The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-04-24
USEFUL AND PLEASANT.

Wyoming
In New York f~orty-six stenograph-
grs on the city pay roll draw 500, 100
annual pay.
Druid Hill park, Baltimore, has a
baby camel, which was promptly
named Ell Mehdi.
A Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
farmer, chloroformed his diseased cat
tie before killing them.
Miss Weaver, of K~ittanning, Pa,
has had t~wenty-four needles taken
from breast, side, and arms.
There are two thousand Italian
slaves under the padrone system in
Philadelphia, says The Times, of that
city.
IA bill in preparation in the Penn
~sylvania legislature proposed that
skating Kinks be taxed l per cent of
their gross receipts.
Boston papers make rather light of
the dynamite explosions. %Sulliyan's
sDrees have made the Hub regardless
Of slight disturbances.
At Yale rs per cent of the students
CAME from other states than Connecti.
cut; at Harvard As per cent came from
other than Massachusetts.
ABoston clergyman is lecturing on
"a Business Mans Conscience" For
obvious reasons no horrible exam
pie" accompanies the lecture.
~"Thls Is good weather for the chol-
era" remarked a citizen on a zero
morning. Eyes, but | haven't got
the cholera" gloomily replied the sec
ond citizen.
Cincinnati has under discussion the
building of an elevated belt railroad
around the city, the length of which
will be seventeen miles, and the esti-
mated cost 5000, 900.
Wilkesbarre citizens told the school
principals that they did not want their
''young girls to deliver declarations
in schools, as it has a tendency to
make them very bold.
Neal Dow is now convinced that the
enmity to prohibition comes from the
moderate drinkers. Hard drinkers
are all anxious for the closing of the
grog-shop as a relief from temptation.
Richmond, Va, according to a pub
lished report, furnished gas from its
gas-works (owned by the city, at less
than 80 cents per 1000 cubic feet last
year, and had a net profit left of $94,-
600.
1t is said that Congressman Phil
Thompson, when a prosecuting attor-
ney in Kentucky, once asked his twin
brother to try a case for him. He did
so, and the court did not know the
difference.
Mr.. h. R, Hoyt, q mechanical engineer at the
New Orleans Exposition, was severely injured
by a huge derrick pole falling on his foot He
was conveyed to his residence and after only
three applications of St Jabob's Oil, ali the
swelling and pain disappeared, andhe resumed
his duties.
A Washington eccentric female
genius has invented a machine to
lay a ghost" A much more useful
contrivance in these days of business
stagnation and INDECENT hens would
be a machine to lay eggs.
Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia
is a great ~geographer, and but for his
position and duties, would be a great
traveller. His palace is called the Ber-
lin African headquarters, and all ex-
plorers are welcome guests there.
1t is said that the bobolinks, (which
are such dandylike, rollicking birds in
the summer, go south in the autumn.
take off their gaudy uniform, put on
suits Of rusty black, change their name,
and become either reed or rice birds.
The liquor dealers of Rome, Ga,
says The Savannah Nes0s, are prepar-
ing to ''boycot'' a large number OF
men who continually drink to excess,
thus injuring themselves and not BEN
eftting the saloons. When the list is
fully made out every saloon-keePer
will forfeit $50 if he aver sells to a
man on the list.
According to the recent decision OF
aMaine Judge, all ponds in that state
containing more than ten acres are
public ponds, and the right to cut ice
upon them is a public right, free to all.
In this particular the owner
OF the shores have ne greater
rights than other persons who can
reach the ponds without t~respassing
upon the land Of others.
The Temple farm at Yorktown,
Va, on which is the Moore house,
where the commissioners to draw up
the articles of the surrender OF Corn
wallis met on Oct. Is, 1871, IS adver-
Used for sale. 1t was upon this farm
thai the ceremonies of the Yorktown
centennial celebration took place,
when the Moore house was made the
nome OF the French guests.
Quite a stir has been made among
The health authorities Of New Hamp-
shire over the discovery OF oleomarga-
Tin in Concord, and the fact that two
tons of it are said to have been re-
ceiYnd in the city The ~nificials. ac-