Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-11-07
MISSING

Patti is writing q book OF memoirs.
Mrs. Mackey's sapphircs are the fin
EFT worn in England.
All the relatives of ex-Vice President
Wheeler have died during the past ten
years.
Copperas mixed with the whitewash
put upon the cellar-walls will keep YER
min away.
Miss Nellie Arthur is said to be
growing prettier and more charming
every day.
A daughter of E. z. Roe. the novel
list, who is yet in her teens, has already
begun to write stories.
1t has been figured out that $780,
100000 passengers were carried by the.
worlds railways in 1882.
Prince Louis of Battenberg is a prac-
teal printer and frequently uses the
stick and rule for amusement.
Henry Irving agreed with IN English
photographer not to have any pictures
taken during his American tours.
Margaret Weston. Dakota's weather
prophet. is one hundred ard ten years
Of age. She is old enough to know bet
ter.
According to an eminent Southern
authority on barbecucs it takes ten
hours to roast a whole OK to perfec-
ton.
Sarah Bernhardt is said 10 be seized
with a laudable desire to get out of
debt Sarah is evidently becoming a
real good girl. ~
A Philadelphia woman, one hundred
and eight years old, is cutting q new
set of teeth and has recently regained
her eyesight.
Museum managers are tempting q
Wisconsin girl to exhibit the horns
which are concealed by a careful ar
rangement of her hair.
Edward Everett Hale says he has
cured eight OF his children of whooping
cough by taking them to the gas fac
tories of South Boston.
Berry Wall, who is called liking of
the Dudes in New York. manages to
| spend an income of $4,000 a year in
keeping up that reputation.
Lady Coleridge. the bride of the Lord
Chief Justice OF England, is a blonde,
with u rather pretty oval face, and is
said to be musical in her tastes.
Figurc-heads for ships and steam
boats are going q Of use. Where in
1860 there were in Boston six carvers
OF these heads, now there is only one
The best way of SOLDERING up is to
battle the head and wrists in cold wa
| kov n~l eoEn n notion 0f hrcv,i(o ~
potassium and aromatic ammonia or
valerian.
That old device of novel aud drama,
a blotting pad that retains an impress
sion of u missing document, has actual
ly turned up as evidence in a real Cali
fornia lawsuit.
There is capital to the amount Of
500, 900, 600 invested in the watch and
clock interest in tho United States, and
the bwclers' Circular wants a school
for horologists established.
By sowing a bushel of salt to the acre
a Fayette County, Missouri, farmer be-
lieves he has succeeded in keeping his
average of twenty-five bushels. OF
wheat to the acre maintained for
years.
In Brazil there are at least six can
nibal tribes and others whose customs
it is for mothers to eat their dead chill
drcn, pounding up the bones with
maize. the mourning lasting till all is
consumed.
There is still much debate as to the
extent to which iron and steel should
be strained when testing for manufac-
turc into boilers, girders, bolts. etc.
but. a sort of general agreement has
been arrived at that the Test stress
ought not to d less than one-third OF
more than one-half Of the ultimate
strength of the material.
A topic of discussion in Boston is as
to whether a person, when riding in an
open street car, should move away
from tho end seat so that a newcomer
may not be obliged to squeeze past
1t is held to be selfish for a man t,
> cling to such a seat throughout q Ions
: ride while ladies in spotless gown!
! push past him in and out. Move up!'
is the cry.
The first known painting of Niagar;
Falls is said to be at the South Kens
ington Museum. 1t was painted by
Massachusetts man named Wickers
from whom it vas stolen, sold to a,
Englishman, and lost sight Of. 1t ha
: some merit as a painting and a goo,
deal as q historic record of the appear
8 ance of the falls before houses wer
81 built near them.
A San Francisco correspondent O
the St. Louis Globe Democrat write
that, in his declining years, the lat
Mark Hopkins built a huge Gothic cas-
. tie on the very summit of Mob Hill
One day, walking past the house, Ii
looked up at it, and, turning to an at
:, tcndant, growled IL I "Who is the foo
:, that is putting good money into tina
}, ugly housep" He had forgotten hi
own place.
1t is said that when Lord Beacons
: field, out OF office, solaced himself b
publishing ''Endymion'' aud made on
< OF his characters. Waldcrsharc, Undo
n Secretary for Foreign Affairs, the pc
y sition then held by Sir CHARLES Dixie
G he evidently Intended to picture tn
statesman who has just suffered Il par
e tial and SAVED himself from Il: tota
eclipse by The payncnt Of Sl25.00 t
9 the ininred lord a. y ia'l,
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