The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-22
FACT AND FANCY.

tWo-tenthS seconds. u
Summer cottages In chrome ror.
will vie with the tawny sea-sands mi.
season. ons
Making envelopes out of straw 1.
per Is a new and tlourishing industry IN
Ireland. ~
Penjdeh is accurately written ana
pronounced Punjdeh, and means s.dvs
villages" W
The number of letters posted IN tha
world each year averages about Sd.
900, 600, 900.
The pine tree, says an authorize
serves as a refuge for more than 4oo
species of meets.
The cost of each saloon to the citv
Of indianapolis last year was S153. and
the license only $50.
The base ball clubs of this conntrv
it is estimated, will cost the peopIe
SIC, 900, 900 this year.
Thirteen hundred new BUILDINGS
worth about "a, 000, 900, were erected
in Washington last year.
Some genius has invented a fishing
rod that registers the precise number
and weight OF the fishes caught.
Mexican soldiers are said to be Of
all shades of color, ranging from near.
ty a pure white 10 a perfect black.
A r~eal-estate owner in San Francisco
adds TO his large income from that
source by peddling fruit about the
city.
A wealthy timber merchant has had
his coat-of-arms painted on his carri-
age with the Latin motto "Vidi''-I
saw.
Coal mining machines capable Of
doing the work of twenty men are
being introduced in the Panhandle
mines.
The pyrometer, an instrument in
which heat is measured by the expan-
sion of metals, will accurately mea-
sure heat up to 1000 degrees.
Every penitentiary in Texas is pro-
yided with a kennel of three or more
fierce b~loodhounds for the purpose Of
hunting and capturing escaped pris-
oners.
A train composed of two cars OF
gold bullion, three cars of silver, eight
cars of silk and four cars of tea, is on
it's way east from California and Col
orado.
An iror car-wheel will travel about
10000 miles. A steel tire will run
200, 900 miles, costing two and a half
times as much and running more than
four times as long as an iron wheel
A Philadelphia minister has even
exceeded MI. Gifford's denuneiation
of pleasure. He condemns not only
skating -rinks and theaters, but all
church fairs and festivals, and says:
cts a shame that whenever money
has to be raised for church purposes
some people think it can't be done IN.
less they must have a little fun over 1T.
The tunneling of Tuscarora noun
tain, in Fulton county, Pennsylvania,
is a gigantic work. Drills propelled
by compressed air are in operation on
each end of the tunnel night and day.
The tunnel is already bored 1,2OO feet
on the west side and 1860 on the east.
AS the mountain is calculated to be
just one mile through the boring IS
now half completed.
An effort has recently been made TO
measure the dimensions and speed OF
deep-sea waves with marked success
The longest wave recorded measured
a half-mile from crest to crest, with q
period of twenty-three seconds. waves
having a length of five hundred TO SIX
hundred feet and periods OF ten 70
twelve seconds are the ordinary storm
waves of the north Atlantic ocean.
1t is not generally known that YER
mont has a gold mine. 1t is called tae
Rocks and is located at plymouth.
From annual report it appears that tne
mine produced from September, 1900,
to January, 1885, S68,070 in gold, ana
paid four dividends aggregating S4o,,
900, the yield varying between 700 %
and $50 SO: while the cost declined
$40 15 to 81 20 per ton for mining aho
milling. 800.
A colered preacher in the outskiIts
of Columbia, S. c., notified his congIe'
cation on a recent Sunday that ~
would not preach till he had %. Inc
hat was passed round, and when e
turns were made 49, 5 was in the POI,
w~hereupon the preacher said he mus.
have $3.50 more before ne wouie
preach. The hat vas passed aroun'
the second time, and the 30 MADE W
when the congregation was treated :
one of the best efforts of the tnrii''
pastor. ,oo,
From recent surveys it has pee
ascertained that the entire city Oh an
ginia, Nevada, has moved over shi
inches to the east since the big are :
1876. The Maynard block, In Goias,
Hill, is known to be gradually snuin'
down in the direction of Gold CANYON
and has moved nearly two feet slne
its erection. This movement y :
gradual that it does not affect N az !
manner the safety of the building, :
the cround 10 the depth of nearly On