Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-12-10
Things in General.

hastings, NcD., with a population
Of 5000, has only S97 pupils enrolled
in the public schools.
Fresno county, Cal, is exactly the
size OF the State of Massachusettsand
is 500 square miles larger than the
State OF New Jersey.
According to the census OF 1880
there were at that time seyenty-tive
women lawyers, lG5 women clergy
men, and 2,432 women doctors. OF
the women lawyers, eleven were over
sixty years of age; of the clerGymem,
twenty.f five were yer sixty, and Otthe
doctors there were 1914 past that age.
John Boyle O'Reilly says: "Womeu
are better than men because they are
spiritual, while men are intellectual.
The spirit follows what is true, gentle
and good; the intellect follows only
what is pleasant, successful, dominate
ing, strong. If women could rule, civ
ilization would be a poem"
A custom OF the days gone by still
obtains in the District OF Columbia
courts. According to an old Mary
land law, the foreman OF each Jury is
presented with Il pound OF tobacco
on rendering the verdict in each case.
AS this is far in excess OF the demand
Tor the weed, the cash equivalent OF 81
is. substituted. The tobacco fund
amounts to n considerable sum dur
ing n term OF court, and is usually
devoted to the purchase OF a cane for
the foreman, bouquets for the Judge,
and minor comforts for the jurors.
Vassar college girls have freak.
They fall in love with each other, send
delicate little missives, baskets Of
grapes and bouquets Of choice flowers
to the objects of their affection, and
act in all respects just as we presume
they hope one ofthe now Objectionable
sex will act towards them some day.
The girls seem to likeit, but the POugh-
keapsie boys are real mad over this
peculiar turn of affairs, for the young
ladies nOw pass them scOrnfuliy by
without delgning even SO much as a
smile or a sly glance.
A trader in Australia describes q
curious bird found III the ~jungles Of
that country. 1t is called the balla-
dor OrdanCer, frOmits jumping action.
Two OF them were seen together and
carefully studied. As soon as one
bird alighted the other jumped up, the
time being like clock work in it's regu-
larity, and each in turn uttering anote
sounding like "to.le-dO," uttermg the
syllable 'to" as he crouched tospring,'
''le" while in the air, and do" as he
allghted-a regular sOng-and-danCe
performance. The Sydney OrnithOIO--
icol society has offered a large sumfor
a cir OF them.
The Queen of Great Britain and
Ireland rules over 10000, 900 Of
people tan increase in fifteen years Of
5000, 900, occupying an area OF al
most 10000, 600, square miles. The
trade carried on by these BIC 1000, 600
amounts to So 300, 0OO, 900 n year.
Their flag floats over three-ffths of
all the shipping on the seas. London.
their capital city, has with its sub
urbsl a population OF five and ne
quarter millions! No civilized empire
has existed at all comparable to the
British empire, either in ancient or in
modern times.
A murder lately occurred in a we'll
known restaurant in San Francisco.
A French woman who presides ove
the cash department narrated the
circumstances to a customer with
great volubility and feeling, and ended
up, her voice trembling with emotion,
with the following remark: Yes, it
was very dreadful. The house was
full and everybody a oat, and-oh,
dear! | think we lost more than
twenty dinners by it,"
A half-gallon jug, says the Atlanta
Constitution, If intrusted to one ofthe
boys OF the neighborhood OF Pickens,
will be returned filled with corn wills
key at a cost Of thirty cents. As the
Government is entitled to tax OF for
ty-five cents on that quantity of H..
quor, the Constitution fears that the
ruling price on the Pickens market in
dioates q looseness in regard to the
legal requirements OF the case,