The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-04-03
FACT AND FANCY.

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Cal.
Twenty dollars per cord is the price
of wood at Tombstone, Arizona, and
it is scarce It that.
Twenty-Five of the great sugar plan
cations of the island of Cuba are farm
ed by the Jesuit order.
There are 333 boys on board the
United States training-ship New
Hampshire, at Newport, r. |.
1t is stated that Lord Garmoyle at
she opera in New York changes his
gloves whenever the curtain falls.
The largest potato starch factory in
ihe world is at Carbon, Me. ITS ca
paclty is from 200, 900 to 250,O0 0
bushels.
New Hampshire has 1913 Presbyteri-
IN churches. Seventy-five of them do
lot sustain permanent preaching with
out help.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has
refused to allow a woman preacher of
Nantucket to perform the marriage
ceremony.
DIR. bio Lewis says that tomatoes
ire a medicine and not a food, and
should only be eaten when prescribed
BY a physician.
The Columbian university, of Wash
ngton, has decided to admit women
20 the study of medicine, with the
same privileges accorded to men.
The widow of Gen. Stonewall Jack
ION has consented that his war-horse,
Did Sorrel, shall be exhibited at the
New Orleans exposition for the benefit
If the Confederate Soldiers home.
A Kansas City physician expresses
The opinion that hundreds of people
are buried alive every year, and that
an average of three out of every hun
lred corpses might be r%esusitated.
A Chinese opium den has just been
broken up at Dalton, Tex, in which
peepholes were rented for % cents per
hour to those who wished to watch the
female victims of the drug enjoy it's
influence.
A large meteor fell recently near
Gainesville, Ga. It's course lay di-
rectly over the town, and. as it
passed, so intense was it's brightness
that it rendered objects in darkeued
rooms plainly visible.
The diaphragm of a new telephone
through which conversation has been
held between New York and Cleveland
Is made of cork. The extreme sensi-
tiveness of this substance to the tones
If the human voice is a late discov-
cry.
1t is like a story of 40 to read that at
4 recent performance at the Standard
theater, San Francisco. an apprecia-
tive man became so enthusiastic over
the Introductory portion of the per-
Torrance that he began throwing
money on the stage.
The ink pencils lately brought into
use are stated to be dangerous innova-
tons, as the transfer OF w Iting made
by them is a very easy matter. Any
signature can be reproduced by using
two sheets of dampened paper. The
first will take the impression reversed
and the next will receive it precisely
as originally written.
About a decade ago a German postal
official hit upon the idea of printing a
New Years wish upon the bands or
wrappers of mail matter that was adj
dressed to foreign countries. The
conceit took, and now the middle OFF,
Gals in nearly every country in the
postal union greet each other, at the
beginning Of the year. in this novel
way.
Dr. Crudelli, of Rome, gives the fol-
lowing directions for preparing a
remedy for malaria, which has proved
~eficacious when quinine has given no
relief: Cut up a lemon, peel and pulp,
In thin slices, and boil it in q pint and
4 half of water until it is reduced to
half a pint. Strain through a linen
cloth, squeezing the remains OF the
boiled lemon, and set it aside until
cold. The entire liquid is taken fast
ing.
The total number of banking institu-
tions that failed in 1884 is III, IL Of
which were national banks, % state
banks. IL savings banks, andT private
banking Institutions. Nineteen o.
these failures are traceable to the frauc
of bank officers; 25 of them resulted
from unfortunate operations In stocks
disconnected from the element OF fraud
and 81, or more than one-half OF them
were due. either directly or indirectly
to some form of speculation.
1t is asserted by some wicked person
that it is now the custom for lovers Il
write peculiarly affectionate remark
on the outside OF envelopes, and t.
cover such remarks with q postage
stamp. Thus a young man may writ
a note which any young girl coul'
show to her mother, while at the sam
time he could use the most affection
ate language under cover OF a stamp
All the young lady has to do Is secret
ly to remove the stamp without de
stroying the writing underneath.
The cnnsnmption of chocolate i