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Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
Hallway Wrecks.

A passenger tram on the Kentucky Central
Railroad was wrecked by collision with a
freight train on the LIT inst. An engineer and
fireman were killed.
A freight train was wrecked while going down
a grade near Eau Claire, Wis, on the 1st inst.
Twenty one merchandiss-ladcn cars were
partially demolished.
An express train of twenty cars, bound from
Harlem for Boston, was thrown from the
track.
A serious collision occurred on the Pittsburg.
IT. Wayne and Chicago Railroad lear New
Waterford, o., on the afternoon Of the 3Oth.
Both engines and four cars were wrecked.
Fireman John Shau-c. of Allegheny City, was
killed and the two engineers seriously hurt.
An Erie express train ran into a freight near
Greenwood New York, on the 29th. killing
Conductor David Lannlug aud severely njur-
lng an engineer and fireman.
At Fyyie. Aberdeenshre, Scotland, on the
9th aNortb Scotland Rail way train fell through
a bridge Five were killed and many injured.
mail rsiu on the Lehigh aud Hudson
Railroad was wrecked near Newburg, n. Y, on
the 9th. Englueor Wm. NOland and Fireman
Frank Porter were scalded to death under the
wreck. Brakeman Sutton was probably fatally
injured.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07

separated from his wife, upon failing TO effect
a reconciliation, shot her twice, wounding her
mortslly. An attempt upon his life WAS futile.
He rs In jail under $1,000 bail.
At Pittsburg, Ps., OIL the 28th inst, John
Mueller, q well-to-do German saloon-keeper,
cut his wife's throat and then his own. Their
little daughter discovered the mutilated re-
mains Of her parents and gave the alarm.
Dick Romhead and Peter Gold fought duel
with knives at Charlottesville, Va, on the 26th,
in which the latter was fatally wounded.
A negro boy at Shreveport, La. murdered
his playmate and concealed his body.
Christian johnson. a Lanesboro, Mimi,
crank. shot al his inamorata and then blew hia
brains out. The grl was only slightly hurt.
Officer Jones attempted to arrest colOrcd
man named Hart at Csmpbellsvillc, Ky, 80
the 26th. He resisted and the officer shot him
dead.
Riley Allen murdered man named Manuel
while he was sleeping on the night Of the 26th.
Cause OF the deed unknown.
W. ID. Hoyt, telegraph operator at Lesven-
worth, qusrreled over tho wire with Mr.. Bailey,
Union Psci6c train dispatcher at Lawrence.
The latter refused 10 retract an offensive re.
mark, and Hoyt travelled to Lawrence and shot
him in the breast.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
Eat Your Breakfast First.

DIR. Hall is authority for the follow
ing thoughts upon breakfasting before
much exerclse IL the open air, particu-
larly in districts where fever and ague
are abundant. Breakfast should be
eaten in tho morning before leaving the
house for exercise or labor Of any de-
scription; those who do it will be able to
perform more work with greater alac-
rity than those who work an hour or
two before breakfast. Besides this the
average duration of life Of those who
work will be number of years greater
than those who do otherwise. Most
persons begin to feel weak after having
been engaged five or six weeks in their
ordinary avOcations.
A good meal invigorates; from the last
meal Of the day until the next morning
morning there is an interval Of some
twelve hours; hence the body in sense
is weak, and in proportion cannot re-
sist deterious agencies, whether OF the
fierce cold of midwintcr or of the poison
ous miasm which rests upon the surface
of the earth wherever the sun shines on
a blade of vegetation or heap OF otial.
This miasm is more solid, more concen-
tIated AMI hence more malignant about
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
NUMBER 81.

sunrise and sunset than any other hour
of the twenty-four, because the cold Of
the night condenses it, and it is on the
first few inches above the soil in its most
solid form; but, as the sun rises it warns
and expands aud ascends to point high
enough to be breathed, and being taken
into the lungs and swallowed with the
saliva into the stomach, all weak and
empty as it is, it is greedily drunk in,
thrown Immediately into the circula-
ton of the blood, and carried to every
part of the body, depositing it's poison
GUS influence at the very fountain head
of life. If early breakfasts were taken
III regions where chills and fever and
ague prevail, and If, in addition, brisk
fire were kindled in the family room for
an hour, including sunrise and sunset,
these troublesome maladies would dimin.
ish in any one year not n-fold, but a
thOusandfold, because the heat OF the
fire would rarity the miasmatic air in
stantly and send it above the breathing
point. But it is troublesome to be
building fires night and morning all
summer; it being no trouble" requir-
ing no effort, TO shiver and shake by the
hour, weeks and months together.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
A Brilliant Man.

The Bedouius, like Newton's dog
Diamond, little knew what treasures
they were destroying in the brave heart
ami brilliant intellect of Professor
Palmer. He was the life and soul of the
learned societies he frequented. He had
studied the philosophy of everything
under the sun, from the Oriental Ian
guages to the game of marbles, in which
lie was an expert. He knew the patter
and lore of the Romany Chal. He could
perform every one of the tricks by which
the gypsies managed to obtain the repu-
tation Of superior knowledge in the magic
art. He knew all the Arab dialects
spoken by the natives of the desert, and
had made himself moat ohpnvinns 10 tha
spiritists by performing at once ali the
wonderful tricks and marvellous decep-
tions by which they maintained for a
long time al influence in London. He
used jocosely to declare that he must
have been fairy child, for he pos
sessed all the peculiarities with which
tradition invests the children exchanged
for the commonplace of ordinary parents
in modern life. He was small. very
dark, wiry in his name, and yet slippery
AS an eel,
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
Fish in Southern Italy.

While Ill an out-of-the-way part of
Southern Italy, mornings rambie TO
the landing place, where the boats dis
charged their fish, vas constant source
of interest and amusement; aud when
the nets were sha ken to free them from
seaweed, curious marine treasures were
often exposed 10 view. Returning to the
primitive market close to the beach, con-
sistinG of Il few large tubs filed with sea
water, in which the live fish were kept,
and heaps of small tish IN baskets of the
most brilliant cUlUrs-blnc, greer, and
crimson-on the ground might be seen
a un-tish, over 10 pounds in weight,
shaped like half moon, Of IA dull gray,
ox-eyed, with a long pointed dorsal and
abdominal tius projecting on either side,
the boys testing It's horny jaws with a
stick, which it bIt viciously, although
out of the water tor some time. Close
at hand were several triangular elongat-
ed mussel shells, with the fish, about a
yard in length. In one of the tubs We're
cuttle-fish, really beautiful in their trans.
parency, floating gently on the surface.
The other tubs were filled with octopus,
lively and fuil-growu, their long arms
feeling tenderly over the sides, some
writhIng horribly, and others quietly re-
posing, their arms coiled at their sides,
exposing the dread suckers i'll every
fold, the body i'll shape and color re-
sembling large, rough cocoanut, with
evil, protruding, observant eyes, looking
straight to the front, at the same time
vigorously dlscharging water from the
pair of blow-pipes like steam-pump
during their short andquick respirations.
When purchaser arrives and makes a
selection, the vendor adroitly seizes the
fish by the back of the neck, the arms
twisting and extending in all directions;
it is dropped into the scales, and, If ap-
proved OF, the salesman gives 1t twist,
almost turning it inside ont, killing or
disabling it in a moment. The octopus
is eaten with full gusto in Southern
Italy; but TO see mess of chopped full
grown octopus served with tomato sauce
Is really trying. When very small the
octopus is used as garnish for fish, aud
when fried crisp it might be mistaken
for macaroni. The octopus has strong
beak like Il parrot, and is especially fond
Of crabs. 1t is often caught by tying
crabs to string aud dropping them on
the clear gravel bottom, where they are
quickly seized by the octopus, who
holds on steadily; meanwhile he is
quietly drawn into the boat. They are
also found entangied III nets
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
Bonner and His Horses.

Mr.. Robert Bonner, owner of the New
York Ledger and of celebrated horses.
says: twenty-five years ago was III
very poor health-all run down. My
physician told me to get horse aud try
driving. did 80, and have been most en-
thusiastic lover of the exercise ever since.
/ never bet on u hOrse-race or allow my
horses to trot for money. For this rea-
son the time made by my horses since
they are in my possession is not tech
nical record, that being only obtained
when horse trots in public for money.
l set out to prove that a man can own
and drive fast horses without making a
gambler out of himself. The beauty of
Rarus is that he can always be depended
on. Other horses are uncertain, but
Rarus always puts forth all the speed
there is IN him. He has trotted mile
in 2:llI on my three-quarter mile track
here, which is equal to 2:loi on a mile
track 4"
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07

to an undertaker's SOD. That might be
cooperation for business purposes, but
was not exactly his definition. He had
heard an Englishman illustrate cooper
alton by saying that if two grey-hounds
hunt together they will bring their mas
ter more hares than four dogs hunting
separately. Industrial cooperation had
for its object to effect the catching Of
hares, not for the master, but for the
greyhound himself. 1t was the associa-
ton of any number of persons together
whose object was to attain by concert,
prudence, common sense and good will,
certain advantages to be divided among
themselves. There were three methods
of co. o.operation-by store, by workshops
and by bank. In France cooperation
was in the work. shops, in Germany by
bank, and in England by stores. Co
operation was 40 difficult that no coun-
try was able to cooperate by the three
methods, or by two only; each confined
itself to one. America as yet had no
method at all. The proceeds by which
cooperative store was established in
England was for meeting to be called
and the fact explained that it would be
advantageous for the sake of purity of
food, fairness of measure and the attain
ment and creation of new capital to COM
bine for these ends. Then it is pro-
posed that each person save up until he
is able to subscribe small stipulated
sum, such as S5, or even as high us $40,
but never any more, for the purpose of
getting the project under way. When
100 subscribers at S. each are found,
the store is commenced. very small
room being used for the purpose, and
the service being voluntary. These 100
persons, finding that the more people
came to the store the greater their profits
would be, would tell their neighbors of
the venture, and it would thus he saved
age saving by subscribing to one of
these cooperative stores Was 10 per
cent, so that if householder spent S5
per week at the store he effected saw
ing of 80 cents. If his family be large,
he saves more, and so the poor man
finds that the larger his family is the
cheaper he can get his provisions. AZ
ter the payment of expenses in coop
erative store, 5 per cent. is paid to each
subscriber and 2! per cent. is set aside
for educational purposes. No more
than per cent. is ever paid to the sub
scriber, and the balance of profit is used
for a surplus fund. Mr.. Holyoake
noted several instances Of the advantage
created by cooperation i'll England, and
strongly advocated the adoption of the
method in this country.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
Work Of the Flames.

The business portion Of Petersburg, village
situated about twenty miles north Of vincenDes,
Ind. was consumed by lire on the I'd inst. All
the records Of the village we're destroyed. Loss
$4,000.
The International Compress at Houston,
Texas, cOntsining about 5000 bales OF cotton,
caught fire and was totally destroyed on the
I'd inst. -Four residences were also consumed,
Total loss about $500. 600.
The NJ. L. Church at Gloucester City, n. j.,
burned on the Sd inst. Loss heavy.
The Mansion House, Waukesha, Wis, was
totally consumed by fire on the I'd inst. Loss
$4,000.
Bunker Hill, H., was visited by disastrous
contagration on the I'd inst. The brsin IS
part OF the town was consumed. Total les
:25, 600.
Scott's Hotel at Masssssauga Point, near Erie,
Pa, burned on the I'd inst. Loss 100000.
W. =. Scotts hotel at Msssassauga Point,
near Enc, which cost $40, 200, was swept away
by fire on the lst inst.
Three hotels snd two stores at Mandan,
Dakota, were destroyed by fire on the 29th,
causing loss Of S17, 500.
The Alamo Hotel at Denison, Texas, burned
on the night Of the 29th, the guests narrowly
escaping with their lives.
The Plttstun pa.) knitting mill. burned on
the night OF the 30th. Loss $4,000.
fire at Metropolis, ILL.,, on the 30th, swept
away business block and two dwellings,. Loss
about $4,000.
The Asbestos Company's large factory at
! Quebec and block Of wooden buildings,
vanished III smoke Un the 3Oth. Total loss
estimated at between sl25,00 and $500, 900.
F, The pOt-roUm packing house and fattenug
department of Able, Kim & Co.'S glass factory
/ at Plttsburg, Pa, were reduced 10 ashes on the
2Sth. Loss :5OWO.
Upham, son x Co.'S extensive -four mill at
Blue Rapids. Kansas, was totally destroyed by
| fire on the 10Th. Loss go, 900.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
Fish in the Great American Lakes.

DR.. Sterling. of Cleveland O., writes
"The white fish III Lake Erie average
three and half pounds, but OCCASION
ally one or more are taken weighing from
ten to eighteen pounds. ! speared one
i'll ls44, 10 Copper harbor, Lake Supe-
rior, that weighed twenty-five pounds.
On the north shore of Isle Royale, Lake
Superior, the white tish average fourteen
pounds The lake herring are the most
uniform III size Of all fishes, averaging
less than a pound IN weight, and this
average will hold good II yOu count them
by the millions; but nevertheless, | have
brought to me specimens that would
weigh three, four, and even seven
pounds. The white fish of the foukou
River, Alaska So say the government
reports weigh as high as forty pounds.
The sturgeon of the Great Lakes ay.
erage fifty pounds, but now and then one
is taken that weighs loo pounds and
over. saw, myself. at the Sault Ste.
Marie. one taken that weighed l25
pounds.
The catfish Of our lakes are of most
superior quality, bringing in the south
ern markets better price than any Of
our lake fishes, whether fresh, salted or
smoked. The average size is twelve
pounds; but yet | saw specimen taken
with a hook and line that weighed fifty
pounds. In the waters Of the Missls-
sippi Valley it often attains double that
weight"
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
Not On Empty Shell.
(From the Detroit Free Press.l


The first shell which Gilmore swamp
angel" sent into Charleston. South Car
olins, during the war is kept by Char
lesion merchant in q keg on the side
walk. Some day the men who come
along and punch it with their canes and
umbrellas will sympathize with Lon.
don artisan to whom an English colonel
sent one OF Arabi's shells to be set in q
silver frame for the purpose Of present
ing it to the Prince of Wales. He was
hammering away at it, when all at once
he hammered little too hard, and
bang! That ia all he remembers Of the
occurrence. He parted with one leg, the
most of an arm, and ali his hair, As
much Of him as could be gathered up is
now in the hospital, where he is visited
every day by the colonel and the Prince
of Wales, which perhaps compensates
Linn for his injury. Some people would
be willing to be-. blown to pieces and
scooped up in bucket il the Prince OF
Wales would honor the fragments with a
visit.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
ASIATIC RAILROADS.

The Egyptian war, says the Railway
Register, bas shown that England looks
with jealous eye upon anything that has
the appearance OF menace to the safe
ty of her route to India. BY display
of bOldncss and skill most remarkable,
her ministers have secured stations in
the Mediterranean and are likely to es-
tablIsh at least prOtectOrate over
Egypt, If, indeed, that unhappy country
does not altogether become fief of the
British crown. lOdia 10 the chief pos
session Of England, and the queen
proudly calls herself empress of that
oriental land. For generations the name
has had suggestions of wealth, and prac-
tIcally India to-day is a part and parcel
of Great Britain. But TO the north of
India lies debatable country separating
1t from Russia, and for years England
has seen with apprehension the evident
desire of the emperor to exten lis grasp
so that his realms will inclua ersia and
Afghanistan and closely adjoin the Pun
Iah. The Russian government is ex.
tending its railway system so as TO be
able IN an emergency to swiftly transport
an army fIom st. Petersburg to the
frontier. Its railroads now extend to
the Black Sea and line is nearly fin
ished down to the valley of the Kur
River from the eastern end of the Black
to the Caspian Sea. 1t is proposed to
extend 1t further around the south shore
OF the Caspian to Astrahad from whence
At Is onl y short distance to Herat in
AfShanistan the outpost of British infu-
cnce. In time of war the Russian troops
could be transported to Astrahad in six
days and half, while it would take Eng
land thirty five days to transport soldiers
to Quetta, and the Russian outpost is
200 miles nearer Herat than Quetta.' Be-
sides all this, the railroad in time II
peace would divert the trade of the Asi
attic countries to Russia and have a ten
dency to loosen the hold of Britain upon
India. To counterbalance this evil, it is
proposed to build railroad from the
eastern end of the Mediterranean to Bag
dad, on the Tigress River, fIom which
point line of steamers run ON that
riyer and the Euphrates TO Bussurah,
aud second line between the latter city
and Bombay. Much as such railroad
would shorten the route to India, il
would still be imperfect until extended
down the the Euphrates Valley to the
Persian Gulf, and even then Russia
would have al advantage. II is not i'm
probable that the Euphrates Valley Rail-
road will be built, for England must per.
feet her channel of intercourse with In
dia at any cost. 1t seems strange to
think of locomotive rushing through
this ancient land past Nineveh and
Babylon to Bagdad and the sea of Per.
sin; but it is likely to happen, for the
east is the principal garden for England.
Yet after all a controversy may spring
up which will result in the breaking out
of hOstilities between Russia and Britain,
in which event a portion, at least, ol
India may be wrested from the grasp Of
its present owner and pass under the
c2ar. For these reasons the extension
Of the Russian Railway system is looked
upon with interest throughout the
world
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
A Mysti1ed Cahby

A tradition of the late Prof. Palmer Is
that some time since he repeated on a
wager Garrick's old practical Joke of
frightening the driver of the four wheel
er he had hired TO convey him home
from the theater by calling through one
window for cabby to stop, and then leap
ing through the other before the poor
fellow hal time to open the door. The
amazement of the cabman had no bounds.
He looked all around, even under the
seat, and at last perp.exed beyond meas
ure climbed to his box and rode ON
again. Soon after the professor having
borrowed hat and ulster of friend who
held the wager, and who followed close
behind. called the cab and got it again.
Presently he repeated the same man
suvre Of leaning out of the right hand
window to tell the cabman to stop.
Meanwhile he had again jumped out at
-
ment, unperceived by the driver. Again
the same CONSERVATION and the same
perplexity. After proceeding little
way cabby was hailed by one of the pro-
fessor's friends, but he shook his head
in evident alright, ard exclaiming, mo,
darn me if / take another fare; have
driven the devil twice already tonight,
drove of at perilous gallop, while the
wager was pronounced fairly won by the
DrofessOr
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
A Destructive BUG.

A new bug has turned up IN Maine.
The farmers already dread it worse than
the potato-bug. 1t has so far been found
only in the town of Cherry field and vici'
nifty, in Washington county. 1t crawls
at snails pace. but is difiuslng itself toe
rapidly. A local paper says 1t resembles
large snail, has the power Of elonga'
tiop, and when extended to full length,
is three or four inches long. 1t is sup
posed to have been brought from Eu'
rope in q bundle Of shrubbery. The
Irish SAY il is very common in the sold
country" 1t is q tilthy-looking creature,
and very destructive to almost every kind
OF vegetable.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07

Secretary Folger's statement of the public
debt issued on the LIST inst, shows reduction
for the month Of November of S5. 534, ,142.
Decrease since June 80, 1882, SOS, ,957, ,56l.
The total debt less cash in the treasury,
81, ,622, g56, ,S99
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
ADVANTAGES OF COOPERATION

Mr. Geo. Jacob Holyoake, the Eng
lish philanthrophist, lectured in New
York recently on The Moral Force of
operation. The speaker said that
he saw definition Of cooperation in a
New York newspaper recently, which
was the marriage oi doctors daughter
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
ROt,beriCS.

An unknown man last evening drove away
from the Union depot at indianapolis with a
wagon Of the United States express, loaded
with packages valued at about $1,000.
Burglars took considerable cash aud nearly
100000 in promissOiv notes from the farm
house of Israel d. Wager, in the suburbs Of
Cleveland.
T.. 7. Rowell, telegraph operator aud
printer, recently discharged from the employ
Of the Wabash road at Adrian. Mich, was ar
rested at Indianapolis in the Disguise Of
tramp for stealing $4,000 worth of railroad
tickets from the Adrian office. He admits
committing the robbery, and was held for
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
Stagn alton.

Owing, asis reported. to a scarcity of orders
the North Chicago steel rail mills were shut
down on the LIST inst. About 1900 men were
thrown out of employment by this action
The mills at South Chicago, operated by the
same company, and those of the Union Iron 4
Steel Company at Bridgeport, will continue to
run for the present, The Joliet Iron and
Steel Company shut down portion OF their
works at Joliet, leaving 700 men idle.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07

The food in the Rhine undermined house
at Dusseldorf. and fourteen persons were
drowned. The forts at Cologne are being emp
tied of their stores aud ammunition. The
Main is also turbulent and great damage has
been inflicted on property along its banks
The government has voted aid to the sufferers
by the floods.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-12-07
ArnAi PaAhn,. sentence.

Arab Pasha, the conquered Egyptian rebel,
pleaded guilty 10 the charge Of rebellion before
the court martial at Cairo, on the Sd inst. and
was sentenced to death. The khedive immcd-
ately committed his sentence 10 exile for life.
1t is believed Arab will retire to some part OF
the English dominions.