Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-11-09
ACROSS THE SEA.

England lately for SIG, $50, the highest
price on record for large sale.
The italian army and navy now cost
the state S6i, 600, 900 per annum, or 30
per cent. of the whole amount of the
general expenses Of the state.
THERE has been an earlier departure
than usual of the swallows and martins
this year from Paris. They left about
the end OF August instead of October 10.
Or the eleven thousand grain mills In
Holland, ten thousand are driven by
wind. The bulk of wheat meal is con-
sumed by the public without passing
through any hour-dressing machine.
By means Of chemical refrigerator
corpses are now frozen as hard as blocks
of marble before they are laid out for
inspection in the Paris morgue. The
chances of Identification are gre atty in
creased by this method.
The immense cost Of living in Egypt
is very serious matter for the British
troops who will have to remain there.
The prices for everything are enormous,
and the whole days pay Of subaltern
will purchase him but one meal at o
hotel.
A HANDSOME mural tablet and bas re-
lief, executed by Count Gleichep, to the
memory of the 189 officers and men who
we're lost in the wreck OF the Orpheus,
hss been erected by private subscription
in the chapel of the Royal Navy College
at Greenwich, England.
A SAD story comes from Melbourne.
A few weeks ago "super at one Of
the theaters there died well.nigh friend
less and alone. 1t was only after his
death that they knew at the theaier that
the dead man was Frank Lemon, a son
of Mark Lemon, the first editor Of
Punch.
THERE is trouble in the turkey-red
yarn dyeing trade. AlBarine, a coal tar
product, the principal dye stuff used for
turkey-red, is controlled 10y q monopoly,
who recently raised the price 40 per
cent, and now the dyers have resolved
to limit production until the patent on
alzarine expires.
Mr.. JOHN FIELD has prepared an es-
innate from the accounts of the compa-
MES of the quantity of gas used in Lon
don last year. 1t was, in round num-
bers, 20, 230, 900, 900 cubic feet. This is
equal 10 bulk of one mile square by
100 feet high. Consumers paid Sl4,-
$50, 900 for this immense supply.
AN extraordinary mode Of committing
suicide was tried by a woman at Buda-
Pesth. She bought sixty leeches, then
went to n boarding-house, put the
leeches on her body, resumed her cloth
ing and left. She had gone but few
blocks when she fell down senseless,
and was thus found by policeman, who
forwarded her to hospital.
The plague of locusts is no slight
matter when, in such small territoryias
the Island OF Cyprus, the destruction of
their eggs costs $3.50. 900 in a single sea-
SOD. According to the report from the
English colonial Office that sum has been
expended for that purpose during the
present year. 1t is supposed to repre-
sent the destruction of $1,000, 900, 900
embryo locusts.
the Italian squadron at the PirSus, has
visited the works of the Isthmus of
Corinth Canal, which he found advanc.
ing very slowly, only 200 workmen
being employed. But next spring the
steam engines and perforators now in
course of construction will come into
action, aud it is hoped that the canal
will be finished 10y 1887.
In the Madras Presidency, during
1881, e., ,925 was paid as rewatd for
destroying $50 panthers and leopards,
and 543 animals. OGe Thousand three
hundred and two persons aud S,93S ami
mails were killed by wild animals and
snakes, tigers killing 1876 people and
3, 32S cattle. The cattle killed by wftd
animals in the Presidency during the
year are valued at Ell, ,S76.
THERE were over 2O6, 900 tons of fish
carried inland last year from the fishing
ports OF England and Wales, and from
Scottish ports 30, 600 tons. ireland, on,
the contrary, did little where much is
possible. Only 1872 tons were sent
from the Irish fishing ports. II proper
appliances were at hand, the Irish
fisheries might do something toward
ameliorating the poverty which de.
presses the country.
IN L dTib ticCtI IL tloChs arc oSt Whtlt-
ever four roads meet, blue enameled
plates are painted with white letters on
a uniform model to tell the names of the
streets and Numbers of the houses; and
the nomenclature of the streets is most
ingenious thing, grouping thorough
fares with the names OF cities near the
railway stations; streets named after
composers round the opera houses; those
after astronomers round the observatory,
and no on.
An interesting experiment in hello
graphy, or signaling hy sunshine, was
successfully made III Egypt during the
recent campaign. Col. Keyser ascended
one of the pyramids near Cairo, and by
means of /. photographic mirror reflected
II ray OF sunlight to Alexandria 10 miles
away. At that great distance the signals,
appearing like pin-points of brightness,
were easily ascertained to be q message
from Sir Garnet Wolseley to the khe-
dive.
A BIRMINGHAM workman, employed
by a sewerage contractor, in opening a
street found a number of underground
telegraph cables. He placed chain
round the thirty-three wires and hauled
off three hundred yards or more of the
wire. He sold his trophy for old metal.
This exploit interrupted the commuuica-
tion between England, New York, Paris,
Ireland, Scotland and other points for
several hours, and it was days before the
normal condition Of things was restored.
When brought into court the man
pleaded that he supposed the wires
were "dead" ones. The recorderof the
court said that as the man took away the
wire in open day, with the police near
at hand, the man was not guilty OF theft,
and the jury acquitted him.
Bogus Jewelry.