The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-04-24
USEFUL AND PLEASANT
.orth Carolina snond. 40

orth Carolina spends S18 ooo ooo
annually for liquor. OO'OW
A red yam grown at Toco; N.
weighs seven and a half pounds 3d.
A project for starting . loru.
pubic library is on foot in Charlestas
The new Indian industrial scboo,
New Mexico will be ready to recaiva
pupils on April /. 0iss
Knoxville, Tenn, claims ~ -,
twice as much beer as anv oth
or town OF the same size in tha
south. ~ sne
Pierre Duval, of Rutherford conntr
North Carolina, is dead. He fought
under Napoleon and lost a leg 81
1t is said that the ladies are varv
much ~displeased at the change tbs,
has been made in the state fiar !,
North Carolina.
In Dooly county, Florida, a 14-vear.
Old boy runs a six-mule farm and blows
all OF the mules himself. He usea :
cultivator which cuts a swathe six foe,
in width in mi through. He prenaras
from six to twenty acres q day.
"Is your master busy Pr asked tho
tailor. mo, he is out" "But I inst
saw him at the upper window. i
"Well, | just asked him for money
and he said he was out. "Oh, If thaf's
the a | am out too"
Every dog has his day, the cat takes
the nights, the iceman ard the milk.
man takes the early morning hours.
and the scissor grinder with his bell
and the fruitman with his yawp takes
the rest Of a lifetime that is worth Iv.
ing.
There is said to be a regular trade in
human skeletons in New York. There
are a great many clearinghouse in
the metropolis, and therefore there
should be no difficulty In keeping the
supply of skeletons fully up to the de.
mand.
A man in Wayland, N. Y, runs a
bar in connection with an undertaking
establishment. By this means he Sc.
cures money from everyone in the
town. If people won't p~atronize one
part of his business they invariably do
the other.
The state of Arkansas derives
$25, 900 per annum from its peniten.
tiary by leasing the labor of eighty
convicts to cigar manufacturers, and
handing over 280 others to farmers,
the consideration being 1915 per
month and all expenses.
A scientist says that in three million
years the earth will be one gigantic
fnaharn VInIooo tho fyn0d hOnBr aryso
in three million years a large number
of the present residents of this earth
will have peculiar reasons for wishing
they were back here again.
There are 1864 Irishmen In the
British army. The rest of the male
population of the emerald isle are
scattered over the face of the earth,
either acting as policemen, or running
the political affairs of the country IN
which they happen to find themselves.
A curiosity in the shape OF q well
which produces warm water is excit-
ing no little interest among the resi-
dents of Quinton, N. j. The well L.
| situated in a window-glass factory,
and it Is supposed that the water from
the springs feeding the well passes
under the furnaces and is thus heated.
George Lewis, colored, of Dooly
county, Florida, has a tame gopher,
which has made its home in q hole In
his yard for four years. He has nam.
ed it lobe, and in warn weather,
when the children go to the hole and
call him by name, he will crawl out
and follow them all over the yard, eat
ing from their hands and doing other
funny tricks.
The sanitary side of u school sys-
tenn is examined in The AndoUGr Re-
UieaO, and the conclusion Is reached
ssthat there are evils connected with
| common schools which are more than
the necessary incidents of q nearly
perfect system" The point insisted
on is that the present school manage
ment contributes largely to tho increase
of disorders, and interferes
seriously with be health Of the pupils.
The pastor of q colored Baptist
| church In Baltimore was charged by
members with having run away with
money belonging to the congregation:
On his return he showed that they had
never intrusted HIM with more than
90 at a time, intended as a fortnightiy
installment Of his salary, and then
crushed his adversaries by asking some.
one to explain how he could support
himself and run away upon such an
amount.
The writer In The st. Louis Medical
| Joarnal advises young practitioners
never to make fun of an old woman's
remedy. he will not only give Of
Tense, but may miss q valuable aid ~
his practice. The writer adds: I'm
1880, while practicIng in Madison
county, Illinois, I was induced by the
representations of an old woman to
make the trial, in dysintery and diar-
rhea, of tablespoonfui-doses OF pure
c;dor x;ua0or With tha addition Of sur