The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-03
PASSING EVENTS
Butte, Montana, is to have a grant,
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w dsllll0lOu mas ''DDJ ICtilN''N Jugs
or more in proportion than any otheI
city in the union.
COcOanut fiber hrOoms are novelties
for sweeping the hearth. They have :
rich brown tint and are $50 odd
If all the railroads of the world were
joined one to another they would 90
around the earth on its longest circum.
ference more han ten times.
Smallpox has become epidemic ir
TuNpan, Mexico, and the state boarC
Of health is taking precautions against
it spreading TO ~neighborng towns.
Charles +. Courtney says that the
new patented dry-Iand r~owing-ma
chine will be used in all the principa.
gymnasiums and colleges of the cOun.
try before long. There is no porcep
tibIe difference between It's movement
and that of a shell boat
Little ~S-year-old Kittie stephens, OF
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, was buried in
accordance with the provisions of heI
''will, - in white, with her doll dressed
in white, in her arms, the caSket, flow.
ers. hearSe, and horses being white,
and five little girls in white acting as
~pall-bearers.
1t is noted, says The London Globe,
that in ''Whitaker's Almanac the
only day in the year opposite which
some event is not recorded is June
10. The space has evidently been left
blank in order that it may be filled
with the record: The queen receiv-
ed Mr.. GladstOne'S resignation"
The Hawajian Gazette tells how a ma
tive of Hilo came to his death while
endeavorIng to kill a fish he had just
caught. He placed it in his mouth to
bite it, according to custom, when il
slipped down his throat, and, as it was
too big to be swallowed and its ex-
banded fins forbade its removal, the
fisherman was choked to death.
The Koran states that each mother
locust lays nlnety-nine eggs, and were
the hundred complete they would de.
stroy the whole world and all that is
In it. The greatest ravages by lOcusts
are in Cyprus, where the government
spends a large annual sum for the ex-
termination of the insects. 1t is est.
mated that the locust slaughter in 1889
must have been 200, 600, 600, 900.
The last report OF the French de-
partment of agriculture shows how ex.
tensive have been the raVages of the
grape-destroying phylloxera in that
country, but comforts its readers by
evidence that the pest is decreasing.
The statistics given show that France
has now more than q million less acres
devoted to Vineyards that she possess
ed before the appearance of this in
sect.
The prime warden of the Fish.
mongers' company. London, told the
Society of Arts, in a recent address,
that the daily supply received at
Billingsgate, the great London fish
market, amounted to five hundred
tons. A ton of fish is equal to the
weight of twenty-eight average sheep;
so that five hundred tons equals
a consumption of fourteen thousand
sheep.
In 1870 Obidiah Hill went from
Newbury to Leominster, Mass, and
began making back hair combs from
horn, working in his kitchen with rude
hand tools and without an assistant.
To-day Leominster is engaged in the
manufacture of horn combs, chains,
bracelets, lockets, knives, ornamental
trinkets, and various other useful arti-
cles, including horn chains. More
than a score OF firms are in the bust
ness, and hundreds of people are en-
ployed. More horns of cows, oxen
and steers are worked up in this town
than in any cher place.
The United States guaranteed In
dian Territory to the FIVE tribes in ex-
change for lands in Tennessee, Geor.
gia, North Carolina, and Alabama.
The government is under obligations
to defend the territory from outside
intrusion, and to maintain the nation
al independence of the tribes and the
security of their lands .'as long as
grass shall grow or water run" The
title to the land is not vested in midi
vidual citizens, but is the property Of
each nation, and a man may not pass
a deed to the land he occupies. but
merely convey the improvements he
has put upon 1t.
In an address to young meI DR.. w.
Pratt, of London, says that married
lite IS by far the most healthy. In
1000 married men OF Is to 80 years Of
age there are six deaths; 1000 bacho-
Tors furnish ter deaths, and 1000
widcaeTS twenty-five deaths. liz
young men married before 20 years the
figures are un~fayorable, being fifty per
1000. In unmarried men under 20
the rate is but seven per Loco. If
girls marry before 20 a like mortality
befalls them. Married people from is
TO 20 die as fast as people from 60 TO
20. After Fl marriage should be con-
tractcd as soon as practicable.
An Arizona paper makes the follow
ing announceTRent: 1--WE win nav
$40 for a good epic poem Of one hun
dred lines on the ..Seourge Of the
Seyenteen-year Locust" Said poem
must be sound in wind and limb. but
IL must not be all sound, a little sense
is desirable MI metaphors must be
now and applicable TO the subject.
No % than d poetic license to ten
lines will be allowed. Rhyme not ab-
solutely necessary bur reason q sine
qua non. No parodies allowed. We
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