The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-02-20


women Of the period in this city might
appropriately be called "Rushers"
rchiefy toward mischief. But he adds
that whan they marry they will turn
over new Leaf and settle down. And
Pie young men whom they marry will
SETTLE up.
DIR. Farr, an English scientist, says
if we take the march of 1000, 900 chill
dren through life, the following will be
the result Nearly 100, 900 will die tho
first year, SO, 600 the second year, $4,000
the third year, and less than 1000 in
the thirteenth year AT the end of 40
years 500, 900 will have died. At the
end of 60 years $40 900 will be still
living; at the end Of 90 years, $40, 600
viii be still living; at the end of80 years,
so, 900; at 85 years, $4,000, and at SO
years IS years, {, 100. At the end of 100
years there will be 223, and at the end
of 10S years there will be mi survivor.
A writer in the Wheeling intelligen-
Ger is sorely puzzled in his inability to
tell why it is that society allows q man
to place his arm around q young
lady's waist, and draw her to
him as with hooks of steel during q
dance, and yet shrieks with the widest
horror and dismay if by chance he is
caught in a similar position when the
pair are standing still.
Rev. James Freeman Clarke, in his
new volume, '.Anti-S Slavery Days" says
it was a long time before the north be-
lieved that the south was in earnest
when it threatened to secede after Lin
coin was elected. "I remember, +" said
Mr.. Clarke, "that Wendell Phillips
used to laugh at the idea. He said it vas
like a set of paupers in a poor house
saying that they were going to dissolve
their union with the town"
The starch sugar industry in the
United States consumes daily 10000
bushels of corn and produces grape
sugar and glucose syrup of the yearly
value Of $40, 000, 900. There are thirty
factories in the United States, furnish
ing their product to brewers and for
the manufacture Of table syrup and the
adulteration of cane sugar. 1t is also
largely used in confectionery, In can
ming fruits, making fruit i%ellies, and in
cooking. Artificial honey is made from
it, and so, also, is vinegar.
The finest rubies are found in Ava,
Siam and Peru; others are found in
India, Ceylon, Australia, Borneo and
Sumatra. The Burmese mines have
been famous; the working of them is a
royal monopoly, and the king has among
other titles that of Lord of the Rubies.
The Brazilian ruby is declared to be a
pink topaz, inferior to the true ruby,
yellow in it's natural state, and colored
artifcially.
"The ingenuity of newspaper editors, I"
says the Pail Mall Gazette. "is often
sorely tied by correspondents demand
ing answer to questions which it would
take more than twenty-four hours a day
10 answer. Various as they are, and
dull as the sense of the ridiculous must
eventually grow at the astounding inno-
cence of the questioner, there is some
times a query at which even a grim jour
nalist cannot forbear to smile. A Hun
garian lady, for instance, fond of recita-
tion, recently wrote 20 q leading Ger
man newspaper inquiring whether, in
reciting Z. A. Poe's ell-known poem
The Raven the refrain Nevermore'
should, in reciting, be spoken or croaked,
1t was seriously meant.
New York claims to have more than
a thousand women who speculate in
stocks, grain. oil, whiskey, and every
other way known to the sterner sex, but
brokers, as a rule, refuse their custom.
The reason for this was expressed by
a broker thus; Their risks are small,
and If they lose-phe-w-w!" aBut sup
posing they make a hit?" WELL, then
they grow confidential. They tell you
they Kew it was coming SO. They
dreamed of q black cat or a baby cried
twice in its sleep or something like that.
They swear by their dreams, TIA wom-
in has o certain dream and puts her
money on that dream, and then the mar
ket goes the wrong way, why she has
then been swindled by the operator"
The late Charles Reade is quoted by
Don Piatt, in the Sunday Courier, as
saying that American jokes were exag-
gerations, with a cheerful disregard Of
all that the rest of the world regards
with solemn respect. He told, in iliius-
t~ration, Of an item he had read in one Of
our newspapers to the effect that Mr..
Jacob Tomkins, an old and valued citi-
zen, had entered q forge the day before,
with a pound Of powder In his coat tail,
and shortly after went out quite unex
pectedly through q hole in the roof.
"Do you know" exclaimed the novelist,
"that-if such a statement of u shocking
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