Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-05-04
WlNNOWiNGS.


omribus.
CoScERyISG the strongest New Eng
land factories, an estimate is made that
they pay an average Of per cent. on the
investment.
A RESIDENT of Biddeford, Me-, is re-
ported to have made the trip from that
place to Boston. something over 80 miles,
on his bicyc Gle 70 times.
"THIRy years hence" says the Lon
don Spectator, English fortunes will
appear very paltry compared with
American.
THERE is a WiDnebegosbish lake in
corruption of the usual remsrks Of q
Minnesotian on taking too sudden seat
upon the ice Of that wintry latitude.
PRESIDENT GARFIELp's grave on every
pleasant Sunday is visited by thousands
of quiet people. The sentinels still pace
about the vault, the bronze doors Of
which are thrown back, revealing the
coffin.
IT WAS III the time of Cromwell, We
believe, that an illi'erate soldier con-
trived to spell the word "ussge with
ont single letter properly belonging to
it. He wrote it "yowZitcb," and when
told that the spelling was incorrect de-
clared that nobody conld spell with a
quill pen from an Irish goose.
WHILE man was sitting in the crotch
of tree to saw off limb, at Saginaw,
Mich. the crotch split as the limb fell,
letting him down into the opening and
then closing on him. 1t took an hour
of chopping and prying TO get him ont
OF the trap, and several OF bis ribs were
broken by the squeezing.
An Omaha girl, intent on suicide,
tied one end of long rope to her waist,
and the other to the bridge from which
she dropped into the river. Her idea
was to prevent her body from being lost;
but the rope served the more valuable
purpose Of saving her life, as a man
hauled her up by it.
A FARMER at HicKsyille, n. j., traded
a horse with jockey and gave $50 "to
boot" The man took the farmers horse
aud bad him clipped. The farmer was
not satisfied with the trade, and went to
the jockey and traded again, not know
ing his old horse, and gave sl5 "to
boot" The farmer got his first horse
back aud paid si5 for clipping.
The following composition wss pre-
pared by schoolboy, who knows moth
ing of Wall Street: "The peg is d thing
TO bang other things on, to keep them
from falling. 1t cannot easily be broken
but can be pulled out at any time. II
anything is hanging on the peg when it
is pulled out that thing falls down.
Picayune.
BOB JACKSON was missed from Winni-
peg. having been last seen going awsy
from a bar-rocm drunk. After a week
he was found dead with his feet and au-
kles imbedded in frozen earth aud his
body leaning against a fence. He had
stepped into deep mud and too incapaci-
tated by rum TO extricate himself, had
stood there until cold snap fastened
him.
A HUGE whale harpooned off Province
town recently, was towed into one Of the
Boston docks recently. 1t weighs
q tons, is 62 feet long, and 5S feet in
girth, and its jaws have q spread of 25
feet. The monster is now undergoing
the embalming process, and will prob
ably swing round the circle in the wake
of some travelling show during the sum
mcr.
NEAR Penfeld, Ga, live two ladies,
who, since the war, started to farming
with one old blind horse. Now they
own own a good plantation we'll stocked,
all paid for, and have eighteen or twen-
ty bales Of cotton on hand. They man
aged for themselves, one attending 10
the farm while the other managed the
affairs.
CAPT. STOKES. an old river man, was
killed by the buffalo gnats, last week, on
Hatchie River, near Henning's Station.
He had been fishing q trout line all the
evening, and was so intent upon bis oc-
cupation that he did not pay any atten-
tion to the millions OF gna,s biting him.
That night his face and head was so
badly swollen from the poison that be
died after intense suffering.-BroUns.
rifle Tenn Democrat.
The manufacture OF canes and curiosi-
ties is one of our leading industries OF
Fla, furnishing employ
ment to a greater number of persons than
any other branch Of business in the
city. Almost everything in the shape of
fish, flesh or fowl, animal, mineral or
vegetable, is manufactured into articles
of jewelry for personal use or adoInm,n'.
The trade in alligators is also large.
One concern has sold over 800 alliga-
tors this season and another over 500
within a month.
GeN. c. b. CoMsToCK, corps OF eDgi-
neers, in charge of the lake survey, says
that there have been, SO far as appears
from his records, no appreciable changes
in the mean level of Lake Erie and Lake
Ontario other than those to be expected
from the variations in rainfall and
evaporation in different years and series
of years. He also says that the data of
the lake survey give, in his judgment,
no evidence Of underground discharge of
water fror, either Huron or Erie into
the lakes below them.
THERE is a weekly newspaper in New
York, the Globe, owned and published
entirely by negroes. The sheet WIS
started few years ago by several col
ored meu, who wero practical printers,
working during the week in another
Oiltt, dilu IVA bpniS tAihtS WhAtAnS cI"
setting up their own articles. Such per-
of course, brought success,
and the paper is now prosperous and
st, ably increasing in circulation all over
the country and has considerable ipfiu-
ence.
The most valuable result Of fish cul-
ture is expected from the culture OF the
German carp, the eggs aud fry Of which
have been distributed all over the coun-
try. The carp is so easily raised and
thriyes 10 we'll in ponds where other fsh
would die that it is known in Europe as
the poor mans fsh. Any pond win do
for it, and il does not require animal
food. There are three hundred places
in New York, where carp are now grow.
ing in ponds unfit for other fsh. In
stances are known in which carp intro
duced into the ponds two years ago,
when less than two inches long. nov
measure eighteen inches.