Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-01-10

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$4,000 horse power engines, and is ex-
pected to make nineteen knots an hour.
If she does she will be the fastest vessel
aAoat.
Two steamers sailing from New
Zealand with cargoeS Of frozen beef
caught fire in their Observation-Disclosures
from the volatile liquids used in pro-
ducing cold.
If a tradcsman in Madagascar gives
short weight and is found out, he is
sentenced to pay Il line of five oxen and
So, or go to prison and work in chains
for II year.
Pulmonary consumption is the cause
of n death in twelve in New York
State, and the State Board Of Health
have laid the cause to the bad ~ventila-
ton of school rooms.
In Paris novelty is a magnifying fan.
Two sticks are bored and the holes
filled with small lenses of the finest
crystal. The wearer covers her eye
with the fan and uses the sticks as an
opera glass.
A frame school house in the Catskill
Mountains, which is used for church
sCA'ASos" ls PuPNiCo VIII plCCultS AiOm
illustrated papers published during the
rebellion. 1t is said that during servic-
es the walls attract more attention
than the officiating clergyman.
In the Italian convict prisons there
are no less than 1858 persons con-
demned to penal servitude for life. In
the yearly budget $1,000, 900 francs are
set aside for the expenses of these es-
Establishments, while only %, 900, 900
francs are spent upon education.
DR.. Koch recommends acid drinks
during cholera epidemics. A chemist
says in this regard that the workmen
in vitriol manufactures who use rs a
beverage diluted sulphuric acid sweet
ened with sugaror molasscs, have never
been known to be attacked by the dis
ease.
The teachers in the schools at Liver
more, Colorado. it is said, are given,
among other supplies, a bottle of
whisky rs an antidote to rattlesnake
bites, from which the pupils often suf-
fer in that locality. One teacher there
has her desk ornamcntcd with rattles
taken from these poisonous reptiles.
General Sherman went to n circus in
St. Louis. Not satisfied with the ami
mails and the circus he took in the
dressing tent and the s%idc-Show. In
the dressing tent he did not offer to
kiss any of the young ladies. but told
one of them she was pretty. He also
added: You're pretty, and you know
it."
Feggokilt, on the island of Mois,
Denmark, is for sale. The owner
guarantees that it was the birthplace of
'that remarkable man Hamlet" and
that on it is "a hill with the grave of
King Fegge, who was the identical in
dividual slain by the young Prince to
avenge the murder most foul of his
father"
The public schools of Anita, Iowa,
have taken a new departure in substi-
tuting a weekly newspaper in place of
the usual fourth and fifth readers. 1t
is believed that the change will be tried
in many schools Of the State, inasmuch
us the last Legislature failed to pass a
law for uniformity and pcrmanency of
textbooks.
Antique clocks and old Colonial
furniture are the latest craze in New
York. Recently Il dealer in that city
received $500 from the wife of q
millionaire for an old Dutch clock
made in Amsterdam in 1884. An old
San Domingo mahogany sideboard,
with inlaid panels and mirror back.
which h" had in stock, he expected to
get $500 for.
French gentlemen have long since
abiured their own tailur~. and have
gone over 10 English tnilors or cutters
for their clothes. In 1870 there were
only thirteen English tailors in Paris,
who did Il business amounting to L.
100000 francs a year. Now there are
over thirty-ninr English tailors in
Paris, whose business amounts to 49,
5OO,W0 frame, annually.
A cyclone struck Coldwater, Mich.
about G:l0 o'clock Tuesday evening,
accompanied by rain. The roof OF a
business block was torn off, plate-glass
fronts We're blown in, and signs were
carried the entire length OF Main
street. Telegraph lines were blown
down, and much excitement prevailed.
1t is expected that much damage has
been done in the city and county.
An attempt was made to poison the
family Of DR.. D. IL. Buckingham, q
druggist in Philadelphia, by placing a
large quantity of sulphate of copper in
the tea-kettle. 1t was discovered by
the housekeeper, who nearly lost her
life in tasting the water. The police
arrested a tifteen-year-old colored boy
employed by the doctor as an errand
boy, who confessed his guilt, but could
assign no reason for the act.
Joseph Moses Behrendt, otherwise
known as +. Barnett. was arrested at
New York by Deputy United States
Marshal Bernhard as a fugitive from
justice. He came to the United States
a year ago from Elbing, in Prussia,
where he carried on farming and a
mercantile business. 1t is alleged that
before leaving EIbing he forged the
name of one Bernes to drafts for over
100000 marks. At the time he was a
bankrupt. The complaint against him
is made by the German consul general.
John W. I1olcomb, superintendent
of public instruction, and manager of
the Indiana educational exhibit at the
Worlds Fair in New Orleans, has 10
sued a circular to county superintend-
ents. He asks each one to send copies
of the printed manuals, reports, blank
forms, and printed documents illus
trating schools. photographs of the
school buildings, county newspapers,
map OF the county on a scale of three
quarters of an inch to the mile, show
ing civil townships in colors, important
streams and railways, cities and towns.
boundary lines, and the location Of
school-houses.
The manager of a Brooklyn lecture
bureau recently wrote to General Sher-