Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1894-08-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

son carry off all the honors at college?''
''No-all the signs. Puck.
mir. Relish tells me he has COM
l pletely lost his appetite Mrs. Hastily
l-"Well, he's found one, then, that is
much better than the one he had. -
Inter Ocean.
so want something that will make
me sleep, DOCTOR" Doctor-ssWhat's
the trouble?'' cts tooth coming .
Doctor-"One of your wisdom teeth?''
Goodness, no; one of the baby's teeth y
Inter Ocean.
! Collegiate. -Friend- s'Let me con-
graduate you; some one told me to-day
your son would be valedictorian of his
class" Old Sport - What's that?
There's no place of that sort on the
football team. Detroit Free Press
An Insinuation. She '.Where
were you yesterday when it rained?'
Helm the house, She Cooking at
him hard). He-''O, You needn't look
at me that way; was inside before the
RAIN began. Detroit Free Press.
Miss Style-"How l do pity those
poor horses that have to wear hats dur
ing the summer" 'sWhy, it's great
mercy; it protects them from the heat. .
SWELL, but half the time they are not
on straight. Inter Ocean.
-Obeying Instructions.-Stra
els the editor at home?" Servant
eyes, sir, but he is engaged Stranger
twill you please tell him that his
house is on fire?' Servant mpossi-
Bile! He gave strict orders that he was
not to be disturbed. Judge.
DIR. Cook, who is to go to the Arctic
on a trip that combines business and
pleasure, says that the cold of New
York is more trying to him than the
cold of a Greenland winter The latter
is dry, sharp, with the moisture frozen
out of the air, but winter in New York,
he says, is wet and raw and penetrating.
"A good deal of gratuitous service is
rendered in behalf of the employment
bureau of the Young Women's Chris
tian association. The bureau procures
places for female wage earners in vari-
GUS branches of industry; it has an ex-
change for woman's work, and it has
classes for industrial instruction. The
whole of it's business is conducted at a
very small expense.
There is said to be in Chicago the
biggest collection in the world of idols,
fetiches, totems, kobongs, tubus and
other symbols of heather worship of
all countries. 1t was gathered at the
expense of many Thousand dollars by
the late Mr.. w. J. Cunning. 1t is ex-
pected that it will find place in the
new Columbian museum
1t is being realized that deaf mutes
suffer from imperfect lung expansion
because they use. the lungs so little.in
talking, singing, and deep breathing,
and an effort is being made to benefit
them by gymnasium work especially
adapted to relieve this fault. A pecu-
| liar gait is also characteristic of the
deaf-mute, which it is expected proper
physical training will remedy. =
When the Mother Hubbard toilet
was abroad in the land, one small Ohio
town distinguished itself forever by
passing law prohibiting the wearing
of the gown outside of house limits.
And the landlady of small village
inn in England has handed herself
down to posterity in similar fashion by
refusing to let two women cyclists,
clad in knickerbocker suits, sit down
to dinner in her public coffee room
Ira II. benjamin, of Romeo, Mich.
has copper coin issued by the oppo-
nents of Andrew jackson in the cam
paign of 1884. On one side, encircling
the center, are the words ''Perish
Credit. Perish Commerce, 1884," In the
center is the figure of hog running,
with the words, ''My Third Heat on
it; above the hog, "My Victory below
it, "Down with the Bank On the
other side, .encircling the center, are
the words, ''My Substitute for the q.
S. Bank In the center is medallion
of jackson, and below is the words,
Experiment. My Currency. My Glory"
Many people waste a great deal of
their strength by swinging their arms
backward and forward all the time
while walking. 1t is curious fact
that the practice is followed by one Of
the sexes much more than it is by the
other An observer has taken notes
upon this subject. After standing for
and Fourteenth street he was able to
allege that nearly sixty men in every
100, and only twelve women in every
100, swing their arms when walking.
Most of them move the right arm with
the left leg and the left arm with the
right leg. A man who gave up the
habit for time returned to it, for the
reason that it seemed to help him to
walk rapidly.
The chaparral cock is famous
bird in Texas and some other south
western states, where it is known by
various local names. It's fierce-looh-
ing bird, about the size of a bantam
rooster; has long and powerful legs and
feet, strong bill, three or four inches
long, and is an exceedingly swift rum
ner. According to the Texans, this
pedes, tarantnlas and scorpions, and it
also follows and destroys rattlesnakes
in peculiar way. Waiting until the
reptile is asleep in its. coil, the bird
drags branches of dry cactus, so
as to completely surround the snake
Then the serpent is aroused by pushing
piece of cactus against it's skin, and
it Immediately tries to escape. Being
unable to pass the thorny hedge, it
turns at last in its blind rage to strike
itself, and thus dies of it's own venom.
Then the chaparral cock dances around
with every show of exultation, and
goes off after another victim.
Money Value Of st. Louis.
When Louis X; the saint, surren-
dered with his whole forces to the
Saracens at Mansura, on the 5th of
April, 1850, 100000 golden bezants
equal to half that number of the livres
of the day-were demanded for his
freedom. But the Moslems came down
to 100000 bezants, and, in the end, by
surrendering Damietta, Louis got off
for 100000 marlts-equal, roughly, to
over FL 900, 900 sterling of to-day. These
golden bezants contained about sOs.
worth Of our gold, but to go to market.
with would buy then as much, proba-
bly,, as ~ sovereigns now would. We're