Sun River sun., 1885-01-01
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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North Carolina is one Of thd origi-
nal thirteen States, yet tho largest
city within its borders has only 10000
population.
Minors and married women are now
allowed to open accounts in French
Government saving banks without
authority Of their parents oe husbands.
Emma Nevada, who in private lifo
: is Miss Wexom, is now quite the So
cial craxo in that Murrao Hill which
shuts its doors TO Bernhardt, Langtry,
and Adelinc Patti.
The Philadelphia Press has stuck n
new idea. It says: For governor Of
Utah: Miss Kate Field Of Massachu-
sotts. There Is no joke about this
gentlemen; We mean what VIC say: We
mean it seriously.
The sum Of 5000 was paid recently
one walnut tree near Tazewell, in Vir-
ginia. So hugo was tho tree that the
| purchasers, who were lumbermen,
made considerable profit.
The venerable Edwin p. Whipple
Of Boston has venturyd upon verit
able mot in remarking to Hiss Kate
Field at the conclusion Of one OF hei
Mormon lectures: II do not think
your enunciation is half US beautiful
rs your denuuciation.'
Crippled boys are taught by tho
| New York Children's Aid Society to
make II living by making brushes.
They are paid tho regular price for
brush hands and in a short time have
learned the trake, becoming usefu!
members of society instead Of bog.
f! ging or stealing, Us they might do if
loft 10 themselves.
The late DR.. Rabbeth, who lost his
life in endcavoring to save that Of {
d;phtheritic patient, is to have his
noble SO. vices comnemorated by tho
establishment OF medal ut tho Uni
vcrsity of London, medal, scholar
ship or prize at Kings College ana
tho Royal Free Hospitals and the
erection OF suitable tablets upon the
walls OF these buildings.
The Bayard family has been well
represented in tho Senate Of the
United States. The grandfather, faith
er and uncle Of the present Senator
crcditably served their respective
terms, and the present Senator Bay
ard and his father were members Of
the Senate ut tho same time. This is
tho only instance on record where the
father and The son represented the
same State Mt tho same time time in
the Senate.
A prominent gentleman OF Wash
ington denies the story that W. S.
Dorsey paid 100000 to r. G. Inger-
soil for lawyer fees. "rho fact is
said tho gentleman, that Dorsey
has never paid Ingersoll cent 10.
tho work kc did for him, When the
last trial was over and Dorsey stood q
ftce man no asked Ingersoll for his
bill. The latter replied that he had
no bill to present-that it had boon
with him labor Of love. lie believ-
ed Dorsey to be an innocent man who
was in danger OF suffering great III
justice, great wrong. Subsequent
ly Ingersoll lent Dorsey money and
rendered him greet assistance in pre-,
venting tho Bosler family from taking
his ranch property away form him"
Says the New York Commercial
Advertiser: Paupers arc so plentiful.
in Germany that the government has
had special census made them. The
figures gro frishtiel, thought they do
not include the round million OF mel
who, as soldiers in the standing army,
are fed, clothed and lodged by the
government. It will perhaps occur
to European Governments some time
OF other That the procticc OF with
drawing most Of the able-bodisa mon
Of u country from productive industry
to maintain them in idleness in order
that the country may always be read!
to interfere with lis ncighdor,' con
GERS costs good deal more than il il
worth.
Lord Bradford exercises careful,
guardianship over the Royal OAK a.
Boscobcl, discards as ridiculous the
story that it is not the original trc
in which King Charles wss hid. g
have known the tree myself" ke
says, "for half a ccnturp, and it looks
now very much as it did fifty years
since. Nearly as long ago rs that, /
remember my fathor speaking of the
absurd stories then current as to the
owl flying out of the decayed tree, the
present tree being an acorn from thl