The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-01-10
Facts and FancleS.

Sala, in his "America Revisited" says
of the Sunday clangor of bells: "They
boom and bawl from sunrise to sunset,
as though they were so many hotel
gongs calling guests to theological
meals"
Snow has repeatedly fallen all over
southern Europe, once or twice as far
south as the streets of Palermo. 1t is a
curious fact that both in the Northern
aud Southern hemispheres and on the
Eastern and Western continent the
last twelvemonth was one OF heavy snow
fall.
Twenty graduates of Dartmouth Col
ege, New Hampshire, had a reunion and
dinner in San Francisco, CAL, on the
evening of March q. There are sixty.
five Dartmouth men on the Pacific coast,
representing classes from As 10 rs.
A South Carolina Judge, in passing sem
tence lately, remarked that ninety-nine
out Of every one hundred persons upon
whom he had had in his circuit to pass
sentence were comparatively young peO-
pie. Especially in crimes OF an infamous
character the criminals were In near
ly every instance quite young. and al
most always of the colored race. Ii was
rare that he had to pass sentence upon
those who had experienced the restraints
of slave, and who had been made free.
There has been several failures of late
at Winnipeg. Rents are very high, and
it is said there are 81 ,000,th0 worth of
buildings under contract this spring,
and. as already 1000 emigrants have ar.
rived, while thousands more a. on the
way, these failures are considered but
,.xigencies of frontier building. The
resent advance in the duty on agricultu-
raj implements aud the increased freight
rates on the Canada Pacific cause great
indignation among the farmers, who as
usual, when things so wrong over the
border, talk about annexation.
A st. Peterburg telegram says: "a
statistical report on suicides in Russia
has been Issued. 1t appears that some
1000 persons in each year make away
with themselves. The greatest number
OF cases occur in the district of Moscow,
after which comes st. Petersburg, War
saw, and Irdkursk. During the last
five years 7,713 cases have been re is
tered Suicide in the Russian army, as
in that of Germany, has been on the in
crease during the last few years.
The Lancaster New Era says that a
citizen of Pennsylvania NAV leave 81 900
or 100000 to his family, wife, or
children, and the law takes no cogni-
zance of it, but if he leaves so much as
500 to public charity the laws of the
,tate promptly dock the requests five
per cent
The auction sale ofseason tickets for
the forthcoming dramatic festival in
Cincinnati has closed. Twenty-four
hundred and fifty-three seats have been
sold for total sum ofS64 .625. OF this
-utn the premiums amounted to So, 2o3.
The average premium is Sl2.55. The
sale has produced several thousand dol
ars more than any previous auction for
Music Hall, and there are still ,267 seats
to be sold without premium.
The development OF fossil remains at
the Nevada state prison quarry contin-
ues to be more and more Interesting.
Scarcely a blast is made which does not
disclose new and strange tracks, osseous
remains of fossil ivory. The vegetable
indications are numerous anu interest
ing, az are the many specimens of clans
and other mullusks.
The wives of some Of the most promi-
nent men of Condersport, Pa, have
formed society in opposition to the
Masonic order. They have determined
to hold their meeting on the same eve.
ming as the Masons, at as late an hour,
and will endeavor to reach home In the
same state of set-em-up-ativeDess as
their lords and masters.