The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-24

Inc longest bridge III the worlds the
Maintenon Aqueduct. 16, 367 feet; the
next is Victoria Bridge, over the st.
Lawrence, 9,437 feet ;..the third, Parkers-
burg Bridge, West Virginia, 7,045 feet,
Brooklyn Bridge, $3.50 feet.
Among other wonderful things found
by a number of descriptive writer's in
Wyoming Territory are a mountain OF
solid hermatite iron, q mile wide, two
miles long and 600 feet high, a bed of
Ignite coal big enough to warm the
world for several centuries, eight lakes
of solid soda, and a great petroleum
basin from which oil is oozing all the
time.
The mountain of ice at Parker's Glen,
N. y, is reaching colossal proportions
and is o remarkable sight. 1t is now
from seyenty-fiye to eighty feet high
and in circumference it measures two
hsaarea aud fifty feet. 1t is similar
In grandeur to the famous column at
the Katerkill Falls, in the Catskill
Mountains, and hundreds of sightseers
have visited 1t. The little stream Of
water at its top steadily trickles down its
sides and as steadily adds to the column.
The London papers state that until
the present year, since the production of
the "Beggars' Opera" in 1877, London
has not been without italian opera at
Easter. The Standard adds that Ger
man opera is as dead in England as is
Italian, and that music in that country
must assume q new character in the fu-
ture.
Experience las indeed shown that q
perfectly ..hoalthy community, main
tanning within itself pure morals and
normal habits Of life, may closely inter-
marry with impunity, and aver in some
cases with positive benefit. But it is
equally clear that opposite conditions
will lead to opposite results; that is to
say, an unsound and morally depraved
people will transmit their weakness In
an exaggerated form, leading to final
degeneracy and ruin"
A Canandaigua On. " lady has been
selected to act as g~overness for one of
the daughters of the King Of the Sand
witch Islands.
Through the death of Lord Cairns
there is snow not a single law lord in re-
ceipt of a pension as an ex-lord chan
%cellor, a state of things which is unpre-
cedenred in English history for nearly
sixty years, An ex-chancellor's pension
is $25 900 a year.
The sign Of Libby prison is in the
possession of Edward J. Bartlett, Of
Concord, Mass. He took it from its
place on the building on the morning
of the first occupation of Richmond by
the Union troops The sign is u small
ne, made of tin, and bears simply the
words, Libby g. Co."
President Cleveland at church" says
a member of his congregation, lis an at
tentiye listener. He prays in an audi
bic undertone, sings in a clear baritone
voice. and is not addicted 10 the habit of
turning in his seat to look at late corners.
Altogether he is a modest churchman.n
About G year. ago an English gentle
man, travelling in Germany, came
across an officer employed in superin-
tending some details of military railroad
transport. He had been a captain dur
ing the Franco German wal and allowed
his company to be surprised. After
being imprisoned for eighteen months
he was placed in the military railroad
transport service, and told that he was
never to receive promotion. Being sur-
prised by an enemy is regarded as the
ono objectionable sin by the Germans.
United States Senator Warner Mil
Ter, Of New York, has returned from
New Orleans, and the Syracuse Journal
fnotes him as saying: There seems
TO be a general stirring up Of the south
ern country, in o business sense, largely
in consequence of the Exposition. Lit
has been in the nature of a revelation
to the south of her own and
power which she has never before real
lied. In this result alone it has been
worth all the money expended on It by
the government.
"Ouidap is the p~seudonym of Louisa
de la Rame, an English novelist, born
at Bury st. Eamunds, Suffolk county
Eng, about 1910. She is Of French
extraction. Her pen name originated
In q childish INSTRUMENTATION of Lou
lisa. She has written a great many nov
els. among the best known being
"Strathmore ""Cnandos, ~Uuder Two
Flags" Moths" I'm Marx NINA, /"
Wanda"
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