Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-11-23
WINNoWiNGs.

In Massachusetts, smoking at the polls
is prohibited by law.
A CMNAMAN at Tucson, Arizona, is
proprietor of six restaurants.
MaRYvrLLE. Tenn. has factory where
buttons are made Of mussel shells.
A CITIZEN Of Enfauld, Ala. has brass
mounted English musket over 200 years
old.
A WOMAN OF Blount Springs, Ala, has
given birth to triplets three times in
four years.
A PHILADELPHIA butcher says he sells
almost all his tainted and poor beef to q
beef-tea manufacturer.
A New YORK merchant who failed in
1857 has Just paid, with interest, the last
dollar OF his Indebtedness.
A MICHIGAN woman has a corn on her
nose. There is a movement OF foot to
remove the interesting feature.
IT is estimated that the Cornell Uni.
versity students destroyed nearly S700
worth Of property Halloween night.
A YOUNG lady of Oswego, N. Y, suc-
ceeded in making 700 words with the
letters contained in the word " "conserva-
tory"
THEY had snow three feet deep in the
Rocky Mountains as early as October
Is, and it has been showing almost every
day since.
AN old lady residing at Oakland, Ore
gon, is niece of John Quincy Adams.
She was once wealthy but is now in des-
titute circumstances.
AWARDS of contracts for carrying
mails on what are known as the Star
routes will be made in January. They
amount to about 10000
A MAS at Clarkyille, Ark, was struck
by lightning, which ran up his arm and
down his body, splitting his boots open.
He was not seriously injured.
A LANCET correspondent states that
when he wants to sneeze and cannot do
30, he goes into the sunlight and finds
its effect equal to that of snuff.
TWENTY years ago Jay Gould was
working as line man in the service of
surveyors for Sl0a month. His income
now IL about $3.50, 900 month.
A GRAssHoPPER can be frozen solid in
the fall and laid away, and along about
the first of May he will yawn, turn over
and hop away as if nothing had hap
pened in his routine.
BERRIES COUNTY, Ga, has produced
new kind OF sore eyes, called "yellow-
eyes" The eyes become sore and the
pupils turu yellow, remaining that
color until well again.
TIE provincial immigration ageut
states that 81, 800, 900 was brought into
Manitoba by Europeans ouly. He esti-
mates that Americans brought g., S00,-
900, aud Canadians s., 100000.
PAwTUcKEr, r. l., with q population
of 10000, is the largest town under
town government in the United States,
and its citizens by majority of SO have
refused to accept city charter.
70 abolish sword practice from the
army would destroy one of the best meth
DDS of athletic training. FeuciDg is good
discipline for soldiers and excellent re-
creation for all persons of sedentary
habits.
DAvY MILLS, a young colored tiend Of
Dauvilie, Va, held small negro boy
over the steam escape-valve of an
engine until be was fearfully scalded, for
the purpose of getting a silver dollar
| from him.
The yield OF sugar in Louisiana this
year is estimated at 200, 900 hogsheads,
the average being 1000 pounds to the
acre. But for the terrible overflow
early in the season the crop would have
yielded $50, 900 hogsheads.
The Santa Barbara (Cal. Gun Club
has a pleasant way of blending business
and pleasure. About week ago it was
ordered out by its president to hunt
ferocious mountain lion that had been
depredating in that neighborhood. The
lion was captured.
The name of the rum which is rapidly
depopulatipg the Indian villages OF
Alaska is hoochenoo." 1t is distilled
from molasses, and even the sailors of
the United States steamer Adams, who
have been engaged in destroying the
stills, haven't the courage to tackle it.
A NEW way of making boys toe the
mark comes to light in the Maine reform
school investigation. 4 boy testities
that whenever he used "swesr word
the officers put red pepper in his mouth.
Supt. Harrington says that he adopted
that kind of punishment on account OF
its novelty.
The steamer Emma G. Elliott, while
nearing st. Louis recently, came upon
an immense flock of wild ducks. The
electric light was turned on, when the
birds dashed against il with such force
that several hundred of them were cap
tured, and in the morning thirty-six
were found concealed in the cabin.
A RESIDENT of Ansouia, Conn.,, put his
| e.. Il. - -, 4
He was six feet and four inches in height,
and no coffin in town would accommo-
date his remains. Bridgeport could do
no better than Ansonia and the longest
coffin in stock in New York was six feet
and tour inches. A casket had to be
made to order.
NORTHERN taste in the matter of po-
tatoes has become so vitiated that the
sugary Georgia yam, most delicious OF
tubers, is rejected in favor of the punky
product of New Jersey. Such is the
lamentation of the Atlanta Constitution,
which urges Georgia farmers to send
small lots OF yams to families in the
north as samples.
On DIR. Glenn's ranch, in Colusa
County, in the same field are to be seen
at the same time one set of men thresh-
ing out this years crop, another set
seeding for next year and q third set
summer-fallowiag for the second years
crop, while in another part Of the field
fiue volunteer crop is coming well for
ward.-Aita California.
WILD geese and ducks are unusually
numerous in California for this season,
and the fields have TO he guarded by
men. At Coos Bay, Oregon, ducks are
killed and captured IN nearly every con.
ceivsble manner by men, women and
children. One man has home made
gatling gun on the bow Of skiff, with
which he mows them down in swaths.
THERE is no Law in Connecticut to
prevent man wearing all the titles he
can get, and q political card is published
\ there signed by &C. H. Cooley, grand
dictator Of the Knights of Honor, dis