Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-25
CLIPPED FRAGMENTS.

B6TLER wants book. keeping taught in
our schools.
A HOG weighing $50 pounds wEs
slaughtered at the Chicago stock yards
Saturday.
CLOVER grows luxuriaptly in Mime
sofa Wales where it wouldn't sixteen
years ago.
TEXAS expends S75, 600 year in main.
tanning battalion Of rangers on the
Mexican frontier.
A New YORK firm has engaged a
clothing patttrn-cutter of Boston at a
salary Of $4,000 year.
DR.. CARTER has raised $4,000 for
Williams College since he became its
president, two years ago.
J. Is. JERMAIN, of Watervliet, n. Y,
sent New Year card, wrapped in a
S5, 900 check, to Hamilton College.
A MAN at Auburn, y. Y, has bank
check for IA cents sigued by Vim. Fl.
Vanderbilt. He has been offered $50
for it.
A BhocroN soldier, who lost toe in
the war, has just been paid S440 for the
member by the government after six
teen years delay.
A Syracuse sleigh 100 years old is
driven 6y man of So and pulled by
horse i'll mis- 35th year. There's Dething
frisky about that turnout.
A COMPANY has been formed at Calves
ton to build an iron pier two miles to
deep water, TO Increase the wharfing
facilities, at cost of 81 ,00n,0 900.
CONNECTICUT has the champion mean
man. He was worth about 81 ZOO, 900.
ami with sixteen poor lawyers il his
town he went and died without making
"A will.
AT Cazepova, Madison County, \. Y,
the village water is restricted to three
or four wells, the owners Of which are
reaping handsome profit during the
famine.
VANDERBILT thinks railroad speed Of
forty-tiye miles an hour plenty fast
enough for any country to do business
on, and 40 roads can stand the racket of
faster gait
Two package wrappers at Davenport,
Iowa, entered into contest on the Satur-
day before Christmas. The champion
wrapped $500 bundles, using 1000
yards of twlre.
HENRY CARPENTER, "A negro Of Bowl
ing Green, Kentucky, who last summer
had his neck broken. his skull fractured
and one Of his legs smashed has resumed
his farming operations.
RECENT tests of yarn made from diff.
ierent h,mps gave the following relative
average strengths: Manila, 245: Italian,
221; New Zealand, li3; Russian, l2s.
Manila is evidently the yarn to be hanged
with,
Texas has 81, 200, 900 lying idle in her
treasury, but ID unable to apply it to
the reduction Of her debt, 81, 600, 900.
because her creditors ask 81. 40 for the
bonds. and she j. unwilling 10 pay that
pryuIUm.
CUSTER COUNTY, Montana, Is the
largest county in the United States.
Its area Is $4,000 square miles. 1t Is
larger than the States OF Vermont, New
Hampshire, Massss husetts, Delaware
and Rhode Island, all combined.
Is au old mail ear sent 10 the VIII
miugton, Del, shops for repairs was
found the other day bundle of letters
mailed twelve years ago. One contained
check for 5000, and another an invl-
tatron TO II party III Janualy, 1870.
4 MEMBER of the Indiana Legislature,
says n correspondent, explained the fact
that uu lis salary OF 81, ,UUo he had IN
one session saved $4,000, by saving:
Its all OWN to my wite'-. hein'
economical IN not kecpin' 4 hired girl
that we've saved SO much.
FIVE thousand cranberry cuttings from
the east viii be planted oD some marshy
lands III Lane County, Oregon. The
protector Of the scheme is fIyorably I'M
pressed with the possibilities OF this new
industry, and believes Oregon can raise
as good crauberrIes AS New Jersey.
GEORGE SMITH, who lives about five
miles from Watkins, \. Y, was cleaning
Il gun the otherda He poured benElus
into the barrel TO bum ont a rag, and
then put the breach III the stove 10 ignite
the berZine. The barrel contained a
charge OF powder, which was discharged,
and the rag Was driven into Smiths
head hear the ear severlng the arteries
and Factoring the skull.
AT Buenos AyIes married broker
eloped with young lady OF good family,
but in few days. finding the hunt
after him hot, returned, home, aud, beg
ging his wite's fOrhearance. obtained
from her promise that she would still
live beneath the same root, but sepa-
rated at bed and board. As for the
young lady, her parents cast her of, and
she i, to seek refuge IN MUnteyIdean
convent.
LAST summer Charles Cushman Joined
the Concord School of Philosophy, and
IDeratiatcd himself with the members;
had himself introduced at bank, and
passed two forged drafts for $3.50 and
1877, first, however, cashing a genuine
one for $3.50. After buying two elegant
suits of clothes aud contracting other
debts he disappeared but has just beeu
arrested at st. Louis, where he attend
ed medical college under the name Of
Louis LarIeuce. is believed that he
is the same man who under the atlas OF
WestphaI swindled several persons con-
nected with the Ohio College one year
ago.