Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-10-30
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Tanean Oea 10 HOW into the Desert OF
Sahara has additional interest from
the fact that company has been
formed 10 pierce the African coast.
"Do cats reasonr' asks writsf in
natural history. We don't kow
whether they reason or not, but for
pure, unadulterated augmentation
they take the cakc.-Burlington Free
Press. s..s.--. 600 .~-..-,.
Sitting Bull has IN enormous head.
He wears n No. Y hat, larger than
Daniel Webster's. He receives q sal-
ary during his present engagcmsnt--
$500 month. He shaves with pair
Of tweezers. ''''s
Some Of his party friends wanted
to run General Nathaniel p. Banks
for Congress this fall, but he. said 70
them: II have had all Of Congress
want. have once been leader
there, andr if I should go back what
would it amount to for met"
The mcllowness Of old wine has
been found by experiments in Ger
many to be due to an increase in the
quantity Of glycerine that it contains,
rather than to decrease Of tannin.
The mellowness Of tho drinker do
pends on the quantity taken. is
Ellen Harris, a whitc woman OF
Tennessee, sizes the Louisville & Nash
vile railroad for $4,000 because she
was elected from train run for black
excursionists. What is sauce for the
African, thinks tho Springfield Re-
publican, is sauce for the poor white.
"a few weeks ago." writes Greek
now in Paris, II was ut Missolonghi,
where found that one Of Byron's
boatmen, John Kazis by name, is still
alive. Although about eighty years
of age, he is hale aud strong enough
to man his boat. In fact, he took mo
over to Klissova, the celebrated little
islet in the lagoons Of Missolonghi.c
Rev. Fewman Hall has attained ap-
proximate ideas Of the size Of this
country. He said, in conversation,
while on the Saguenay: Il had no
idea Of the enormous extent Of the
country until, after travelling west
ward thousand miles at least, Icame
to st. Louis, where l was dumbfound-
cd on being asked il I intended to 20
west" A4
The Washington Capital pictures
Allen Arthur, the son of the Prss;-
dent, as seated on the portico of the
Executive Mansion, in the midst Of .
group of young ladies, and apparent
ly having most agreeable time. II
wish,' he observed, glancing at his
fair guests through the network Of
his lawn tennis hat, that the summer
OF 1884 would last forever"
Tho Cars Warsaw tour was about
as dismal a me,ry-making a. can we'll
be conceived. At tho state ball not .
word Of Polish was permitted, and
when one was dropped by accident
people looked tilnidly over their
shoulders to see whether il had been
overheard. The rooms were only half
filled, ana cheerless, Notwithstanding
the decorations.
Signal Officer Hazen has directed
that tho names Howgate Lake, Cape
Howgato and Mount Howgate be
erased from the charts brought back
by the Greedy party, and Lieutenant
Greedy will be requested to designate
other names. The Greedy party were
ignorant Of Captain HowRate's en-
bezzlement until after their rescue.
Biggins was feeling poorly-"all
run down and no strength" he told
his friend Smith. "Does yer ever take
any stimilent, Mr.. Bigginsf' asked
Smith. "No,' answered Bigg;ns,
mournfully, Except sometimes just
before goin' to bod" "Woll, for my
part" said Smith, decidedly, II don't
never want to take nothin' Jest afore
goin to bed, for l goes right to sleep
an loses all the good ON il"
Mrs. Langtry has been received
with unbounded enthusiasm in Scot
land, and has been frequently called
upon to address the public from tho
railway carriage in which she was
about to take her departure from the
place. At Waverly Station, Edin-
burgh, IL great throng gathered,
cheered her repeatedly, and called for
speech, when "a pleasant-looking,
middle-aged lady" appeared at a car
riage window and said: "I'm very
glad you all like Mrs. Langtry 50
much, because her motherr'
An individual who represented him
self as a scientist has beea amusing
the medical journals with de ,cxiptions
of his method for tho cure Of all dis.
eases. 1t consists OF no less iormida-
BILE q process than the complete filter