty years ago woman
named Lois Lyman, of Cabot, Vermont,
began to plait the combings OF her hair
into rope. 1t was half an inch thick,
and of various shades, the hair having
changed very materially during the
half century. When she died q few
days ago the rope was nearly 100 feet
long.
A new and formidable fighting ship
has been built in England for the gov
ernment of Brazil. She is named the
Riachuelo, and is q steel armored turx
ret ship, 305 feet long, having n dis
placement of 5, 700 TONS She has fifty
eight water tight compartments and q
belt of steel armor eleven inches in
thickness.
The Suhuay Soat!h newspaper declares
that q woman makes bungling mess
of it whenever she tries to carry an UNI
brella on the street. Ii declares: ''She
can no more carry an umbrella as it
ought to be carried than she can throw
q stone without those indcscribablc
gvrations. OF catch a ball when she
doesn't wear an apron,
George fritohard, who spentso much
time and labor, and underwent SO
many hardshiDs in bringing the C@ur
! d'Aiene mines into prominence. has
been robbed Of his property in the new
mining district, and now ali that he
has to show for his years OF toll is one
very ordinary lin Falue4 PLACER claim,
everything else having been gobbled by
the insatiate jumpers,
Apropos OF the proposition to erect q
memorial Of Dickens, q correspondent
of q London daily paper quotes pass
age from the noYelist's will which will
probably prove fatal to the project: 81
coniure my friends on no account to
make me the subject Of any monument,
memorial or testimonial whatever. !
rest my claim to the remembrance OF
my country upon my published works, y
Carl SchuGg, Franz Sigel and August
Schelfert were fast friends in their
youth. Sigel and Schelfert were in the
same military class in school in Ger
many, the former being graduated for
ty-seyepth and the latter fifth in q class
of fifty. Tho three came to America
together. Schurz is the noted politi-
clan and editor, Sigel became the ia
NOUS general, and Schelfert is o bar
Der at Atlanta, Ga.
Henry Watterson's short, trim, mar
tial figure is becoming very familiar to
Washingtonians. He looks like an ae~
tive young general us he shoots along
the sidewalk OF through the capitol cor
ridors without gloves or overcoat-his
right hand sheltered from the March
wind in the pocket of his sack coat.
He has lived SO much that you are apt
to think that he has lived SO long as to
be old. But he is only A. You see his
youth in the quickness with which he
walks and talks and works. He is a
very active man. You see him on the
floor of the house, in the corridors, on
the street, at a reception, at a dinner,
in his Office on Fourteenth street, in his
room at Welcker's, at John Chambers
lain's late in the evening-always busy.
He goes in for pleasure with the same
earnestness asthough it were work. He
is thorough master of the art of liv-
ing. He gets more out of q day in the
way of both work and play than doz-
en- ordinary men.