The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-06-10
VARIOUS. TOPICS,

Visitors to the court Of RuzaAe o1e
allowed to kiss the hand Of the en-
press. Queen Victoria is less generous
in granting this privilege. and only
very distinguished E persons are sup
posed to enjoy it. AS for anything 50
democratic as shaking hands, perish
the thought! This is reserved for rel
atives only.-New York Sun. ..
A large number of coins have re-
Gently been found on Humanity Sands,
Yorkshire, close to a place known as
the Gap. This was favorite spot for
landing or embarking in days when
men wished to enter or leave England
unobserved. Nearly all the coins so
discovered are of a period when the
country was disturbed, being of the
reigns of Edward II, Elizabeth, James
l., Charles l. and William III.
In the Scientific American, Profes-
sor Holden gives some interesting OBJ
servaticns on the migrations of in
sects. Once in the San Gabriel valley
of California he saw a flight of yellow
butterflies which passed continuously
for three or four days to the northeast.
For sixteen square. miles the column
moved and one could not look out
doors without seeing the fluttering bits
of yellow in the air. Yellow butterflies
are famous for their mysterious mi
grations and some times out at sea
of ships.
The Troy IN. W Times tells of a
visitor at public school who, being
requested to address the pupils, spoke
of the necessity Of obeying their
teacher and growing up to be useful,
loyal and patriotic citizens. To en-
phasize his remarks, he pointed to q
large national flag that almost covered
one end of the room and said, "Now,
boys, who can tell me what that flag
is there for?" One little fellow, who
understood the condition of the room
better than the speaker, replied: II
know, sir It's to hide the dirt"
Fire brigades manned" by women
are not uncommon in England. There
is one at Girton College, where the
students have their own brigade and
appliances Several of the hospitals
have separate brigades of the nurses
and of the male attendants, and the
nurses are said to be much quicker
than the men. At Holloway College
there is a brigade, formed of the girl
students, capable of getting the en-
Several establishments in London hav-
ing large corps of women employed
have fire companies among the en-
ployes.
It is told of Philip D. Armour of Chi
cago, that he was not christened Philip
at all. He was named after his father,
Danforth Armour. Mr.. Armour is
quoted as giving this explanation re-
Gently of how he got the name Of
Philip: II was named Phil after a
colored man who lived in our neigh
borhood and was the terror of all the
boys. The name of the fellow was
Phil Morgan, and he was up to all sorts
of capers, and I suppose because I was
so full of pranks myself the boys called
me Phil, too. The D. in my name
stands for Danforth. That was my
fathers name. But the boys insisted
on calling me Phil, and Phil I re-
NAMED, my mother finally consenting
to call me Philip D. Armour
A Boston woman, a member of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
was recently travelling to the Pacific
road. Now North Dakota is a rigid
prohibition state, and the dining cars
have this notice posted up in them:
"No intoxicating liquors will be served
while the train is passing through the
state of North Dakota The train had
been rolling along through that in
terminable state long time, when the
Boston woman, who is interested in
temperance. came into the dining car
for her dinner. Casting her eye out
of the car window upon a somewhat
changed landscape, she said to the
waiter, with purely geographical inter-
est: ''Are we still in North Dakota?"
"No, ma'am,' - said he, alertly, and with
hospitable grin; "what'H you take to
drink, ma ?'-Boston Transcript.