The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-03-26
Things i'm General.

"a AcVASihS idSU year.
About $4,000 copies Of Haw
thorne's Scarlet Letter have beer
issued.
In 1885 nearly 4,500,0 600 gallons o.
California wine was exported-nearly
1000, 600 more than in 1884.
The Pennsylvania superintendent o.
public instruction sadly admits that
there are 325. 1000 children in that
state not attending school, and grow.
ing up in ignorance.
The Bell Telephone company raked
in 50, 1000, 900 in New York city last
year, on an investment of $500, 900.
The production of copper in 1885
showed a considerable increase over
that of the y~ear1884, while the price
OF the product shows a considerable
decrease.
The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage ex-
presses the opinion that he who has
no reason for his matrimonial choice
except q pretty face lis like a man
who should buy a farmfort the dahlias
in the dooryard." Moreover, there
are times when the plainest wife is a
queen of beauty"
The fair Vassar students are going
in for physical culture, and the alum
n@e have already raised SIT, 900 to-
ward a fund OF $4,000, whichis to be
devoted to the organization of an ath-
tetic department.
Lucifer matches were invented by
Godfrey Hanckurtz, of London, Eng,
N 1850. Friction matches were in
vented in 1929 by John Walker, a
chemist at Stockton-upon-Tee Eng.
The United States Capitol extends
seven hundred and ffty-one feet, four
inches in length; the greatest breadth,
including the steps of the extensions
IS three hundred and t~wenty-four feet.
The whole covers an area of three and
a half acres, or 1912 square feet.
It's cost to 1879 was about $751; O0,-
900.
The disappearance of a river is
noted in California as one of the re-
suits OF the recent great storm. The
stream vas known as the Clearwater,
and itiowed out OF San Gorgonio pass.
1t is explained that so much rock and
earth was washed into the channel
that the waters were driven out upon
the Colorado desert to be lost In the
sand.
Shorter hours" says Wade's Fibre
and Fabric, f'mean more machinery
Shorter hours also mean shorter wag-
es. The advantage to be gained for
workingmen lies in the direction of bet
ter health, a leisure that may be wise
ly improved, and, in handiwork that
cannot be supplemented by machine
work, abetter division oflabor among
persons willing to earn their bread if
they have the chance.
A member of the faculty of one of
the lilo medical schools in the United
States says there are 100000 prac-
titioners, that the profession is sal
ready crowded" and Ill, 900 students
now fitting themselves to press into
it's walks; that there is "a doctor to
every 396 of our people, and the bus
mess Of %doctoring is overdone." And
he frankly adds the suggestive state
ment that medicine is for the most
part harmless stuff, else would the
American people be already threatened
with determination"
The PRECEDENT is allowed a salary of
$4,000 a year, payablemonthly, and
sthe use of the furniture and other ef-
iects belonging to the United States
and kept in the Executive Mansion
He is also authorized to employ in his
official household a private secretary,
an assistant secretary, tfyo executive
clerks, q steward Md = messenger,
whose salaries are paid by the Gov
eminent. The Giving expenses of
the President are paid from his own
pocket.
Harper's Bazaar is afraid that the
American, girl is spoiled by too much
chivalry. She forgets to be POI
lite and deferential. and disregards
well-meant attentions, because she
looks upon them. as a right rather
than a matter OF courtesy. Certain
women think that they establish indie
pendence by abolishing good manners
and by ignoring refinement, gentleness
and elegance" Men despise that sort
of Independence, and are apt to put a
check upon their chivalry when they
witness it.
Worse Than . Counterfa;ta-