The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-10-15
FACT AND FANCY,

AuC AOIludy Ol UUO uoSIOCS
troubles Alabama farmers.
In Berks county, Pennsylvania, ma
ny horses are dying from lockjaw.
"Globe- trotting Americans" is an
English description of American tour
! lists.
Natural history: If the swallow
had no throat there would be no
swallow.
In California agriculture has dis
placed mining as the chief business of
the state.
Manganese mines of great value
have been opened in Independence
county, Arkansas.
At Athens, Ga, the other day, a ne
gro was seen hauling buggy through
the streets, to the back of which was
tied a mule.
President Cleveland sta bleman says
the president does not care much for
horses. In taking exercise he much
prefers to walk.
An irrigating canal carrying eight
thousand inches OF water is to he built
at the confluence of the Aqua Fria and
ella rivers, Arizona.
The iirst copper furnace in Cuba
will be put in operation in few days,
and the metal will hereafter be export
ed instead of the ore.
Small Mediterranean oysters, con-
sldered by gourmands as the most del
icate of all bivalves, are now canned
for expectation from Italy.
1.-The hight of impudence' is defined
in Vancouver, Washington territory,
to be the calling of one doctor up TO
learn the address of another doctor.
Southern sweet-potato eaters can
not understand the northern style of
! boiling the potatoes. ''Faugh! think
OF boiling sweet potatoes" they ex-
claim in contempt.
An Essex, VT, man recently paid
debt, it is sald of $1,000 with the hard
cash-all in silver-he had boarded up.
The box weighed $50 pounds, and the
new owner stays awake nights watch
ing it.
The largest pilot boat in New York
is now lying at the foot of Lib
erty street. 1t is more than one hun
dred feet over all, and was originally
built for a yacht. All it's fittings are
of mahogany.
There are about seventy steamers of
various sizes plying the ST Johns
river, Florida, and it's tributaries.
The largest is the Alice Clark-592. II
tons gross-while there are thirteen
under four tons.
recently made, showed that death was
! 81 l. i
lodged in the animals heart and
worked itself into such position as to
stop the flow of blood.
Owing to the frequency of fatal mis-
takes through the great similarity in
appearance of morphine and quinine
Il physician urges the plan of color
ing morphine red and enacting law
prohibiting the sale of white NOR
phine.
One of the Mexican editors who re-
Gently travelled in the United States in
a well-intentioned effort to express his
! delight at the busy air of Pittsburgh,
Pa, described that city in a letter to
Mexican journal as ''the workhouse of
America"
The French cooks at the Hotel Meth
erwood, New Jersey, took good time
for pressing their claims against the
landlord few days ago. They struck
before breakfast, and there being 175
guests in the house their back pay was
at once handed to the enterprising
cooks, though it amounted to $4,000.
New York theatrical people COM
plain that they are not reaping the
/ benefit they expected from the yacht
races. The swarm of eastern visitors
find their hotel bills so large that they
have nothing left for the theaters,
while theyachtsmen from abroad live
on board their vessels, and very little
is seen of them on shore.
John 6. Ward, who lives fifteen
miles southwest of Albany, N. Y, has
an apple orchard covering over thirty
i've acres and containing over two
thousand trees, in which every tree
has this year borne fruit, and all of
which, except few of the early fruit
already gathered, are now loaded
to their utmost capacity.
Cincinnati is, by kind of tradition
that has outlived its day, called the
hog-packing city of the west. 1t used
to be Familiarity known as ''Pork-
opolis." But it is now at the bottom
Of list of eight great packing cities.
Chicago packs two thirds of the hogs
treated in this way, ard Cincinnati
less than 3 per cent of the whole
number.
A citizen of West Newburyport,
Mass, while digging potatoes last
week, came to hill which from Its
collapsed appearance seemed to indi-
cate small potatoes or but few in a
hill. He concluded, however, to open
it, and discovered one mammoth po-
tato, the center of which had been
cleared and young woodchuck snug
ly esconsed within.
An Ipswich, Mass, man started
twenty years ago to build a house. He
bought some land, laid out garden,
and planted fruit trees. Fifteen wears
ago he went down in Maine and
bought lumber, which he has from
time to time moved about to keep from
: becoming valueless. The man is now
nearly 60 years of age, and last week
commenced to dig the cellar.
The merchant tallors of Cincinnati
have just organized a protective asso-
citation, which includes all the leading
firms, and is designed to weed out
fashionable dead BEATS" A solicit
tor is to be employed to make regis
ter of non-paying customers, copies of
which are to be furnished to members,
who are bound to supply information
in regard to them under penalty of
suspicion or expulsion.
A correspondent at Berlin met a
functionary of the Prussian ministry
Of railroads, who two years ago was
sent TO the United States to investigate
our railway system. He was asked
what he admired most in the United
States. 'AdmireP" said he, with the
coolest impudence, ''why, nothing;
What can q man admire in country
having y, passed his three examine
Garfield. N. j., a small town on the