The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
General Items.

this dispatch from his generous HolyOke
glrl the other day: Joe come up; |
am full of money and will pay all the
expenses"
A band of gvpsies made $500 out Of the
young ladies of Musca.ine, Iowa, by for
tunetelling.
John Goekel, Of Baltimore, sneezed
so hard M 70 dislocate his arm at the
shoulder.
1T was hard thing TO build church,
a harder thing to pay for it, and bard.
er thing still to I'll, IT," is the dishearten-
ing remark of n wornout preacher at
Cheyenne, Wy. Il.
Senator Chafiee says he is n temper.
ance man, because years ago, when he
was poor, a barkeeper charged him $50
for drinks for tie crowd"
The royal baby Of Spain has a cradle
in the form Of Il shell, lined with pink
satin and having canopy OF the rarest
lace.
Two ostriches in California have kicked
their mates to death. The mules in
that country have discouraged look.
Evidently the Empress of Japan does
not hold yery high opinion of the vir.
tues of the ladies i'll the empire. She
has Just ordered her chamberlain To pre-
pare list of Ill the faithful wives in the
island in order that she may present
them with medal or badge of chastity.
J. l.. Gross, taxidermist, Of Camden,
n. j., has captured u kangaroo mouse,
which he found in grove near Camden
The mouse is OF q tawny color, with
body a little larger than that of an or.
dinary mouse. Its fore.legs are only
half an inch long, and its tail, which is
white, measures six inches.
Richard Whiteside, thirteen. and
Frank Haywood, eleven, belonging to
gord families in Boston, started out to
kill the few remaining Indians In the
west. Whiteside stole $50 from his
mother to deiray expenses. Haywood
stole the money which Whiteside car.
red, and the latter had the young thief
arrested at Lynn, the police sent the
boys home 10 their parents.
Secretary Chandler has received a
communication from New York man
protesting against further arctic expedi-
tions, and suggesting that if members of
the navy want something useful TO d.
they be sent TO the metropolis to sweep
the sunshine oil the pavements.
Mrs. Peterson and Mrs. Deckard, of
Boise, Idaho, started up the mountain
side on a ramble, taking with them
claw.hammer TO knock off any bits of
rock that might attract their attention.
In doing this they broke of piece from
Il ledge, which they We're surprised to
find was rich galena ore. Mrs. Deckafd
has been offered 81 800 for her half in-
terest.
The work Of cutting perpendicular
shaft from the 900 level of the Mexi-
can mine IN Nevada to 200 level is very
difficult and dangerous. The rock is
bitterly hard and it does not blast well.
With all this q perfect torrent Of hot
water is constantly pouring down upon
the men. 1t is d ilicult to conceive how
the men can work ut all in such q place.
They must 90 principally by the sense
Of touch-must feel their way like blind
men. Not only is it impossible for the
miners 10 look up, but snch is the force
CT the pouring cascades of water that
they cannot climb the ladders without
danger Of being beaten off, and il has
been found necessary to rig u hosting
apparatus by which to hoist the men up
to their work.
One little girl who had lived in Lon.
don all her life and had never seen
tree was recently taken into the coun-
try, together with many others at the
expense Of n "fresh air fund" She
clung to one of the teachers in dreadful
alarm on seeing tree. and could not
understand what such an immense green
thing could be. "Why don't it keep
Stiil?" Sue sud, in paroxysm of terror,
as the wind swayed its branches. and IT
was only after some time that she could
be induce to 60 near enough to touch 1t.
There is a saying in California that if a
man buys water he can get his land
thrown in. The literal fact is that the
value of much Of the land depends sole.
ly upon the water which it holds or con-
trolls. Foar systems of irrigation are
practiced: First, flooding the land.
This is possible only in fiat districts
where there are large heads of water.
The second is by furrows, by which
large head of water is brought upon the
land and distributed in streams as small
as will run across the ground. The
third is by basins dug around tree roots,
to which water is brought by pipes or
ditches. The fourth is by sub.irriration;
the water is carried in pipes laid from
two or three feet below the surface and
let out TO permeate the soil.
Some Montana people say thew do
not care for the railroad now that it is
finished. Helena is rich town, and in
sists that it is the richest in the country
in proportion to its population. There
are many young men from the east
there, and the society is good. These
young men are growing rich by mining
and stock raising, and they saw that
they do not like to see the railroad
bringing in capitalists to compete with
them. The Bozeman farmers also look
with apprehension on the road because
they have been prosperous without it and
apparently anticipate an increased sup.
ply of agriculturists without CORES
ponding increase Of consumers.