The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-10
MISCELLANEOUS.

years old.
LIN the Southern States there are
7.50O,OOO negroes three-fourths of
whom can neither read nor write
DIR. Vaughn, of Michigan Univer-
sity, says there are 10000 cases of
typhoid fever in Michigan annually,
and that nine-tenths of the patients get
well.
An Albany estate over which there
has been thirteen years litigation has
finally panned out eighty-five cents
apiece for the heirs, and they have
gone home satisfied. The lawyers got
about $11, 900. each.
-Collector-.:I have a little bill here.
sir, that would like to have" Man
OF the world Eyes, please lay it down
in that easy chair, sir.'' Easy chair!''
Eyes. It's been running SO long it
must be tired. - Binghamton Republican,.
Two old sports accustomed to catch
the granger at poker are playing
against one another. 'I'll call you.
What ye got?'' -Four aces whats
yer outside card? I've got four aces
myself. San Francisco Chronicle.
"A Maine doctor, who is now in
California, writes from that State that
in the town where he is staying. which
is near Los Angeles, there is twice as
much sickness as in any town that he
has any knowledge of in the State of
! Maine of its size.
| Startling. = He (rapturously) =
"And now that's all settled, darling.
what kind of an engagement ring
would you like?' She-.'O, gold this
time, I hope, dearest. I'm quite sick
of wearing imitation engagement
| rings" Tableau!-I Times. ......-. Il.
"A Kentucky rural paper boasts of
subscriber who rides twenty miles on
horseback every week to get his paper
1t is supposed the subscriber sent
poem to the editor several years ago
and "can hardly wait until he gets the
paper to see if his poem has been pub
lished. -NorriStown Herald.
In cold weather horse-car drivers
and policemen put newspapers to
queer use. They button them under
their coats or shirts, against their
chests, and assert that nothing is so
warming. A trick many drivers have
is, that of wrapping newspapers around
their stockings before they put their
boots on.
According to the Hon. William I.
Bowditch, one-tenth of all the taxes
in Massachusetts are paid by the
women. In Rockford, ILL.,, the women
pay two-thirds Of the taxes. In some
towns the percentage is large, but for
all of that these very women are not by
law citizens, and have no voice in the
administration of public affairs.
An Iowa woman thoughtfully put
two dozen eggs in her nice, warm bed
to keep them from freezing while she
spent the afternoon and evening with a
friend. Returning late at night, she
disrobed and plunged in. Shrek?
Well, the one she lifted up her voice
with caused the cat to dash through the
window in terror, and reused the neigh
bors. The eggs did not freeze.-Ex-
change.
The annual loss caused by insects in
the United States is estimated at about
$3.50, 900. 900, that on cotton alone being
$l5, OOO,O OO The insects increase with
the advance of civilization, on account,
doubtless, of the greater abundance of
the food furnished them. Every vece-
table product and every variety of fruit
and flowers are attended by special
parasites, each of which thrives on its
respective food-plant.
tho, Mr.. Sampson-George, dear"
said the girl, II can never, never be
your wife, but will always be a.
"Ah. darling interposed young Mr..
Sampson, and his heart was throbbing
the buttons off his new silk vest, ..why
do you address me in such an endear-
ing term if it can never, never be?''
Because, George DEAR" and again
the name fell from her lips like music
in the night. Pm to be mother to
you in the spring. Your father
But the son-in-law had fled.
"A man in Collegeville, Ark. heard a
commotion in his chicken-house, and
"SAAo " AAVOoIiS,"l A1o 1Ouuu q DIG
owl creating havoc among the fowls.
He seized the owl by the leg with the
right hand and the bird clutched the
hand with its talons, In trying to free
himself with the left hand this was
caught by the owls hooked beak, hold
ing him helpless and defenseless. He
shouted for help. and his wife came.
She took an axe and cut off the bird S
head and feet before the man could re-
lease his hands,
1. "A big gray gander, which made
friends with j. X. White. who runs a
ferryboat on Chucky river, near Jones'
boro, Tenn, about a year ago, has be-
come remarkably attached to him. It
goes to church with him. and remains
on the outside till the meeting is over,
then returns with him. It also accom-
panies him to the post-office, distance
of mile and half. It seldom goes
to the water alone, but when Mr.. White
is ferrying it swims by the side of the
boat 1t doesn't keep the company of
any living thing save Mr.. White, to
whom If coomc on tirolx- do1yotod