Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-09-05

The Thousand Islands are said to b.

ooI,ooo. Inc real SUN IS p.o3l3,y
multiplied by about four.
1t is in Sweden rs elsewhere: The
record of the past year showing more
works of fiction published than vi ANY
other class.
A Philadelphia horseman says Mi.
Bonner is a crank on the subject Of
horse-shoeing, and that he has known
him to shoe Maud S. twice in one day
and four times during the week.
A Georgia dog chews gum. When
tired of chewing it will take the gum
out of its mouth and stick it tightly on
the top of its nose with its foot, to keep
from losing it. Georgia is bound to
keep before the country.
OF all the Lompoc tribe of Indians,
OF whom fifty years ago there were
some 1000 in Santa Barbara County,
California. there is but one survivor,
and he is old and feeble, existing upon
charity in the city Of Santa Barbara.
One of the celebrated protest against
selling slaves came from Dr.. Gordon,
of Massachusetts, in 1776. eff Cod"
he says, ''hath made of one blood all
races of men l can see no reason why
a black rather than a white ma should
be a slave.
When Historian Bancroft was a stu
dent in Germany sixty years ago, he
says that he was regarded by the ma
tives with as much curiosity as a North
American aborigine would have been.
Perhaps young MIR. Bancroft refused
to drink beer.
Our national air of Yankee Doodle,
says Webster, was composed by Brit
ish officers, in ridicule of American
troops. Yet ere long the last of tho
British army laid down it's arms at
Yorktown while this same air was
played in the ears OF officers and men.
"There is hardly a first-class machin-
ist, civil engineer, carpenter. draughts-
man, blacksmith, tanner, OF any 9TH
er kind Of skilled workman or artilicer
within a radius OF 100 miles of where
We are now writing. This" walls the
Warrenton, N. c., Gasc1e, Fought
not to be-"
1t is said that there are more female
physicians practicing in Philadelphia
than in any other city of the United
States. The first and best college for
medical instruction of womeu is here,
and yet this is the only city whose
medical society will not admit them as
members. -PhiJadelphi0 Cull.
During the last hundred years the
English ace has multiplied livefold,
the Russian fourfold, the German two
and-a-half fold, and tho other Euro
pean races in a smaller proportion,
Italy having nearly doubled, and
France and Spain having added only
about so per cent to their population.
The tenets of the Mehdi's religion
are very strict. If a married man is
guilty OF immortality he is put up to
his waist in the sand and stoned to
death. If he steals his hand is cut off.
Singing and lascivious dancing, such
as used to be in klartoun, are put u
stop to. Every man must pray five
times a day.
Suit for $500 damages has been
brought against a Wisconsin bee
keeper by Il sheep farmer. who claims
that his animals arc SO annoyed when
running u, pasture by the bees as to
i',jurn Ills llnci nf lhoroughbvcds to
Inc extent of the above amount. Much
interest is manifested in the result of
the suit among beekecpers.
The will OF the late Joseph w. Tor
rey, OF Boston, contains the following
peculiar provision: d desirc that none
of my family shall make any parade
over my funeral or waste any money
i'll the purchase OF mourning apparel,
fully believing, from observation, that
widows weeds arc too frequently a
badge OF hypocrisy, and the more con-
spicuous the habilimcnts of woe the
more marked the insiucerity."
According to Il celebrated French
chemist, lead should moi be used for
water pipes. cistrrn> ~ kitchen utcn-
sils. as it has been demonstrated that
leaden pipes or Vessels not only take
up particles of lead through mechani-
cal action due to friction, but attack
the metal because Of the affinity of
several of their constituents. tho re-
suit being generally lead carbonate.
Rattlesnakes are rot mach to be
feared, because they cannot attack I'M
til they have coiled themselves up, and
can then spring scarcely ouc-ilalf their
length. Besides, they invariably give
timely warning by their rattles. They
very seldom pursue y person and rs
seldom II away. Rattlesnakes,
screech owls and prairie dogs live to-
gethcr in peace, and might also be
said to be chums.
There are several accounts of the
origin Of 1.-THE name Emerald Isle" for
Ireland, but that which seems to have
the weight Of evidence on its side is
the claim on behalf of Mr.. William
brennan, II Of the ablest writer's
among the United lrishmen. He was
born in 1854 and died in 1920. He was
the author Of several poems, including
that under the title OF Erin" in which
he uses the title referred to.
About four years ago Mr.. Gould, of
Placer, Cal, received from the Arri-
cultural Department Il package of
Japanese tea seed. He planted and
carefully cultivated it, and now at his
ranch Il be seen what is a curiosity
in this country-a large plat OF tea
plants. They have done remarkably
well. and he has raised quite u guam
tity. OF superior tea. The fine growth
and excellent quality OF this tea looks
as If its culture might be engaged in as
a profitable business.
The Maine bird-catchers, who drive
a thriving trade in native song-birds,
use a cage divided into four compart-
ments. In one is u captive, which,
when taken into the fields, utters u
call to his wild brethren, one of whom
is very likely, in lying about the cage,
to enter Il OF the open doors and Set
free a spring that shuts the door. Tho