Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-08-24
WINNOWINGs.

WlNNOWINGS.
AT Lebanon, o., two men who wer
digging q cellar found an iron box ani
halt killed each other before it wa
agreed how they should divide. Whel
they opened il nothing but old clothe
rewarded them.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Cleveland
Ohio, especially among the Free Masons
TO raise fund for the care of the grave,
of the 800 Confederate soldiers burie,
on Johnson's Island, and to erect a mon
ument to their memory.
BUSINESS at Winnipeg seems to b,
thriving. At late date about 900 car
loads Of goods were waiting there fo
entry at the custom house, and now the
the number Of customs officers has beer
increased. The receipts this year at tn,
port will reach nearly $4,000, 900.
IT has just been discovered that on,
John Rockenstyne, who a year ago lef
his wife in Albany after telling her b,
was going west to seek his fortune, hal
been living ever since with another
woman in Greenbush, only a mile or two
from his deserted wife.
GENERAL SPINNER is fishing down in
Florida with eminent success. He JUS
bats with his signature and the fisl
that can distinguish it from the with
INCEST kind Of worm has to be an ex
pert of many years standing. .-Hawk
eye.
THE editor Of the Kew West Demo.
orat Is said to be only forty inches higi
and weighs but thirty-five pounds
When the man with the club comes il
to interview "the chap who wrote tina
article" the editor of the Democrat
crawls into his paste-pot and pulls dowr
the i'd.
WADING IN southern waters, along the
Carolina coast, involves the risk of being
stung by the stingaree." A stingaret
is simply a long buggy whip, broken out
with smallpox and filed with stee
springs, aqua fortis, and needles. Wher
he hits you, lockiaw is the mildest pos.
sible result.
The committee Of the Oneida Histor
ical Society has adopted plans for the
construction of the monument in com
memOration of the battle Of Oriskany
aud has made contracts for its compile.
ton. 1t is to be an obelisk about ninety
feet high, with q granite base, lime
stone shaft and granite cap, and is Il
cost about sl0, 900 and be finished within
one year.
A PATENT has Just been secured on al
invention which will be of great value
to those who are obliged to go through
life on crutches. II consists of crutches
set on rockers which are faced with {
heavy rubber band. The user thu!
moves forward eight feet at step, viii
q smooth, even motion, which does away
with the jar experienced with the ordi
nary crutch.
A YOUNG man was killed by lightning
while sitting alone under a tree in New
Orleans, La, three or four days ago
and it was some time before any mark
could be found on his body 10 estab
lish the cause of death. Finally, aftel
close scrutiny, the hair on the left sid,
Of bis head was found to be singed
and just below the hair were two blacl
spots like powder burns.
The Cinnamon i'll America has beer
slow in finding out the difference be
tween eyaporated apples and steam-driet
shayings; between Zante currants anC
dried blue bottle flies. But at last hi
eyes have been opened. He now, on tn,
Pacific coast, buys fruit ou the paren
stem, gathers it himself and dries it IL
his own peculiar style. Some of tn,
product finds its way to China.
Miss CoRsoN, the cook lecturer, pub
lished a book, Fifteen Cent Dinner,
in which she advocated oat meal, nc,
aud soup as all that the human machine
required for getting up steam. A New
York stone cutter bought the book, fol.
lowed the suggestions, run down in &
month so that he was discharged as unfi
for days 8 work, and has sued Miss Cor
son for damages for leading him intc
this era OF idleness.
JOSEPH L. LEWIS, of Hoboken, n. J..
left his whole estate, valued at over &
million and half Of dollars, to the Unitet
States, to be applied to the reduction oi
the national debt. His natural heirs, OF
course, contested the will and endeavored
to prove the insanity of the testator.
The matter has now been compromised,
s96S, $50 going to the government, and
the remainder to Lewis two half-sisters
and the children of a deceased half-sister.
A MINISTER was travelling along 9
country road in Scotland one day in
winter, riding rather long, lean horse,
and he himself dressed in rather an odd
looking cap and large camlet cloak,
when gentleman came along, riding q
fine horse, which "scared at the
preacher and his horse. "Well, sir,
said the gentleman, "ye wud scare the
vera devil, SIR" "That's my business,
sir, said the preacher.
A NEW method of reducing corn to
meal is now in operation which, it is
said, seems likely to supersede the old.
fashioned mill-stones. The corn passes
over a series OF cylinders provided with
fine steel points, revolving rapidly
against fixed knives, each set finer than
the ones preceding. The meal produced
is exceedingly fine, there is claimed q
saving of 30 per cent. Of power, and the
machinery is said to be less expensive
than burr-stones.
LRwIsrowN, Pa, has lad nearly q
years Of age who has never spoken q
word TO his father. Heseems to be pos.
sessed oie natural antipathy to so doing,
and yet says that should he ever be
prompted to address the old man he
shall speak freely. A quarrel which
the parents had during the mothers
pregnancy is said to be responsible fol
the strange state Of affairs, the mother al
that time having not spoken to her hus.
band for fuu year.
THos. J. LRNHART, formerly resi-
dent Of New Philadelphia, o., but fol
the past year Of two OF the west, acci
dentally killed his own little boy in the
following singular manner. He VA
moving heavy piano box, aud the little
child in crossing the room ran under il
Just as he had raised one end. Mr.. Len
hart's strength failed him Just at ths
fatal moment when the child was under
the box, and he was compelled to let il
drop. The child was crushed into {
shapeless mass, nearly every bone in it
body was broken.