Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-07-11
GLEANINGS.

GLEANINGS.
The only way to tell o good cigar is
to smoke it. Color has nothing to do
with it.
The Mormons have increased in this
country between 500 and 600 per cent
since 1850.
A Paris publisher is said to have the
skull of Richelieu carefully preserved
in a velvet case.
The pearl fisheries off the Lower Cal
ifornia coast are said to have produced
Sl5. DOC, 600 last year.
A Georgian claims to have perfected
a continuance for running street cars
by a quicksilver motor.
During the past sixteen years $780,
100000 worth of property has been de-
stroyed by fire in Canada
A harpoon of the pattern made over
captured neal Coos Bay recently.
General Gordon was never married.
He was q handsome man in face and
figure and of rare personal charm.
There are more than seven million
farmers in the United States, or nearly
one-eighth of the entire population.
In some provinces of Brazil iron ore
is used in large quantities as building
stone, so abundant and ready to handle
is it.
Iowa contains more persons who can
read and write in proportion to her
population than any other state in the
Union.
So high-priced have been peaches for
the past two seasons that 500 new
peach orchards have been set out in
Delaware within a year.
An authority on the subject says that
a dog show is called a .'bench show"
because the cage kennels in which dogs
are exhibited are located on benches.
There are in England over 800, 600
cyclists, and the capital invested in the
manufacture OF bicycles and ~tricycles
is S15, 600, 900, employing 5000 per-
ons
A New York chemist asserts that in
every 100 pounds of green tea used in
this country the consumer drinks moro
than a halt pound of Prussian blue and
gypsum.
The attendance in the public schools
OF England has risen in a few years
from 1000, 900 to 5000, DOC. Juvenile
crime has greatly diminished in conse
quence.
There are published in Honolulu four
English daily newspapers, four English,
tArcc native one Chinese and one Port
uguese weeklies, and three English and
one native monthlies.
Charles O'Conor enunciated the prin-
cip,e that "a reporter should get all
the news he can and give it to the
world, but a lawyer should get all the
news he can and keep it to himself"
An infdel colony in Missouri, after
five years experience, is falling to
pieces. The people are continually
wrangling. and Its a wise child that
knows its W father in that town.
When Mr.. Cleveland went to select
a pew in the Washington church which
he attends he was asked what part of
the building he would like to sit in.
"'Well," he said, II don't want to be
SO near the minister that he can see
whether or not l am listening"
The saddle which General Grant rode
in from all tho battles from Fort Henry
in February, 1862, until the surrender
at Appomattox, is now the property of
Colonel a. H. MARYLAND, to whom it
was presented by the General himself,
and it is kept in the Soldiers Home at
Dayton, Ohio.
John Lcveridge, born in New York
| (Ety in 100 oIvp;ttol 70 %ko ho~ -
1872, and a soldier of the war of 1912,
is the oldest member of the New York
bar. He is still, at ninety-fve years of
age, in active practice, and has a son
sixty-eight years Of age, who is also a
lawyer Of repute.
In France criminals under sentence
of death are never told of the date fix
ed Tor their death. They are informed
of nothing until the fatal morning, when
they are awakened to be led forth to
execution, which event usually takes
place about 4 o'clock, or in the winter
season as soon as it is light.
The diary of Lieut.. Lockwood, of the
Greedy expedition, is being transcribed
by an expert lady stenographer in
Philadelphia. lie wrote his journal en-
tirely in shorthand. His account of
the life in the Arctic region is thought
to be an interesting story. The tran
scription is almost completed.
} A dim light and rest from reading
are not always helpful to the eyes, as
the examples in the Russian prisons
prove. The deprivation of books and
gloom of the cells almost destroy the
eyesight of the prisoners. Their eyes
become intlamed, the lids swell and are
opened only with great difficulty.
Fractional Scrip.
. For sale, a piece of soldiers additional
that will pay for II acres. INQUIRE of D,