Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1883-01-18
INTERESTING SCRAPS.
New YORK city consumes s18, 600. 900
'orth of eggs every year.

Dhud.
A SYRACUSE quack doctor induced Au-
gustus Berrineger TO take pink-root and
mandrake to kill a tapeworm. Berrin-
eyer died.
A KENTUCKIAS' life WAS saved by his
watch in New Years day quarrel, a
pistol ball fired at him at short range
lodging in it between the cases.
A MAN in Georgia recently attended a
family gathering Of 800 of his descend
ants. He has fifty-three children, and
is now living with his ninth wife.
A SOLDIER who lost his toe in the war,
Solomon +. Beals, of Brocton, Mass,
has been pushing his claim for sixteen
years, and now gets a pension Of si40.
NoxUBEE COUNTY, Miss, claims az its
greatest living curiosity pig with well
developed horns. The horns are similar
to those Of u COW, though Lot 80 large.
A MAN found SO, 800 in bonds aud
"a, 900 in currency buried in Phiiadel-
phia cellar. He was detective, and had
already captured the burglars who lived
there.
THE Nebraska man who drove his wife
ont on cold night, causing her to freeze
her feet so badly that they had to be
amputated, was tarred and feathered by
bis neighbors.
SOME OF the halibut fishermen com.
ing into Gloucester are now making up
their profits for the year. 4 very lucky
vessel will sometimes give to each of her
crew something like 800.
NEBRASKA men are not at all consist
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green to end his life because h. had lost
$50, and then turned around and offered
a doctor 81 900 to save his life.
MIDDLEBURY, Pa, has the champion
absent-minded man. After milking his
COW he gave the COW the pail of milk,
took up the milking stool and carefully
set it down upon the pantry shelf.
An Irishman in Cullacan, Mexico. at
tempted TO commit suicide by firing II
pistol into his mouth. The ball re-
mained near the brain, and the mans
lite has been saved, although he will be
a lunatic.
THREE men Of Reading, Pa, have
been fined $50 each and costs for injur-
ing the ice by skating on Union canal.
j. NJ. Keller had leased the canal, in
tending TO harvest the ice aud had
erected a warning to trespasser-.
The men employed in one department
Of the Elgin Gil. watch factory did not
strike on the arrival Of a young woman
as the first enploye of her sex among
them, but received her with speeches Of
welcome and the GIFT Of a toilet set.
\ MAN desired to bury his amputated
leg in Dubuque cemetery but the su-
perintendent refused TO allow it on the
ground that burial permit vas neccs
sary for every iutermcnt and such
document could only be procured for 40
entire body.
\ PARTY Of young men dined Sumptu-
Ously at a restaurant and each one IN
sisted ON paying the bill. To decide the
matter it was proposed to bliudfoii the
waiter, and the first one lie caught
should pay the bill. He hasn't caught
any of them yet.
A FRESCHNAN and his family living
OIL a scow anchored near the dug dock
at Ton lwanda, \. y, narrowly escaped
drowning one night last week. The
scow sunk. carrying with it all the ef-
fects of the family, barely giving them
time to reach the dock.
GERMANTOWN, Pa. has person who
can eat pound OF soap, half pound OF
candles, and drink pint OF lard oil at Il
single meal. His name is Wm. Manuel,
and at one time he filled a regular en-
gagement at saloon giving exhibitions
OF his ostrich-like appetite.
..Vapntp ,,r
q Philadelphia Indian doctors shCp,
puzzled reporter until he discovered
that it was "ransy spelled backward.
With this clue he read the names OF
other mysterious medicines with a clear
er understanding than before.
A LATE party of northern excursion
lists passing through Georgia en- route
for Florida, complain that at Jessup
they were charged twenty-five cents each
for the privilege of standing twenty-five
minutes each before a fire at second
class hotel while waiting for the tram,
lSS2 will be remembered as witness
ing the largest railroad mileage ever con-
structed within any single year Of the
country's history. The number re-
ported was 10, s2l miles aud the COM
plete returns for December viii prob
ably bring total up TO about ll,OUO
miles.
HENRY Is. CARRIER, one of the victims
OF the famous CARRIER poisoning case at
Norristown, Pa, which still remains
has been placed in the Phlla-
delphia hospital. a HOPELESS paralytic.
After the wholesale poisoning mis- life
WAS saved, but he was left a physical
wreck.
THERE Is a people who are known as
Pennsylvania Dutch. They have no
written language, their speech being
simply dialect, the only analogy OF
which with anything else of human
lies III the fact that an Oc-
casional English, German, French or
Spanish word has been sandwiched with
strange discordance into it,
Two or three days before his death q
wealthy but very parsimonious Maine
man awoke in the evening and turning
to the watcher at his bedside, asked
"How much do they give You night?'
Two dollars and a half, was the re-
ply. "Well, you needn't come any
more; l can't stand any such sum as
that" said the sick man, and be didn't.
The Creighton family took rooms in
Montreal boarding house for definite
term, and refused to give them up be-
fore its expiration. though they quar-
relied with the landlady. She resorted
the expedient of burning Cayenne pep
per where the fumes would go up through
the hot air pipe into the Creighton
apartments. Her right to do tins is to
be tested in court.
A CALIFORNIA man has acquired
fortune in a singular way. He had a
lot of mining stock of nominal value,
and pledged it AZ collateral for loan.
Then the stock rose very high. The
person to whom it was pledged sold it.
Subsequently it fell again, and he
bought it back, making 1895, 900 by the
transaction. The true owner Of the
stock found out about the transaction,
and sued for the S295, 900 as belonging
to him. The supreme court gives it TO
him, too.
The ice men of Maine, with twelve
inches of solid ice on the Kennebec, and
the prospect of harvest of SOC, 900
tons from that river alone, are very I'M
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