The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-04-10
SUPERFICIAL SURVEY.

golden; but it is the other mans silence
that Is meant" That is true. Carlyle was
| always preaching silence, and yet he was
forever screeching at the top Of his voice.
Richard Stahl has had considerable
matrimonial experience. He has been mar
ried three times, divorced twice, sued for
alimony once. He is going to market his
experience, and is composing wedding
march"
Ralph Disraeli, brother of Lord Bea-
consfield, has retired, at the age of eighty,
after fifty years of public service, from the
office of deputy clerk Of the parliaments,
to which he was appointed by Lord Bea-
consfeld.
1t has been asserted that chewing wood
en- toothpicks sometimes produces small
| ulcers in the mouth, and that even the
stomach has been similarly affected by the
action of the small particles of wood de-
tached by chewing.
The discovery OF uranium at the Union
Mines Cornwall, was announced several
months ago. This is believed to be the on
Iy known lode of that metal in the world,
as it has previously been found only in
pockets and patches.
The postmaster of Owosso, Mich, has
been 50 pestered by local dudes gossiping
with his pretty clerks tnat he has placed
over each window a printed card which
reads: ''This window for p. o. business
only; not for visiting"
At Bruenn, Austria, burglars have cir
cumvented the use OF iron shutters for
store windows by cutting a hole in the
glass through the little round hole left in
the shutter for ventilation, and the fishing
for the valuables inside with hook and
line
Jean Hosmer, the once brilliant actress
who died in obscurity the other day, was a
great admirer of j. likes Booth as an
actor. She said he was better actor than
his brother Edwin and more like his father
in fire and vigor, but he did not possess
the grace and refinement Of his brother.
Count Herbert Bismarck, during his So
iurn in the Orient, learned a new proverb,
which he repeated in a recent speech:
"There are three things with which no
man should play-the fire, because it can
burn him; the viper, because it can sting
him; woman, because she can love him"
An advertisement was printed in a New
York paper calling for bank burglar,
first class, must have done time and be
well up in nitroylycerine and other
modern explosives to call at Ills Broad
~.
the bill He was wanted by theatrical
troupe.
Edwin Booth has sent check for 81, 900
to the Vincent Hospital, at Boston, an in
stitution for the relief of working women
and girls, established under the patronage
of Trinity church as memorial of the late
Mrs. j. r. Vincent, for many years an
esteemed and accomplished actress of the
Boston Museum company.
From the wallet Of murderer, robber
and burglar recently captured in New York
was taken slip Of paper on which was
written: "Keep good company or none"
Honesty is the best policy" "Drink
! leads to ruin" Honor thy father and thy
mother" ''Civility costs nothing" 'Do
=. not mock at sacred things"
THE Sse of nitro-glycerine in cases OF
emergency instead Of alcohol is receAl-
mended by an english physician. a drop
! on the tongue raises a flaming man, and it
may restore life in-the case of apparent
death, as from drowning. It has quickly
} relieved headache, heart pains and
} asthma and strengthened weak pulse in
fevers.
A farmer in Palmer township, North
ampton County, Pa, was told by 'pow-
WOW" doctor that if he would go to his
barn at midnight and make racket with
the frail and threshing machine it would
: scare all the rats out of the place. He made
the racket, and alarmed the neighbors,
who turned out to ascertain the cause Of
the noise.
Clot Bey, tho founder Of modern medi-
cine in Egypt says that it requires as
; ; much surgery to kill one Egyptian as
seven Europeans, and there is no doubt
that Egyptians bear surgical operations
with extraordinary pluck and success. A
man in a native hospital who has had his
thigh amputated at o'clock is sitting up
and quite lively at +.
A sensation was caused in London by the
finding of the Countess Carlotty, the Eng
lish widow of deceased French nobleman,
dead in her chair. The unfortunate woman
was hugging in her arms bag containing
SIG, 900 in gold at the very moment when
she was dying of insufficient nutrition, be-
ing too miserly to purchase the food that
she needed to keep her alive.
At the Schaghticoke N. Y, powder
mills there is great activity just now, and
the mills are turning out large quantities
of rifle sporting powder. Peas, instead of
. charcoal, enter into the composition of this
, brand and the roaster in which they are
! peas every twenty-four hours. Peas thus
: prepared are also sent to the Newburg
mills, which are making the same kind Of
powder.
: A curious connection between the color
and the auditory sense has been observed
by DIR. Albertine. He has discovered that
persons suffering from daltonism, that is
! color blindness to certain hues, have cor
= = responding deafness to certain musical
notes Special instances are given. For
example, a person not having the sensa-
: tion of red cannot distinguish the note sol,
q person blisS Fte> green raaaUES .scognize
er, nor can Tns notes be produced by the
voice.
Miss Harriet Vernon is paid $3.50 q week
for playing the hero in "Iaclk and the Bean
stalk" which has proved the great London
success this season. The manager OF
Drury Lane has spent Sl00, 900 in putting
: this pantomine on the stage More than
one thousand rich and expensive costumes
are worn in the piece, costing over SSS. 900.
The play is said to possess no literary
merit whatever, aud the wit to be old and
, commonplace, but it is the fashion and all
London is running after IT,
Dabney Jones gives the following ac-
count of the Hessian fly He says that his
: father, who fought in the Revolutionary
war, told him that when the army was dis
banded by Washington q number of Hes
slams remained In this country, and being
: of restless, nomadic temperament dis
tributed themselves pretty generally, some
Of them drifting down to Carolina. The
next year they sent to the Fatherland for
l wheat to plant, and when the wheat came
D up the hy appeared so that the Larvae of
e the fly must have been brought over in the
. wheat
, DR.. Nansen, the Arctic explorer in q
!, lecture before the Geografiske Selskab at
4 Christiania, explaining his plans for q
north pola aYnaditinn ndvncakad tha am.