Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-02-08
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| oOdN v. hSIOh has Just pdlu Sl UUO,-
900 for the Guaranty building, on Broad
way, New York.
! The forty-one members of the Cali
fornia senate are reported to be worth,
all told, 800. 900, 900.
HOLMES COUNTY, Misc, claims a ne
gro baby that weighed twenty-four
pounds when born.
COASTERS on High Street. Fleming
ton, Clinton County, Pa, slide half
mile in forty seconds.
A FINE white clay, which at a distance
can not be distinguished from snow,
has been found on a farm at London.
! Ont.
Az ice-boat race Of fifteen miles was
sailed in New Jersey the other day by
the winner in twenty min utes and forty
| seconds.
THE attention Of millionaires is called
to the fact that hothouse cncumbers can
be had for 40 cents apiece. y. Mail
and Er.
SEVERAL numbering camps on the
Machias River, Maine, report that they
have bought no fresh beef this year,
killing deer wheE they needed any.
THR Astorian (Oregon) says: Upon
our desk lies a strawberry plant, in full
! est leaf, with nine berries upon 1t IN
every stage of ripeness, from palest ker-
mel to scarlet fulness.
RICHARD BUSTED, of Brooklyn, has
asked the New York Central Park COM
missioners for the privilege of inclosing
the Egyptian obelisk in a glass case, as
a means Of preserving it.
The Night Medical Service Of Brook
| lyn, y. Y, has Just gone into effect, and
already the names of fifty physicians are
| upon the register, and their services can
be secured through the captains Of police.
IT is not generally known that the
pearls found in the Gulf Of California
are considered as fine as those found in
Oriental waters. One measuring an
inch in diameter has Just been discov-
cred there, said to be the largest IN the
world.
Ten pastors and folders in the Penn
. sylvanla house have been paid So, 900 for
a session of ole hundred days, and it IS
said that by clubbing together they got
all the work done by three men, who
were paid about dollar and half DAY
each.
HAMBURG LAKE, near Lake City, Fla,
q sheet Of water OF about forty acres, is
being drained by an underground out
/ let. The water rises again IN a stream
six miles from the lake. Another LAKE
near by ran dry in 1852, but has since
filed up again.
AHASpsoME Penobscot salmon, weigh
ing seventeen pounds, which was offered
! for sale IL the Quincy market dav or
] 10. Of
pound, found no purchaser, and was
sent 10 New York, where it readily sold
at an advance on this quotation. -Bos-
ton AdueTtiser.
! JOSEPH DAVIS, "the cattle king Of
Eastern Texas" sold 5000 cattle while
smoking one tive-cent cigar in Austin
the other night "Pat" Caringle, a
ranchman of the Indian Territory, who
was the purchaser, paid cash down il
British gold, for he acted In behalf OF
London men of money.
JOHN VAN DASHIGLIGENBERGER,
German shoemaker, living il Centralia,
Ohio has applied to the state legisla-
| ture TO change his name TO John Ber-
ger. He complains that he il treasurer
of German singing society, he is
Obliged TO write his name frequently,
which takes up too much valuable time.
If it is true, as Michigan paper
claims 10 have discovered by actual ex-
pertinent, that crack under door of
sufficient size to admit Of the passage Of
an ordinary cent will admit cold enough
to require four hundred pounds of coal
per month to overcome, it illustrates the
necessity of great care in house-buld-
ing.
Mrs. ELIZA ADELAIDE CUTLER, Of
Westchester, L. l., let the bad boys in
her Sunday school class match pennies
while the superintendent was leading in
prayer, and now Mrs. Eliza Adelaide
Cutters cousins, who wanted her $780,
600 and did not get it, produce this
fact as proof Of enough insanityto break
her will.
PEOPLE in Calaveras County, Cali
fornia, complain OF the way the Nevada
Indians are slaughtering the deer this
winter. Piutes from Nevada have in
vaded the country in great force, and
about eighty of them are in the vicinity
of West Point. 1t is certain that they
have killed at least 5000 deer already
this season.
A MONUMENT has been erected by the
town of birmingham, Mass, over the
grave of Peter Salem, the negro soldier
| of the revolution, who shot down Major
| Pitcairn at the battle of Bunker Hill, as
he was mounting a redoubt, and shout
ing, "The day is oursw Peter Salem
had been slave, and served faithfully
| in the war for seven years.
An old lady in Hartwell, Ga, has
made all the necessary preparations for
her burial except the coffin. She has
black silk dress, all the necessary under
clothing, a cap, gloves, etc; even has a
cake Of perfumed soap, wash rag, and
towel for washing her body, and can
die nearly two feet long, which she has
had ever since the war, and which is to
afford light for the watchers when she
lies in state.
A MAN living near Schoharie, \. Y, a
few days ago buried a child, aged IA
years, that weighed only IA fourteen
pounds. In family Of eight or nine
children, four have been extraordinary
unnatural productions. One that Is
still living is l6 years old and weighs
but 20 pounds. The enormous size Of
their heads, hands and feet, was mar
vel. Food was placed in their mouths
when necessary. They seemed desti-
| tute Of that intuition to seek for it even
by signs.
The recent anniversary of Daniel
Webster's birthday brought out some
new stories of that tstatesman. To q
Boston lady, it is said, he once declared
that of one thing he was proud, name
ly, his success in carving and serving
roasted goose to ten persons. He had
ten hungry Marshfield farmers to dine
with him. At one end of the table was
q roasted turkey, and at the other the
goose. When asked which he would
have, each guest said ''Goose." "And
I carved that goose" said the great SEN
i afor. exultinRly. $50 e to make il 60