Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-04-20
NUMBER 4.
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j. II. ToOMER, OF Athens, Ca, has q
sword-buckle that was found on the
Eutaw battlefield. 1t has the print of a
,, palmetto tree, with the date of 1776.
A DENVER woman suggests that tags
! should be sewed on the clothes of little
children, 80 that they may easily be iden-
tilted If lost.
JOHN Owens, of johnson County,
Ind, killed hog few days ago, which
weighed 900 pounds gross. This hog
measured nine feet long and six feet
around the body.
A PASTURE in Texas is described as
containing 16, 600 acres, and requiring to
enclose it sixteen miles of fence, which
is all built Of rock four and half feet
thick.
THERE is in Texarkana peach tree on
which the majority of the fruit grows in
pairs, triplets, and quartets. The tree
is small and prolific, and the develop
ment Of single peaches is the exception,
not the rule.
In the stomach of small shark lately
caught in Lake Merritt, Oakland, Cal.
were found two packets OF letters, the
hand writing of which was i'll, gible, an
empty sherry bottle and stout paper
box.
Or Feb. 8, the first eel caught in Cali
forDia was caught ON the eastern shore
of San Francisco Bay. II mclsured 3
feet in length, and was tire fret result Of
the "plant of the Califorui Fish Com
missioners.
CAPT. j. W. WORKMAN, OF Evansville,
Ind, has been able to secure after
long search, the marriage records Of Alb
raham Lincoln's father aud mother, and
all doubts raised by Ward Lemon and
other biographers are finally set at rest.
WASHINGTON is often credited with in
Producing republican simplicity mt the
"court Of the capital, but he was
never simple enough to shake hands
with every man Of the or owd that filled
his receptions. He simply stood on
platform and bowed 10 people who
bowed to him.
A LADY in New York was made sick
by lemonade. On investigation it was
found that many lemon-squeezers are
zinc plated, and the acid of the lemon
produced citrate of zinc, which is poison
ous. Wooden or china-squeezers aresafe.
The Prince Of Wales has an American
correspondent in the person of a man
! living in Prescott, Arizona. The man,
who is now in poor circumstances, was a
playmate of the prince when both were
boys.
| DURING a storm a few weeks ago, at
/ Hampstead. Tex the lightning struck
negro cabin in which several darkies were
| sitting up with a corpse. The atten.
dants ran out aud when they returned
the coffin-lid was off, and there was a
hole in the face Of the corpse as if made
by the lightning.
! A MULBERRY tree at Grifin, Ga, acted
| in very curious manner tine other day,
emitting what seemed to be puifs If
| smoke at short intervals from all por-
| tons of the tree. rhe smoke, or what
| it vas, was light and thick like cigar
/ smoke, aud scarcely visible to the casual
| observer. 1t was aphenomenon that no.
| body could account for.
| A NEWSPAPER carrier iu Portland, Me-,
/ has a useful deg. The carriers route
contains many residences with high
! flights of stairs, and the dog takes the
| papers from his master, carries them up
/ the steps, pushes upon the storm door
with his nose, deposits the papers, and
comes bounding down, waggiDg bis tail
and barking for more.
Rev. DIR. MAGoUN, of Philadelphia,
told his New York brethren the other
day that he started in life as bricklayer
and that when he laid down the trowel
aud took up the clerical pen, he secured
the first brick he had ever laid, converted
it into an inkstand, and had used it ever
since. An example of how sometimes
! .rroat yn,nla p,anpifv EttlA tb;puS IN
| cdgO Journal.
As a pistol-producing town, Norwich,
Conn, leads all places of its size in this
country. There are five manufactures
of weapons there. One turns out ii 900
pistols a month. Their combined pro.
duction must be over 1000 pistols daily
ON the average. Yet these establishments
cannot keep up with orders. The pistol
makers themselves wonder what becomes
of all these instruments of death.
AMONG Longfellow's classmates at
Bo wdoin, in 1926 were John c. Abbott,
the popular historian; Jonathan Cilley,
! the Maine congressman, who fell in a
duel with Representative VIM. J.
! Graves, Of the Louisville district; J. W.
Bradley, the eminent lawyer and politi-
clan; George B. Cheever, the anti-slavery
advocate; Nathaniel Hawthorne, and
athers who achieved eminence.
The Mississippi is sullenly receding
from its recently acquired territory, and
the plough is following closely the re-
tired waters; and although there is still
and will continue to be for some time,
great need OF help over large territory,
one, Marx Tapley, writes TO q St. Louis
paper q letter, in which he claims that
the lessons and the alluvia left y the
food, will, il properly utilized, more
than coupterbalance the losses by the
overflow.
Zoos are an article Of cheap and nutri-
tious food which We do not find on the
farmers table in the quantity which
economy demands. 1t is probably be-
cause they do not understand how valua-
BILE eggs are for food. One pound Of
fresh eggs is worth as much for food as
nearly two pounds of beef. They are
easily digested il not damaged in cook
Ipg, and may be eaten with impunity by
children or invalids.y
Mrs. MARGARET LYNCH, the widow of
Millionaire Lynch, Of San Francisco,
ordered an $4,000 monument for the
grave of her husband. The contract,
which was made In April, 1878, pro-
vided that the monument should be
completed within four months, or that If
the contractor failed to finish it by that
time he should forfeit $40 for each day.
The tomb was not completed till August,
1881, and the San Francisco court has
Just decreed that the contractor is en-
titled TO Sl1, 800 only.
An aged lady who had buried three
husbands during her lifetime finally died
at South Granville, and her last request
was that her mortal remains might re-
pose beside those Of her first husband.
An investigation showed that No. !, who
had been twice married, was peacefully
resting between his two wives, whereup-
on resort was had TO No. 2. Singularly
enough, his dust was found TO occupy q
precisely similar position. Only one
chance now remained, and it was with
some uueaainess that the mourners