Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-08-17
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In Meridian, Miss, a saloon license
costs 81, 500.
Az egg plant weighing two AMI three
quarters pounds is exhibited at Live
Oak, Fla.
Tue biggest slate quarryin the United
States has just been developed at Little
Rock, Ark.
A FIRE started ON the hearth of a Hart
County, Ca, man forty years ago, has
never been allowed to die out.
A PHILADELPHIA man has invented
shirt with sand-paper back. One rub
against rail fence cures the worst case.
--DetruH Free Press.
Music for the Saratoga hotels will
cost $40, 900 for the season, it is said.
The largest price paid is for the twenty
five musicians directed by Mr.. Lothian.
AN AUSTIN (Tex. man three years ago
planted some seed OF Malaga grapes. A
few days ago he cut bunch Of grapes
from the vines that grew from the seed.
The bunch weighed nearly four pounds.
ANNA DICKINSON, it is sand, made
pat remark when somebody deprecated
her playing the mans part--Of " Ham
let" "Yes," said she; "but there are
not three men in the country vino can
play it; and 1t is time the women tried"
LoUIsIASA's salt mine, which is in
Iberia parish, covers an area Of 40 acres
and is O solid deposit Of remarkable
purity and excellence. The rock is very
solid and is without tissure or seams.
Over l POO sacks Is thepresent daily out
put.
MARsHkL FIELD, of Chicago. Ill. is
the heaviest taxpayer III Spokane
County. BY this years assessment roll
he pays taxes on l3, 7G0 acres, or S42,-
305. The land lies in the south and
eastern part of the county.-Poyt'aEd
OregOnian.
THE whole country in Albany County,
New York, within distance OF fully
mile each side of the West Shore Rail
road, is stripped OF all kinds of weeds,
some of which the lowers order of am
mails will not eat, which the Italian
laborers gather and boil for "grecus."
A YOUNG man named Dan Kileneane,
in Sumter County, Ga, dreamed ? few
nights ago that he was having a good
time swimld:I,S, and he jumped from his
bed headforemost through the window
out into the yard. He was so badly cut
by the broken glass that the physician
pronounced it serious, bnt not fatal.
"JosH BILLINGS Pulpit Is the name
given by the Rutland, Vt, Historical
Society to a curiously rounded knob
of slate rock, some twenty feet
high, at Mason's Point, Lake Bombsee,
and the genial philosopher says he
hopes, some time, to read from it his
lecture on "The Probabilities of Life"
The five-cent sponges sold by ped
dlers are said to be picked up in the
streets of New York after being used in
the hospitals, and then bleaclssd and dis.
infected with chloride Of lime This is
by far the most disgusting and repre-
hensible method of sponging living
out of society that has get come to light.
IT is expected that tho four factories
Of Montgomery, VT, will turn out four
hundred thousand butter tubs the pres
ent season, Of all sizes. A large pro-
portion of ten, twenty, and thirty pound
tubs are called for than usual. The
material for hoops has become exhausted
in that region, and is now brought from
Michigan.
To grow pretty vine from the sweet
sandy loan, in hanging basket, and
water occasionally. 1t will throw out
tendrils and beautiful leaves, and climb
freely over the arms of the basket, and
upward toward the top of the window,
Not one visitor in hundred but will
suppose it to be some rare foreign plant.
EVEN fish are much better when killed
as soon as caught, by striking the back
of the head sharply with stick or stone.
Some of our fishermen now carry little
clubs or batons for that purpose. All
wounded birds and other creatures
should be killed as speedily rs possible,
to prevent injury to the meat. These
facts are well established by scientific
authority.
A WORLD of wisdom is contained III
the following advice to 5athers: Imme-
diately after the first plunge every
bather should take the most vigorous
exercise for about two minutes. Leap
up and down in the water, or run, until
the blood moves through your veins
with increased rapidity, and you will
feel warmth which will repay your ex-
ertion with delicious sense of comfort.
The last congress ranks among the
notably long ones. That of 1876
lasted till August Il; that of iS till
August 10. The longest session was
that of 1S49-5O, which held till Septem-
Der 80. The session OF lS5l-52 lasted
till August 81; that Of 53-d till August
7; that of 1856 till August Is, and
then congress reassembled on the 2lst
of the same month and held until the
3Oth.
A FEW days ago while lady, who re-
sides near Chattanooga, Tenn, but
across the Georgia line, was at work in
her garden, she discovered something
sparkling in the underground, and on
close examination discovered it was an
Euglish sovereign. She continued her
Investigations and soon collected forty,
which were strewn promiscuously In
that locality. They are oil dated be-
tween the years 1920 and 1927. Their
presence there is deep mystery.
ONE of the curious industries of the
country has its principal homes at New
Berne, N. @. This is the manufacture
of wooden platters, plates and trays.
The timber used for this purpose is sup
piled by the peighboring swamps. A
huge log is rounded by circular plane
and then put into machine, which,
with great accuracy and swiftness, cuts
of thin strips of the wood. When these
strips have been cut into square pieces
and thoroughly dried they are made
pliable by steam. In that condition they
are nodded IN the shapes desired.