The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-08-27
PASSING EVENTS

A Danbury, Conn.,, man swallowed
live frog several days ago for two
bottles of beer.
The last blow to the roller-skating
rink has been given by Philadelphia
physician, who says that roller-skating
enlarges the feet.
The Japanese have adopted the BIZ
cycle, and it has become popular there,
but the Chinese seem wholly incapable
of compromising it.
1t is now claimed that birds as near
ly as possible initiate the nests in which
they were reared, and bring to the
work sort of rudimentary education.
Prof. l.. Z. Richards, the Yale pedes-
trian, has walked nineteen hundred
miles thus far this year for pleasure
Last year he made iwenty-one hum
dred.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
is soon to open at Allegheny, for the
use of it's employees, library, reading
room, bathrooms, and an assembly
hall.
Fifteen thousand people at the open
ing of tho Chautauqua school, which
indicates that as popular summer re-
sort the school is fast taking the place
of the camp meeting.
In a recent issue of we'll known
French journal appeared the follow
ing advertisement: WANTED, dis
tinguished and healthy looking man to
be cured patient in doctors wait
ing-room. Address, ETC."
AS two men were fishing in mill
pond at Valatie, Columbia county,
New York, the other day, they saw n
crocodile about six feet long crawl
into the water. 1t was put into the
pond six years ago, when small.
The Jews of Austria complain that
it is great hardship that they should
be forbidden to work on Sundays, since
their religion obliges them to rest on
Saturday. The Jewish population in
Vienna alone amounts to 1900
Lunches at the Ascot races, eaten
the grass or under cover, consist of
'.bread, butter. and a ard boiled egg"
for "threepence" or, more elaborate,
the "periwinkle, 'ot 'ouse grapes,
peerless pines,' and as sweet a pack
age of acid drops.
The tribal government of the Chero-
KEGS is democratic in form, with an
elective chief magistrate and an up
per and lower house of representa-
tives. The judiciary is also elective,
and criminals are punished after the
manner of the whites.
The dry weather in Texas affects
The Lulind Wasp in this manner:
"The foam covered coursers of the
air are constantly in sight, but the
sound of their tramping comes not,
nor do we feel the welcome spray from
the raingod's fountain"
A horse was thrown down in New
York few days ago by the iron shoe
of one foot coming in contact with
the cover of a manhole for the cleo
trio wires, which was affected by leak
age, while tie other foot touched the
iron rail of the Blocker street horse
railroad.
AS an illustration of the depreciation
of land valued in England, London
Truth states that large free hold es-
tate in North Wiltshire was offered for
sale at Devices recently for 800, 600.
There was not a single bid, and yet
ten years ago this property was valued
at S240,0O0.
In a communication to the Acadena-
he des Sciences. M. Duclaux states the
presence of micro-organisms in the
earth is essential to the termination
of seed. HIS experiments were made
with plants whose seeds grow on the
surface as we'll as those which deYel-
OPP in the ground.
In Tenejapa, Oaxaca, Mexico, the
Indian residents are more sanguinary
than the Chinese in the administra-
ton of justice. They surrounded the
houses of seven well-known robbers,
and burned them alive in their houses.
When the militia arrived they only
found heap of ashes.
The largest diamond in the world is
shortly to be cut at Amsterdam, where
special workshop is being construct
ed. This gem is south African, and
weighs 475 carats, thus being 1913
carats heavier than the Grand Mogul,
belonging to the shah of Persia and
hitherto the biggest diamond known.
Tracing-paper may be made by i'm
mersing best tissue paper in bath
composed of turpentine and bleached
beeswax. A piece of beeswax an inch
in diameter dissolved in half pint of
turpentine is said to give good results.
The paper should be allowed to dry
for two or three days before using it.
A very aggravated case of vitriol-
throwing occurred recently in the
Bots de Boulogne. A woman named
Josephine Pei, having in vain solicited
aims of gentleman who was passing
by with his little daughter, flung a
bottle full of vitriQl at his head. He
escaped injury but the child was badly
burned about the neck and back.
Within few days 100 omnibuses
have been sold at auction IN New York.
The hundred sold at the Madison
square stables went as low as an aver
age of $50, and one brought only SIS.
At . later sale eighty Fifth avenue
stages brought an average of $50
each. At these prices they were
cheap for the use of camping-out par
ties or travelling photographers.
Take slip of paper and place
thereon, in figures, your age in years,
dropping months, weeks, and days.
Multiply the sum by two; then add to
the result obtained the figures 3,768;
add two, and then devide by two.
Subtract from the result obtained the
the number of your years on earth,
and see If you do not obtain figures
you will not be likely to forget.
For its private work the Bank OF
DEVILS Lake, Dakota, has adopted a
rather peculiar but very suggestive
vignette. The base is a sheaf of wheat,
on which rests silver dollar, over
the back of which Satan is climbing,
holding in one hand the scales of JUS
tice and in the other a lance. At his
left is a map of the lake, which forms
the place for writing the amount OF
draft or check, on which are the
words, "Give the devil his DUE"
A few days ago Watervliet, N. Y,
farmer was induced by stranger to
act as agent for wire fence, signing
what he was told was an agents GER
tilicate. Soon after two men visited