The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-08-28
PASSING EVENTS.

rebuilt at Eden park for an art school.
A Danbury, Conn, man swallowed
a live frog several days ago for tive
bottles Of beer.
A proposition has been made to erect
q monument to Gen. Grant IN Buffalo,
N. T., by popular subscription.
The last blow to the roller-skatinc
rink has been given by a Philadelphia
physician, who says that roller-skating
enlarges the feet.
The Japanese have adopted the BIZ
cycle. and it has become popular there,
but the Chinese seem wholly incapable
of comprehending it.
1t is now claimed that birds as near
~ as possible initiate the nests in which
they were reared, and bring to the
work a sort of rudimentary education.
Prof. L. Z. Richards, the Yale pedes-
trian, has walked nineteen hundred
miles thus far this year for pleasure.
Last year he made twenty-ono hum
dred.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
is oon to open at Allegheny, for the
use Of its employees, q library, reading
room, bathrooms, and an assembly
hall.
Fifteen thousand people at the open
ing of the Chautauqua school, which
indicates that as a popular summer re-
sort the school is fast taking the place
of the camp meeting.
In a recent issue of a we'll known
French journal appeared the follow
ing advertisement: WANTED, a dis
tinguished and healthy looking man to
be cured patient in a doctors wait
ing-room. Address, etc."
As two men were fishing in a mill
pond at Valatte, Columbia county,
New York, the other day, they saw a
crocodile about six feet long crawl
insp the water. 1t was put into the
pond six years ago, when small.
The tribal government of the Chero-
KEGS is democratic in form, with an
elective chief magistrate and an up
per and lower house of representa-
tives. The judiciary is also elective,
and criminals are punished after the
name of the whites.
In a communication to the AcGdem-
te deS Sciences. M. Duclaux states the
presence of heterogeneous in the
earth is essential to the termination
of seed. His experiments were made
with plants whose seeds grow on the
surface as we'll as those which devel-
OPP in the ground.
In Tenejapa, Oaxaca, Mexico, the
Indian residents are more sanguinary
than the Chinese in the administra-
ton of justice. They surrounded the
houses OF seven well-known robbers,
and burned them alive in their houses.
When the militia arrived they only
found a heap of ashes.
Tracing paper may be made by i'm
mersing best tissue paper in a bath
composed Of %tarpcntine and bleached
beeswax. A piece of beeswax an inch
in diameter dissolved in half a pint of
turpentine is said 70 give good results.
The paper should be allowed to dry
for two or three days before using it.
Within o few days $50 omnibuses
have been sold at auction IN New York.
The hundred sold at the Madison
square stables went as low as an aver
g of $50, and one brought only S15.
At a later sale eighty Fifth venue
Stages DrougnJ an aVeraSe Oh SoV
each. AT these prices they were
cheap for the use of camping-out par
ties or travelling photographers.
Oar English Cousins.
LoyDoy.-In q recent trademark suit it
WAS shown by sworn evidence that over
nine million bottles of st. Jacobs Oil had
beeii sold here during the past few years.
Leading chemists certify that the sale of this
remedy exceeds that OF all others; and that
It is being recognized as the best pain-cure
ever discovered. In serious rheumatism it
has accomplished astonishing results.
For It's private WORK the Bank OF
Devils Lake, Dakota, has adopted a
rather peculiar but very suggestive
vignettc. The base is a sheaf of wheat,
on which rests a silver dollar, over