The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-04-10
PASSING EVENTS.

Cravats and scarfs are made of pa
ner by a Berlin manufacturer.
"The Hopping Disciples of the
Devil" is the name Of a dancing club
in Texas.
New York proposes to introduce the
London fashion of hiring emptyhouses
for balls.
Over three hundred dwellings, have
been built in Montgomery, Ala, duf-
inc the past twelve months.
Eight little bootblacks, who had
heat their way from New Orleans, ar
rived at Los Angeles, CAL, recently.
The Washington Territory Insane
ASYLUM contains at present 149 in-
mates-110 men and thirty-nine wo-
men.
The United States possesses ON Ital-
IAN population of 10, 900, of whom
over 10000 reside in the city of New
York.
Malarial fevers are greatly preva-
lent in Toronto, Canada, and there
have lately been numerous fatal cases
of typhoid.
Of the 275 students at John Hopkins
university 40 are graduate stu
dents" from nearly eighty different
institutions.
At the New Orleans exposition the
electric lights alone cost about 81, $50
per day +; the music $3.50, and the po-
lice about $3.50.
The Methodist Episcopal church is
going to start another university in
western Missouri or eastern Kansas.
A Kansas citizen offers $500, 900 if they
will call it by his name.
There is great suffering and loss of
stock on the north and south sides of
the Red river, in Louisiana, caused by
floods from recent rains, At least five
thousand head of stock were lost.
A horse requires at least 400 cubic
feet of fresh air per hour. The Eng
lsh army regulations allow in new
stables, to each horse, 1905 cubic feet,
and 100 square feet of floor space.
The Gem Social club is the euphon-
ious name of an opium den of large
dimensions recently established In
Philadelphia. White men are the
godfathers of the infamous resort.
The faxseed crop of the past season
in this country is said not to exceed
$500 bushels. Prices have ranged
from 81 S in May to $1.33 in Novem-
Der, and the average price for the
year was $l.46.
When a house is to be let in Mexico
the owner sticks an old newspaper in
the window. 1t isn't very tasteful and
seldom improves the appearance of the
house, but it is economical and is un-
derstood blythe community.
Sylvia Duboice, a negress aged 116,
lives in restitution on the bleak sum-
init of the Southland mountain, in Hun
terdon county, New Jersey, in a little
frame cabin, with one room, hardly
large enough tor the swinging Of a cat.
In the New York pilot service there
are nineteen boats, with 1873 licensed
pilots, all but two of whom are in ac-
tive service. During 1884 6,045 ves-
sells were piloted in and out of the har-
Dor at a total cost to the vessel owners
of $415, 513.45.
A handsome grotto, formed of rich
gold and silver bearing ores, has just
been erected in the Colorado section
of the New Orleans exposition. The
walls are composed of specimens from
$50 mines, some of the specimens hav-
ing an assay value of $50 a on.
Not long since the Anchor line tried
the experiment of a direct line from
Calcutta to New York via the Suez Ca
nal, and it has been so successful
tina the fleet will he increased. The
cargoes consist of linseed, indigo,
hides, jute, and coffee rom Ceylon.
"A young married lady Of upper
Manhattan" says The MaI and EE-
press, who has been addicted to paint
ing her lips as well as her cheeks and
eyelashes, is now under medical treat
ment to reduce the size of her lips,
which have become horribly enlarg-
ed" by chemical poison.