Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-05-17
BORROWED PARAGRAPHS.

| oysters III n stated time and won st0 A
! physician visited him several times after
ward ard charged him $50.
CHICAGO glove dealer employs sales
women with the biggest hands to he
found SO that the hands of his Gu toners
will look small by contrast.
Nor more than half the usual siipply
of maple sugar has been made in Maine
THIS season, owing to unfavolable con
dltlons OF frost and snow during the
winter.
The poet Bryant used to sit in a saw
mill, sometimes, and make verses. Mr..
Bryant, however, was Slways respectful
to the buzz cav, ard lie lived to be an
old man.
CHINESE cheap labor turns out not to
be so very cheap alter all. The railroad
contractors on the Pacific coast hnvc
discovered alat Scandiuavians and men
of other nationalities pay better than
the Chinese.
HE sexton of st. Johns cemetery,
Winnipeg, Canada, discovered a few
days ago, n large nulnber of human
bones, supposed to have belonged to an
ancient race Of Indians, while digging
grave in the cemetery.
A KAUFMAN County (Texas) physician
believes IN treating meningitis heroical-
ly. He saturated paper with terpentiue,
applied it to the back of The patients
neck, and set fire to it. The patient was
feartully burned, but was cured
"IHERE is, says the Boston Herald,
"a good deal of fitness in the selection
of Mr.. Evarts as the orator for New
York at the opening of the big bridge.
He can suspend sentence in the air
longer than any other man in America.
LIE bellies of the Piute tribe of In.
dams walk along the railroad tracks of
civilization in Nevada and gather the
black dope" which drops from the
| nxIcs of the cars. With this they smear
their arms ard checks and grew more
beautiful.
ONLY eight insane asyr1ms had been
built IN the United States IN 1894. be-
ing state institutions; by 1910 sixteen
were built; in 1850, twenty-iour; by
1860, forty-four, and by 1889, ninety, OF
which sixiy-sjx are supported wholly or
in part by states aid.
IN Surprise Valley, Modoc County,
| Cal, a marine monster that walks off
with full-grown Augora goats, and which
"cuts the placid bosom Of uprcr lake "
as swift rs au arrow. has created some
consternatlon, says the Lakeview Exam
iner, iu that usually quiet neigbborhood.
A GENTLE correspondent writing from
Salt Lake, thinks that it is the Mormon
men who ought to wear the crown of
| glory III that sweet subsequently, for he
thinks 1t would be n severe enough cross
| to be comrelledtO to live with one Mormon
woman to say nothing Of haEf-a. dozen
| of them.
IT is stated that the Pennsylvania
| Railroad Company will discourage all
tent shows at Altoona this season, in
| consequence of the decentralization
which such entertainments invariably
| cause among the employees OF the ehops
there, accompanied with 10 little drunk
enncsS.
THE expenses OF Arabi's defense were
| ST, 800, all of which sum was advanced
| by Mr.. Blunt, aud not more than 81, 500
OF it bas been repaid to him, this mainly
through the Efforts OF MIR Frederick
| Harrison. A subscription has been
| started for the purpose Ct making ur
the remaining Sl5 900.
SOME head lines in a paper in New
Haven, Conn, read: can Ola Mau
Drops Dead-Iiis Life Shortened by
Hard Dtnklng-After Drinking d Cup
of Toa He Starts for His Room in q
| Barn and Falls to the Ground - His Sub
| seQuent Death at His Boarding Place"
| New Haven boarding house tea must be
stronger than it used to be.
M, &C Il
| happening to see a phot ograph of Fred.
| erlck Marsden, the playwright, thought
I that he recognized in the picture ".
| A. Silver, with whom he had been asso.
ciated as law partner III Philadelphia.
In reply to a letter, Marsden wrote to
| Mr.. Chiffon that the detection was ex.
act, MarsdeO being st9ge name
| merely.
In March, 1872, Brooklyn could not
| boast a single barber. J. Burke, who
| had long done business in that capacity,
| having removed TO New York. The H.
| convenience WAS SO great that a number
of citizens met Mt the hotel then kept il
| Brooklyn by Baruum (atterward famous
as & Boniface N Baltimorc) to raise
funds to tempt q man 10 come, which
| was done.
Mr.. HAYDEN. of Washington, il the
| inventor of an apparatus for burning po-
| trOieum as fuel which is claimed TO be
the only one in the world that will per
| form the work fer which Ii is construct
| ed. Some years ago a woman, Mrs.
Amanda Jones, invented an apparatus
| for burning petroleum under steam boil
els, whica has been continuously and
successfully used in the oil regions.
THE rector of st. PRui's Church. East
| Saginaw, Mich. has gore away for few
weeks, and advertses that "any person
| desiring the services of clergyman Of
| the church may call or telephone to the
rector's residence, where arrangements
will. be made for such service" Which
calls to mind the minister's little daugh-
ter who met visitor with: "No, sir;
papn isn't at home; but if there is any.
thing about your soul l can tell you.
for l know the whole plan of salvation. "
A NORTH END deacon III Springfield,
| Mass, drove to church with his wife the
other evening and became SO absent
minded after the service that, instead of
going for his horse, he started home on
| foot AMI alone, and did not come to him.
self in season to retracc his steps before
nearly everybody had left the sanctuary.
His wife was found distracsedly pacing
up and down neighboring street under
the impression that the horse had been
stolen anC h oacon had gone after it.
DUKIN,4 the second week in April 34,-
500 punches of primrose We're sent from
a town in Devonshlre for sale in London,
They were gathered by children, who
= r. n
great show of them was made at the un-
yelling of the statue OF Lord Beacons.
field. The primrose was his favorite
flower, and appropriately enough the
liberal party was represented on that oc-
casion by the earl of Roseberry, of
whom he was personally fond, and whose
family name is Primrose
A DELICATE scale for weighing da-
monde, balance screws for watches. etc,
is the subject of patent issued to Mr..