Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1879-10-15

A cAMpHoR tree is fourishing in Tam

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A cAMpHoR treei is lourishing in Tam
pa, Fla.
JAMES DOUGLAS, of Cornwall, VT,
recently dug from n hill lOS potatoes,
one of the largest weighing two and a
half pounds. The potatoes we're all
perfectly sound aud good.
A NIeHT.BLooMINa cereus in New
buryport seems to have got bewildered,
for ii persists in blooming by day and
in closing at night a. tight AZ a morning
glory.
APRoFEss1oNAL well-digger in Sander
sonville, Ga, Is a blind negro. He is
also q roofer, and puts on boards and
shingles in as straight q line as though
he had perfect sight.
A GERMAN medical writer, In a work
published in 1877, says that there are
but Two authentic cases known of five
children being born at n birth. A
third case is now. reported from Kettwig
on the Rhine.
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Sun and Press
asks: "Will some medical man explain
why or how it is that the negro is never
known to sneeze? Ask any old planter,
who owned scores of servants, and he
will tell you he never heard one of his
servants sneeze."
THOSE who like to delve into mathemat-
ical c~uriosities are perhaps aware that
if you multiply any number of figures,
more or less, great or small by 9, and
that product is added together it will in
variably amount to one or more IS with.
out remainder. Try it, and explain it
somebody
AN egg has been Matched in a mans
pocket en- the North Carolina coast. He
found a terfapin's egg beneath q frag-
ment of rock. He put it into his pocket
in order to show it to a friend, but forgot
to take it out. He was startled q few
days after to find a young terrapin
alive and kicking.
A CURIOUS discovery has been made
In Jacksonville, Fla, in carrying on the
excavations required for the water
works. At the depth of t~wenty-eight
feet the workmen encountered an ex-
tensive bed of oyster and clam shells,
mixed with pieces of wood and charcoal,
showing apparently the ancients were as
fond as the moderns of these delicacies.
IT is rather a novel, if not unprece.
dented, thing for a grandmother to at
tend the school taught by her young
lady granddaughter. Such is the case,
however, near Bellefonte, Ala, for Mrs.
Daniel Martin, having arrived at the age
of l6, having been married four years
goes to school to her step-granddaughter.
-C0wier.Jo Journal
ON the iy.leaf of a savings bank bool
recently surrendered to one of the Bos
ton savings banks is a memorandum
which forcibly brings up "war times
it runs as follows: "This first deposit
was the proceeds of q 50 gold piece, ex'
changed for IS 'greenbacks' with a rebel
prisoner at Baton Rouge, by my brother
George. 1t was sold in State street
November %, 1863, for $4.61 and deposit.
ed on that day by my father.
THERE is in the almshouse at Dublin,
Ga, q woman whese skull bones fol
years have been gradually gaping open
both at the longitudinal and the trans.
verse sutures, leaving the brain unpro-
tected save by the skin. One may place
the finger in the tissues and plainly feel
the throbbing of the brain. She keeps
q handkerchief bound tightly around
her head, complaining Of great pain,
and she breads lest it will burst open
when the band is removed for a short
time.
A DEAF and dumb girl in Dorsey
county, Ark, has recently begun to tall
in her sleep. There had been family
prayers for the restoration of her speech,
At midnight her mother heard her dar
ling's voice. Accusing the old gentle.
man, she entered the apartment where
the child lay. The deaf and dumb Cir
remarked casually. Everything seems
very wonderful" Then turning sud.
denly in her bed, she added, eyes, the
old-time orchards are always in bloom
The affectionate parent simultaneously
embraced the maiden. She awoke with
a start. But she could neither hear mol
speak.
A CURIOUS instance of partial loss OF
memory is mentioned in the French pa.
pers. A painter, who wal visiting a
friend at Sceaux, was standing on q
balcony on the second floor, when he
overbalanced himself and fell on the
ground below. Every one rushed down
stairs, expecting to find him dead; but
he quickly picked himself up, and seem
ed unhurt. When, however, he turned
to address his friends, he could not re-
member their names. He had forgotten
his own, and, to his utter astonishment,
he also found that he could not recall q
single substantive. He can pronounce
one after the other the letters of which
the names of his wife and daughter are
composed, but he is unable to unite them
into one word.