Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-11-26
MISCELLANEOUS.


MISCELLANEOUS.
Teacher is tongue noun?'
Pupil Because it is part Of speech"
Sacrificing Everything to Art
Humble Citizen See here, barber;
you've cut off piece of my ear" Ton
serial Artist-s'Yes; they seemed to me
a trifle large.'-Boston Courier.
An Ardent Lover. Mamie" Papa,
don't you think George is an ardent
lover?" Papa Yes, my dear, he is an
ardent lover-a lover of the ardent, and
think you had better give him the
mitten without delay Yankee Blade.
According to a recent report drawn
up by the United States consulate at
Lyons, France consumes about 9, SIS, 600
pounds of raw silk per anrnm, the value
of which is estimated at from 10000
900 to s12, 04O,OOO. If the value of the
wool, cotton and other materials used
in mixed fabrics be aeded, the total
value of the raw materials used in the
French silk industry amounts to el6.-
900, 900.
Just as Great Britain is figuring on
the probable exhaustion OF her coal
fields, discoveries of immense supplies
of that fuel are being made in Alaska.
Capt, Miner, of the schooner Henry
Dennis, brought to Seattle few days
ago some specimens of excellent coal
from Unger Island, in the Shumagin
group, Alaska. The coal is similar to
camel coal, and is pronounced to be of
tirst-class quality.
"A remarkably beautiful bust of
George Washington, executed in china
by Wedgewood, has been on exhibition
in Chicago. There were seven or eight
of these busts executed originally, but
the whereabouts of only two is known
at present These two were owned in
London until recently, when the one
now in Chicago came into the posses
sion of Mr.. T. A. Van Laun. It is
valued at $4,000
1t was an old tradition on the east
ern shore of Maryland that slaves
should have half holiday on Saturday,
and that only absolutely necessary
work should be done in Christmas week.
IAC CuStoA1 CdS& " lAC "AiICSs duO
it was not discontinued by the blacks
after they We're freed. The consequence
is that thousands are idle on Saturday
afternoon, and the Christmas festivities
last all through the week between
Christmas and New Years
The movement to bring colony
from Iceland to Alaska is received with
favor by the people of the latter coun-
try. though there seems to be some
crowned with success. Ludwig won
Dolcke, an Icelander, who has been
practising medicinein Detroit for a year
or two, has conceived the idea of taking
the entire population of Iceland to
Alaska, and he has gone to his native
country to start an agitation of the sub
ject.
William II. Thompson, retired
business man of Salem, Mass, claims to
be the discoverer of the likeness of a
human figure formed by the rocks of
Eastern Point. at the entrance of the
harbor of Gloucester, Cape Ann. He
has named it odd Mother Ann 1t is
singular that the curious formation has
never been noticed before. The fore
head is about FIVE hundred feet from
Eastern Point lighthouse. 1t faces the
sea- The body is reclining, and the
effect is that of an old man at ease and
watching the ships go by.
The injury to Lieut.. Peary, the
leader Of the North Greenland expcdi-
ton, was caused by a peculiar accident.
The steamer Kite struck large ice-foe,
and as the wheel was torn out of the
helmsman's hand it few around with a
swift revolution and struck one Of the
lieutenant's legs, fracturing both bones
Lieutenant Peary is not disheartened,
however, and he hopes to be able by
about May !. when daylight again glim-
mers in the arctic regions, to start out
on snow shoes and go father north than
any other explorer has travelled.
"A neat story about sow and its
Joseph Stevens, a farmer near that
place, has sow and four well-grown
Pigs. They all run in an apple orchard,
the trees of which have limbs that hang
rather low. The sow likes apples, and
so do the pigs. 1t is amusing to see
the sow spring up and seize low hang
ing limb, and shake down the fruit, the
little ones rapidly devouring them.
When the SOW spies some tempting APP
pies on a limb just beyond her reach,
one of the little pigs mounts on her
mothers back, and clinging to her with
her hind legs, clutches the limb with
her fore feet and shakes down the COW
eted fruit.
The last resting place of two IA
nous Indian chiefs-Black Hawk and
Pontiac become topic ofinterest
in the western newspapers. Pontiac s
bones are believed to lie very nearly
beneath the site of the Southern Hotel
in st. Louis having been inferred there
in 1869, just after his assassination by
an Indian spy and five years after the
founding of St Louis by Laclede. The
skeleton Of Black Hawk, it is thought,
lies in an unmarked grave in the potter S
field of Aspen Grove, Ia. Black Hawk
was originally buried in Davis county.
but his grave was robbed and his bones
boiled and vanished, after which they
became the property successfully OF a
governor, a doctor and later of the doc
tors surviving partner.-N. Y. World.
FASHIONS IN JEWELRY.
Beautiful Designs in Gold and Silver Or
naments.
Silver photograph frames are Of all
sorts and all sizes.
A pretty bracelet for q girl is made
of linked daisies.
Bows of gold ribbon sometimes have
diamond-headed pins thrust through the
knot.
Medallions of enamel, initiating old
Limoges in its neutral coloring, are
seen in watches, rings and brooches
Ash receivers in the form Of shells
and double shells have rare japanese
ornamental tiOn in colorS fro DRAGON