Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-11-09
WINN 0WINGS.

A BOY of Q years at Searcy, Ark, has
grown heavy beard and mustache.
MARX TWAIN has received 800, 600 Of
royalties from his play of "Colonel Sell
lers."
COLONEL was written before the names
of thirty-fo guests at Washington
hotel the other day.
A BLACKsHEAR, Georgia, farmer still
uses wagon made fifty years ago, and
which has never been repaired.
| A RICHMOND, Va, negro breathes
through a silver tube in his breast, on
account of an injury in his throat.
LOUISIANA has S5, COG, 900 invested in
the rice industry, and produces S3, ,250,-
600 worth of cleaned nee annually.
SPLINTERs from the floor whereon
Jesse James fell when be was shot are
sold on the premises for 25 cents each.
THE only cork tree in Tallahassee,
Fla, was blown down by the late storm.
1t was thirty feet high and in a thrifty
condition.
A CHICAGO lady who made purchases
at six different stores in that city in one
day says that in every case they tried to
pass three-cent piece into her change
in place Of dime.
A NEW cross has been erected on the
lava beds in Oregon to mark the spot
where Gen. Candy was killed by the
Modocs, the old one having been de-
stroyed by the elements.
A WOMAN is under sentence of thirty
five years imprisonment for selling
| liquor at Rutland, Vermont, that period
being composed of 200 different terms
for like number of offenses.
A FULL-GRowN eagle cannot fly away
with greater weight than twelve
pounds. When you hear of one trying
to carry off a child years old you may
know that he is light in the head.
The Atlanta Constitution says one real
estate firm in that city has placed loans
of northern capital on Georgia farm
hands amounting to about 81, ,OOO,O 600,
and are still lending at the rate Of $780,
600 per month.
In Harvey County, Kansas, many hun
dred buIom Mennonite girls may now be
found in the extensive broom-cOIn fields.
They appear to like the work, and pre-
sent splendid pictures of good nature
and robust health.
A MERCHANT in Tallahassee, Fla,
lately received an order for one hundred
pounds Of dried fig leaves Of a bright
color. As the order came from large
tobacco manuiactOry, the use t" which
the leaves will be put is easily sur
missed.
A MONTANA wife recently sued for
divorce on the ground that her husband
made practice of kissing the hired
girl. The action was dismissed by the
Judge, who held that .he kissing was
iustifable because of the wife's eXtrt me
homeluess.
The fruit evaporators of Wyoming
County, New York, are shipping large
quantities of apple.skins, seeds and cores
to Chicago. where the stuff is manuiac-
tured into jelly. A large price is re-
ceived for the refuse Of the eyaporators
in this way, and one firm claims that
the profit pays their regular running ex-
penscs.
A GENTLEMAN from Sebastopol, Sono-
ma County, Cal. has captured great
curiosity in the shape Of a quadruple
fish, or ore fish with four heads and
four tails, the body being grown together
after the Siamese twin style. The fish
is about seven inches long and four
inches square, and belongs to the perch
family. 1t is voracious feeder.
Iris said that iron express cars have
been put ON the Southern Pacific Road.
They are described as being very strong
and bullet proof, and as containing two
ccmpartments, one for treasure and one
for expressmen and guards. Besides
the necessary quantity of arms aud am
munitiop, each car has four Siberian
blood hounds, costing $3.50 apiece. One
Of these cars will go with each train.
RECENTLY thirty Yale students went
duck-shooting ON Long island sound.
One Of them, a senior named Loren An
drews, was baling out his boat, letting
his gun rest on the gunwalc with the
muzzle pointed in the air. His move
ment and that of the waves caused the
gun to slide along the edge Of the boat
until it fell upon tie bottom, striking
the trigger. Being only foot from the
muzzle Of the gun he received the whole
contents of the gun in his bowels, dying
in about three hours.
A PASSENGER in q Boston street car
pulled the vest button of the conductor
and was surprised to hear bell ring. A
new device for stealing fares was thus
discovered. Bell punches are used on
that line, and the old plan OF carrying a
small gong in the palm of the hand to
strike when pretending to punch slip
has become dangerous. So the plan OF
concealing the gong in the vest and con-
Meeting it with button was invented.
The Cambria IRON works at Johnstowu,
Pa, has thirty-five miles Of railroad on
its property, and employs ten large and
ten small locomotive engines for yard
service. The 800, 900 tons OF coal and
limestone annually used in the manufae-
ture of iron aud steel at these works are
mined by the company, as well as part
of 400, 900 tons of iron ore required by
il. The works are valued ut 81, 900, 900,
and give employment to nearly 200 men.
SMITH is the name Of an Egyptian who
lives at jacksonville, Fla. On the Nile
he was known as Hamet Monsen, and
his father was captain Of the Turkish
man of war Domilter. He came to this
country with an American family when
but fifteen years old, and settled in
Utica, N. Y. Joining the Connecticut
volunteers during the rebellion, he went
TO the front, and by the vicissitudes of
war was thrown into Florida, where he
has since resided. He has become quite
wealthy.
A PMLApRLPHIA newspaper has made
the interesting discovery that not all the
silver three-cent pieces that have gone
out of circulation were retired by roll
ing into CRACKS. Two tons of these rep
rehensible coins are now at the Bint IN
that city awaiting recoinage into ten
cent pieces, and several tons additional
are stored in the sub-treasuries to meet
similar fate before long. The total
coinage of silver three-cent pieces has
been some forty tons, according to this