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Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
Irish Bulls,

Among the neat stories of Irish bulls
the following is worthy of a place: A
Judge thus addressed dishonest butler
who bad been convicted of stealing large
quantities of wine from his masters GEL
lar: "Prisoner at the bar, you stand
convicted on the most conclusive evil
dence of CRIME of inexpressible atrocity
"a crime that defiles the sacred springs
of domestic confidence, and is calculated
to strike alarm into the breast of every
Englishman who invests largely in the
choicest vintages Of Southern Europe.
Like the serpent of old, you have
stung the hand of your protector. For
tunate in having generous employer,
you might without dishonesty have con-
tinued to supply your wretched wife and
children with the comforts Of sufficient
prosperity and even with some of the
luxuries Of affiuence; but, dead to every
claim Of natural affection and blind to
your own real interest, you burst
through all the restraints Of religion and
morality, and have for many years been
feathering your nest with your masters
bottles
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
lceiandic Scenery.
ladies in Iceland.-Mtss Oswald

tl>Aults IN lctiauu--hlss OeWalu-I
The glory of Iceland is its coloring.
With considerable experience of the fin
est scenery in Europe, could not but
feel that even Switzerland, unless per-
haps above the constant snow-line, is
not so clear and glittering; Italy, with
stronger light, has not its peculiarpurity;
and, Scotland after it, seems toned down
with a wet sponge. The forms of Ice.
landic scenery are, however, more curl
ous than beautiful, though they had for
me weird fascination. There is often
g1eat width of contour, the hills are in long,
hammocked masses, with perhaps a vol
canic cone suddenly breaking the out
line; there is a sort of disconnected, un-
combined effect about the landscape,
easy to perceive, but difficult to describe.
Trees would not suit it; and its wistful,
melancholy grandeur is partly, no doubt,
owing to the absence everywhere of enclo-
suress, square fields, roads-all lines in
deed, save those curves which nature nev-
er draws amiss. The road, when there is
one, is generally mere product OF the
hoofs of hundred generations of ponies
sometimes worn into deep ditch or hol-
low way, sometimes branching into a
dozen little tracks, Just large enough for
their small feet; and it needs some prac-
tice TO choose the best line. 1t is merry
riding in the pure light air; the loose
ponies rattle on before; constantly one or
another strays off after some fancy of its
own, and has to be chased back by the
drivers, who, dashing up and down,
cracking their whips and shouting, ad-
iuring the ponies by name to keep the
path or beware of the dogs, make the
cavalcade lively; and the wsy must be
bad indeed to reduce it to a walking
pace, which always causes the loose pom
les to stray more. We usually rode at
steady trot, but with many little halts,
now to adjust box, now to mend a
rope, or, perhaps, to bait our little
steeds on some choice bits of grass.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
Marine Disasters.

The steamer Lepanto from Hull. Eng, for
New York, coliided with and sunk the steamer
Edam Of the Netherlands Royal Mail Line, in
fog on the 21st. Two seamen were lost, the
balance Of the crew and passengers being res
cued and taken on board the Lepanto. The
Lepanto arrived at New York on the oath In
crippled condition.
The British steamship Nuphar is ashore near
Seavile, New Jersey, and is expected to go to
pieces. She was built last year, at a cost Of
100000, and her cargo Of pig iron and drugs
is valued at $50, 900.
On the 21st inst, the steamer Picton, bound
from Port Colborne for Owen Sound, Ont, to
take the place Of the Inflated Asia, struck the
rocks at Rondeau, Lake Erie, and went to
pieces. An old man named Jameson, employed
as porter, was lost. The Picton was valued at
S35, 900. Insured for $1,000
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
THE ENGINE OF THE FUTURE.

In his address at the recent opening of
the British Association DIR. Carl Siemens,
its president, pointed out the probable
vast future of the gas engine. Instead
of steam this engine is worked by a COM
bustible mixture of air and hydro-car-
bon. In the condensing steam engine
the waste of heat is very great. Adding
to the heat lost by imperfect combustion
OF coal, that carried away in the Chin
ney and that communicated to the con-
densing water, the losses by friction and
radiation in the engine, the best steam
engine yet constructed does not yield in
mechanical effect more than one seventh
of the heat energy residing in the fuel
consumed. Ia the gas engine reduc-
tion from the theoretical efficiency must
be made on account of the serious loss of
heat by absorption in the working cylin-
der, which has to be cooled artifcially
down TO point at which fabrication is
possible. But after allowing for this,
together with frictionai and other loss,
the actual efficiency is reduced only to
one-fourth. at follows from these con-
siderations," he says, "that the gas or
caloric engine combines the conditions
most favorable to the attainment of max
imum results, and it may reasonably be
supposed that the difficulties still in the
way of their application on large scale
will gradually be removed" In his
view, before many years steamships and
factories will be run by engines with a
fuel consumption not exceeding one
pound per effective horse power per
hour. The advent of such engines will
solve the problem of rapid transit on the
ocean, and mark, rs DR.. Siemens saws,
a new era of material progress at less'
equal to that inaugurated by .steam IN
the early part of onr century. In the
case of ocean transit it seems, however,
most probable that the next great advance
will be in the construction Of ships which
can both avail themselves fully of an ar
ti6cial power more economical than
steam and also. utilize the maximum
motive power of the winds.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
Driving Fish.

A "blackfish drive Is the Cape Cod
fisherman's idea of sport. The blacktish
or grampus appears frequently on the
coast in schools of from four to five
hundred, and is "driyen at every fish
ing hamlet along shore from Truro to
Cedarville. An Evening Post correspon-
dent Gays the "drive" is managed in
this way: When a school is discovered
feeding close inshore a score or so of
boats ere put ont to intercept it. The
boats are IN two lines, one on each side of
the school and pull silently out, until far in
the rear, when they unite and advance on
their prey. No fish is more timid than a
grampus, as the fishermen well know,
effect his destruction. When still sew
erai hundred yards away the school dis
covers the boats and begins to show
signs OF alarm. Then the drive begins.
The boats are urged forward, the crews
splash the water, fire pistols, blow horns,
wave their fisher coats, and yell like
Comanches. The frightened fish rush
shore ward-their only line of retreat
through the breakers, high and dry upon
the beach. A few remain IN the surf,
and among these .he men leap like mad
men, shouting, thrus'ing with lance and
pike, never ceasing until the last victim
is slaughtered. It's excitin," said a
grim old whaler, "but it's kinder harra-
win tew. There's young 'uns among 'em
that cries out like human, and it goes
agin the grain to stick EN-" Tales told
of the booty taken in these drives seem
incredible. Four hundred have been
driven ashore at one time. The old whal-
er above quoted said that he went out
one moonlight night, not long ago, and
captured sixty-four. At another time he
drove three ashore at Billingsgate. Be-
sides his share he purchased 160 at Sl5
each, had them towed to the try
works In Provincetown, and realized S2
apiece on them,
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
WOMEN AND PROPERTY.

Mr.. Charles Reade, the novelist, has
most fiercely assailed the English laws
relating to the property of women, and
it is probable that the married woman's
property bill, which passed the English
parliament August IA, is to a great ex-
tent attributable to his writings. For
merly all but the aristocratic married
women of England were almost without
property rights, husbands having arbi-
trary control of the estates of their
wives. Hereafter, "every woman mar
ried before the commencement of
this act shall be entitled to have and to
hold and to dispose of in manner afore-
said as her separate property, all real
and personal property, her title to which,
whether vested or contingent, and
whether in possession, reversion or re-
mainder, shall accrue after the COM
mencement of this act, including any
wages, earnings, money, and property so
gained or acquired by her as aforesaid. +"
Every married woman will now be able
to manage her separate property, and
incur liability to its extent, exactly as il
she were femme sole, but it is pro-
vided that "no criminal proceedings
shall be taken by any wife against her
husband by virtue of this act while they
are living together" The importance
of the new law is indicated by the Lon
don Times when it says that I" it may in
the end pulverize some ideas which have
been at the basis of English life.
Measures which effect the family econo-
my are apt TO be epoch making and
probably when the most talked-of bills
of the session are clean forgotten, this
obscure measure may be bearing fruit. +"
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28

period of ninety-nine years. 1t will be
easily understood that property which
reverts to the crown is worth less to the
tenant every year as the lease grows
shorter, but still, as the author of the
article before us says, ITO favor the
progress of agriculture hereditary or
very long leases approach nearer to
ownership in proportion as the tenure
is more surely guaranteed. and for a
longer term
Arthur Young says that one years
lease will lead farmer to ruin the best
land in the world. The misery of the
Irish and their detestable farming are
proof of this. To complete the system
of small landed property, the reconsti-
tuition of the state sovereign dominion
must be added.
Look" says DIR. Laveleye, sat this
moment, what difference between the
farmer of England and the peasant-pro-
prietor of France. The first has to pay
wages to his workmen, interest on the
capital and rent to the landlord; and,
as just now the prices of wheat are de-
pressed by American competition, farm
ing is for him losing trade. BY aud
by he will let the land remain unculti-
waited. The peasant.proprietor of
France, with his ten or fifteen acres, has
nothing to pay to anybody. He lives ON
his land and from bis land. He sells
some wine, poultry, eggs and vegeta-
bles, which fetch always good prices;
and with what he gets he buys what he
cannot produce himself-his cloth, shoes,
furniture and rural instrum ents, at long
intervals. He is free man, because a
proprietor. He has nothing to fear from
American competition, por from the fall
ofprices. That is the reason why farm
ing is drifting to bankruptcy in Eng
land, and is going on pretty well in
France" There is great deal in this
last paragraph which we can take to,our-
selves. If we raise our own chickens,
fruits, eggs, wheat and vegetables, we,
too, are independent of exports and i'm
ports, and the system of small farms and
99-year leases would work admirably
here. both for state governments and the
tiilers of the soil.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
NINETY-NINE-YEAR LEASES.

In settling up this vast continent, it is
strange that meu are so eager to obtain
large tracts Of land, which they cannot
cultivate, when they could grow rich on
small farms, and promote the prosperity
OF the country as well as their own, so
simply and so abundantly. A learned
writer on the different systems of land
tenure argues that we, in America, are
hurting ourselves very severely by dis
posing of our vast ranges of territory III
the way which prevails at present, and
that as the dominion OF all estates be-
longs legally to the state, so it would be
better to lease them on rinety -nine-year
terms than TO sell them outright.
DR.. Emile Laveleye of Liege, in Bel
gium, in au article Contributed to the
Agricultural Review, contends that:
Authorities on legal matters, and
among them Blackstone, have always ad.
mitted that the dominion of all estates
belonged to the state. In feudal times,
all tiefs we're concessions from the
sovereign. Louis XIV, in his instruc-
tions to his son, considers himself as
possessed of Chief authority over the es-
tates of his realm. Herbert Spencer
proves very clearly that land, essential
as it is to the very existence of man,
cannot be monopolized by a few indi-
viduals, or the result would he uniyer-
sal system of slavery. The recognition
OF the supreme sovereignty of the state
should induce the contribution to that
source OF all augmentationsin in value which
are not brought about by the possessors,
but are the consequences of national
progress.
He continues: "In addition TO this.
IN new countries like America, where
the state still possesses vast ranges of ter
ritory, it ia not wise to dispose of them
entirely in the wsy it is now doing. 1t
would be better to let them on lease for
ninety-nine years, as is constantly done
in England. For the purchase such
lease would be almost equal to the free.
hold. AL the railways Of our conti-
nent are but lease-hold property, with
eighty or ninety years to run. Agricul-
tural progress would be every bit as
rapid, and at the end of the century the
state, coming into re-possession of all
her lands, would be enabled to suppress
very large proportion of the taxes"
This system obtains very largely in
London, where crown lands, the leases
of which are purchased for ninety mine
years, are constantly falling in or revert
ing to the crown. The Regents Park,
for iostance, in London, is all crown
land, and win revert to the crown some-
where about the year 1908, when new
houses may possibly be built, il neces-
sary, and new leases granted for another
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28

The Society OF the Army OF the Cumber-
land, under the presidency of Lieut.. Gen. Phil
Sheridan, and with a large attendance of ex-
soldiers of rauk and distinction, held its four
teenth annual business meeting at Milwaukee
on the Goth, and in the evening great meet
ing was held i'll the hall at Schlitz Park, at
which Gen. Sheridan presided. The annual
Grafton was delivered 10y Gen. Charles H..
Grosvenor, Of Ohio, followed by an eloquent
and interesting address by Gen. Jacob d. Cox
on "The Youth and Early Manhood of James
A. Garfield" subject Of unfailiug interest
when treated so earnestly and ably as il was
treated in Gen. Cox's Grafton.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
A Disastrous Deluge.

An unprecedented rainfall was experienced
in the eastern states on the 23d and Path the
damage from the freshets occasioned thereby be-
ing immense. At Plainfield. N. j., dams gave
way, carrying of bridges and wrecking manu-
featuring establishments on the river front. In
Bound Brook, n. j., water flowed ten feet deep
through Main Street, being on level with the
show cases Of mercantile establishments which
line the street. More loss will be suffered by
the Bound Brook PEOPLE from the food than
by the fire which DESTROYED the town several
months previous. At Trenton, n. j., damage
to the extent Of 100000 was inflicted
Near Weehawken the new tunnel OF
the New York, Ontario and Western Railway
was damaged between $4,000 and 800, 900. 4
bridge gave way over Berry's Creek, precipitat-
ing freight train into the torrent. Conductor
Webber WAS killed and the engineer and fire.
man probably fatally injured. Thousands OF
dollars worth Of property was destroyed at New
Brunswick, n. Y, and people navigate the
streets IN boats. -Four mills on the Lower
Rappanannock, in Essex County, Va, were car
ried away. Waterbury, Conn, was flooded, a
new bridge being damaged to the extent Of
$4,000. The Hoosac River rose four feet
higher than usual and dam at Reedsboro,
Mass, was damaged about $4,000 worth. At
Frankenford. Pa, the loss was $4,000 Rail-
roads throughout the deluged region suffer I'M
mensely by washouts and consequent delays.
Five lives are reported lost thus far.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
How to Swim.
From the London TRUTH


There really is no mystery in learning
to swim-an accomplishment which is
possessed in perfection by the most
stupid Of frogs. More than once l have
explained how anyone can teach himself.
The trunk, less the arms, is heavier than
water; with the arms, it is lighter; all,
therefore, that person has to do is to
acquire the habit of drawing in the
breath when he is preparing to make a
stroke, and expelling the breath when he
is making it. Let any one do this and
keep calm, and he will find that he can
swim. But, perhaps, it is better to ac-
uuire confidence by preliminary course
OF floating. To do this it is only neces-
sary to lie Hat on the water, stretch out
the arms with the palms Of the hands
downward, throw back the head, and
whenever the body sinks low, slowly to
fill the lungs with air.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
WRITING With Scissors.

When Harrison Ainsworth wrote
:" lockwood " and "Jack Shepard !"
he relied absolutely on his power
of reading up and assimilation, and
never had the slightest intercourse
with thieves in his life. II is said that
when he wrote the really admirable ride
of Turpin to York, he only went at q
great pace over the paper with road
map and description Of the country in
front Of him. 1t was only when he
heard everybody say how truly the
country was described and how faithfully
he had observed distances and localities
that he actually drove over the ground
for the first time, and he declared 1t was
more like bis account than he could have
imagined,
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
Unfailbful Servants.

The members Of prominent firm of New
York mining stock brokers have skipped
out, leaving many conliaing dabblers in min
ing stocks, who had intrusted their money to
them, in the iurch. "Society ladies and mer-
chants are their victims.
Major Phipps, who forged comptroller's GER
titcates in Philadelphia to the amount Of
Sl50,000, was arrested at Hamilton, Ontaris.
where he and his wife were staying at q second
class hotel under the name OF Thomson.
Alfred Rogers. of Philsdelphis, transfer
clerk of the insurance company Of North
America, is known to have obtained $4,000 by
raising certificates Of stock and borrowing
money upon them, wasting the proceeds in
mining stock speculations.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
WansOn DlOOsished.

Particulars have been received Of highly
sensational duel between cowboys in Colorado,
as the story goes: Geo. Howard. owner Of 9
herd Of 5000 cattle, and John Keely, owner Of
q herd of 1000. were driving il. company from
Arizona. North of Trinidad, Col, on the
plains, the two herds were to separate, Howard
to take the old Santa Fe trial to Kansas City,
Keely TO drive north to Denver. On the route
accidental exchanges had been made and How
ard insisted on having his stock out but was
unwilling to deliver Keely's, and it was finally
agreed to settle the matter by battle between
six picked men of each party. Accordingly
twelve men arranged themselves on horseback,
the two sides fifty feet apart, and at q signal
from their employers the fight was to begin.
At the first fire four men we're instantly killed.
Geo. Lester Of Keely's party was shot through
the breast, one Of Howard's men fell with a
bail through his forehead and two others of
the same party were shot through the heart.
Dismayed, the Howard party with the excep-
ton OF their employer, fed to their camp.
Reely then rode up to Howard and proposed
that they should fight it ont. Howard de-
clined, saying that be understood the matter
to be settled according to the terms Of battle
made beforehand. This settled the matter, an
equitable change OF the mixed cattle was then
made, the dead were buried by the other men
Of both herds and the drovers and those in
charge separated for their different routes.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
Tenacious Of Life.

1t is ordinarily supposed that q wound
in the heart is Immediately fatal: but
after Tom Adams, prominent min
ing operator of Wood River, q. T.,
had received large sized bullet through
that organ from pistol in the hands Of
Frank Brown. he Knocked his adversary
down and beat him severely. Third
parties finally interfering, Adams
walked off to drug store, where he
suddenly fell dead. 1t was found that
the bullet completely pierced his heart.
His murder is described as an unusually
sad occurrence for one Of that kind, be-
cause he had closed large mining tran
saction, and with the profits was about
to start 10 Chicago 10 Chicago 10 meet
his wife. from whom he had been sep
sEAtsd,
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
And.

Mrs. Henrietta Melville, wife OF the returned
Arctic explorer, has been placed in an insane
asylum. Her mental trouble is hereditary.
"fresh reporter interviewed the demcnted
lady previous 10 her incarceration and she
poured tale Of domestic woe into his asinine
ears, charging her hero-husband with having
deserted his family. The interview was tele-
graphed broadcast over the country and a great
injustice was thus perpetrated on an already
wronged and msligned officer and gentleman.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28
End Of the Egyptian War.

Abdallah Pasha still holds Damietta and also
the forts at Dibha and Ghemlieh. Arab
Pasha's old regiment. which marched out Of
Abouker with orders TO proceed TO Kafr-el-Dwar
and surrender. moved of eastward and joined
the.forces at Damietta. Admiral Seymour and
Gen. Wolseley are planning combined attack
on the stronghold Of the unrepentant rebels.
The report that Abdellal Pasha, one Of Ara
his generals, has surrendered at Damietta to
the British, and been shot by his own soldiers,
is contradicted. Damietta at last accounts was
still held by the rebels.
Damietta has at last surrendered. One thou
sand Bedouins have occupied the entrench-
ments at Kafr-el-Dwar which the British aban-
doned. Arab, while in power despoiled the
national treasury Of f209,0 200, ESQ Of
which has been recovered. The ambassadors
have advised the porte to act in accord with the
British policy in Egypt. Arab and all of his
supporters will be tried by court-martial.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28

The ferry steamer Richeleu was wrecked by
the explosion of boiler at Lachine, Ont, on
the 21st. -Four persons were killed and several
injured.
AT Santa Cruz, Cal, on the 18th, the Cali
fornia Powder Co.'S mill, containing 5000
pounds Of the explosive blew up. r. Tufts
was killed.
Fire damp exploded IN a mine near Dart
mund, Germany, on the 18th, and killed twenty
persons.
A powder mill at Guaynas, Mexico. contain
ing upwards Of 10000 pounds, exploded on the
7th lust. The mill was demolished together
with a number of dwellings. Ore man was
killed. Pecuniary loss estimated at 100000.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-09-28

charge Of buggy containing two daughters Of
T. McKenns, drove the animals into creek to
water them. In some manner the vehicle cap
sized and both ladies drowned.
During the performance OF circus at Mon
terey, n c., on the 18th, the seats fell with
1900 persons. Over fifty were seriously hurt,
many baving legs and arms broken. Several
ladies are In critical condition.
While Charles Eaton was tapping barrel OF
oil In his cellar at Mocksville, N. O., an explo-
sion occurred which enveloped the unfortunate
man in burning fluid and caused his death.