The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1885-05-21
FACT AND FANCY,

An eyeless chicken is on exhibition
atNew Orleans.
Oaxaca; Mexico, has $116, 900 in her
state treasury.
A bullet travels a mile IN three and
twp-tenths seconds.
Ipswich voted So, 200 bonds for it.
artesian well almost unanimously.
The Germans are now making deli.
cate watch wheels from paper pulp.
:, The board of health is making war
on the carp ponds in South Carolina.
Hyde county. organized but a, year
ago. has succeeded in creating q debt
Of $4,000.
Summer cottages in, chrome yellow
will vie with the tawny sea-sands this
season.
Making envelopes out of straw pa
per is a new and flourishing industry in
Ireland.
Penjdeh is accurately written and
pronounced Punjdeh, and means "five
villages"
The number of letters posted IN the
world each year averages about 3d.
600, 900, 900.
The pine tree, says an authority,
serves as refuge for more than 400
species OF meets.
1t is claimed that there are $4,000
republican voters in Tennessee, to
1876, 900 democrats.
The cost of each saloon to the city
of indianapolis last year was $lb3. and
the license only $50.
The governor of Oaxaca, Mexico, is
distributing by thousands textbooks
in the public schools.
The base ball clubs of this country,
it is estimated, will cost tho people
SIG, 100000 this year.
Thirteen hundred new buildings,
worth about $4,OOO,OOO, were erected
in Washington last year.
Fresno, Marysville, and San Jose,
Cal. were visited by an earthquake
shock Saturday, April 4.
A farmhouse at Sumter City, Ga,
takes his fodder to the water trough
and vets it before eating.
The shipment of cigars from Key
West, weekly. amount to 1900, 900,
with an increasing tendency.
Some genius has invented a fishing
rod that registers the precise number
and weight of the fishes caught.
Mexican soldiers are said to be OF
all shades of color, ranging from near
iy pure white TO perfect black.
A novelty in ce-pitchers is one
which throws forth stream of water
when spring at the top is pressed.
A real-estate owner in San Francisco
adds to his large income from that
source by peddling fruit about the
city.
A wealthy timber merchant has had
his coat-of-arms painted on his carri-
| age with the Latin motto "Vidi"-I
saw.
Coal mining machines capable OF
doing the work of twenty men are
being introduced in the Panhandle
mines.
The pyrometer, an instrument in
which heat is measured by the expan-
sion of metals, will accurately mea-
sure heat up to 1000 degrees.
Every penitentiary in Texas is pro-
vided with kennel of three or more
fierce bloodhounds for the purpose of
hunting and capturing escaped pris.
! Oners.
A train composed of two cars of
gold bullion, three cars of silver, eight
cars of silk and four cars of tea, is on
its way east from California and Col
orado.
An iron car-wheel will travel about
10000 miles. A steel tire will run
1000 miles, costing two and hall
times as much and running more than
four times as long as an iron wheel.
w. H. Wood, of New York city, re-
Gently caught on the gulf coast OF
Florida tarpon weighing Ill pounds.
The tackle used was the ordinary rod,
reel. and line employed by bass fishers
on the Atlantic coast, and the feat
ranks without known parallel.
An enterprising man, who wished,to
be able to announce the first sign OF
spring placed twig on which was a
cocoon of caterpillar near the stove
for week or two. The butterfly was
Matched in the month of March and
exhibited as the first harblnger OF
spring."
A Philadelphia minister has even
exceeded Mr. Chords denunciatiop
of pleasure. He condemns not onlv
skating -rinks and theaters, but ali
church fairs and festivals, and saws.
''Irs a shame that whenever money
has to be raised for church purposes
some people think it can't be done I'm.
less they mast have little fun over it. ~
The tEnneljng of Tuscarora noun
tain, q Fulton county. Pennsylvania,
IS gigantic work. Drills propelled
IS compressed air are in operation on
| each end of the tunnel night and day.
The tunnel is already bored 1900 feet
on the west side and 1900 on the east.
AS the mountain is calculated to be
just one mile through the boring is
! now half completed.
An effort has recently been made to
! measure the dimensions and speed of
deep-sea waves with marked success.
The longest wave recorded measured
a half-mile from crest to crest, with a
period OF twenty-three seconds. Waves
having length of five hundred to six
hundred feet and periods of ten to
twelve seconds are the ordinary storm
waves of the north Atlantic ocean.
1t is not generally known that Yer.
mont has a gold mine. 1t is called the
''Rooks," and Is located at Plymouth.
From annual report it appears that the
mine produced from September, 1888,
to January, 1885, $685. 70 In gold, and
paid Four dividends aggregatinp S48..