Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-07-13
WlNN OWINGS.

THE Clayton County, Georgia, con-
victs we're sold at auction the other day
for $45 per head per annum.
The locomotives nc W in nse in Kansas,
if coupled together, would cover eight
miles of track; the passenger cars about
four.
IT was an astute mail clerk who inter.
preted the following direction, "Cborm,
VT, as Shoreham, VT, and sent the
letter accordingly to that postoffice.
Mrs. ELIZA WARD, of Troy, Me-, q
woman over 20 years Of age, spun 800
skeins of yarn and wove As yards of cloth
the past year.
NEAR Jackson, Miss, wolverine
seven and half feet long and weighing
$50 pounds was killed by a party Of
negroes.
THERE is an apricot tree in Fresno
County, California, that measures sixty
inches around the trunk three feet from
the ground. 1t is thought there is not
less than ton of fruit on the tree.
The $4,000 prize Prang Christmas
card for next winter is the design Of Miss
Dora Wheeler. 1t represents a virgin
and child appearing before pauper
mother and her children.
CARSON, New, has topper who boasts
that he has drank fifty drinks Of whisky
every day since 1854. During all this
time he has not gone to bed once in
sober state.
A SUAwNEE COUNTY, Fla. man saw in
the darkness what he supposed was
wild beast in his path, and, whipping
ont his pistol, killed his father, who lay
on the road drunk.
AT recent sale of cCius in New York
a medal commemorative TO the battle of
Bunker Hill brought 80 cents, while one
commemorative of one of John c. Hee-
mans battles brought AZ cents.
THE steamer Mary Powell, of New
York, the fastest river steamer in the
world, made 100 miles the other day, in
cluding stoppages, in four hours aud
seventeen minutes, or a mile every two
minutes and half.
A MAN at Homer, Ga, dreamed that
terrible storm was blowing, got up in
his sleep, walked to neIghboring mill
and crawled under il for safety. While
in his covert he was fatally bitten by a
moccasin snake.
A COTTON factory at Selma, Ala, has
paid a dividend of sixteen per cent. tie
last year, and is in shape to return more
at the end of another twelve months.
Some folks know good thing when they
see it.
We think we go iu for pretty costly
trousseaux, but they are nothing COM
pared with those provided by Partisan
swells in the last century. That of Nile.
de Martignop, who in 1850 married the
Baron de Montmoreney, cost 1925, 900.
1t included l, 200 shifts.
Mr.. PULLMAN, of palace car fame,
says that his attention is devoted just
now to providing large, clean, and
and healthful homes for his employees.
He has made contract for five hundred
model houses, TO be built at the town of
Pullman, near Chicago.
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY tons Of white
granite are being put into monument
to the late Seth Adams, in Rochester,
n. H., his native town. Mr.. Adams
went to Boston in 1928, with S5 in bis
pocket and mechanical capacity in lis
brain, which enabled him to work we'll
at fifteen different trades, but the foun-
dation of the fortune he acquired he
found in previously unsuccessful sugar
refinery which he was compelled to take
in payment of debt.
Is A cold.wat bath cure for small
pox? At San Francisco, recently, a
boat containing sixteen small. pox pa
tients on their way to the pest-house
capsized; fifteen of the inmates were res
cued after an exposure of one hour IN a
cold wind and wet garments. 1t was
promptly announced by the doctors that
the patients would all die; but, on the
contrary, they not only got well, but
some of them recovered with Il rapidity
that was astonishing.
ARE your bropzes a little dull? The
following method of regeneration has
been discovered: First the statue is
washed with concentrated solution of
ammonium carbonate and then the green
film is removed with very weak sulphuric
acid. The production Of the green film
under the black Is due to the slow con-
version of the copper into the carbonate.
This Aim imparts to bronzes the color
desirable from an artistic point OF view.
and prevents destruction and blacken-
ing.
WHEN John Jacob Astor came to this
country he brought with him six flutes,
which his brother in London had made.
He started his modest little business in
furs with the proceeds of the sale of the
instruments. One of these instruments
is now in the possession of a gentleman
of Hoboken, and by him was sent to
flutemaker for repairs. Time had
cracked the old flute, and the keys were
bent and worn. 1t has been made whole
again and restored to its pristine ylSor,
though its yolue lies in its associations
rather than in its musical qualities.
ADMIRAL PoRTERs once at his $780,
900 house in Washington is quite q
nautical curiosity shop. There are some
old pieces of furniture, few books IN
cases, number of drawings and photo
graphs on the walls. In one corner are
half hundred models of torpedoes, with
very harmless tin tubes and pine stems.
On stand on one side of the room is
working model of the steamer Alarm.
Little brass guns and bits of ships, pa
pers and documents and books scattered
over three desks, case of stuffed birds
and countless things of interest catch
the eye.
WHATEVER reluctance the Chine Sc
may have to 60 ahead and out OF the o Id
patbos at home, they show no hesitation
TO do either in this country. Lately
they have incorporated company in
San Francisco to supply "Chinatown =
with water. Two artesian wells have
been leased, two large tanks are in pro
cess of construction, and three-inch
supply-pipe has been laid. Ne % teS, ,e ihe
10 supply customers at rates 40 per cent.
lower than those now charged by the
Spring Valley Water Company. II il
reported that q new artesian well in San
Francisco is giving the very good yield
Of sos, 900 gallons day Of water suitable
for cooking and other purposes.