The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
LIVELY TURNS OF THOU CHIT.

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The Missouri runs 1000 miles through
Dakota and is navigable the entire dis
tance.
| President Harrison seldom attends the
theater, but his seat at church is not often
vacant
| Henry Fielding Dickens, third son Of the
novelist, is a highly successful lawyer in
England.
Politicians should remember Hosea Bige-
lows safe old line: '+Don't never prophecy
-onless you know"
Moltke will pass the winter In Italy, North
Germany is too cold for him
A Cleveland man bought . broken down
street car horse at auction for $40, kept him
year, and sold him for $175.
The Mary Washington Memorial associa-
ton of Fredericksburg, Va. has elected
officers and will apply for charter.
Instead of abolishing the gaming tables
Of Monte Carlo the proprietors are viRor-
ously preparing for new campaign
The Queen Of England gave the Duchess
of Sparts two Indian shawls. The latter
bore the affection with Spartan frmness.
tical. He used often 70 say: 1.-THE tipod
of French literature rests on Hugo, Lamer-
tine and me.''
The late Sunset Cox's deep interest in
letter carriers is we'll remembered, and
they propose erecting q handsome monu-
ment over his grave.
A German who intended embarking at
Liverpool for America missed the steamer
and swan out after it. He came near
being drowned, but was rescued.
For hfty-dve years Christian Fegley, Of
Shamokin, has worked in the coal mines OF
Pennsylvania He is the oldest miner in
the state, but he does not look it.
A Putnam Conn.,, man succeeded in eat
ing two and half squash pies in twelve
and half minutes, winning prize. The
pies were an inch and half thick a
There is story going about Paris. that
one of the nephews of Vanderbilt is coming
over to France to buy quantity of racing
horses and to open racing stable.
The prince Of Patagonia and king OF
Araucania lives in Paris. He Is not holding
his throne for fear of the Chilians. His.
name is Achtlle and he is Of Irish origin.
The Edison Waltz and the Buffalo Bill
Galop have supplemented the Boulanger-
March as popular music in Paris. The
Whitelaw Reid Sonata is an imminent
possibility.
The tt anslation of legal documents from
English into Spanish is quite an important
business in ST. Louis. There is also much
correspondence relating to mines that must
be translated.
A statue of John Eliot missionary to the
Indians in New England, with squaw aud
chief crouched at his feet, is nearing COM
pletion in the atelier of John Rogers, the
modeler Of groups.
New York has a woman locksmith She
carries kit of tools for doing the small
jobs for which locksmiths are called in.
Her husband has a shop and they take
turns in attending to the calls.
The entire family of Thomas Stevens, of
Farmlngdale, Me-, are crazy on the subject
of monkeys. There are none Of the simian,
animals about the house, yet the Stevenses
profess to see them everywhere.
King William is the greatest travelling
emperor Europe has seen since Napoleon L
He is the first reigning monarch who has
visited Constantinopie since 1857. Napo-
leon never went as an invited guest.
Experiments are now being made in
Italy upon this years vintage in the
electrifcation of wine. Fifty different sorts
of wine have already been experimental up
on, and the results haye been very salts
factory.
Every county in the United States is sup
piled more or less with ladies' cloa}xs made
in the city of New York. Experts esti-
mate the total value of ladies' cloaks pro-
duced in the United at $40, OOO, 900 to $780,
voc, 900 year.
At Augueta, Me-, some boys playing in a
sandbank unearthed huge skull of some
extinct animal The skull is represented
as being four feet long and the huge Jaws
carry teeth six and seven inches long
which are decidedly ugly looking.
The schooner Maud B. Witherell Cap
tain Mcdonald, recently arrived at Prov
incetown, Mass, manned (D entirely by
women, with the exception of the captain,
who speaks in the highest terms of the
discipline and efficiency Of the crew.
Victoria Morosini-Schilin is said to be
lmmured in Westminster county convent,
but will soon be restored to the bosom Of
her family. Schilling is driving street
car on Long Island, under an alias. It
seems CuaI oOtn VlctOrla ana ScnUllng
made very poor matrimonial bargains.
A farmer living about three miles SOUTH
east Of Akron has a hen which lays an egg
of solid shell throughout, usually after none
of any kind have been laid for several days,
Six of these curiosities have already been
secured. They are 50 hard that they can be
thrown smartly against wall without any
visible effect.
The Rev. Phillips Brooks, the removed
public orator, is . most rapid speaker Of
the English language He can stand and
talk at the rate OF $40 words . minute, can
keep it up indefinitely. and never utter
sentence that is not simple, clear and strong.
He is to-day one Of the great speakers Of
the English language.
For six months or more workmen at .
quarry on Lay avenue. St Louis, haya