The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-16
Miscellaneous Matters.

22d ult. Ihe Gremenduous submarine
roaring was appalling, the ship was
shaken in every fiber and the crew
became paralyzed with fear.
Puck: The Greely expedition cost
the government $762,096. We don't
want to appear parsimonious and mean
in these matters, but couldn't it be ar
ranged to sta5ye a few men and freeze
them to death a little nearer home and
at less expense? A winters sojourn
in a @spare roomp of a Michigan farm
house would accomplish the same re-
suit, and we'd learn just as much
about the north pole.
New York Star: Just why Gen.
Grant refused the sum being raised for
his relief is mystery in some quarters.
1t need not be. Grants pride was
hurt. He found the rich men we're
too long raising the money. 1t looked
as though The performance was per-
funotory, and Grant got angry and
threw the whole business over. A
very proper spirit he showed, too. The
fact is his quondam friends, the mil
lonaires, have no more use for the
broken down and bankrupt old soldier.
Alas! that it should be SO, but very
few of us can get something for no
thing in life. Society expects a quid
pro quo, in some form OF other, for
every benefit the individual receives.
Only poor men and fools ought to be-
lieve they are loved for themselves
alone.
Thirty barrels of fine New England
rum we're overlooked in unloading the
bark Emma Harrimen three years
ago, when she was fitted out at Boston
for whaling trip. Capt. Martin dis
covered the beverage soon after setting
sail, and he advised a pleasure voyage
instead of a strictly laborious one.
The rest of the officers and the crew
agreed to the novel plan, and there
after the chase Of the whale alternated
with sprees in the ports at which the
vessel touched. The owners gave her
up for lost, but at length heard of her
on the Pacific coast, and have just
captured her in st. Thomas bay. The
rum was exhausted, and the jollymar-
iners had periodically traded for pro-
visions all the whale oil they had OBJ
tanned.
AT last Gen. Grant has refused some
thing which he had in his power to
accept. 1t will be remembered that
some time since all the generals real
and personal property, including war
trophies and presents from all parts Of
tho world, was levied upon to satisfy a
debt Of $4,000 due VIM. H. Wander
bilt, that amonnt having been borrowed
for the benefit of the firm Of Grant &
Ward. Mr.. Vanderbilt bid In the
articles at a recent sale and immedi-
ately made over The whole lot to Mrs,
Grant. The general. however, on be-
half of his wife, refused the gift and
thus places himself on record as having
at last refused something. We now
believe that recent reports Of his men
tai and physical prostration have not
been exaggerated.
The bill to repeal the pre-emption,
desert lands and timber culture laws
and to amend the homestead law,
passed the senate. 1t provides for the
absolute repeal Of the pre-emption and
timber culture laws, and provides that
homesteaders nsasS commute after
| eighteen months Of actual residence by
filing notice Of their intention SO to do
for period Of six months previous in
| the local land Office. Section 5 Of the
bill provides that no public lands ex-
cept abandoned military or other res
erYations, mineral and other lands,
the sale of which has been authorized,
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