Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-26
WiNNOWiNGS.

| TENNESSEE has niuety-iour counties.
THERE'S a forty-pound mud turtle in
| captivity at Americus, Georgia.
THE United States spend "a, 900, 900 a
year upon education.
A GOOD steel trap caught four hun
dred pound bear on Ossipee Mountain,
New Hampshire, recently.
HUBERT H. BANCROFT. the historian
| of the Pacific coast, owns reference
library OF 35. 900 volumes.
MANUFACTURED milk is being sold at
Ell Paso, Tex. The ingredients and the
secret of manufacture are not known, but
the article is calculated TO deceive the
most expert.
An English artist says that Arabi
Pasha is " a broad, thick chested fellow,
built on the lobster pattern" Arabi
will crawl when he reads tlis description
| of mis- form.
THERE are two ways of being happy.
| We may either diminish our wants or
augment onr means. The result Is the
same, aud ii is for each man 10 decide
for himself, and 10 do that which may
happen to be the easier.
The ruins of Ophir, New, where S1,-
000, 900 were spent IN grist-mllls and
reduction works, will now be utilized
for a cheese factory. The grass OF the
Washoe Valley is said to be good for
cheese making, and already there are
$50 cows on the Ophir ranch.
The value of the property of the
United States is estimated at $50, 000.-
900, 900 and yet you will tiLd lots Of men
who declare that the country owes them
living. The country should pay its
debts Immediately. - Boston Tran
| script.
NEAR Ibervllle, La, singular and
fatal accident occurred. Two boys,
Gabriel Hunter and Jacob Garner, were
gathering pecans, and the former threw
an iron ramrod up tree and it fell on
the latters head, passing through his
skull and brain down into his throat,
killing him instantly.
A VERDICT Of SO, 900 was rendered at
Syracuse, \. Y, few days since in
favor OF Florence Steggall vs.. Fred. s.
Platt for damages which she received IN
1876 while attending school at Fay yette-
vile. Platt threw q stick which acci-
deutally hit Miss Steggall in the eve and
inflicted a permanent injury. The de-
iendant, aged about q, lives in Dakota
and did not appear.
| The Western and Atlantic Railroad
shipped from Atlanta, Ga., during the
\ season Just past, eight hundred carloads
| OF watermelons or more than twice the
shipment of any previous season. The
cars averaged !, $50 melons each, or over
one million melons. They also brought
better prices and cost less freight than
ever before, netting the grower, it Is
claimed, 5000 car.
A FOUNTAIN in public square of San
| Francisco needed painting. An artist
agreed to do 1t for nothing provided he
could take as much time as he pleased
| for the job, and erect fence to protect
| him from idle curiosity while at work.
| The contract was made on those terms.
! Bat it seems the painter has sold the
surface OF the fence to advertisers, and
nobody knows how long he will be paint
ing the fountain.
A SWALLOWS nest of remarkable size
at Westerly, r. l., is attracting the at
tention of bird lovers 1t is on the
fam of James Babcock, in the nor htrn
part of the town OF Westerly. A tlne
grove of maple trees on swampy ground
is used by the birds. They are the COM
mon white-breasted barn swallow,
although martIus are seen among them.
| A careful observer estimates that 3,0lO,-
QUO swallows nightly flock to the grove
A NOVEL question is agitating the resi-
dents OF Tucson, Arizona, Ms to whether
a female who went through. the marriage
VOWS with mau on his dying bed rs
maid or widow. The technical PROPOSE
tion is that the physicia exclaimed, Just
rs the minister was prononnclng them
man and wife: MY God, he's dead"
FROM being the dryest and one of the
unhealthlest towns in southwest Geor-
gia, Albany has become, perhaps, the
| best-watered town in the state, and while
| the country round about is as full OF
sickness as ever, it has had very little,
indeed, of the customary sickness. All
this has been brough, about simply by
boring two artesian wells.
=. The glass snake, or "jointer, is ma
tive of Florida. The reptiles are very
brittle. and break of short when hit.
When cut up into pieces OF three or tour
inches, each piece shows the greatest ac-
tivity for long time, although unlike
that of any other reptile. 1t Is SAID that
the pieces will come together and the
snake resume it's normal condition.
AARON WILLIS, alias Cinthy Curtis
| (colore.D, terribly deformed and help
| less creature, died at the almshouse IN
Staunton recently. He was 40 years OF
age, was powerless to move himself,
dumb, and whilst seeming TO oompre-
bend much that was said to him, was In
capable of making known his slightest
want. his body and limbs were entirely
useless. Just before his death he
created much astonishment by speaking
for the first time, when he uttered the
words: "Motherl oh, motherl oh,
mother!'- Valley Virgfnian
The Red River New Mexico)
Chronicle, after suspension OF several
weeks to allow its editor chance to
drive some cattle over into Texas, ap-
pears again, with this funny announce
ment: "There is considerable discrep-
ancy between the date Of our headlines
and the news contained in these columns.
During our editors Mr.. HommeO
absence on account Of his trip to Tas-
coss, Tex, no paper was issued; but We
can i'll afford the loss OF over 800 OF
each issue, and have therefore decided to
date the paper back to the days when 1t
ought to have been issued, trying to
catch up in few weeks to the regular
issue day. The headline says Sept. 3,
while our news reaches up to the Both
syat -.