The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-02-13
Headless ~Condensations.

Clear away these sycamores, cotton
woods and willows and the voyager set
ting forth from Cairo at this time would
appreciate the magnitude of the inland
a The Mississippi, at its junction
with the Ohio, extends from the hills of
Kentucky + the higher land of Missouri,
a distance of twelve miles In perhaps its
narrowest part. When the bottoms give
it opportunity to spread itself on both
sides, the width ranges up to twenty
five miles or more. Let it be remem-
bered that there is a downward rent
over all this great expanse.
A man at Fish Greek, WA, says he
caught a sir -roomed frame house, well
filed with bedding and fine furniture,
during the food, which he towed on to
the site of his house that had just float
ed of. In one of the bureau drawers he
found SO In gold, some valuable papers
and lots of nice clothes, none of which
was greatly injured. The papers indi-
cate that the house came from Oil City.
The house cat and red bird we're still
alive, but the poodle and canary were.
dead.
There are some interesting facts dis
closed by the statistics of a French So
cial philosopher. He finds that while
out of every 1000 divorces granted
throughout Europe, 1S4 are granted to
persons between whose ages there is on
ly the usual difference there are of girls
twenty-five or years Younger then
their husbands only ten who obtain di-
Yorces to the thousand granted.
Ia a recent number OF the New York
Independent, the Rev. DIR. Dorchester
publishes statistics that while the con-
sumption of alcoholic drinks In the
United States sixty years ago was five
gallons per capita, it is now only two
gallons per capita. They show also
that the average quantity of spirits
drunk In 1902 was 81, AIT 900 gal
Ions and in 1902, IL ,224 900 gal
Ions. This is IN increase of only five
per cent. instead of thirty per cent.
to correspond with the increase Of pop
ulation.
Cancer very seldom trouble persons
under 80, usually appearing between
the ages Of As and so. It is more FREE
quent among woman than among men.
amongthe poor than among the rich.
It is very rare In tropical countries, and
almost unknown among the orders Of
monks, a circumstance ascribed to their
abs thence from meat, while il is most
common IN the central part of Europe.
where most meat is eaten. Immoral
infunce tend toward its production
when they have a bad effect on the di-
gestive organs.
Baltimore oyster dealers do an an
nual business Of about Sid, 600 600.
The largest house In the city, and the
whole world also, opens 1000 bushels
per day, while the average trading
house opens 400. From 10000 70
25 900 men and women are employed
as ashuckers, = and make from ~ to s.
per day at it. 1t is beloved by Mary
land authorities that both the quantity
and quality Of Chesapeake Bay oysters
are lowering every year. and if soms
means are not devised TO protect the
oyster beds, it is feared that they vii
soon become exhausted and Baltimore's
trade gone forever.
Over 5000 plants are in the White
House Conservatory proper and $4,000
more are kept in the various hot-houses
This collection Includes plants from
every quarter Of the globe. and it costs
St. 900 pei year TO tend them. Ever.
room in the White House is decorated
every morning with fresh flowers and
hinge bouquet is made for the presi'
! dent.