Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-12-24
ALL SORTS.

to be set up in Athens.
1t is said Of Hawthore that he
never used an italicised word.
A theatre with q seating capacity
of 10000 is projected at New Or
leans.
There was q rich gold discovery
in Hampshire county, W. Va, last
month.
The profits to Mts. Grant on the
Generals book is expected to reach
$500, 900.
Chicago Germans will built a
frst-class German theatre on the
north side.
The output of slate at Slatington,
Pa, is worth to the operators Vi,
000, 900 a year.
More than rs, 900, 900 letters were
received in Washington during the
past fiscal year.
Col. Chaille Long still insists
that Gen. Gordon is living and that
he will turn up.
Slab Hollow, VT, has p~etitioned
the Postofice Department for a
more dignifed title.
The receipts of four concerts just
given at San Francisco, by Nine.
Nevada, were $40, 600.
Berlin, Germany, has a popula-
ton of 1876, 1872, as shown by the
census just completed.
The Idaho penitentiary contains
eight Mormon prisoners sentenced
for unlawful cohabitation.
III. A. Chittenden, Of Monmouth,
N. j., is trying to demonstrate that
the earth is fiat as a pancake.
Visitors can now reach the top Of
the Washington monument by
toiling up one thousand steps.
About $50, 900, 900 feet of logs
were run through the boom at Mari
nette, Mich, the past season.
John Roach's old store in New
York, whore he first began business,
was sold last week for $4,000
j. Simmons, last week, drove 121
turkeys 100 miles into Pine Bluff,
Ark, and sold them at Ga cents
each.
The paternal grandfather of the
late Vice-P President Hendricks was a
Justice of the Peace aS Lancaster,
Pa, in 1904.
Peter Beekman was arrested i'll
Philadelphia for iabbing needles in
his wife's shoulder and filling her
mouth with soap.
The sheriff of Philadelphia could
not collect enough fees to make up
his salary and the common council
has voted him. s28, 900 for the pur-
pose.
The granite quarries at East Blue
Hill, Maine, are supplying granite
for the new Croton aqueauet, New
York, and for the Pittsburg post
Office.
The profits derived from pool sell
ling on the Monmouth Park races
amount to over 500. 900 a season.
The courts have now interdicted the
business.
The New York socialists have
adopted a picture of John Brown
as their symbol, asserting that Brown
was a model anarchist and social re-
former.
The congregation Of DR.. Leonard,
the late Prohibition candidate for
Governor of Ohio, are going to
build a costly new church Cor him
at Columbus.
w. T. Waite, Of Kansas City, has
constructed a violin out Of old wood
which is pronounced by experts to
surpass the products of Stradivarius
in richness of tone.
One hundred tons of n~itro-gly-
cerine were exploded in Pennsylvan-
ia oil wells during October, and
during the last month O much lar
ger quantity IA used,
The dominion government paid
ont s3,250000 in Winnipeg in set
Element of rebellion claims during
the past season. About 600 claims
have been adjusted.
The Washington Capitol charges
that Mr.. Tilden wrote his letter on
coast defenses at the instigantion Of
Democratic job-politicians, who want
to swell the appropriations.
The Survivors Of Birney's Zou-
ayes, Twenty-third Pennsylvania
volunteers, viii erect next summer
a massive granite tablet on the field
Of Gettysburg to mark the position
of the old command in the action.
A quarry Of alum-bearing stone
has been found near Cory, analysis
Of which shows a quality as good as
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