The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-12-10
Things in General.


Hastings, Neb., with population
of 5000, has only s97 pupils enrolled
in the public schools.
Fresno county, CAL, is exactly the
size of the State of Massachusetts, and
is 500 square miles larger than the
State OF New Jersey.
According to the census of 1880
there were at that time seventy five
women lawyers, 165 women clergy
men, and 2,432 women doctors. Of
the women lawyers, eleven were over
sixty years of age; of the clergymen,
twenty-five were over sixty, and OF the
doctors there were 164 past that age
John Boyle O'Reilly says: "Women
are better than men because they are
spiritual, while men are intellectual.
The spirit follows what is true, gentle
and good; the intellect follows only
what is pleasant, successful, dominat-
ing, strong. Ii women could rule, civ
ilization would be poem."
A custom of the days gone by still
obtains in the District of Columbia
courts. According to an old Mary
land law, the foreman of each jury is
presented with pound of tobacco
on rendering the verdict in each case.
AS this is far in excess of the demand
for the weed. the cash equivalent of 81
is substituted The tobacco fund
amounts to a considerable sum dur
Ing term Of court, and is usually
devoted to the purchase of cane for
the foreman, bouquets for the Judge,
and minor comforts for the Jurors.
Vassar college girls have new freak.
They fall in love with each other, send
delicate little missives, baskets cf
grapes and bouquets of choice flowers
to the objects of their affection, and
act in all respects just as we presume
they hope one of the now Objectionable
sex will act towards them some day.
The girls seem to likeit, but the Pough-
keepsie boys are real mad over this
peculiar turn of affairs, for the young
ladies now pass them scornfully by
without deigning even so much as a
smile or a SLY glance.
A trader in Australia describes q
curious bird found in the jungles of
that country. 1t is called the balla-
dor or dancer, frOmi it's jumping action.
Two OF them were seen together and
carefully studied. AS soon as one
bird alighted the other jumped up, the
time being like clock wark in it's regu-
larlty, and each in turn uttering q note
sounding like "to-le-do," utterlng the
syllable 'to" as he crouched to spring.
''le' while in the air, and "do" as he
alighted-a regular song ambulance
performance. The Sydney Ornitholog-
ical society has offered a large sum for
a pair OF them.
The Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland rules over 31O,OOO,OOO of
people ian increase in fifteen years of
5000, ,OOO,) occupying an area of al
most 100000 900, square miles. The
trade carried on by these 31O,OOO,OOO
amounts to $500, 100000 a year.
Their flag floats over three-fifths of
all the shipping on the seas. London,
their capital city, has with it's SUBJ
urbs) population OF five and one
Quarter millions! No civilized empire
has existed at all comparable to the
British empire, either in ancient Or in
modern times. = ii%'eil. O.
a murder lately occurred in q we'll.
known restaurant in San francisco.
A FRENCH woman who presides over
the cash department narrated the
circumstances to q custamar with
great yolubilitF and feeling, and enaad
up, her voice trembling with emets-
with the following remarb. ..v IN, /.
WI WIs and very afeaol0' The house was
- '''- erybody ran oat, and-oh,
uear! | think we lost more than
twenty dinners by it."
A half-gallon jug, says the Atlant
Constitution, if intrusted to one of the
boys of the neighborhood of Pickens.
will be returned filled with corn whis,
key at a cost Of thirty cents, AS the
Government IS entitled to q tax Of for.
tysfive cents on that quantity Of Ii
quor, the Constitution fears that tM
ruling price ON the Pickens market in
dicates a looseness in regard to the
legal requirements of the case,