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Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
A Gymnast's Fall.

rom an interview Win WllliAm hanl0n.J
We were playing IN Havana. The
same people go to the theater every
night, and they demand constant
changes in the bill. Mo brother Tom
was taken sick suddenly. His ladder
was in the dome ready for "the leap for
life, and the people began to clamor to
have sit done" finally agreed to do
it. The feat consists, after the perform
ance of variety of tricks on the ladder,
in swinging myself into motion and
jumping to taut rope, running from q
ceiling at an incline to the wings. The
Jump was long one, and the house was
very quiet when began to swing pre-
paratoTy to taking the leap.
l threw myself at the rope, and, when
l was in mid-air l saw it was no go, and
that was done. struck out desperate
ly with my feet, in the hope of helping
myself forward. but l only reached the
rope with the rips of the fingers of my
left hand. Both hands and both feet
were extended in spread eagle form, If
you like. l ought to have struck the
rope with both hands fairly in the Gen.
ter of my body, with the legs across the
line, 80 as to distribute the strain of
sustaining my weight over my whole
body. AS it was. it all fell on my left
arm and my body swept in toward the
rope like o whip lash. OF course let
go, and then 1 began to turn spirally
like corkscrew and then 60 down. l
instantly realized that must not land
all spread out. I gathered my left arm
close to my body. pushed my head for.
ward and drew my legs together, strug-
Cling to get into shape to fall ON my side.
I did fall Just that way forty feet on a
wooden stage. My arm was driven into
my side and rib was broken. The arm
was shattered and l was laid up for
many months.
While was going down in an instant
l saw over again, as vivid as life, every
fall that / sver witnessed. They came
up in my mind, one right after another,
like successive flashes of lightning, and
I seemed to be exper .encing all Of them
in my own person. But worse than any
thing else, a great deal worse than the
shock of arriving, was the terrible shriel
Of agony that went up from the audience.
1t was like one beartbreaking wall oi
agony. l can hear it yet, and hear il
every time think Of the accident.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27

The pardons issued by Governor Crittenden
to Robert and Charles Ford reached st. Joseph
on the 18th inst, and the boys shook hands
with everybody aid passed out Of jail. At the
door. Sheriff Trigg, of Ray County, arrested
Robert for the murder Of Wood Hite, near
Richmond. II was arranged that the Tip
should be made by way Of Kansas City, and
the prisoner was attended by his father and
brother and guarded by officers. Sheriff
Thomas, at st. Joseph, has slept in his clothes
for two weeks. The Ford boys claim that Gov.
Crittenden promised them immunity Of all
past crimes, but the governor denies the state
mentindignantly. He NAV pardon them, how.
aypr
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
A pIREFUL RECORD.

The explosion in the Blockhouse Col
liery, near Sunderland, England, re.
Gently, says the Chicago Times, makes
twenty-five serious explosions in coal
mines during the last four years, result
ing in the loss of nearly sixteen hundred
lives, not including the injured persons.
Most of the loss of life has occurred in
Great Britain, though only fourteen of
the explosions have occurred there. The
great extent of the coal mines in Wales
and other parts of Great Britain, and the
proportionately great number of men ex-
posed to the destructive effects of any
one explosion, account for this discrep-
ancy. The fourteen British explosions
have cost over twelve hundred lives, and
the fatalities in the other eleven disas.
tiers do not much exceed $50. The aver.
age loss of life in British mine explo-
sions, it will be noticed. does not fall
much below 80, being SO for the disas-
ters included in this enumeration, while
those in other countries hardly average
thirty-two deaths apiece. This average
happens to be exactly the number of IA
talities resulting from the explosion in
the coal mine in Midlothian, Virginia,
February 3. Sunderland, where the ex-
plosion of yesterday occurred, is near
Triandon Grange, where sixty or seventy
people we're killed February 16 last by
a coal mine explosion, and Seaham,
where 164 men were killed by similar
accident September, 8, 1880. North
Staffordshire had suffered heavily; an
explosion in one of its coal mines March
%, 1878, killed 30 men; two in Leycett,
one on September IL, 1873, and the other
January 81, 1880, killed five and seventy
men, respectively, and one at Chell,
February 7, 1881, resulted in seventeen
deaths. Wales has suffered severely; an
explosion in the Ebbw Vale colliery
killing no less than 2S1 persons, Sep.
tember IL, 1873; another at Penny CRAIG
new colliery, Rhonda Valley, Decembe,
10, 1880, killing 100; one at Dinas, Jan.
uary Is, 1879, killing go men, aud one
at Risca, just across the Welsh line,
July 10, 1880, resulting in the death ol
1l9 men. This explosion was caused by
lightning. More than two hundred
miners were killed in the explosion in Q
coal mine at Haydock, near Wigan, Ian,
cashire, June 7, 1878. Saxony had two
coal coal mine disasters within q few
weeks of each other-one at Chemnitz,
December 2, 1879, killed more than sew.
enteen men, and the other at Meissen,
January 20, following, killed ten. In
this period Belgium has had three ex.
plosions with 100 fatalities; Nova Scots
two, with Sc fatalities, and the United
States four explosions, killing S6 per,
sons.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
MOrtuaFy.


Rev. DIR. Leroy NJ. Lee, a noted Methodist
writer Of Virginia, died at Richmond, on the
22d.
Gervasse smith, formerly president OF the
Wesleyan Conference, is dead.
G. N. Harwood. Of Shelbyville. KY, Q state
senator and leading lawyer, died ON the 20th.
General William L. Burt, the president OF
the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and Western Rail-
way, died at Saratoga, N. Y, on the 20th lust,
of paralysis. He was O man Of wealth and
great business energy, aged 81.
Charles r. Darwin, the well-known scientist,
died ut London, Eng. on the 20th inst, aged
IS years.
Captain Robert Baldwin, probably the Oldest
steamboat captain, died at his residence
in New Albany, Ind, on the night Of the 18th
inst, aged 81 years.
Hannibal II. Chase, president Of the Peoples
Bank. Of Baltimore, dropped dead ont the street
DR.. r. c. G Jones, prominent educator Of
Louisville, Is dead.
Baron Bauer, the distinguished German
philosopher, died ON the 18th inst.
Charles y. Wilstach. ex-mayor Of Cincinnati,
prominently identified with the industrial ex-
position, died on the 17th.
Colonel John N. Connell, OF Lancaster, O.,
renowned o. Q soldier, lawyer, and politician, ID
dad. He was q relative OF the Sherman and
Ewing families.
Two eminent diviues passed away on the
18th. Rev. Ssmuel Fessenden at Portland,
Ma. and Rev. r. w. Tremble, at Pine Blu6,
Arb. The former served IN the 47th Congress
Col. Oxro J. Dodds, Of Cincinnati, ex-Inem-
ber Of congress-, died at Columbus, O., on the
18th inst
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
Why People Go Abroad.

[Dresden Letter In Springfield Republican,
1t is said that large share Of those
who come abroad ostensibly for the edu-
cation of their children, or for the res
toration of their shattered healths and
disordered constitutions, and who by
long absence from their rative land vir-
tually give up their birthrights for for
eign homes, have histories that viii not
bear probing or inquiring into. Many
quarrel between husband and
wife in America results not in
divorce, but in living apart usually
il is the wife who packs her trunks
and crosses the Atlantic for few years,
and perhaps for life. Here she begins
life anew. she avoids the publicity and
disgrace Of . divorce, and the scandal
which its trial il sure TO divulge; she
puts an end 70 the catand-dog hfe she
has lived with her husband. and In hsz
foreign home, wherever II may be. sha
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27

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Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
nssoOdthirsty sayagcs.

Apaches at Clifton, New Mexico, killed five
tesmsters and ran of sixty head Of mules. 4
raid was was then made on the works Of the
Detroit Copper Mining Company. Two hun
tracks of the Southern Pacific twenty miles
west Of FOrdsburg, recently.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27

Mo-, on the 23d inst, which resulted in the
total wreck Of the steamer Little Eagle and the
loss OF three lives. The boat struck bridge
pier, turned completely over and sunk. The
Eagle was owned by Mcdonald Bros, of La
Crosse, who also owned the Bella Mac, which
was blown up some time ago.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
Wrecked by Winds.

Monticello, Miss, small village, was complete
ly destroyed by storm on the night Of the 22d
inst. Ten persons were instantly killed and
between fifteen and twenty injuged, some badly.
A tornado swept through the Streets Of Cairo.
H., on the 21st inst. The c)lored Methodist
Church and four other buildings were blown
down, the gasometer and five loaded freight
cars were overturned, and ten or more houses
were unroofed.
Mount Vernon, an ore mining town situated
five miles from Scotdale, Westmoroand County,
Pa, was visited by fearful storm on the even
ing Of the 18th inst, which demolished a num-
Der Of dwellings and killed Mrs. W. Wiregroves.
Many were seriously injured. The roof of one
of the buildings was blown two miles.
A destructive storm struck Brownsville, NO.,
on the 18th inst, inflicting great damage TO
property and killing six persons. Thirty are
reported wounded, some badly. TEe town of
Montroso was visited by the same gale and
suffered the ruination Of eighteen dwellings
and four churches. No lives were lost at the
latter place, however.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
ShIDwFeck

The steamer Renpor, from West Hartlepool,
Eng, for Boston, was stove in by ice at sea on
the 12ih inst, and sunk. Her crew was rescued
by the steamer Mary Louise and taken to New
York.
A small schooner which left Monterey, with
fifteen Chinese passengers for Southern Cali
foruia, was discovered in a damaged condition
by the steamer Orizaba. 1t is supposed all on
board were lost in the gale which wrecked the
craft
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27

An inmate Of the Cook County insane asy-
lum, named George W. Reynolds, drowned him
self in the pond on tue 22d inst. At the out
break OF the panic Of 1857 he was successful
packer in Chicago. In later years he was a
member OF the board Of supervisors, and
served as chairman Of the building committee
which supervised the erection Of the structure
which for many years has been his only home
Herman Monk, a wealthy citizen of Louis
vile, KY, took laudanum on the 18th inst, aud
died from the effects. Cause, business trou-
blcs.
Alex Fisher, manager of the Ontario Bank,
at Toronto. Canada, killed himself ON the 18th
inst, owing to protracted illness.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
Train RObbers FoiIcd

Robbers ditched tram near Rincon, N. NJ,
on the 18th inst, in au indeavor to secure
treasure to the amount OF S120,000 in the
hands Of the Wells, Fargo 4 Co., express. The
engine and baggage car left the track, killing
the fireman and badly injuring the engineer
and express messenger. Before securing the
booty, so many passengers focked around the
wreck that the robbers became frightened and
fed.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
Importaut Nominations,

President Arthur has nominated AlphonsC
Taft, of Ohio. to be minister to Austria; VIM
L. Dayton, of New Jersey, 10 the Netherlands
and Nicholas Fish. Of New York, TO Belgium
John NJ. Francis, Of New York, was named
charge Tdfdirs to Portugal, and Adam Badeau
TO be consul general To Havana.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27

CAPT. FRED. NORMAN, who crossed
the Atlantic in the LATHE Western, the
smallest craft that ever made the pas-
sage, will attempt to row across the
o,ean If anybody win back him for
$1,000. He will use boz. twelve feet
loDg, four feet wide, and from two 10
two and a half feet deep, partly covered
fle and aft. He is Norwegian and
twenty .eight years old.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
The Niners, lloNIn,

Twenty three persons were killed by an ex,
plosion in colliery at West Stanley, England,
on the'1Stb
Thirty-five lives were lost by an explosion in
the Blockhouse colliery, at Sunderland Eng
land.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
Auo,ber Arc,ic Stenmer l.one

Intelligence has been received Of the total
destruction by fire Of the steamer Rodgers,
which was sent out to search for the exploring
steamer Jeanette. The crew escaped and are
now awaiting the arrival Of ship to take them
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
Don't Whine.

Beecher's latest oddity in sermonizing
is as follows: "Don't put ON sackcloth
when you have better clothes to wear.
Don't bow your head like bulrusb, but
20 with head erect as q son OF God.
Don't whine before God. You are not
Q slave. ! will not crawl before God be-
cause ] am so filthy and sinful. I am
not filthy and sinful, and won't say so.
60 before God as a nobleman, saying,
Il acknowledge my imperfections; never
theless, ! am your son.. Rejoice in the
Lord always."
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27

An agricultural writer says: "Hens
seldom pay expenses after they are three
years old" When they are three, and
before losing their teeth, they should be
converted into spring chickens and sold
70 some tough restaurant keeper.-
PicGyisae. -.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27

hre at De Pere, Via, on the 23d inst,
we're business houses. The total ioss 3 ssti. s.
mated st e1i0,000. Jonas Linkens, 3 Hol-
lander, met his death, while lying In 8 drunksn
stupor IN saloon which was consumed.
rismss vhioh Appeared In hotsl q Lake
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
Terrible Boiler ExpIo.Isus.

Roderick MacLean, who attempted to assas
sinate Queen Victoria, recently, has been &C
quilted ON the ground Of insanity.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27

court shall, on preliminary inquiry, find that
person was loyal, the court shall not have
jurisdiction Of such cause, and the same shall
without previous proceedings be dismissed.
Adopted. The bill then went over till Monday.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Poor Jews.


The persecution Of Jews in Southern Russia
continues. An entire village was destroyed re.
Gently, and 200 families rendered homeless.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27

TEE Last number Of the vierteljahrs-
schrift fuer eflantlieie Gesundheitspfiege
contains an article ON glucose. The v.
q. 0.'sexchanges viii al copy Il, but theyu
run out Of type Il they undertake TO give
credik
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27

THn fashionable game Of the moment,
IN London. y 70 hah for candies In bowls
OF bot punch.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-27
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BOOK AID JOB PRINTING HOUSE
We Guarantee u Good Job in
Every Instance.

II oRDERs FROM DEFIANCE PROMPTLY Ar
rKrDKD TO.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-10-05
Imaginary Birds.

The phoenix, as everybody knows,
gathers dry sticks to make its funereal
pyro, which 1t then contrives to set
! allght, ard Is presently consumed in the
flames. From its ashes worm crawls
out, and, being gradually covered with
feathers, takes the form of its parent
bird. The eagle, which fears nothing
! clsc, breads the approach Of venomous
serpcnts. TO avert evil from its eaglets
1t places two agates i'll its nest. When
It's beak grows too long it breaks off tho
Supcl1luous piece against rock. Tho
berre IS a very powerful bird, and takes
| immense flights. 1t is fond of the COM
pany of ships, but if vessel happens to
! be an unusually swift sailcr, it closes its
wings and sinks to the bottom of the
sea. A sentimental bird is the female
turtle-dove Should its mate chance to
die, it never again alights on q leafy
tree. 1t is remarkable for its chastity,
but is averse from melody. If it hears
the warbling of other birds it groans
dismally. In winter time it loses it's
feathers, and shelters itself in holes and
hollows. 1t Is related OF the wood
pecber that if any one drives in peg to
close the entrance to the hole in the tree
in which its nest is built it flies off in
"
touches the peg, whereupon it falls out.
This, too, Is curious. The hO0DoC is un-
able to mOult in n natural mannrr. Its
young ones, therefore, pull out its fAath-
ers, and cover and feed her till they arc
full grown. The storl1's young ones aro
not less flial SO long as the parent
bird has provided for her brood, SO long
will her brood provide for her. On tho
other hand, the maIc crow is cruel
to its offspring, and prclls ut and beats
them till their feathers are ns black as
his own. The vainest and sIlicst Of all
birds Is the peacock. When it looks
upon it's brilliant plumage it is SO de-
lighted that it spreads out the Glolics of
Its tail, but when it looks down u,,un it's
feet 1T Is SO disgustcd and SO ashamed uf
itself that It's tail drOOps to the ground.
1t ls SAID to have the voice OF 1icnd,
the head OF snake, and the gait Of q
thief. The swan likes to be a%c0mnaniel
by harp, and is most moioGiOus during
the last year of its life. 1t is also Inter
csting to learn that the swallow is caua-
bio of restoring sight to it's "ca'l low
BROOD when carried away iuto captivity
and blinded. Any ono gowing where
| snakes abound will do we'll to take with
| him some burned vulturo's feathers. The
heart of n vulturo wrapped IN the skin
of lion or of wolf frig}trns away
demons. 1t is quite untruc that vuhrcs
were originally n race of men who were
cruel to the pygmies. But how is il that
medical men do not make grcatcr Use of
the caladrius? If this beautiful, snow
white little bird, which is native Of
Jerusalem, be held in front of man
whose death is certain, it nvcrts it, head,
and will in no wise look at him. bat, if
on the contrary, the sick man is destined
to live i'll spite of his physicians, the
caladrius turns to him, as John Tryv,sa
cxpressesit, "faunyngc and playsvngr."
--AU the Year R0n1d.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-10-05
How to Kill q RattIesnake.

A working party on railroad here is
madeup of mountaineers and Georgians.
One Of the latter performed foolhardv
feat the other day that made the blood
OF the eunaccustomed spectators run cold.
They were at work clearing away the
thick underbrush, in advance Of the en-
gineer, when some one shouted "Ware
of rattlesnakosl' He saw one of these
reptiles about four feet long and five or
six inches In diameter lying just ahead.
The Georgian cut q short stick with q
forked end, and creeping up to the
snake he deftly pinned it to the earth by
pushing the forked end on either side Of
his neck. Then, selling the tail in his
right hand, he ran his left down the
snakes body, and grasping it firmly Just
back of the head he held it up at arm 3
length and called on the others to "look
at the varmint's mouth" It was any,
thing but u pleasant sight, and most Of
the spectators were Mortified. After
holding it few minutes for general in
spection, he suddenly swung the snake
over his head with lis right hand, let
ting go the hold Of the left, and dashed
it with great force against rock, kill
ing it instantly. 1t was cool and dcx-
ferrous feat, but very trying to the look
ers on, who censurcd the man for his
"folly," at which he seemed to be
nightly amused.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-10-05
Live JeWeIPY.

| Here is something new in the way
OF ornamentation," a salesman in q large
| uptown 1ewelry store said, opening o
| CoS' Gut walked @ monster beetle,
iuiiy four inches in length. About it's
BODY was solid gold band, locked by n
tiny paddock, to which was attached q
costly gold chain, about two inches in
length, fastened to pin. The beetle. q
back gistened in light, having been
treated to dress of gold, and as it
numbered along its long legs worked to-
gether In curious fashion. cts q
shawl pin. You see the pin is used to
tasten the face ola shawl, or perhaps worn
on the bonnet, the insect crawling
around the length of the chain. ThoY
perfectly harmless and not expensive.
as they Live on air-that is, they have
never been seen to eat. This one was
brought here to mount, which is O very
line operation, as the legs and antennso
are all so delicate. After all, there is
nothing Objectionable about them, ex-
cept the idea of having them crawl over
you. They all come from South Ameri-
ca, and the only lot in the city is to be
taken to France, where the owner will
try to introduce the fashion of wearing
them. They cost from$1O to $50, depend.
ahS 0honSlJ Ou GIlS alnOunG or the ring.
There is nothing cruel about it, as they
are bound loosely, and the gold has no
effect upon their hard sides.
In Brazil the fashion of wearing beetles
Is carried to great extent A well
known resident has n beetle with a COL
lar of gold which meets at the top, and
is there ornamented with diapond OF
great value. The insect has O cage sur
rounded by the plants among which it
lives IN its native state, and nothing is
neglected to make it as comfortable ~,
possible. But the most popular insect
used for an ornament in Brazil is small
phosphorescent beetle. These are often
worn fastened in the hair, and as the two
phosphorescent or light giving spots arc
on the sides of the head, the black in
sect is,of course, invisible, especially
when in the raven locks of the fair Bra
zllians. Twenty or thirty of these bee
ties will throw out n light sufficient to
read by, and when arranged around tho
head in q circle, Or grouped over the
forehead and held in place, the effect is
beautiful.-NeaO York Satia.