Stikeen River journal. (Fort Wrangel, Alaska) 1898-1899, 1898-08-27
GLEANINGS,
All Wheat and no Chaff.

All Wheat and no Chaff.
There is man in our town
Ills name my memory slips
Who kissed ten thousand microbes
on his sweetheart's lips.
And when he found what he had done,
With all his might and main,
He rushed up there another night
And kissed them on again.
-Up-todate.
London has about l7s rainy days in a
year.
Time hangs heavy on the hands of
clock.
Crabs two feet in length are often
seen in India.
Love may not he blind, but it seldom
sees its finish.
Governor +. A. Briggs of North Da-
kOta is dead.
A man always imagines he wants the
earth until he gets sick
Alexandria possesses the largest arti-
fetal harbOr in the world.
Forty percent of the export of Ameri-
can nails is taken by Japan.
Only the best of everything comes to
the man who waits on himself.
A woman always believes statement
until she hears contradictory one.
Some men are too lazy to acquire a
door from which to keep away the wolf.
Lovers may refuse to say goodby for
ever and yet put in two or three hours
at it.
But few men decline a nomination
for Office if they think there is any show
OF being elected.
When young man is in love, he
should press his own suit instead of en-
ploying q tailor to do it for him.
The United Breweries company. with
an authorized capital of $4,000, 600, WAS
Incorporated in Trenton N. j.
Alfred Dole. a nephew of ex-Presi-
dent Dole of Hawaii, is a member of the
national guard and went with the first
expedition to the philippines.
The steamer Signal, reported as
wrecked off the Washington coast, was
towed into San Francisco harbOr by the
tug boat Sea Queen, having broken q
crank pin.
Information has reached the Internal
revenue bureau that certain express
companies are shipping packages Of
money without atfixing a revenue stamp
thereto.
In Sweden and Norway a legal mar
rage is not allowed to be solemnized
until both parties produce certificates
attesting that they bear genuine vacci-
nation marks.
The natives of some tropical countries
chew the fiber of green cOcoanuts as q
preventative of fever. They contain
much tannic acid, and are reputed as
effective as quinine.
In proportion to population, Texas
IdS iiloiC CAoOPo AoA viz ""A
than any other state. Texas pays each
enlisted man seven dollars month in
addition to his government pay.
A plan has been perfected by a
French cloth weaver, by which the
wool on sheepskin can be converted
into velvet. Until recently, unshorn
skeepskins have been chiefly used for
rugs and carpets.
Rear Admiral McNair, who has been
assigned to the Naval academy as sue
cessor to Phillip Cooper, is the first
officer of his rank to have received the
detail since Admiral Rogers was there
in the early eighties.
Sarah Bernhard has accepted an in
vitation to visit the Maharajah Of Ka-
purthala. in India, and will, it is said,
Participate in tigar hunt. This recalls
the fact that she used to keep young
tiger as q domestic pet.
In dream the mother of Frank r.
Smaller, of company E, seventy first
regiment, saw her son wounded by q
terrible explosion. A few days later
she read the report from Santiago say
ing he had been wounded in the head
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