Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-07
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A WHITE owl, the fourth ever cap
tured in this country, is on its way to
New York.
PEARL hunters are numerous along
the Caney Fork River, Tennessee, Just
at this time.
The wealthiest city in the United
States, in proportion to population, is
Portland, Oregon.
ga BUSIoN is spoken of as nobby
thing in low cut shoes.-NeW Orleans
Picayune.
A S1.50 goat near San Francisco did
damage to farm that made his owner
subject to q verdict for $500.
A YOUNG Virginian has invented ma
chine which turns out $50 cigarettes per
minute. 1t is on exhibition at Lynch
burg.
A BOY of six and girl of two, at Bal
lardville, Neb., are mated for marriage
by their parents, who have signed an
agreement that the marriage shall occur
in 1897.
A FARMER in Henry County, Ky., has
eighty stalks of large white corn that
have 265 shoots on them. 1t is the
"Bessarabia corn" of Russia, and will
make at the rate Of forty-two barrels per
acre.
A NASHVILLE woman who had been
slandered by young man attacked the
youth in the street with butcher knife,
hacked away until he ran, and, says a
local paper, conducted herself like a
perfect lady throughout the affair.""
A BINGHAMToN, VT, man distributed
some trough on rats " in his yard,
where it was expected to be devoured by
some cats which were making havoc with
his chickens. He succeeded in killing
one cat, eight rabbits, and all of bis own
hens but one.
A MICHIGAN man who paid out $50 in
fees to the walters of seaside hotel dur.
ing the month he was there, came home
under cloud. At convention of wait
ers, held on the morning Of his depart
ure, it was resolved that he WAS too
stingy to live the year out.
SOME boys at Tucson, Texas, under
took TO make statue, and their plan for
getting a mold was to cover play mates
face thickly with mud. They tried it,
giving the subject no breathing holes,
and he was suffocated so ut arly to death
that the doctors had great difficulty in
saving him.
In tearing down the porch of dwell
ing house at Churchville, Hartford
County, Nd, recently, there was fonnd
patent for a tract Of land granted by
Frederick. Lord Baltimore, to John
Paca, "of Baltimore County," in che
year 1862. The patent is worn and
soiled by time and the elements, but the
signature of Horatio Sharpe, governor
of the province Of Maryland, is plainly
seen.
A FLOWING oil we'll at Newhall, CAL,
caught fire the other day, and column
of smoke and fame rose into the air to
the height of five hundred feet, and
everything near was soon enveloped in
flames. So great was the heat that none
could approach until it had spent its
fury, and the flow of gas and oil had
stopped for the time.
EVEN the Boston bakers use cotton
seed oil in their cooking. Doughnuts
fried IN it are said to be cooked in scot
ton butter" Frenchmen have for a long
time resold the oil to us both as pure
olive oil and as a packing for sariines.
All Ablduta dutuOTity ucuco huy onc w
tell the difference between a steak fried
in lard and one fried in cottonseed oil.
GEORGE BENNETT bought dying
horse for S5, and drove into Maysville,
Va, at a slashing pace. After telling
several persons that he had paid 5000
for the beast, which did not show its
condition TO casual observers, he man
aged to get it killed by a locomotive.
Then he sued the company for $500.
The scheme failed, and its protector is
in jail. o
LEADvnLs will produce 1000 tons
of lead this year. Her output was % 600
tons for the first six months. Utah's
output will be 5000 IONS in advance of
last year, or $4,000 tons. Nevada will
show falling of, while Missouri is on
the increase. Arizona will also be
large producer for the last half of this
year. The outlook for An advance III
price is not very brilliant at this time.
AT the funeral of Mrs. George @.
Leidy, in Philadelphia, recently, the
cotin was borne by the six adult sons OF
the dead v,nan. The youngest OF the
sons is TIVE lty-three and the eldest thir-
ty-nine years old. Mrs. Leidy's age
was sixty years. The undertaken said
he had been in business forty-two years
and this was the first time in his expert
ence that he had Witnessed or known OF
such an occurrence.
ApwARF II years old and hardly TWEEN
ty-five inches in height was sold IN
| France to Jean Lumeau by his father,
TO be exhibited in a booth. His pur-
chaser conceived the idea of establishing
| a miniature menagerie, with the dwarf
as tanner. He caused q number OF cats
to be painted SO as to look like tigers.
and giving the dwarf whip, compelled
him by kicks and threats to goad the
cats into furious attack. The poor lit
tie fellow was literally torn to pieces by
the infuriated brutes.
A FEW days ago Col. G. A. Reed, Of
Salem, Oregon, received letter ad-
dressed to him by an old schoolmate
many years ago, who forgot to mail 1t.
II was laid away In an old fashioned
\ clock, where it remained till about
month ago, when, on overbauiing the
clock. the letter was found. Thinhngit
would serve as a souvenir Of the days
gone by. it was sent on the Col. Reed.
The letter was written on February IL.
| lS44, thirty eight years ago, and as tnat
was before the time Of envelopes It was
sealed with wafer.
A REMARKABLx scene was Witnessed at
the Faith Cure Camp-meeting at Old
Orchard Beach, Me-, short time since.
More than 600 invalids presented them
selves to be cured Of their diseases BY
prayer. One by one they we're taken DO.
Wore DIR. Charles Cullis, the manager Of
the meeting. Dipping . finger OF his
right hand in oil, DR.. Cullis laid his
hand ON the head Of each, uttering .
feryent prayer. Some departed from the
meeting declaring themselves cured OF
their diseases. For hours the procession
filed along. AL ages were represented.
some totfering on crutches, some IN
invalid-chairs, the dwaEfed. the crippled
and kha Hind