The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-02-27
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Tunis,ans do not like their women lean.
40 Whenever a young woman is to be mar
RED sho must bs fattened to a correct con.
dition of c%omeliness. the betro.hed
maiden Ia. therefore. cooped up in a small
room with shacklos Of gold or SILVER upon
her wrists and ankles, and stuffed will
food until the shackles are properly nl.sa.
The food used for tho purpose IL a sort OK
seed called drough. which IL said TO poasess
extraordinary fat producing properties. 10
is said that sometimes the glrls arc actually
stuffed 80 death.
William Il, Grace is OF the opinion that
the American fArmer must ma eiene. naw
wheat lands by irrigation on an elaborate
scale or special modes of cultivation, or
else tho American people in tho next cen.
tury will be compelled to impors insssau OF
export wheat. But even II We should come
to that, he looks forward to an lmhshss
horticultural development in the aoush ana
TIA southwest. and 40 great a demand for
our corn abroad owing to the increased use
Of this nuteitivs food by foreign nations
that the decline in wheat exports VIII be
more than Offset.
In Ireland, near Horn Head, in county
DnneuaI. there is IL remarkable natural hole
in the rocks of the ssaCoast, which Is known
nil over Britain as "McSwiney's gun 1t
ia believed to be connected with a sea cav
ern. When the sea runs fuil' the gun
sends up Jets of water to a height OF moro
than 100 feet, each spontinE being followed
and preceded by loud explosions. The
gun, ia a perfectly smooth hole about ten
inches in diameter, and its history can DO
t.aced back to the first settling OF the
country. No one seems 70 know however;
how il got tho name of 'NcSWiney gun.
An Ohio bricklaYer has taken out patents
+ .L., ,.untrr GnpIApA and Canada for n
nrooess of his invention which he says Wall
make whisky just from the still twenty
wears old in twenty-four hours. The pro-
cess consists in reducing the liquor to a
temreratnre of about 10 uesfees below zero
and then passing q current OF electricity
through a.. This brings all the impurities
to tho surface. A company has been organ
ICED to handle the invention and the whisky
trust. it il said. Is seriously considering us
adoption in its distillerles. ana wl!l prop
ably do SO, if on experiment 1T proves to DO
what 10 claimed for II.
DR.. j.. H. Kellogg, who recently visited
tha CITY OF Mexico. states that several In
dian tribes in the land of our next neigh
bors have lost their ancient religion with
out having adopted that Of taelE Christian
cououerors. "Ihe average citizen OF the
United States" he says. lis certainly I'M
conscious of the fact that SO vast an extent
If nnoiyilizsd territory lies so close to his
nntiye land. Outside of tho cities, which
can certainly not be said to DO numerous IN
Mexico. the civilization of the natives ls
quite inferior to that of China ana Japan.
By far the great majority OF the aborigi-
mes ara unchristianized as we'll Ms uncivil-
lied"
The Distric. Telegraph company OF New
York has run against q difficulty that may
cost them a soodly sum of money before
they get through with IL. Mr.. Bronson
Murray has sent them bills for the rent OF
roofs across which the wires are strung. He
saws that if the bills are not paid he means
TO sue. Ten dollars a month per roof IL
what he demands, and he SAYS that ne con-
siders it very moderate. cousideilnR the IN
Jury done TO the roofs by the lnemsn
camping over them. If Mr.. Murray WINS
his suit it will mean a good lot OF money to
be paid by the company for roof rent, as
Shere are plenty Of roofs over which the
wires run.
The chance that General John Corse. who
"held the fort" ut Altoona, and after q ter
rible battle declured that he could whln all
hell yet" may again be appointed to office,
recalls this incident: When hs was made
postmaster at Boston the newspapers were
full of stories of hiE valor. and scores OF
clippings we're sent to him at his homo IN
Winchester. Repstitions of the phrase just
quoted were abundant. At length one day
his wife, half in jest and half In a feeling OF
annoyance, said 30 the general: There Is
one consolation at least, and that Is that
YOU have got through licking all hell, and
will occupy yourself 70. some time to come
in licking postage stamps