Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-10-19
WINNOWiNGS.

twenty tons of peach stones every year.
A YOUNG Virginian has inventedia ma
chine called the "lung destroyer" 1t
turns ont $50 cigarettes a minute.
NINE hundred terrapins were hatched
last week at Favre's place in Waveland,
Miss. In three years they will be full
grown.
ERAsTUs CORNING, of New York,
owns a collection Of orchids which cost
130, 200; Jay Gould's set is valued at
100000.
The apple syrup works at Albany, N.
Y, started by men froll Holland, have
commenced to ship apple Jelly i'll casks
to Holland.
The nickel church, to be built at
Palestine, Tex, is to be paid for by not
less than 200, 900 persons contributing a
nickel piece.
A GENTLEMAN, who recently came up
the Yellowstone, estimates that one hun
dred men have been drowned in that
river this summer.
IL New York class of sneak thieves
pretend to he employees of the gas COM
panv, and gain entrance to the house to
examine the meters.
A FOREIGN paper received at the
Chattanooga Tenn. post-office was adj
dressed: "Hepry Jones, southeast coast
Of America or elsewhere
1T takes thirty-fve pounds of sugar
to sweeten the average inhabitant of the
United States a year, or about 1,750,-
900, 900 pounds 10 supply the whole
country for twelve nonths
A LOCK TENDER at Cohoes, y. Y, fell
asleep early Thursday morning, and the
water Overtiowed the banks and rushed
down the streets, filling cellars and doing
considerable damage.
The explosion of kerosense lamp at
Plymouth, Me-, did not hurt Mrs. Miles
much, and the loss of the dress which
she wore was of small account; but In a
burned pocket was 1880 III paper
money.
A DURHAM COW belonging to a grocer
of Binghamton, \. Y, climbed a steep
stair in her barn and feasted to repletIon
upon the hay stored in the loft. 1t was
twenty.four hours before she was dis
covered.
One duty of the telegraph linemen is
to watch for what are known as skin
wires" that is, wires which are put up
without authority. Whenever these are
discovered they are cut down without
further ceremony.
A CHAP in Canada wanted to explode
two pounds of powder IL! the water to
kill fish, but after coming down from a
trip over the nearest trees, followed by
the splinters of his skitf, he decided that
the old tish-poie way was the safest.
AMONG recent contributions to the
fund for a monument to the late Senator
Benjamin III. Hill l. one OF $50 from the
Hon. Jas. u. Blaine. This is SAID TO be
the first subscription to the fund from
any prominent public man in the north.
JOHN JACOB AsToR has plan for the
erection of the largest apartment house
in the world. 1t is to be i'll the vicinity
of Central Park. will cover an entire
city block, and will cost over 81, 900, 900.
The original Astor House did not cost
half that sum.
EDWIN BOOTH has purchased lately
ten acres of land in Middletown, near
Newport, Il. l., and summer house is
now in process of erection on the site.
The style of the house is Queen Anne,
5Ox55 feet. Irregularity, and every
where tire-places, bay windows, and We
randas are features.
The port of Guaymas, on the Gulf OF
California, is looming up as a rival to
San Francisco. A through line from
Kansas City will soon be operated by
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
management. The distance by this line
to Australia is said to be | 400 miles less
than by the way OF San Francisco.
A CURIOUS old knife has been found
near Hamilton, Tex. The blade proper
is sixteen inches long and about an inch
and quarter wide, tapering to point,
and the place for a handle is three
inches long. On one side Of the blade
are the figures "l76l," and on the other
sc. Vardias, G. F." showing it to be
an old Spanish knife.
AT recent fair in Concord, n. H.
John F. Burgum exhibited a heedle-
book which was made from dresses worn
bv the countess of Rumford at the court
Of Bavaria in 1892, trimmed with yellow
| gimp from her footman's hat-band,
sewed with needles purchased by the
count in 1895, and boundin covers made
from an arithmetic published in 1905.
WHEN Zeba s. Yarnell, living three
miles west of Montezuma, Ia, was In
| the war, he received a wound in the
small of the back, the evil effects OF
which gradually extended to the nerves
of the leg. For six years past he used
| crutches, and last week, nearly twenty
years after the wound was inflicted, he
was compelled thereby to have his left
leg amputated six inches above the
knee.
TEARING down the old walls of the
Yturri building, ON the north side OF
Main Plaza, pure copper ball, weighing
four. pounds and nine ounces, was taken
out. 1t had evidently passed through
the outer wall and imbedded itself in the
soft rock of the second wall. The ball
was fred in one OF the earlier battles oi
the Texas revolution, probably during
the fight when Milan fell at the Vera
mendi House.-Sdn Antonio Express.
THE portieres for Mr.. Cornelius Van
derbilt's new mansion on the corner oi
! FIfty-seventh Street and Fifth Avenue,
New York, are in the latest style OF art
needlework; and one Of them, in solid
embroidery ON silver cloth, after beau
tiful design by Lafarge, with the date
in Roman letters at the top, and the
whole framsd in heiotrope plush, Is ex'
ceptionally beautiful. The wall hang,
ings are in panels OF heavy gold en-
broidery on silver cloth, the golden
hues shaded from the palest straw coloi
to the deepest orange.
A YOUNG lady, who is very heavily IN.
sured by strangers in the matrimonial
insurance companies, on the report ol
her approaching marriage went with
friend into dry-goods store last week.
/ She knew that the clerk who was waiting
on her had invested years savings In
policy on her coming marriage. While
examining piece of silk she said to hei
friend, in an aside perfectly audible tt
the clerk: "Since my engagement Ii
definitely broken off / will have no tros
seau to buy. I think might affort
this." When she turned to ask the clerl
the price he had fainted.-Nev for'
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