Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-10-10
MISSING LINKS.

stonaacu Oh u se:lSlcS mai,. ThiS may
not De news. but it is Il .ct.--Harper.s
Bazur.
1t is estimated tina, 10000 people 90
into London by rail every day to earn
night.
Wires and bars are now produced d.
rect FROM fluid steel hy pressing it out
through dies i'll y mannc similar to
the production of lead pipes from lead.
The honey crop for ,ii, year in San
Diego county. California. is estimated
ON good authority at :, l77. 500 pounds.
This would equal l,0ss tons, or over
100 carloads. i
Miss Blanche Williams. colored. who
has matricu!ated at Toronto Universe
ty, is salt! to have passed an excellent
examination in French and German, as
well as in English.
People like the grip-cars right we'll
for one reason. Cigarette smokers
can't stand on the front platform and
fill the car with their vile flavor of
burning paper. Cincinnati Enquirer.
1t is learned from the Sanitary News
that carboIic acid sold for d%isinfcctine
purposes is adulterated until but 5 per
cent OF its active principle remains,
while there should be ut least IS per
cent.
Two young Philadelphia spor,smen
were recently freed for u whole day up
in Potter County by y bear. which. as
was afterward found out, was perfect
~ tame-an escaped pct; but they paid
$50 for the privilege Of shooting it
A French scientist who says he has
Investigated 5,4W shocks OF earth
quakes attributes them. like tho tides,
to the influence OF the sun and moon.
The interior sea of fire, he argues, is
subject to the same laws as the surface
sea of water.
When the ropes with which oil W
arc drilled are worn out they still have
their uses. They At purchased by junk
dealers, thoroughly cle..nscd of oil and
reduced to u pulp, which forms the
basis of the heavy paper of which flour
sacks and wrapping paper are made.
ln preparing to play the part of a
boy in her Now play. The Trump"
Mrs. Langtry is said to rehcar>: sever
ul hours every day in pantalu NJ ITO
get the hang OF EN- and yet >le is be-
lieved to have worn them CON; ,uously
during her s%ojourn with Mr.. Langtry.
The Pail AaN Gazeti'. referring to
the deposing of Brc, Ii .rtu as Ameri-
a Consul al Glasgow, says it is a
standing joke with him and his friends
that the last time inc went there he ill.,
Quired what place it was when the train
arrived. and it was notorious that he
seldom e there.
Tho internal heat of the Garth, is be-
ing Investigated by the German Gov
eminent A shaft sunk ut Schlade-
bach has penetrated about 1866 feet
under ground, believed to be the great
est depth yet reached by boring. At
this point the earth's temperature is
l20 degrees Fahrenreit.
An English naturalist recommends
the importation Of the blue titmouse in
10 this country to dcyour the worms
and caterpillars, He mistakes the
country's need. 1t is an animal that
will devour the English sparrow which
was brought here TO do The work for
which the titmouse is recommended.
A new method of dressing wounds,
by which their healing is said to be
fastened and the pain made to disap-
pear AZ once, has been brought into no.
tice by a French surgeon. 1t consists
in the application Of congresses wet
with a detection of thirty parts Of val
erian root III 1000 parts OF water. 1t is
expressly stated that the treatment is
of no avail in deep wounds.
Pottery was discovered, Grant Allen
suggests, by accident. A savage car
ried some water in q calabash-the
hard shell Of a tropical fruit-when it
occurred 10 him to smear the outside
with clay and put the calabash itself
ovcr the fire. This he did, the water
boiled, and upon removing the oaiabash
he found it incased and protected by a
hard, red. stono-like substance.
Something akin to a mirage may of.
ten DO seen at Lake Griffin. Fla. II
one looks north across the lake, from
the south, as y rainstorm is approach
ing from either north or south. he will
see the timber and other objects at the
north end stand out in bold relief as il
they were in the middle OF The lake and
half the distance they really are away.
The change is striking and unaccouDt
able.
A piece OF evidence in a Quebec
breach-of-promise case was q cuif wit!
an offer Of marriage written OF it. One
night, while the defendant was hold
ing the plaintiffs hand and whispering
fcrvid words. he popped the question
in manuscript on the smooth linen a
her wrist, She was sentimental O.
shrewd enough to keep that article GU
of the wash. and now j: is OF practica
value.
Louis Antoine Dc B%ourienne, Napo
Icons private secretary, says in hi
published book: "Among the privat,
Instructions WHICH Bonaplrte gave NJ,
one was very curious. During tn
night he said. ENTER my chamber a
seldom as possible. Do not awake INT
when you have any good news to com
municate; with that there is nc hurry
But when you bring bad news rous
me instantly, for then there is moi
moment Ia he lost"
The big Woods" of Minnesota wei
deserves the name, for they cover 5,
600 square miles, or 3,210.000 acres c
surface. These woods contain onl
hardwood growths. including whit
and black oak, maple. hickory, has:
wood, elm. cottonwood, tamarack, an
enough other varieties to make an az
gregate of over fifty different kinds
The hardwood tract extends in a beI
across the middle Of the state. and SUI
rnnndin0 its Eorfhoastern CORNER ia n