The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-03
Things i'm General.

tefnhef the Petersburg (Na) street cars
carried 3O,3l5 passengers, or some 5000
more persons than the estimated popu-
lation OF the city.
The milk cure is one OF the institutions
Of Baden. People are supplied with
fresh foaming milk at any hour Of the
dav bv 4 man who has quiet little
establishment, with Il sunny garden and
tables ut the front. and at tho back stalls
stocked with goats aud COWS.
Two mock weddings took place in Ii
ger lille, La, last week, and to give in.
creased solcmnity tn the proceedings,
q noted Methodi.t divine. who was pres
ent was induced TO otliriate. Sequel:
One of the young ladies' mother holds
the opinion that it was a legal marriage.
and threatens the young man with a
suit un ess he comes to time.
Blessed are the peacemakers. There
is justice of the peace in Banks county,
Georgia, who has held his office for
eight years. and has never tried n case,
always getting the litigants TO compro-
mise. He is not in 'avor with the lccal
lawyers, some Of whom claim that he is
too sentimental for his position.
The receipts of the New York and
Brooklyn bridge for the nineteen weeks
it has been open to the public have
been: From foot passengers, S3i .46i;
from vehicles, S3i ,563; from cars, s. 1856.
Total $40 1853. The expenses have been
:5l Ais. The total number of pede-tri-
ans crossed Ia ,S65, 800 from New York
and ,5l9,GOO from Brooklyn. Total, 81
$50 400.
An attempt is being made at Sails.
bury, England. to revive an old ecclesi-
astcal tax originally levied in the twelfth
century by Bishop Poor, by which every
occupant Of land had to pay one penny
a perch. It continued To be collected
to The beginning of the century by the
Bishops officials, when 1t lapsed TO the
Ecclelas,ical commissioners. Fourteen
years ago it ceased 10 he collected but
now the Commissioners have notified
the six chief tradesman that unless the
money is paid they VIII take proceedings.
The Helena Independent tells of
guch between Helena and Virginia
City, New, whose waters cover all pol
ished iron and steel with coating oi
pure metallic copper, as bri mt as the
FURNISHED metal. Pick and shovel Is
used there soon become copper plated.
One dav n '67 horse was permitted TO
stand in the moist sand some fifteen
minutes, aud when led out his shoes
had bright copper coating. The sands
in this gulch are full OF beautiful crystals
metalio copper. Sometimes We found
masses of crystalized copper wei hing
three and tour ounces.
A lawyer of Coboes, being before q
court IN hIngsIOu, ~. :, ti!e UtHer uay,
was privately asked what kind Of place
Cohoes Was, when he returned the fol-
lowing answer. 81 will explain it by
telling you little story. One time q
Cohoes woman was in Kingston, and
she went TO an exhibition which was a
panorama show. One of the pictures
shown was intended to represent chaos.
and the word 'cha0s" was written be-
low the picture. The Cohpes woman
was little near-sightcd, and seeing the
word chaos, took look at the picture,
and then remarked 10 her companion.
why. it's Coboes, and 1t looss just like
it, too
General A. w. Doniphan, who is now
visiting the Idaho Springs. and is 10
years Of age, during the Mexican war
made one OF the longest marches on re.
cord. At the beginning OF the war, in
1916, he stepped from large practice
into the ranks, whence he was at once
elected to the colonelcy of the First Mis-
eouri Regiment Of mounted volunteers.
Starting from Fort Leavenworth, the
corps marched to Mexico, then ar und
Chihuahua and Del Norte, conquering
New Mexico and other states, participate
ing in the battles of Drastic and Chibna-
hua, losing but one man in both but cap
turing go and killing the same number
OF the enemy. The hardy band Of less
than thousand mGn, without cents
pay till their return, made circuit
OF 5000 miles in thirteen months, ten OIL
which they were constantly IN the sad
Gle.
The death of Henry Farnam at New
Haven last week recalls the early rail-
road and canal building triumphs of the
country, in many of which he was
prime mover. He began active life at
lS, as 'rodman" on the Erie canal under
the then well-knoAn surveyor David
Thomas, coon rose TO be an assistant en-
gineer, and worked on the surveys for
several years. He was well grounded
| in the principles Of surveying. Although
poor and born on farm ut Sciplo, Cay
uga county, n. ", he showed n strong
| taste Cor mathemat .cs and alter leaving
the district school he fell under the
care OF Il town surveyor who taught nm
| the elements # geometry, algebra, trig-
| pnometry and surveying. He worked
4 q L, i'm, Ina
school winters A"ont 1924 a" became
assistant and afterward engineer IN
charge of the New Haven and New.
hampton canal, for which the railroad
was afterward substituted. Here he
became associated with Jo-
serh f. Sheffield. founder of
the Sheffield scientific department of
Yale college, and the business connec.
ton lasted many years. They built the
New Haven and Northampton road and
Farnam became its first superintendent.
Next they built the road from Chicago
to Rock island, and spurred on the
Michigan Central to connect Chicago
with Lake Erie Mr.. Farnam invented
the modern railway excursion, taking
1000 invited guests over the completed
Rock Island road from Chicago to the
Mississippi in June. 1854, ana 400 miles
up the river by boat. His railroad lines
finally reached the Missouri. Mr.. Far.
nam settled in New Haven in 1869 and
britt q fine house there on Hillliouse
avenue. He had already given S3OtnO
10 Yale college and had then added $30.-
go more, and Farnam dormitory was
bniit in 1870. His private and public
gifts have been large and made without
display. His last act before being s,rick-
en with paralysis was 10 procure drafts
for friends who he thought needed help.
lie married in 1889 Anna 5. Whitman OF
Farmington, CT, and leaves five chi.cren,
DR.. George b. Farnam, Charles II. Far
nam. William w. Farnam, Prof. Henry
w. Farnan ann Ars I'll Whitney. Jr.
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