Morris tribune., 1890-08-20

Special census agent Balm has com.
pleted the revision of the st. Louis cen
sus, and his report shows that the popu
lation of that city is 460,2
The press censors of Sweden and Nor
way have been instructed by King Os
car to relax the severity with which the
censorship has recently been exercised
Eight cattle cars were thrown over an
embankment by rear-end collision on
the Pan Handle railroad. Two drovers
and two trainmen were badly injured
The first purchase of silver bullion
under the new law was made Wednes.
day, $4,000 ounces were taken, but
Mint Director Leech refused to state al
what price.
Spanish soldiers while gathering wood
unarmed. on one of the Caroline islands
were attacked by natives and twenty.
seven of them killed.
A terrible explosion occurred at a
country saw mill twelve miles west of
Newberry, 8. G. Four men, one white
and three colored, were killed and two
colored men seriously injured.
Postmaster General Raikes has finally
decided to reinstate 80 of the 400 Lon
don postmen recently dismissed for en-.
gaging in strike. A number of others
are leaving the country.
Miss Mary L. Weldon, of Schwein.
furth's "heaven" at Rockford, Ills, has
given birth to another baby whose par
entage is charged to the holy ghost by
the new Christ.
The supervisor of census authorizes
the statement that in round numbers
the present population of Vermont is
362, 900. The census return of 1880 gave
the population as $4,000.
Nellie Taylor, a dissolute Chicago
woman, was lassoed by her lover,
"Bud" Harris, and hanged to gas fix
ture. She was rescued by the police,
but the shock will kill her, the doctors
say.
Cotton exports from the United States
during July past aggregated in value
81, ,730, ,876, against So, $40 in July,
1889. Breadstuffs exports during July
aggregated in value SO, ,773, SO, against
80, ,S06, ,945 in July, 1889.
Editor Bentley, of The Azusa, CAL.
News, was taken out by armed men and
tarred and feathered for publishing an
article rejecting on the conduct of G. E..
Frasier while teacher of the Azusa
grammar school.
At the midsummer handicap games of
the Detroit Athletic club, Harry Jewett,
Of Chicago,a Notre Dame student, broke
the American hop-step-and- -jnmp record,
The record has been A feet inches.
Jewett made A feet 81 inches.
1t transpires that for several years the
sermons Of Cardinal Newman were re-
ported verbatim without the knowledge
of the cardinal. The reports have been
carefully preserved and it is intended to
publish them as soon as possible.
The National Museum of Egyptian
Antiquities at Bulak contains a very in.
teresting collection Of plants which have
been found in the catacombs and sepul.
chral monuments of the country. DR..
Schweinfurth was the first to study this
ancient flora, which contains no example
of a plant that does not grow today in
the Nile valley. Nor does the most min
ute examination show the least differ.
-ence between the vegetation which -four
ished fifty centuries ago and that of the
present time. In some cases the color OF
the flowers can be clearly distinguished,
as, for instance, the purple larkspur, the
red poppy, the reddish brown saffron
and the blue lotus.
The leaves of the watermelon contain
grains of chlorophyll perfectly visible in
the microscope. All these were found
in great numbers In the burial places OF
the fifteenth dynasty, 5000 years B. c.,
and in one tomb of the same time some
ears of barley. In later monuments were
discovered mustard, flax, cucumbers,
lentils, pine cones, juniper berries, dates,
hollyhocks, chrysanthemums, figs, olives,
onions and grapes. Around the necks
and upon the breasts of the mummies OF
1,100 B. G. were garlands of celery
leaves and blue lotus flowers. In regard
to the various specimens of grain dis
covered, it may be added that no at
tempt to make them grow has ever sue
ceeded, the plants having been subjected
to great heat at the time of the embalm.
ing and burial, which, while 1t preserved
them, destroyed their terminating power.
The cases in which mummy wheat is
said to have been raised are due simply
to the fraudulent mixture of modern
with the ancient grains. Chicago Her.
aid.