The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-12-05

Winnetka, north Of Chicago and sank;
zSTT persons were drowned out OF the
S85 on board.
The tobacco crop of this country,
which in 1864 was but 1877, 900, 900
pounds, promises in 1884 to be between
SOC, 00O, 900 and 700, 600, 900 pounds, or
more than three times that of twenty
years ago. The acreage, which in 1864
was 239, 1876, has jumped up to nearly
700, 600, while the val4e of the crop,
which in 1864 was $50, 000. 600, will
probably reach $45, 600 900 OF $780,
300, 900 in 1884.
John B. Cough is of the opinion that
the way to c'1re s~leeplessness is to pitch
in and work it off. He says that Ly-
man Beecher Gather of the Brooklyn
orator. had load of sand in his cellar
and after evening service he would
shovel it from one side to the other, and
by this exercise ne could tone down the
fever of his brain. Then the old man
would get out his violin and soothe
himself to sleep with amateur fiddling.
In 1881 the average income of male
teachers in Vermont was $7.44 a week,
while in 1884, under the influence of
oenign and progressive civilization, it
has risen to $S. SO. The female teachers
in 1881 we're paid $4.21 q week, which
sum has been increased 5.01 In 1884.
1t is also stated that the number of
schcc& and teachers has very consider
ably hyeased within the period-a
statement that is not at all surprising
The elaborate gold cup won by James
r Keene's horse FoxhalI az the Ascot
n .5es in England nearly two years ago,
and which has been in the hands OF
United States customs officials since,
has been officially declared to be a tro-
ply, commemorating a particular event,
and therefore free OF duty, under sec
tons 2,499 snd 2, 502 of the act of March
3, 1883. An order has been issued Civ.
ing Mr.. Keene his cup without payment
ii duty.
Paper bottles are now made on a
large scale in Germany and Austria.
The following is said to be a good re-
sipe for the paper; Ten parts of rags,
forty of straw, fifty of brown wood pulp.
The paper is impregnated or coated or
both sides with sixty parts OF defbrin-
ated fresh blood, thirty five parts of
lime powder, five parts of sulphate of
alumina. After drying ten Dr. twelve
rolled leaves are coated again, placed
over each other and then placed in
heated moulds. The albumen in the
blood forms a combination on pressure
with the lime which is perfectly proof
against spirits, &c. The bottles are
mado in two parts, winch III joined to-
gether.
Marriage in Pennsylvania is simply
4 civil contract and can be enteredinto
just as any other civil contract can be
assumed. Neither priest, minister or
civil or other officer is necessary to a
marriage in Pennsylvania. Parties
may agree to become man and wife
with or without officiating officer and
With or without witnesses. They may
privately agree to become man and
wife, and if they publicly assume the
re tions of marriage before the world
az confess and present each other rs
man and wife, they thereby impose up
on themselves the marriage tie that can
be dissolved only by death or divorce.
-sThere are still $50 ,0OO, 900 idols wor-
shipped in India-more idols than there
ara human beings, r says the Rev. Dem
ais Osborne, the native Indian mission
airy. More than one idol per capita is q
pretty good figure. It mast be ac-
knowledged that Christianity has made
but small progress In India under Brit
ish rule. Mr.. Osborne can only claim
600 900 out of vast millions OF Indians.
As for the idols they are manufactured
in Birmingham, and probably in other
English cities, that Do quite a thriving
business in the milking of these gods,
which they ship over to the heather.
| This is one way Of making the natives
acquainted with Christianity. Can the
paucity Of conversions be wondered at
when England herself provides the gods
Our Minister to France gets ST., 800
England pays her Minister to France
SOC, o and gives him q palace: to live
in. The Up;ted States pays its Minis
ter to EngIa $1g 300. England pays
her Minister 90 Washington $4,000
year, and gives him q great mansiol,
fully equipped and furnished, and So
900 a yes- Cor entertainments. Eng.
land pays he. minister to Persia SO.
300 q year and gives him o palace. W.
Day our Chief Justice $40, 500 q year
and our Associate Judges $4,000
Chief Justice Coleridge gets $4,000
The other eight Judges Of his court 81
$4,000 q year each. Even the Eng