The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-10

porting $500, OOO people, providing the
land be divided up into 160-acre farms
and allowing eight persons to each
farm.
The volunteering movement in the
British colonies has swept into the
ranks some men of the stamp of those
who went to the front in 1861. In the
Australian regiment at Suakim is a law
Yer with e., 900 per nnu professional
income, who did not know any better
than to volunteer for active service.
There is not much alarm about the
cholera in the United States, but states
and municipal organizations are en-
deavoring to starve off the disease by
adequate sanitary work.
Interest in politics increases in Ger
many. There were $50, 1877 more vot-
ers, allowing for all increase in popula-
ton, who went to the poll in 1884 than
in 1881. OF this increase the Social
Democratic party polled 248, 029 votes.
A raider on the use of tobacco de-
clares that, in addition to the narcotic
effect of the poison, there is a
large amount of creosote in the
fumes, such as eats through the
pipe of furnace or kills the nerve of O
tooth. IT stupeies and poisens. 1t
renders the voice husky. Tobacco Gre
ates a thirst for alcoholic drink. It's
influence on youth and on those of sed-
entary habits is particularly destruct-
i've.
Pneumonia fills Boston with alarm,
and the fact that a large majority of the
226 deaths in the city resulted from
this disease, many of the victims being
prominent and wealtey people, possess
ing every advantage in the way of skill
full treatment and careful nursing,
shows the necessity Of physicians max
ing the causes and cure of this terrible
malady a subject of searching investi-
CATION.
Experts in wheat estimates figure the
yield this year at 413, 0OO, 900 bushels,
and 121 900 900 bushels left over, MAX
ing a supply of 534, 600, 900 bushels for
the next crop year, against a home on
sumption Of 315, 900, 900. This gives
219, 600, 900 bushels for export; and the
estimates for the supply of the foreign
demand, even III case of the limitation
of Russian and Indian exports on &C
count of war, is about 140, 900, 900 bush
els, leaving on hand about so, 600, 900
bushels of surplus. These estimates are
based on the probability that the spring
wheat crop will be the same as last year.
A Litchield county correspondent
writing of manner and customs in that
section fifty years ago says that "com-
mon people didn't own stoves then; they
rented them of the rich for % cents a
month. DR.. Gatiin, or Litchfied, had
quite a number that he rented. We
well remember seeing him staff around
for miles to collect stoverent. There
were no clocks in schoolhouses the
teachers had noon-marks on the win.
dow-sill; when the sun struck the mark
it was noon If it was cloudy, they guess
ed noon. There were clocks in but
few families in those days."-Hartford
(Ct.) Times.
Every trade has its tricks, says the
Philadelphia Bulletin, and that Of the
the halter is 10 exception. just now
it is dangerous for an economical man to
take his last winter silk hat TO be IRON
ed and made fit for a spring campaign.
His hope of thus STAYING off the purchase
of a new piece Of Leadwear is apt to
prove futile. Why? Because the hat
dealer is determined that he shall
purchase a new one, and, while the
ironer irons, he iron in such a manner
as to crack and break the hat, and when
it is returned to the owner, though it
may shine as a mirror, it has as many
seams in it as it would had it been sat
upon.
For early squash the bush or patty
pan is the best. They may be put out
at any time after warm weather begins.
This vegetable is often destroyed by
the striped bug, and the proper method
to pursue in order to prevent their at
tacks is to place coal tar in water and
keep the plants well s~prinkled with the
solution. They may be allowed to
grow until fully matured, but the
squashes should not become too hard
before being pulled. Pull them before
they begin to turn yellow. Stick the
point OF the finger nail in them, and
II the flesh yields easily they are just
right.
In regard to the education ofwomen q
radical change has come over Europe
during the past few years. In 1870 wom-
en- we're first admitted to the University
of Sweden. In Russia women may now
pursue their studies in all the great uni
versities. Last year for the first time