Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-07-10

comparable learning that they founded
the first two universities in the verdi
those OF Paris and Pavia. In the ninth
century, no fewer than seven thousand
students visited the schools in Ireland.
Camden says, "the Anglo Saxons bor-
rowed their letters from the Irish
1t is stated that John Porter, an en-
gineer on the Michigan Central road
has been offered SAT, 600 for his patent
on an attachment to q steam cylind er
which condenses the waste from the
steam cock on starting the engine, there
by averting that kissing noise which is
so disagreeable to the ear and such a
terror to horses.
Benjamin Wisner Bacon, n recent
graduate at Yale Theological School,
has been ordained and installed at tho
First Congregational Church in Lyme,
ct. He is the second son OF Rev. ID.
Leonard w. Bacon, and was recently
married to the daughter Of General A.
Aiken, of Norwich.
London Truth says Of General Chi
nese' Gordon: AS to religion, the
Christian hero never pretended to be a
Christian. To Judge by his own utter
ances he seems to be a sort of a Deist,
regarding his own viii as that of the
Deity"
Mr.. Edward Lawrence Godkin, edi-
tor of the Nation, was married recently,
at the church of the Holy Communion,
in New York, to Miss Katherine Sands,
daughter of the late Abraham Sands.
The wedding was a quiet one. The
ceremony was performed by Rev, Dr..
Henry Mettot, rector Of the church.
The couple left the city for a two weeks
trip.
It is remarkable that Colonel Burn
side, the late disbursing officer of the
| Post Office Department at Washington,
was not detected before. He paid 1925
a month for the care of his horses and
carriages, and S75 a month rent for
his house. These two items exceeded
his salary at the rate of S25 per month.
In addition to this his style Of living
would have required an income of Sl0,-
900 a year.
Colonel Dan Rice, the famous ex-
Snowman, who has achieved renown of
late years as temperance advocate and
religious exhorter, was billed TO lecture
recently at Chattanooga, Tenn, under
the auspices of the Young Mems Chris
tan Association. But, alas for weak
humanity! the ex-clown met a few of
his old ~cronies, the "spotted-ho horse, /"
the "white-elephant the 'gyastacutus"
and the c~amelopard," and they took a
drink for auld lang syne, and then an
other drink, and still another for good
fellowship, and the consequence was
that the genial Colonel" got as drunk
as a Lord, and imagined that he once
again owned a whole circus. The lee
ture engagement was suddenly cancelled
and Dan has now leisure to get another
divorce.
Irving Hale, the West Point prodigy,
divided the honors with the president
during commencement week. Every
one wanted to see the remarkable
scholar from Colorado. Whoever saw
him was disappointed, writes CORES
pondent. He marched by himself at
the head of a company line, wearing a
red sash and a dainty lustrous sword.
He has slightly curly tow-hair, a baby
face the shape of a full moon, with a
singular little pink nose, turned mp and
ending in a bulb. He is very short and
very round and chubby. Yet at the
second glance he is interesting. Good
health, good humor and high spirits
shine in his round, twinkling eyes, and
strength and grace are in his move.
ments. Some of the elderly ladies' re-
marked 10 their daughters that they
would like to kiss him. The young
ladies cast their eyes over the entire
corps and refrsined from replying,
A curious result IF a recent earth
quake shock in Essex, England, was
that the wells around Colchester exhib.
tied q rise in their water level of about
five feet. This gradually increased foi
five days after the phenomenon, until q
height of eight feet was attained. The
wells ut last accounts had apparently
permanently rested al the height 81
seven feet above their old water mark.
A new Russian clock has set the Yam.
kee clockmaker TO thinking. 1t is
about eight inches high, on a base five
inches in diameter, and covered with =
glass globe. All the works are plainly
exposed, and the pendulum is a solid
brass wheel supported at the centre, OF
hub, by a slender wire, II does not
swing, but ~reyolves from left TO right
and right to left. Being q 400 aay
clock, the winding of it is a small mat
ter. No temperature effects il, and il
will not vary five minutes in running
400 days.
In the tropical valleys Of the Andes
there is a loathsome disease called ele.
phantiasis. The malady is not only
fearful and loathsome to the patient, it
is hideous TO behold. The members OF
tho body become swollen with ulcers TO
a formidable size the hair drops of, SO
do the nails; the voice disappears, and
sleep is murdered. For this most aw-
full of human ills a cure has recently
deem discovered and used with the hap
piest results. This is nothing else
than eating the flesh ofthe turkey buzz
zard, or gallinazo, a bird so filthy in
its habits that the meat il produces
has been refused by Europeans who
were dying Of hunger. News has
reached Paris of several cures having
been effected Of tins direful plague by
the use OF the flesh of the g~allinazo.
Some interesting figures have Just
been made public illustrative OF the
progress and present condition of
Christianity. According to the mos.
trusted authorities the Christian popu.
lation of the world in the year 1000 of
our era was about 80, 0 900. In the
next 500 years the numbers doubled.