Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-05-18
ECHOES FROM ABROAD.

AT the clubs at Nice slOO, 900 may ex-
change hands of an evening.
KING KALAkAUA, of the Sandwich Is
lands, has new $500, 900 palace.
The Prince of Wales gave his brother
Leopold a S25, 900 piano as a wedding
present.
A COMPLETE set of papier-mache fur
niture, inlaid with mother-of- pearl, was
made few years ago for the Queen of
Spain.
SWITZERLAND has had to pass q law to
protect Its Alpine Hover, and the conn.,
try round London cries for one to save
the wild primroses and cowslips.
JOHN BULBS family consumed $685..
900, 900 worth of beef and liquor last
year. The sale OF beer has Increased
and that Of hard liquors decreased.
The salary of President Grevy, of the
French Republic, is $4,000 a year.
He lives within it, but MacMahon, when
president, spent about goo, 900 year.
DURING the late northwest gales on
the Baltic large quantities Of amber, es-
mated at 1000 pounds in weight, were
washed ashore on the Frische Nehrung,
near Konigsberg.
The following singular advertisement
appeared iE the year 1888 in Scotch
newspaper: "To be let, a beggar
stand in good, charitable neighborhood
bringing In about 30s a week. Some
| good will is required. n. B.-A dog for
blind man to be disposed Of"
A CURIOUS strike is reported from
Vi.nna- The beer drinkers of that easy
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no more beer until the local brewers con-
sent to revise their prices, which we've
lately raised without any satisfactory
| reason.
Few probably are aware that what is
familiarly known as a coffee-biggin takes
its name from Mr.. Biggin, an English
man of FORUM, who invented it. He
was man of science, and introduced
valuable improvements in tannery. He
died in 1903.
THE gales which prevailed last winter
in various parts of Scotland made sad
work with the trees. On the shores of
Loeb Lomond, some 5000 were blown
down. Parts of the Queens estate at
Balmoral lost some of their finest ones,
and at Ballochbnie Forest nearly 1000
fell.
The necessity of keeping down the
rabbits which are eating up the colony
OF New Zealand has led to demand for
cats for rabbiting. Professional rab-
biters, who are paid price ranging from
one shilling to three shiliings for each
dozen skins, according to their state,
have been employing cats to aid them in
capture, and the venture has proved
highly successful.
PRINCE ALEXANDER, of Bulgaria. did
a graceful thing in response to a request
from lady in Paris to aid her in securing
a complete collection of Bulgarian post
age stamps. The had the collecting
mania in this direction, and had failed
in every attempt to add full assortment
Of Bulgarian stamps to her album. The
prince sent her a complete series, ac-
companled by pretty note.
DOMESTIC servants and drivers Of pub
lie vehicles IN ConstantinOple are hereaf
ter to be under the direct supervision of
paternal government. The Office for
the compulsory registration of servants,
already twice opened and twice closed,
is about to be re-established, and those
who want servants must seek them there
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will be required TO furnish proof of good
character and skill.
A STRANGE fate has overtaken a work.
man while employed in the Paris morgue.
He was painting its ceiling one Jay,
when his ladder gave way and he fell to
the stone door, striking on his head with
such force that in few minutes he was
dead. 1t 30 happened that no one pres
ent knew the unfortunate mans address,
so that it became necessary to place his
body on one of the marble slabs used for
the remains of the unknown dead.
The streets of Paris are in a great part
sprinkled by hose attached to hydrants,
which are found to cost half less than
watering carts, OF which, however, $50
are employed. The scavengeriug and
sprinkling, both of which are admirably
performed, cost 81, 100,00 They man
age many things very well in Paris, un-
doubtedly, and get something for their
money, but the municipal taxation is by
far the heaviest in Europe. with possibly
the exception of st. Petersburg,
SANITARY legislation in England dates
from a very early period. Edward IL
decreed that butcher who sold measled
pork should be fined for the first offense,
pilloried for the second, imprisoned and
fined for the tbird, and expelled from the
town for the fourth. Richard III. took
measures against the pollution of rivers.
Henry vi. prohibited cattle staying
within walled towns with three excep-
tions. Elizabeth enacted that only one
family might dwell in cottage. The
plague in the time of Charles III. led to
many health enactments.
DURING the early part of this month
steam dredger, operating i'm the River
Clyde, near Glasgow, brought up q sole
leather trunk marked George Plaisted,
Boston," This trunk was lost from the
steamer State OF Nebraska, of the State
4 Line, last September. The owner saw
his trunk put OH board the steamer at
Glasgow, but on his arrival at New York
il could not be found. The company
paid a claim of 81, 900 for the loss and
after six months time the trunk and
conference.-the latter tallying exactly
with Mr.. Plaisted's description-are re-
covered uninjured.
The "buffalo hunt" in which the two
sons Of the Prince of Wales were in-
dulged at Ceylon, recently, was painful
absurd;ty. 1t was forbidden that the
two bury boys should run any risk of
injury, 90 tame buffalo was turned out
| and, after being chased by dogs, was
shot down by one Of the princess most
iRnoble piece Of hatchery. This re-
minds London writer OF bear hunt
, which occurred in Sweden years ago. A
royal prince had TO be entertained, and
!, 80 q bear hunt was got mp for him. At
, last the animal was circumvented. The
prince raised his gun 10 fire; the bear
.. beean 10 dance. II was o tame one
! vb;ch had he.,n bouQht of its Snowman