Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-06-05
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS.


MRS. BRADLEY, of Northford, Conn,
is dangerously i'll from cat bite in her
thumb.
PROF. GREGORY says there is moth
ing in the civil service law to prevent
officials from attending political con-
ventions.
NEW YORK city has society for the
relief of ruptllred persons, and it is
chartered to hold $l,250,OOO worth of
property.
Two hundred new styles of stationery
have been introduced this season. Ev-
eryone will have an opportunity to be
fashionable. Y
A BEAR shot at Gulf Hammock, Fla,
the other day, weighed six hundred
pounds, and the fat on his back was
four inches thick.
A MAN in Coffee County. Ala. is
said to be afflicted with rabies con-
tracted from smoking the pipe of a man
who had been bitten by mad dog.
HAVING has commenced in earnest in
the southern counties of California.
The grain is a trihe green in some To-
calities, but the acreage is SO large that
the farmers have been obliged to begin
early.
THE Chinese government has paid
for the damage done to the American
Presbyterian chapel at Shek Lung
during the riot few months ago. The
sum demanded was 1910, and it was
paid.
SECRETARY McCooK recently found
the old seal of the United States Senate.
It was made in 1926 and is as big as
ones hand. The bill for cutting it was
$50, but it never appears to have been
used.
A DRIVEN well at Palatka, Fla, 297
feet deep, passed through III feet of
rock, 40 feet of shells, and the rest sand
and clay. 1t gives $50 gallons of water
per hour, and throws it to height of
80 feet.
SINCE the establishment of the New
York fish commission in 1868, over 85,-
100000 young shad have been Matched
out and placed in various rivers in that
state. at total expenditure of but
$215,25O.
The first returns from the crazy quilt
craze have just been received in New
York. One young lady has been sent
to the mad house, and two others hus-
tied otto retreat where they mend up
shattered nervous systems.
MORE activity exists now at the Rus
sian naval dockyards than for some
time past. Before the end.of summer
six new war vessels will be launched.
Two of them will be frigates, two of
them cruisers, and two gun-boats.
AN Indian hunter killed during last
season, on Humboldt Bay, CAL, enough
birds to yield him eighty eight pounds
of feathers. It is estimated that ten
birds yield one pound of feathers. Such
being the case, his string for the season
was $50.
A CALIFORNIA musical critic says:
aGerster's voice has pearliness that
far outglimmers the richest pearls
picked up from the depths by the di-
vers Of Ceylon. When she sings these
gems drop in luxuriant profnsion from
her mouth"
In a recently published "Students'
History OF Georgia" IT is recorded that
the first steamship to cross the Atlantic
was owned by company in Savannah,
was called the Savannah, and sailed
from Savannah in May, 1919, for Liver
pool, Eng, thence to st. Petersburg,
in Russia, and back to Savannah in fifty
days.
The public school system of New
York State needs remodeling, and
necessary step to this, it appears, is an
examination into the systems of other
states and countries. Accordingly a
bill has just been passed by the Senate
authorizing the governor. and Senate to
appoint three commissioners, and ap-
propriating $4,000 to meet salaries and
travelling and other expenses.
AN industrial school for candidates
for the ministry, in order that they may
be enabled to support themselves while
studying, is urged by Bishop Gallagher,
of Louisiana. "a garden farm" he says,
devoted to the cultivation of small
fruits and vegetables, could he easily
cared for by young men assembled for
course of steady, and the proceeds of
their labor would make the perpetual
endowment of the instruction."
Four large cold-storage warehouses
are now in operation in New York city.
and it is said that the time is not far
distant when cold air will be served in
pipes throughout the city just as gas
and water are now. One of the novel
featureso OF the new Washington market,
now being constructed, is network OF
pipes running through the building,
through which frozen air will te fur.
nished to the different meat stands.
OF birds, the greenfinch is the earl
lest riser, as it pipes as early as half
past l In the morning. About half
past the blackcsp begins and the Quail
wakes up half an hour later. The SPAR
row occupies nearly the last place On
the list. The reputation of the lark for
early rising is entirely o false one.
That celebrated bird is q sllegard and
does not rise until number of other
birds have been up and about for soma
time. 'enue
IN a spacious show window Of a
washington Street, Boston, Mass, cloth
lng,house there is horse-stall; in that
stall on exhibition is the celebrated
race-horse Judge Fullerton, who has
made his mile in LIS. The horse ;s
valued at $4,000, and is for sale. NJ
rather he is being disposed Of To tho
buyer OF clothing who guesses his cor.
rect weight. Judge Fullerton il aa
gentle as babe, as he stands in b;s
stan gianclng at the passers-by.
co " M ~. boaART, the head Of Bcgart g.
~ Go; Wo1I one q OF the recently collapsed firms
tana;,;a g, Mall street brokers, has long been a
sEnil sa.ulilac llgure on the street. He is Of
snght figure and stature, with white
ha,r ID ,,a ana bright eyes, a nervous, spright-
y manner and somewhat eccentric hah.
ion ies, LIS peculiarities of conduct have
long attracted attention. His profnse
generosity often takes an extrayaaant
Iorm. Ordinarily he lunches at Del
monlcos; and it has not been IN M.
cash;a chmon sight TO- see him stop at the
oas oasnler,s y, desk and get handful of all.
ser cnange and then hurry alonn tha