Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-08-22

Some of the most famous women o.
tho world were old maids.

tho world were old maids.
Tho membership of the Grand Army
of the Republic is 800, O00.
There are four foundries in New
York City at which large bronze stat
ues can be cast.
Coffee without sugar. after rising in
the morning. is regarded as an effectu-
al remedy for chills, fever and disor-
ders incident to malaria.
1t is estimated that within a radius
OF fifteen miles of New York there are
600 lawn-tennis clubs. with Il combined
membership exceeding 20. OOO.
Could our grandmothers but see the
gilded roses and golden rosebuds which
adorn the fashionable headgear thew
would. indeed. think things had
changed. In their time, gold, tinsel
The Sandwich Islands send 5000
bushels of bananas to San Francisco
per month. but the price has been so
low since June OF last year that many
raisers have lost heavily and are going
out of business.
In Arizona M Northern Mexico ex-
periments are making with the castor
bean for the manufacture of oil. The
estimates give 1000 plants to the acre.
which produce 600 pounds, worth $3.50.
An oil factory is contemplated at Tuc-
son, A. T., provided sufficient beans
a be contracted for.
President Seelcy has announced q
remarkable ten years of Smiths college
existence. Beginning with IA students,
the college o has $40 on its rolls;
and during the ten years there has
been recorded but one death among
the students and graduates, that death
resulting from an accident by drown
ing.
The Berlin Aquarium has at last ac-
compiished the difficult feat of show
ing a school OF live herring in its salt
water basin. These fish are so delicate
that when caught in their native elc-
mcnt eve u moments exposure to the
air will kill them. They had, there
fore, to be caught under water and be
carefully transported from the sea-
board.
One of the peculiar incidents grow
ing out of the trial of Cluverius for the
murder of Miss Madison was tho dis
cOvery that the French word claviers
has for one of its meanings "kcy-
chains" 1t will be remembered that
the name Cluverius was invariably
| pronounced Claviers by the people
from that section of the country, and
that the finding of the watch-key was
an important link in the chain Of cir
o,,,.y,rt:,l npil,a, chat lad a. l,:,
conviction.
Miss Roundabout lives in the coun-
try, and her fathers farm extending
over several miles, part of it is rented
to colored families, who also live on it.
AS a rule, they are a. thrifty people,
but II family amuses as we'll as an
noys the landlady's daughter by its
shiftlessncss. Not long since, when
eggs We're Very scarce, II of the chill
dren came to her and asked if she
would please lend mother ni,H eggs To
make ZIP u 0>zen.
The tomt.s Of Esther aud Movdccai
are in Il poor little shrine in Hamadan.
Persia. They are covered each 10y Il
wooden ark. on which are small pieces
OF paper Ike labels. covered with He
brew characters. They are placed
there by Hebrew pilgrims. All arc
under n small dome some fifty feet
high. The building is Of red bricks,
the walls much pat he'd with mud; the
b!ue dome is OF tiles. iIiese tomb, are
held sacred by all Hebrews in Persia.
and thousands make pi,grimages an
nuallv.
Miss Helen Gardner is 10 the female
world what lngersoll is to the male
creation. She is Il feminine iniidel who
is going around lccluring women. tell
ing them reasons Wy they should not
believe in Il God. She is described as
being a very pretty little woman. with
dark hair and eyes, and very white be-
ringed hands. There is one serious
defect in Miss Gardn6r's oratory which
destroys the effect Of her rhetoric, anu
will doubtless cripple her efforts to de-
stroy the Creator of the universe. She
talks thror,h her nose.
A lady in Brunswick, Ga. found a
nest of haif-grown hooking birds in
her yard recently. She succeeded in
capturing them. They were put in Il
temporary cage and the cage put in a
room. During the day the mother
bird flew into the room, and was read
lily caught and placed in the cage with
the bird. She began instantly to feed
them with the food which was in the
cage, and did not seem to notice the
Imprisonment. On the day following
the male bird flew into the room, and
offered no resistance nor showed any
signs of fight when the lady captured
him. He was put into the same cage,
and the lady now has the entire family.