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Lake County Press, Issue 2429, 30 May 1912, Page 7

Among the Sioux no lover can have the girl of his choice unless ho can outrun her. The scientists say this is a survival of the earliest nioiiiod of ambuscading an intended wife and kidnaping hor as a means of open* ing the courtship. By the reproaches enmity casts upon us, wo s3e the worst side of ourselves.—Addison There are al.P.'s who, if left to themselves, would regulate the length of one’s stride by Act of Parliament. Criminality flourishes with remarkable vitality at San Francisco. From tho records | of the Chief of Police there it appears that over 250 murders have I ecu committed there during the past nine years, and only six white men banged. In tho year ending Juno, 1893, there were 30 murders and II oases of manslaughter, and not a single conviction. Persians sometimes bottle their tears. This constitutes an important part of tho obsequies of the dead. As tho mourners are sitting round and weeping, the master of the ceremonies present’s each one wPh a piece of cotton-wool or sponge with which to wipe away tho tears. The cot ton-wool or sponge is then put. into a bottle, and the tc.n i ere j preserved as a [ owerful and efficacious I restorative for those whom everv other I medicine has failed to revive