The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-17
Current Matters.

While England, with apopulationo OF
10000, 600, has only 5, SOC students at
Oxford and Cambridge, Germany, with
4 population of As, 100000, has 25,-
boo students attending her UNIVERSE
ties.
1t is predicted that theivory supply
Of Central. Africa viii not last more
than ten or fifteen years longer. It's
exhaustion viii be q good thing for
Africa, because thenatives will not de-
vote themselves to the development Of
the natural resources of the country
SO long as they can find tusks. The
sooner the ivory is gone. therefore, the
better for Africa and the Africans.
Mason and Dixon's line, which has
cut such a figure in our political his
tory, was originally 300 miles long,
and was marked by stone posts at in
tervals of one mile. twas the bound
airy line between the state of Pennsyl-
vania and the states Of Maryland and
Virginia, and the name is derived from
its surveyors, Charles Mason and Jere-
miah Dixon. In 1920 the line was x
tended to the western boundary Of
Missouri. This is known as the Henry
Clay compromise.
Concerning the perfumery manufac-
tories at Nice and Cannes it is reliably
stated that these establishments an
nually crush and squeeze no less than
$4,000 pounds of orange blossoms,
1920 pounds of acacia blossoms,
$4,000 pounds Of rose leaves, 5000
pounds Of jasmine blossoms, $4,000
pounds of violets, $500 pounds Of
tuberoses ard a relatively large
amount of Spanish lilacs, rosemary,
mint, lime and lemon blossoms, thyme
and numbers of otherplants and leaves
and flowers.
In anticipation OF a clean sweep, the
postmaster Of Golden, Col, has post
ed up the following notice IN the door
of his Office: 81 have toget out ofthis
shebang about lst of August coming,
and / want to close out all fthis store
truck before that time, and if any OF
you have the welfare cf a fellow-being
at heart, and arefona fagood smoke,
walk right up TO the counter and drop
your shekels-you will never get anoth
er such chance"
The so-called seven wonders of the
world are: First, the Pyramids Of
Egypt; second, the Pharos of Alexan.
dria; third, the walls and hanging gar.
dens of Babylon; fourth, heTempleoi
Diana at Ephesus; fifth, the statue Of
the 0lympian Jupiter; sixth, the Maus-
oleum of Artemisia; seventh, the olos'
sus of Rhodes.
For the seventeen states of Europe
the total Of the armies on apeacefoot-
ing is 2,529,532 men. Calculating
their wages at so. cents per day, and
emitting the holidays, we have q sum
of $187. so per annum for each man.
Multiplying this sum by z, 500 500, the
total comes to $474, 1O2,8 75 per an
mum. Adding to this the total Of the
seventeen war budgets, which is $685.
363, 910, the total loss suffered by
Europe annually on account OF her
armies is 1882, 574,26O.
The New York Sun says ~ofthebench
show OF dogs at the Madison Square
Garden: Ladies' pets were numer
Gus, and were almost without excep-
ton the ugliest dogs in the show, Mrs.
Frederic NELSON'S bull terrier, which
took a first prize, being phenomenally
so. The mild faced collies, the mag
nificent st. Demands, who may justly
be called the kings of the kennel, and
the soft-eyed, intelligent red settlers oi
Ireland are all passed unnoticed by the
fair sex, while fox hounds, poodles,
bull terriers and Chinese monstr0sities
are taken to their hearts and laps.
But fashion must necessarily govern
the tastes and direct the affections Of
society women in the choice Of a:lap
dog, as well as in the capture Of an eli.
gible husband or the selection OF g
hunter