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Suggestions of Value.
Never let tea boil.

Never let tea boil.
For rough hands use lemon juice.
Strong lye cleans tainted pork barrels.
Tepid milk and water clean oilcloth with.
out soap.
Have as much fruits always on hand q.
you can afford.
Turpentine applied to a cut is preventive
of lockjaw.
A hot shovel held over furniture remove:
white spots.
Smoke dried mullen leaves in new clay
pipe for bronchitis.
Sprinkle sassafras bark among dried frui,
to keep out worms.
Popcorn is a good lunch for Sunday night:
with milk for drink.
A handful of hay in pailful of water neu
tralizes smell of paint.
To make carpet look fresh, wipe with q
damp cloth after sweeping
Clean tea or coffee cups with securing
brick; makes them look good as new.
Remove ink stains on silk, wooden or cot.
ton by saturating with spirits of turpentine.
Cover plants with newspapers before
sweeping. Also put little ammonia upon
them once week.
Remove flower-pot stain from window .sills
by rubbing with fine wood ashes and rinse
with clean water.
paste of equal parts of sifted ashes, clay
and salt and little water cements cracks In
stoves and ovens.
Mixture of two parts Of glycerine, one part
ammonia and Q little rose water whitens and
softens the hands.
Washing pine floors In solution of one
pound Of copperas dissolved In one gallon
strong lye gives oak color.
To cure hoarseness bake lemon or sour
orange for twenty minutes In q moderate
oven, open at one end, dig out and eat sweet
ened.
Cabbage Is made digestible by first slicing
and then putting In boiling water with q
pinch of soda and some salt, and boiling just
fifteen minutes.
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WHY WE LAUGH.

General Crook, the Indian fighter, is said
to be teetotaler. The crook has not got
into his elbow.
The use of French word in English COM
position frequently fills the place of an idea.
" o. Picayms.
A country exchange heads local notice:
"lmportant To Brewers 10 Tanglefoct has
sworn of."-Terds Sitings.
A Texas murderer recently received reg.
ular William NJ. Evarts sentence-ninety-
| nine years.-1eras Siftiags.
Profanity may not be a characteristic OF
the royat family, but some breezy day you
ought to 60 out into the kitchen and hear
the queensware.-B burlington Hapkeye.
VIM. Winter says Ellen Terry "is essen.
TALLY spontaneous" and Miss Terry isn't
sure whether she ought TO send him a phil
opena or sue him for el.-Philadelphid
Press.
When is door not door? When it is a
jar. Oh, no; that answer belongs to the first
| decade Of the last century. Nowadays q
door is not door when it is a negress- an
egress.-The Judge.
"There is one thing to be said in favor of
John Bright" says an exchange. ale Is not
coming to make money" There Is another
thing to be said in his favor-he is not COM
ing at all.-Ctncinnati Enquirer.
"Sam'l J. Tilden, of New York City, has
a new $4,000 dining room and an old ten
| cent appetite" P.S,-This brief note was
sent in by reporter on a daily paper, who
has ten-cent dining room and a $4,000
appetite.-Merchant Trdreler.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
warns nice young ladies to cease thinking of
marrying military men, for at the frontier
posts Turkish rugs and grand pianos are un.
known, but to insure luxury, comfort and
happiness by marrying editors and remain
ing at home.
"fou are getting to be q regular TOPEKA
perfect sot, sir" said an irate business man
OF Austin to one of his clerks "don't you
suppose that can see that you have been
drinking again ?" "of course suppose So"
answered the employe. "You always see
when am drinking, but the deuce Of it is
you never see when am dry ."-Teras Sift.
ings.
A lady at hotel, whose unruly children
annoy everybody In the house, the other day
said TO noted teacher, sitting near her at
the table, "Professor, do you believe in the
use of the rod in the management of chill
Gren?" The Professor glared at her annoy
ing children and grimly replied, "Sometimes
madam, but there are cases when should
prefer revolver"
"Wife," said an up town man to his spouse
recently, show many house. plants shall you
try to carry through the winter ?" "Only this
geranum, this rosebud, and this Jerusalem
cherry.tree-thrce in ALL" The husband
made an entry in his note book, when she
inquired, "But why do you ask ?" ain order
to know how much extra coal to order for
the winter supply" was the cruel answer.
"Judging from your Ill luck last winter |
think had better lay in about an extra ton
apiece for each plant"
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BAGGING THE poRPoisEs.
The Clamsy But shrewd Fish Outwitted at
Last.
Pennsylvania Record.

~NN~NN'
Although there are millions and millions
Of porpoises along the Atlantic coast, the
first scientific catch Of this shrewd, although
clumsy fish, was made at Cape May on las,
Thursday, aud one of them Is now on exhi-
bition In this city. Heretofore all efforts
to devise scheme by which porpoises could
be captured, aG reasonable expense, have
failed, but the enormous net which Mr..
Cook, Of Cape May, has mounted, and In
which the two captives were taken at Cape
May on Thursday, Is said to meet all the
demands Of the vexed problem. The big
net is In three parts, and weighs 5000 lbs.
The great fish are surrounded by two enor-
nous wings ofthe net, each / 900 feet long and
"a feet deep, leading into great bag 120 feet
long, 90 feet wide and 124 feet deep, which
will hold six car loads of porpoises. The
manner of fishing with this net is TO take the
bag out to place near school of porpolses
and place It's mouth toward the tide. The
two wings are then fastened, one TO each
side Of the mouth Of the bag, and are, by
5000 feet in circumference, and the ends are
closed up. The porpoises thus enclosed
will not jump over the net, nor will they 10
"a feet to get below IL. When school of
the big fish are thus surrounded, . steam
boat will be placed ut the ends OF the wings,
and, by pulling away from the anchored bag
net, wi.i gradually force the fish, which al
ways swim with the tide, into the big bag,
and when that Is filled Its mouth Is filed up
with strong ropes, so fitted that this Is an
easy matter, and the game Is caught. In
this great net there are $50 pounds of lead
for sinkers, 1900 cedar floats, and II 500 lbs.
Of small tarred rope, woven into meshes 8
inches square.
The blubber Of the porpoises can be made
into an oil much more valuable than whale
oil, and 1t is for this industry that the net
has been invented and win be utilized.
An ordinary porpoise will weigh 600 lbs,
and contains blubber enough to make about
10 pounds Of oil, worth sl.30 q pound.
There is also valuable oil, especially priced
by watchmakers, which can be extracted
from the jaws Of porpoises, and which the
company that has bought the patent Of the
new net expects to be able TO manufacture.
II Is credibly reported that recently gen.
tleman succeeded In getting out two quarts
ofthis oil on Long Island. He died suddenly,
and At sale OF bis effects the Waltham Co.
paid $500 for one OF the quarts, and the
other was sent 10 Europe. The owners of
The net say they have demonstrated that
they can take porpoises 10 their big bag by
capturing the pair on Thursday, and that,
they will scon make & big catch.
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Novel Use of Greenbaoks.
Hartford Globe,


"What becomes of all the greenbacks and
bank-notes after they have served their few
years of usefulnessP" is a frequent query. A
bank-note has its life just the same as all
other things useful. What an interesting
story the travels Of greenback from The mo-
ment it leaves the press until it returns to
the macerating machine would make! The
average life of bank.note is about three
years, perhaps little longer. After serving
Its purpose as currency it lie metamorphosed
into rabbits, birds and other figures. The
process of the destruction of the notes Is an
interesting one.
The readers will often see in the daily pa
pers paragraph something like this : "Na
tional bank notes received for redemption
to-day, $500, 1000" The next day those notes
are carried to the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, and placed In machine containing
immense knives, which chop the notes into
fragments. This operation Is conducted un-
der the supervision of three officers of the
Treasury Department, especially detailed
for this business. No one is allowed to be
present at this daily maceration of the notes
except the officials and the men who run the
machine. They are compelled to remain in
the room until each separate note is destroy
ed. They must account in detail afterwards
to the Redemption Bureau for each note !;
and should one become lost or mislaid, and
Afterwards find Its way into circulation, the
result would be the imm ediate discharge of
the three gentlemen who daily have in their
custody from $50O,OOO to 100000 or
$3,000,O00 of notes and bonds. The shreds
are reduced to pulp, and then by patented
process this mass Is nodded into figures of
birds and animals, and sold as mementoes to
visitors. Oftentimes it will happen that one
little object will be composed of what once
was 500, 100000 worth of money.
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Stonewall's Bridge Builder.

A useful man to Stonewall Jackson was
old Miles, the Virginia bridge-builder. The
bridges were swept away so often by floods,
or burned by the enemy, that Miles was IS
necessary to the Confederate army rs Jack
son himself. One day the Union troops had
retreated, and burned bridge across the
Shenandoah. jackson, determined to follow
them, summoned Miles. "You must put all
your men on that BRIDGE" said he; s'they
must work all night, and the bridge must be
completed BY daylight. My engineer ahall
farnish you with the plan. and you can 60
right ahead.n Early next morning, Jackson,
In very doubtful frame Of mind, met the
old bridge builder. SWELL" said the Gen.
eral, "did the engineer give you the plan for
the BRIDGE" General" returned Miles,
slowly, .'the bridge Is done. i don't know
whether the picter Ii or not"
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POETRY.
THE MILKMAiD.

Austin DoJson in Harper's for December.
Across the grass see her pass;
She comes with tripping pace
A maid / know-and March winds blow
Her hair across her face;
With hey, Dolly! ho, Dolly!
Dolly shall be mine,
Before the spray is white with May,
Or blooms the eglantine.
The March winds blow. i watch her go;
Her eye is brown and clear;
Her cheek Ii brown, and soft as down
TO those who see IL near!)-
With hey, etc.
What has she not that they have GOT
The danes that walk in silk!
If she undo her 'kerchief blue,
Her neck Is white az milk.
With hey, etc.
Let those who will be proud and chill!
For me, from June to June,
MY Delly's words are sweet as curds-
Her laugh is like tune.
With hey, etc.
Break, break to hear, o crocus-spear.
o tall Lent-liles, flannel
There'll be n bride at Easter-tide,
And Dolly Is her name.
With a hey, Dolly no, Dolly!
Dolly shall be mine
Before the spray is white with May,
Or blooms the eglantine.
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Spots on the Sun.

The sun has been, during the past sum-
mer, In q state Of great excitement as to sun.
spots, and the surface still shows q consider
able number. About August there were
several instances of remarkable eruptiops of
prominence In connection with spots on the
edge Of the suns disk. Thollon, in France,
observed one In which the 1474 line, which
characterizes the spectrum Of the corona,
was bent and distorted In such . way as to
show that the coronal matter Itself was i'm
plicated In the Disturbances most unusual
thing. Generally this line remains bright,
smooth and keen rs rapier, even when all
the other lines in the eneighborhood-lin of
iron, magnesium calcium, hydrogen and
what not-are bent and knotted. In an
other eruption, observed by Prof. Young, .
prominence was thrown up to an elevation
Of 10000 In little less than ten minutes.
At the base Of this prominence an immense
number Of bright lines, never before OBJ
served, made their appearance. One Of
them was above the line known as n. al the
very limit Of the visible spectrum.
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ROBIN HOOD.
The Iconociast Says He Is IA Myth. Common
to Many Nations.

Like other heroes, great and small, 1t ap-
pears that Robin Hood is in considerable
danger. Not long ago somebody suggested
that he is no more than "the last survival of
some degraded deity" and now Mr.. Isaac
TAYLOR writes to a literary contemporary to
point out that he is perhaps only the resnlt
Of that sun.myth which IS SO constantly
turning up under unexpected forms. vii.
liam Tell, we know, bas been long ago con-
signed TO this sort of Immortality, and Mr..
Taylor brings together many circumstances
which go far TO establish the theory of the
solar explanation of Robin Hood. The
Nottnghampshire of hero is the Hodr Of
Northern mythology (the Hotherus of Saxo
Grammaticus gets very close to the name(,
"the good archer, the last reflection of the
Sun God" as Prof. Max Muller says, by
whatsoever name called. Like other solar
heroes he has his faint reflection in Little
John, who stands as Patroclus to Achilles,
or Gunner to Siguard in other forms Of the
legend and Maid Marion becomes no less q
parsonage than the wn.maiden whom the
mythologists have found to their satisfaction
in Brynhild, and perhaps also in Briesis and
Guinevere. If so, however, 1t is worth
noticing that in our midland legend the
charms of the dawn-maiden do not seem to
have worked any such dire effect as they do
In some of the other versions. It might,
perhaps be added that the guarded gold of
the Nibelung story which is stolen by the
solar heroes, is to be found in the treasure
of the "proude sheryfe of Nottingham"
which Robin Hood and his merry men ''con-
vey." Lastly, Mr.. Isaac Taylor observes
and this is really significsnt-that the Robin
Hood ballads and legends are localized pre-
cisely in those parts Of England in which
the Scandinavian element was known to be
the strongest.
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In removing the foundation of an old
bridge built by Charlemagne, German engi-
neers have found the piles 80 we'll preserved,
although nearly 1,l00 years old, that the
wood can still be used In building. The
lron riveted tc the posts 10 practically unim-
paired.
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As sn invigorEnt.
Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters has received
the most positive en-
corsement from en-
inent tphysicians,a and
has long occupied a
fors most rank among
standard proprieta-
ry remedies. 1t s
properties as an al
terative Of disorder
ed conditions of the
stomach, liver and
bowels, and a pre-
ventive Of malarial
diseases are no less
renowned, and have
been accorded en-
phatic professional
Recommendation.
For sale by al ]
Druggists and Deal
ers generally.
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RATES or ADVERTISING.

Regular advertising payable quarterly. a. due.
Special Notices are 80 per cent s0re than reg
uRr advertisements
i0cnl advertising ID cents or the first inscrtion;
- cents per line for each succeeding inFertion:
hncs coWn'ed Ia Nonpariel measure.
lob Work payable on delivery.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-11-03
G. J. MILLETT, SR.

EsTRAyED.-From see p, ll5-1S,
on Wednesday evening, Oct. 2l, 1883,
II sorrel Texas horse, weighing about
$50, with spcckled tick-hites, branded
" II. 5. on left shoulder and hip, has
small saddle mark on right side and
back, new shoes all round Had on
web halter and was going north west
when last seen \ reasonable reward
will be paid for his return to Clifton or
Blunt. s. NORRIS.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-11-03
PUTNAM oUTDoNE!

As G. II. Howard, Amos Littell and
j. d. Howard and son were leaving
Clifton for Blunt, Tuesday morning, a
large gray wolf was sighted. lmine-
diate pursuit was made, the team being
put to their topmost speed. For some
five miles the wolf led the race, when
it became evident that he was getting
tired and the horses began to gain.
All the weapon the party possessed
was q 32 Remington revolver and six
loads. These were fired in rapid sue
cession and resulted in wounding his
wolfship in the shoulder, the horses
and animal both making their best
time, which proves c. II. Howard's 8
good craftsmanship, The wolf was
not severely wounded but began to
show greater signs of fatigue and tried
TO double on his pursuers, but this
they who'd not allow and he was COM
PEELED to continue on At this juno
ture j. ID. Howard proposed that they
drive him home, which was undertaken
and successfully accomplished. When
within sight Of j. ID. Howard's resi-
dence in 1877, the wolf tried to crawl
in badger hole but was so large that
he could only get his head in, where
upon Amos Littell jumped from the
wagon upon him, but he escaped and
the pursuit continued for about a mile,
when the wolf became SO tired he could
scarcely walk. Mr.. Littell jumped out
and gave chase on foot After run
ming about 20 rods the wolf turned up
on him for fight, but was met by a
well aimed kick which sent him to the
ground Again flight was made and
pursuit given, and once more the wolf
gave fight and was kicked over, and
this time with better success for be-
fore he could rise foot was on his
neck, in which position he was held
until c. ii. Howard tied his legs. He
was ther lifted into the wagon and
taken to Mr.. Howard's house, about
half mile distant. The wolf meas
ured six feet from the end Of the nose
to the tip of the tail and weighed about
so pounds. He now wears collar
and chain and may be seen at Mr..
Howard's, about half mile from the
Clifton road, This is true wolf tale
and will do to go down to posterity
along with TIE one about Gen. Putnam
of Revolutionary fame.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-11-03

Next Tuesday Hughes county
elects Probate Judge, two Commits
sioncrs, Coroner and Justice Of the
Peace
w. NJ. Whittemore, who proved
up on his farm in 1l4-79, Monday,
will spend the winter on the Chicago
Stock Exchange and make speciality
of dealing in Sully county farm and
village property. Those desiring to
sell can address him as above. See
card elsewhere.
Don't fail 10 turn out next Tues
day and vote either for or against the
adoption Of the new Constitution for
Dakota. We believe the document,
in the main, an able one and worthy
Of support, but let those Of our readers
who may have different conviction
go to the polls and express their SEN
timents, but whether for or against,
don't fail to vote.
There Is no question, but what
there are over thousand voters in
Snliy county. This number would be
less than one to the square mile, but
many have proven up and gone back
TO the states to prepare to return in
the spring with an equipment for
farming, many are working in Pierre,
Blunt, and elsewhere, others on trips
to the Black Hills, &c, SO that all will
tend toward light vote being pollcd,
but we trust every one who possibly
can will turn out and help to swell the
number.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-11-03
CLIFTON sULLY COUNTY DAKOTA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1888

1T is said that some are paying as
high as $40 per acre for breaking up
in Walworth county. 0, for plow
and yoke Of steers
While our junior and Postmaster
Lee we're returning from their farms
near Fairbank, Sunday, at the prairie
dog town near Okobojo Mr.. Lee slaugh-
tered a rattler with seven music boxes
and button.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-11-03
TIE svlly COUNTY WATERMAN.
Published Every Saturday,
AT
CLIFTON, OAK,
WALTER & GROPENGIESER,
50 Per Year. in AdUdnce.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERRITORIAL.

IEhhllOItlAL.
Delegate in Congress-J. B. Raymond.
Governor--N. u. Ordway
Secretary. III. Teller.
Treasurcr--W. H.. .McVay-
Anditor--Gcorge L., 0rdway.
Surveyor General-Cortez 3. Fessenden.
Superintendent of Public Instruction
w. 1T. II. Bcadle.
Chief Justice of Supreme Court-Alonzo
}. Edgerton.
Associate Justices of the Supreme Conrt
WIN. 4. j. Church. j. p. Kidder, S. b.
Hudson.
United States District Attorncy-Hugh
j. Campbell.
United States Marshal-Harrison Allen.
SULLY COUNTY.
COMMISSIONER ]. Millett, Sr., b. p.
Hoover. n. II. Young.
Sheriff-G. J. Millett, .Jr.
Treasurer-Charles Agar
Coroncr-Dr. J. A. Stevens.
Snrveyor-WiIliam Ashley Jones.
Assessor-Orr w. Lee.
Clerk of Court III. w. Edgcrton.
Judge of Probate Sweeney.
Superintendent OF Schools-Dayid Sta
Piles.
Register of Deeds and Eek. OfIieio County
Clerk, j. A. Meloon.
Justices of the Peace-Wm. y. Ross, g..
w Everts. r. T. Kelly ID. ID. Bryant.
Constables-Henry w. Spra2ue, George
Bowers, Geo. II. Pease.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-11-03

This space belongs to II. ID. JONES,
of the Cash Star Grocery, Pierre, who
will occupy it with new adv. He
will make prices with any one in Da-
kota. See him before buying.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-11-03
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS.

In making up for publication the pro:
ceedings Of the meeting of the Board of
County Commissioners on Oct. 20, 1858,
by accident omission was made of the APP
proval OF the following bills, and issue of
warrants for same:
W Edgerton, Clerk OF the Court, Desk and
Stationery, Sb Oh
III 4 j u curran of Blunt, d. T., Lumber for
back building, 26 ~
Richard FosdicS, hauling lumber. sand brick,
coal and hardware 81 10
j. A. Meloon. furniture for County Building,
copying proceedings of Co. Boald for pabli.
Gallon, ~ II
John Hoover, building back building and
banking up County building, 10 W
French Robinson, Hardware, s N
j. A. MELOoN, County Clerk.
The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1883-11-03

The following will serve to- show
To what strait some of the papers
back in the states are resorting in their
efforts to stay the rush to Dakota and
keep their best citizens i'm their midst.
1t is probably about fair illustration
of the ridiculous lies going the rounds
from Que paper to another. They APP
pear to us in the Golden (lll.) Senti-
mel, credited to other papers A writ
er pretending to be Il correspondent TO
the Rural New Yorker from Sanborn
county, makes the assertion that "the
first part of last September our squash
es, melons and pumpkins froze one
inch deep the first frost" If this is
intended to refer to september, 1888,
all our home readers will bear us wit
ness that the first frost to injure even
the tendcrcst vegetation, such as to-
mato vines, manifested itself on the
morning of Tuesday, Sept, 25th, when
corn and everything of importance
had long since matured. If last year
is referred to it is matter Of record
that the first frost in the county hard
enough to do any damage did not oc-
cur until Oct. Sth. The writer also
tells of we'll 3S feet deep, covered
with horse blanket, freezing so hard
that the ice could hardly be broken
with the bucket 1t is also evident
that it completely froze the trnth out
of the writer. Another writer pcrpc-
trates even a greater falsehood. if pos
sible, in regard to the face of the coun-
try. He says Its surface is fiat, in
some places rolling, without timber or
building stone of any kind, only in
small quantities in isolated sections
this we mean is the condition of the
best farming section whole in
terspersed with bogs and marshes. =
Now the absolute facts are that we
have township after township right
here in sully-eounty without a single
foot of waste land, and without a foot
that cannot be plowed just in the con
dition in which nature leaves ii, and il
there is Il single "bog,' in the general
acceptance of the term, in the county
we have never seen it.