The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-23
General CONVERSATIONS.

collided with the schooner Augusta, oil
Winnetka, north of Chicago and sank;
lS7 persons were drowned out OF the
$50 on board.
The tobacco crop of this country,
which in 1864 was but 1877, 900, 600
pounds, promises in 1884 to be between
500, OOO, OOC and 700, 900, 900 pounds, or
more than three times that of twenty
years ago. The acreage, which in 1864
was 239, 500, has jumped up to nearly
10, 600, while the value of the crop,
which in 1864 was $50, 200, 900, will
probably reach $45 900 900 or $780,
OC0, 600 in 1884.
John B. Cough is of the opinion that
the way to Gre sleeplessness is to pitch
in and work it off. He says that Ly-
man Beecher Gather of the Brooklyn
orator. had a load of sand in his cellar
aud after evening service he would
shovel it from one side to the other, and
by this exercise he could tone down the
fever of his brain. Then the old MAI
would get out his violin and soothe
himself to sleep with amateur tiddling.
In 1881 the average income of male
teachers in Vermont was $7.44 a week,
while in 1884, under the influence of
oenign and progressive civilization, it
has risen to ) 8.5S. The female teachers
in 1881 were paid $4.21a week, which
sum has been increased sol in 1884.
1t is also stated that the number of
schccS and teachers has very consider
ably !cveased within the periOd-a
statement that is not at all surprising.
The elaborate gold cup won by James
r Keene's horse FoxhalI at the Ascot
r. e" in England nearly two years ago,
and which has been in the hands Of
United States customs officials since,
has been officially declared to be a tro-
ply, commemorative a particular event,
and therefore free of duty, under Sec
lions 2,499 aud 2 ,502 ofthe act of March
3, 1888. An order has been issued Civ.
'pg Mr.. Keene his cup without payment
II duty.
Paper bottles are now made on a
large scale in Germany and Austria.
The following is said to be a good re-
cipe for the paper: Ten parts of rags,
forty of straw, fifty of brown wood pulp.
The paper is impregnated or coated or
both sides with sixty parts of defibrin-
ated fresh blood, thirty-tive parts OF
lime powder, five parts of sulphate of
alumina. After drying ten or twelve
rolled leaves are coated again, placed
wen each other and then placed in
heated moulds. The albumen in the
blood forms a combination on pressure
with the lime which is perfectly proof
against spirits, &c. The bottles are
made in two parts, which are joined to-
gether.
Marriage in Pennsylvania is simply
4 civil contract and can be enteredinto
just as any other civil contract a be
assumed. Neither priest, minister OF
civil or other officer is necessary to O
marriage in Pennsylvania. Parties
may agree to become man and wife
with or without officiating officer and
With or without witnesses. They may
privately agree to become man and
wife, and if they publicly the
re tlons of marriage before the world
arl,. confess and present each other as
man and wife, they thereby impose up
on themselves the marriage tie that can
be dissolved only by death or divorce.
There are still $50 600, 900 idols wor.
shipped in India-more idols than there
are human beings" says the Rev. Dem
ais Osborne, the native Indian mission
airy. More than one idol per capita is 8
pretty good figure. 1t mast be &C
knowledged that Christianity has made
but email progress in India under Brit
ish rule. Mr.. Osborne can only claim
SOC, 900 out Of vast millions of Indians
AS for the idols they are manufactured
in Birmingham, and probably in othel
English cities, that do quite q thriving
business in the making Of these gods,
which they ship over TO the heather.
This is one way of making the natives
acquainted with Christianity. Can ths
paucity of conversions be wondered al
when England herself provides the gods
Our Minister to France gets 81, 500
England pays her Minister to Francs
$50, 900 and gives him . palace to livs
in. The United States pays its Minis
ter TO Engia SIT 900 England pay.
her Minister so Washington $4,000
rear, and gives him q great mansion
fully equipped and furnished, and So,
900 q re- for entertainments. Eng
land pays he. minister to Persia $50,
200 a year and gives him . palace. w
pay our Chief Justice SIC, 500 . yea
and osr Associate Judges SO, 900
Chief Justice Coleridge gets $40, 600