The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-07-24


two base ball games played in Chicago July 4.
The horse Gen. Grant rode the day Lee sur
rendered is owned in Vernon, Oneida county, N.
T., and marched in the procession on Decora-
ticn day this year.
Flogging is the best treatment for wife beat
ers butit is probably impossible to fog into
such man a proper conception of the cowardly
and brutal character of the conduct that pro-
curss him the lashyr
Children were born to mother and daughter
at the sametime and in the same house in
Illinois the other day. The babies were dressed
and put in the cradle together. When they
were taken up soon after neither mother knew
her own child, and to-day they are still wonder
ing which is which.
The Washington Critic has found the first
monument even erected to George Washington
on the summit of South Mountain, Maryland.
1t is fifty feet high, and was erected July 4,
1929, by citizens of Booasboro and vicinity.
During the gFathattls of 1852 the shaft was
badly broken by cannon balls
President George Washburn of Robert col
| lege, 'Constantinople, declares that the Euro
| pean nations all fear and hate one another, aud
when they make alliances it is not because Of
| love, but simply because they can combine in
their hate Of some other nation. SIT is a sad
fact, but tits fact,n he writes.
Prof. Briggs makes an attack, in the Pres
| byterian Review, on the revised version of the
Old Testament. He holds chair of Hebrew
in "a leading theological seminary. He charges
! that the revisers have slayishly followed the
Jewish Massoretic text, instead of seeking to
secure, as did the New Testament reYisers, a
correct tex; and that they had proved them
selves Incompetent from their ignorance of
Hebrew grammar, to translate correctly the
text as they received it.
] An old settler who had never killed a deer
was fortunate enough to entrap one In snare.
''Now,' said he to his wife, 'I'll have it TO say
that I've killed one deer" SO he tied rope
about the animals horns and fastened it to q
tree. Carefully loading his hig-bored rife, he
stepped of a few yards and aimed deliberately
at the bucks head. Bangl went the gun, the
dust few from the rope, and the deer bounded
off free and unfettered to enjoy the pleasures Of
his haunts in the green woods, The bullet had
cut the rope.
A good many big stories are being told In
cur exchanges lately about great feats of farm
work performed by some young lady, such al
breaking quarter section, pulling The mustard
out of four hundred acres of fax, etc. Most Of
those stories do not appear to be on speaking
terms With the ruth. We are panied to SCI
this spirit of s8aggeration creeping into the
territorial press In the long run nothing will
serve one's purpose Like the pure. undeflec
| truth Speaking about girl farmers reminds
| us Of one about four miles from Esteline. 81
far this summer she has had three different
young men in tow, entertained them seven
nights in the week, gone out riding with them
three hundred times and wore pair of shoes
| two sizes two small for her. Besides this she
watched her mother make over two hundred
pies and seen her get the meals one hundred anc
forty times. During her spare moments she
has worn out three dresses, thrown book al
her little brother fortyvsix times, embroidered
green dog on yellow datviron holder and
eaten twenty pounds of carmsls. She is stil
actively employed. II Estelline Bell.