Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1885-08-26
WEDNESDAY, AUG. 26, 1855.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 2e, 1855.
The Hessian Fly is in the grain
fields of the Red River Valley.
An annual license of 5000 is I'M
posed upon skating Kinks in st. Paul.
st. Paul entertained large number
of Iowa and Southern Minnesota
guests last week.
From all accounts our friends Mt
Duluth are prepared to do an exten-
sive grain commission business the
coming season.
Martin Luther says: "Human
lives are often wrecked because they
do not employ all the means given
them to become happy"
The Iowa Democrats and Green
bankers have nominateda fusion tlck-
ct. Its success or failure will demon
strate the failure or success Of prohiol
ton in the state.
Not a single St.Paul preacher
preached u sermon on Gen. Grant or
mentioned the name of the dead
soldier on the Sunday when memori-
al services we're held elsewhere.
The experiment of having no bars
at the windows of the jamestown,
Oak, insane asylum is said to haye a
good effect upon the inmates. No at
tempts have as yet been made by any
of the patients to escape.
The Minneapolis Tribune mentions
the receipt of a ripe freestone peach
grown in the open air. OF medium
size, beautiful coloring, unusually
plump and juicy, and of delightful
flavor. 1t was grown on the Lake
Minnetonka farm of Mr.. 2. NJ. Gideon.
\ new design of the face of the
postal card will soon make Its appear
auce, and will be a decided improve
ment on the present design. The new
design wa, prepared at the bureau OF
engraving and printing and the print
ING ofthe new card will begin at once.
The editor of the Red Wing Repub-
licauthinks it is fun to stand on
street corner on a fine afternoon and
watch the men all rushing around try
ing to make money, and the women
all floating around trying to spend it.
That editor has a queer idea of what
funis.
The reduction of letter postage to
cents has caused falling off in the de.
mand tor postal cards. Since the first
of july last the sale of cards has ag'
gregated 256,552,750, while for the
corresponding period OF the previous
wear the amount was 266, 262, 260.
We like to see man subscribe fol
a fourteen-dollar bible when he owes
two years subscription on the paper.
1t shows zeal in religious matters
far above the age; it raises the doc
trines above the prosiness of cheaplJ
bound books, and makes his religion
decidedly gu ilt-edged.-Isanti Coun
ty Press.
Some of our farmers have plowec
several burrows at the edge of thei
corn fields, where the fields join thei
grain, so as to try and keep the chint;
bugs out of their corn, as they will at
tack that as soon as grain is cut. They
think by blowing a few burrows twice
or three tlmes a week they may keel
the little pests out of their corn
Rochester Record.
see that the question of an extrs
session is being agitated in our section
somewhat. I am convinced that thi:
is more demand of the papers anC
politicians than of the people. 1t il
true, we of the Northwest have not {
fair quota of representation in the
Legislature, but can that not be done
at regular sessions next year?
II. C.. HODGEsON.
Speaking of dog days, writer says
"By the procession of the equinoxe!
the heliacal rising of Sirius in thu
morning has been changed to the lat
ter end of August, and in a few thous
and years will take place in the depth:
Of winter" This fact should encour
age the small boy whose mother will
not permit him to ego in swimming
in "dog days" When the dog day!
come in the depths of winter, a few
thousand years hence, he will no
want to go in swimming.-Norris
town Herald.
The big Woods" of Minnesota wei
deserve the name, for they cover 5,O0(
square miles, or 200, 900 acres of sur
face. These woods contain only hard
wood growths, including white an6
black oak, maple, hickory, Eastwood
elm, cottonwood, tamarack, and
enough other varieties to make an
aggregate of over fifty kinds. The
hard wood track extends in a bell
across the middle of the state, ant
surrounding it's northeastern corner il
an immense pine region covering 81,
900 square miles, or 13, 100000 acres.
The Glencoe Register thinks that
the farmer who threshes his wheat
from the shock this year will make q
very bad mistake. On account of the
extremely hot weather the grain has