The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-03

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York over 5000 600 was paid 70 lhe
lawyers as fees.
More than $4,000 square miles of
coal aud ifhn territory have already
been located within the bounds Of
Texas.
Al Soian0 county, California, man
has fonr gives living, has been divorc-
cd six times, three times from p
woman, aud has been married even
times.
The redwood posts of q fence erect
ell in Napa, Cal, thirty-two years ago
were recently removed, and found ia
rs good condition as when first put I'M
to the ground.
"A granite slab, with ~ impression
OF a moccaslned human foot clearly
defined on it. has been discovered on
one of the islands Of the northwest
coast of California.
Oregon has its antiquities as we'll as
the older states. About q hundred
years ago TN ofd tree blew down. Re-
Gently an eccentric genius followed
out the stump, cut a door and window
In It, aud made of it a cosey in
which he lives. He estimates that his
house is nearly 500 years old.
Morris King, 4 hotel porter at Watch
Hill, Conn, stopped a run away team
nine years ago at imminent peril TO
himself, and refused the reward offer
ed him by the father of the ~6-year-old
boy who had been left IN the vehicle.
Last week he received q legacy of
81, COT under the fathers viii.
There seems to be q great rivalry
among southern cities III regard to the
erection OF expensive buildings for
young mems Christian associations.
Atlanta leads of with q hall costing
lSI00, 900, Nashville and Chattanooga
are trying TO raise $50, 900 apiece for
this purpose. and Selma Ala, is barely
content with S25, 900.
The ten finest buildings ia this
country, according to the majority
vote in The 4mericaD ArchGtect, ares
Trinity church, Boston; the capitol as
Washington; w. X. Vanderbilt's
house, Trinity church, and the Jefer-
son Market court house, New York;
The city hail, Hartford; city hall and
state capitol, Albany; Sever hall, Cam
bridge, and town hall, North Eastons
Panama hats are made in Guayaquil,
Ecuador, and received their name
from the fact that Panama merchants
formerly controlled the trade. They
are made Of the pitaedbre, a species of
palm, and are braided under water BY
women. Al single strand used IN
making a hat is often fifteen feet long
It sometimes takes three weeks
to braid a single hat -hssA sells for
s25.
A colorad woman living on aplanta-
zion near Bayou Eeche IN Louisiana,
recently gaFe birth to a large. we'll
developed still born child, with two
perfectly-formed heads. 1t had a
double backbone as far as the hip
JOINT, and a wedge-shaped bone be-
tween them Just below where the
necks unite: also a double heart, and
two stomachs that united or communi-
Gated at the lower part.
A college professor. recently APP
pointed a United States minister 10
oae OF the South American states.
while talking with some friends ia ono
Of the rooms Of a government DEPART
ment, was asked BY what route he was
going To his destination. He stam-
mered awhile, and then said, II don't
know He made a further confession
by saying. ~ am blessed If know
how to get there at all. I never
thought Of that. Its funny, isn'titg''
While Mr., Lyman was chief clerk Of
the treasury department he once found
800, 900 in an envelope that had only
tw0-3-cent stamps on it stuck up Ia
one corner. One New York banking
frm never registered their letters.
They would seal $40, 600 OF 500, OOd ia
4 large envelope, put two-S-cent
stamps on ii, and throw ID iii tha lett
ter-box ut the postoiice. They told
me, said Mr.. Lyman, ssthey found
their losses averaged less than the ex-
press charges would be-. They sent
IAwey S50,U00 a week, and said Ii did
not pay to register or express money
Al large hawk sH ooped down on q
poultry yard near Youngsville. Snih-
van comfy r., q few DAYS ago,
and. saizing a hen, flew with it 10 4
neighboiing tree. The hen made q
great cutlery, and before the hawk
could kiIs il q swallow made . dash at
the hawk and pecked and worried ii
so that it released the hen and attempts
cd to fly away. The hen huttered to
the ground ard ran back to fhe p0ul-
try yard. The swallow kept up its
attack on the hawk, and it was soon
Joined by other swallows. The cour-
ageons little birds surrounded the
hawk and assaulted it fiercelY until che
big bird dropped to the ground. The
farmer on whose ground the Conflict
took place hurried to the spot. -The
swallows had the hawk on the ground
and were pecking Ii mevcilessly. They
were so much engaged in the attack
that the farmer walked within three
feet Of them before they discovered
him and flew away. The farmer pick
Ed up the hawk. Both Of is eyes had
been put out. and it WIS SO badly hurf
in other ways that il died in . few
minutes.
The New York papers, says Tbe De.
troll Post, In giving the history Of the
+ defalcation Of PayinQ-Teller scott
tells a pathetic story Of a little boy
employed By a merchant. The mer-
chant sent him to the Manhattan bank
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