The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-09-25
WINGED MISSILES

every year.
There 100 deer forests In the Highlands
of Scotland.
Whisky was first made in ireland by an
English monk.
There are IA, 465 women commercial tray
elers in the United States.
There are seventeen registered sects of
Wesleyans and Methodists.
The Chinese endure change of climate
better than any other race.
People eat 20 per cent more bread when
the weather is cold than when it is mild.
A shoe firm in Macon, Ga, has been con-
Quoting business at one stand for sixty
years.
Turin is the first Italian city which can
boast of library intended exclusively for
women.
1t is estimated in England that one man. in
500 gets college education, and in America
one in every 200.
Old Battersea bridge, the solitary sur
viving pile bridge on the lower Thames, is
to be pulled down.
A mountain side makes the best pasture
for young cows, because climbing tends to
strengthen the calves.
The number of diamonds known of the
weight of thirty-six carats and upward
does not exceed twenty.
A Chelsea man put his patent incubator
over ducks egg and Matched a duckling
with four eyes and two bills.
A Georgia woman who is engaged in the
chicken business has sold $50 dozen eggs
from twenty-seven hens this year.
A Benton Harbor man has a musket
which used to kill Frenchmen 200 years
ago, and powder flask older by a century.
BY the agency of the London children's
county holidays fund 10000 children last
year enjoyed short holiday in the coun.
try.
In the year 1919 sugar is said to have been
sold at Is 915d pound, and was considered
a very luxurious article till the eighteenth
century.
1t is known that the Chinese, as early as
800 A. D., fastened rockets to their arrows,
that the latter might be thrown to a greater
distance.
William l. of Germany served in the
al my do d 1uI private uSlOiS nS udu dGGoIn-
ed his seventh year At seventeen he was
in action.
Husband-"Dr. Foote, the chiropodist,
will dine with US this evening" Wife
''All right; I'll order 'corned' beef. '-New
York Journal.
One ostrich farm at Port Augusta, South
Australia, contains 700 birds worth 500
each, and the yield of feathers this year is
expected to be worth S, 600
An English geologist predicts that with
in fifty years a CONFUSION of nature will
sink the whole of New Zealand fifty feet
below the surface of the sea.
Between one hundred and fifty and two
hundred hogsheads of beer are given away
every week to the employees at Burton-on-
Trent in the way of allowances.
A Polander woman living at Salamanca
one day last week picked and marketed
over twenty quarts of blackberries, and in
the afternoon gave birth to triplets.
The use of India rubber for erasing pen
Gil marks was first suggested in or just
prior to 1852 by an academician named
Magellan, a descendant of the great navi-
gator.
The mortality of the globe is said to be
sixty seven every minute 1900 every day,
or $3.50, S35 every year. The births
amount to 1000 every day, 80, 792, 900 ev-
| cry year.
The Mexicans are more original than
| those countries which celebrate their vic
tories They have just been celebrating
| their defeat at the battle of Churubusco on
the 22d of August, 1S47.
A woman in Salem, N. j., thirty-four
years ago lost two silver coins in a slit in
the floor. Last week, the floor being taken
up for repairs, she instituted search for
the long lost money and found it.
The vatican library at Rome contains So
900 printed books and $4,000 manuscripts.
The manuscripts form one Of the most
valuable collections in the world, being
mostly Greek, Latin and Oriental
The Austro- Hungarian convict who is
| condemned to die stands on the ground with
| rope around his neck, and at given
signal he is pulled off his legs to remain
struggling in the air until he is strangled.
A Wichita woman predicts that the
world will wind up on the 10th of Novem-
three months to find out whether the
| prohets of Wichita are as bad as the poets.
1t is probable that hereafter a census
will be taken in England every five years,
but solely as TO number of population, age,
sex and distribution. The full census will
continue to be taken at intervals of ten
| years.
A family in Parkersburg, W. Va, has
been losing meats so often from the well
where they were put to keep cool and
| fresh, that last week they set a watch and
| found the thief to be black snake several
feet long.
A new kind of lance has been introduced
into the German cavalry regiments. Its
popularity lies in the fact that it is con-
structed wholly of steel, the necessary
lightness being secured by making the
shaft hollow.
Recent very trustworthy calculations of
the population of the Chinese empire by
Russian authorities reckon it at 49,, 000, 900,
and the annual increase at 4, 900 900. Not
one in 10000, 900 ever heard of the religion
of Jesus Christ.
To the list of poisons may be added, as a
|
nutmeg At least one fatal case has oc-
CURED, where boy of s. having eaten two
nutmegs, fell into comatose condition and
| died within twelve hours.
| Here is an excuse brought one dayby a
tall, red-haired boy Of II to his teacher:
"Dere Cir-Pleze to eggcuce Henry for alb
sents Yesterday. We made sourkrout and
he had to tromp it down. Also he had to
Help bucher 2pigs. Respectful yuers, His
Pap"
A Pittsburg hardware dealer tells of a
man who entered his store the other day
and asked to look at some nippers or pliers.
Some were shown him, whereupon he
calmly affixed a pair to one of his teeth,
pulled the molar from his jaw, laid it with
the nippers on the counter and asked the
bill.
The Bradford, Fla, county commission
ers pay $50 month for man to guard the
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