Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-01-31

-r% G~LEANINGS. .
Z The tobacco crop of this year will be
larger and better than ever before. Its
value will probably reach $50,OOO,0o
The assessed value of real estate in
New York State is $3, ola, 900, 900. Al
most half of this is in New York Coun-
ty.
A New York firm makes coffin han
dies by the ton, in hundreds Of styles.
Its product is marketed in every civil
lied country.
At Hartwell, Ga, a negro married
his third wife before No. 2 was buried.
No. 8 went with him to the funeral Of
her predecessor.
Tradesmen in Madagascar who give
short weight must pay q fine of five
oxen and $5, or 60 to prison and. work
in chains for a year.
The School of Architecture in Paris
has lately admitted Miss Laura White,
an American girl, and q sister of Hon.
j.. ID. White, of Kentucky.
It is asserted that the chief substances
used in adulterating beer are hemlock
and soda, with a little rice malt to give
it body and hold the foam. .
A new steamer has been built for the
Cunard Line, which, it is claimed, will
make the trip across the Atlantic in six
days and beat everything on the ocean.
There is said to be not a single in
stance on record where employees of
railroads have stolen tickets from their
respective companies and escaped ar
rest.
Whalebone is becoming more valu-
able every year, and is now worth
about $4.5 a pound. We're it not for
the bone whale-fshing would no longer
be profitable.
Ephraim Keyser, a young artist,
whose home is in Baltimore, but who is
now in Rome, has been designated as
the sculptor of the monument to Baron
De Kalb, to be erected in Annapolis
under the act Of Congress of 1883.
Keely says his new force is not at all
similar to electricity. He once expert
mented with it on 5000 feet of wire
and produced q current of sufficient
power to punch holes in pasteboard at
the other end of the conductor.
Lord Tennyson is represented to be
furious over the determination of a
New York publishing house to include
in a new edition of his works all the
earlier poems which he suppressed,
particularly the one satirizing Bulwer
Lytton.
The Brooklyn bridge expanded over
twelve inches at the hip-ioint in the
center during M hot day this summer.
With the $500 tons of iron in the sup
er~structure and the heavy planking it
works freely and is wonderful for its
delicacy.
The Graphic tells of a proud young
man who vas too vain to take off his
cork leg when he went in bathing be-
fore his lady friends. The memorable
law of gravitation turned him upside
down, and he wa drowned in sight OF
the fair mes he had hoped to charm.
Having lost the whole of both legs
in the war, and subsequently living in
poverty for twenty years on his PEN
sion, a Nashville man hit upon the idea
of making a side-show curiosity of him.
self by attaching deceptive wax feet to
his stumps and figuring as a freak OF
nature. He is To- prosperous.
The value of the %cocoanut as food is
as yet but little understood. An in
stance of its use g found in the exper.
fence of two shipwreckcd sailors. They
were seven years on an island where
their only food was cocoanuts and ar
occasional flying fish. They retained
good health and gained in weight.
The latest novelty in bouquets was
carried by The Princess of Wales At Q
ball after the races at Goodwood. II
was of roses, and in the middle of il
was concealed a miniature electric
lamp, the light from which cou d be
turned on at will by means of a little
switch in the form Of a lady's brooch.
Cafes, beer saloons, shops, stalls,
etc, are proposed for Brooklyn Bridge.
It is argued that by this means the
bridge trustees could secure enough re-
ceipts to make up the present deficiency
in the finances. If the plan be adopted
visitors to New York may soon be able
to see a modern reproduction of old
London Bridge.
An ingenious farmer makes scare.
crows out of old tin cans-tomato cans
and the like-by rigging them up with
a bit of old iron suspended in them like
the tongue of a bell, and hanging them
up in a corn-field, where the wind will
set them ringing, making such an I'm.
usual and unexpected noise that. crows
will not dare remain in the field.
Another Florida lake has disappeared
through a s~ubterranean outlet. Pea.
cock Lake in Suwanee County, a favor.
lite resort for picnics and sportsmen,
on account of its beautiful surrounding
and the abundance o. fine trout, has
disappeared through a hole in the
ground, leaving thousands of dead fish
for the buzzards to prey upon and con
taminate the air.
Henry Marston, one of the best known
men in New Orleans, likes to tell about
q visit once made by him in company
with his father to General Washington
then President. Mr.. Marston, now
past n~inety-one years, says that young
as he was at the time of the memorable
visit the features Of the great man were
fixed so strongly in his mind that hi
never will forget them.
Theo. Voruz, of Antioch, Kan,
writes that he has a petriied bird nest
which became-so through the action o:
water in a small stream near his home
In the water is a white stony substance
which adheres to all objects thrown in
fo tho ctroom The otrow in tho for