Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-11-02
WINNoWINGs,

MucH Of the gossamer rubber cloth
ing in market is made by convict labor.
A SACRAMENTO grower has refused
$685. 900 for sixty tons of hops.
BARNUM's circus has closed its season
and returned home, and it is said that
| the profits are over 5000, 900.
A COMPANY has been organized in Sy-
racuse, with capital Of $40. 900, for the
manufacture of alcohol from wood.
PEOPLE about to bull house cost
ing 81, SOC, ,OOO may care to learn that
the material will bring $52, 900 when the
house is torn down.
The loss Of weight in gold coin was
shown the other day at st. Louis, when
lot to the face value of $500, 900 was
weighed and found to be $500 short in
weight value.
A CITIZEN near Vienna, Ga, owns a
mule that Mr.. Joe Heard rode ont of the
confederate service in 1865. The mule
cost Mr.. Heard one quart of peach
brandy. The animal is lively and active
and looks well.
A PISTOL manufacturer Of Springfield,
Mass, has daily income OF S2, 600 from
| his business and investments, and,
though he began life a poor man, ex-
poets to leave each of his four children
a millionaire.
JAMES HENSON, a drunken carpenter
at Chattanooga, Tenn, attempted, with
the assistance of friend, Jim Tracy, to
saw his wife's head off with a hand-saw.
The woman was dangerously wounded
before her screams brought assistance.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR's visit to Boston
recalls the visit of President Tyler nearly
forty years ago, when, by exposure at
the various open-air festivities, so many
took cold that it was called the epidemic
Of the "Tyler grip"
"Do you subscribe to all the articles
of the Athanasian creed ?" was asked an
old lady. "No, don't! / can't afford
it. There's collection next week for
the Convention Fund, and l can't do any
more, was her reply.
LORD CHELMSFORD was walking down
st. James Street, when a stranger ac-
costed him. saying, "Mr. Birch, I
believe? p "If you believe that, sir,
you'll believe anything" the ex-chan-
cellor replied as he passed on. London
Society.
A MAN living at Simmons Gap, Va,
is living with his ninth wife. The
patriarch is eighty years old, has fifty
three children, and at recent reunion
over 800 of his descendants were present.
| 1t is claimed that he does not know all
Of his children, and makes no effort to
keep up with his grandchildren.
BEANS raised this season near Roches-
ter, N. Y, are affected by what is
known in New England as the bean
disease. The crop was gathered, stored
away in bags, and gave evidence after
ward of having heated" On examina-
tion, however, this apparent condition
was traceable to original heat, and the
beans were found to be alive with
yermin.
A BUNDLE of ancient Virginia records
captured by soldier while "looting"
during the war, was among articles on
exhibition at the recent industrial expo
Gition at Denver, Col. The papers were
court records of the county of War
wick, Va, for the year 1862, and the pa
pers, though written two hundred and
twenty years ago, were as legible as
though they were written yesterday.
In piece of woods near Charlton,
Saratoga County, N. Y, there has been
discovered hidden place where It Is be-
lieved robbers have been secreted. A
large barn door had been erected and
covered with brush so as to make a snug
refuge during inclemept weather. 1t Ii
believed that the masked burglars who
took 500, 900 from Supervisor Gilchrist
occupied this den.
A LITTLE girl at Auburn, n. Y, had
swallowed a needle. and surgeon, being
called, first placed cork between the
child's jaws to keep the mouth open
while probing for the obstruction, but
the little one bit his fingers, and he was
obliged to take spool. Then the for
ceps were used with success. The needle
lay directly across the throat. Its re-
moval gave instant relief, and the little
sufferer is doing nicely.
The bell-punches on the Metropolitan
Railroad, in Boston, will soon be re-
placed by an alarm passenger register,
which has been in operation In some
other cities for little time past.
Dials, the hands on which are moved by
rods running through the car, show re-
spectively the number of passengers
| CtuIitu ioE INC uay a1iNt W. WV NAhASSN
trip.
A DISPATCH from Poughkeepsie, n.
Y, says that "a steam canalboat push
ing another canalboat came in collision
with the ironclad Nantucket off West
Point. The canalboat sunk with l, 400
bushels of grain" Let the effete mon
archies Of Europe shudder when they
read this and reflect that there are more
than eight ironclads in our navy.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
GENERAL TERRY is convinced from his
success in working the northern Chey-
enne Indians on their farms until they
are self-supporting, that this is the cor
rect way OF disposing of the Indian ques-
ton. On these farms the men are man
ly, the women chaste, and all are
anxious that the children shall be edu-
Gated like the whites. He insists that
cows will do more than soldiers in civil
izing the red men.
The shrewd farmer wanted to keep
people IRON fishing in his trout pond,
but he didn't care to go to the expense
of hiring man to watch 1t. So he gave
one man the sole right to fish there, and
the latter was so jealous of his privilege,
the desire to be hog came out so strong
in him that he'd run his legs of to chase
an intruder away, and was kept so busy
doing so that he didn't catch enough fish
himself to amount to O tinker's maledic-
ton.
From Dallas, Tex, comes sad story.
John Green, q handsome, dashing fel'
low, wooed and won Laura Cameron, a
beautiful young girl, and the wedding
was booked for the first part OF the
month. A day or two ago Green was ar
rested in Collins County for horse steal
ing, and turned out to be an old offender.
The terrible blow dethroned the reason
of his afianced, and she was taken TO the
asylum by her father. The troubles Of
. the daughter 90 afflicted Mr.. Cameron
that he also became insane, and now oc-
cupies quarters in the same asylum with
! his afflicted child,