The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1885-05-07
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FACT AND FANCY,

FACT AND5FANCY.
Circus parties are q fashionable en-
tertainment in New York. RI
"a Tampa, Fla, turnip measures
tWenty-seYen inches around.
Gadsden, Ma, viii build water.
works at q cost Of $50, 900
a cabbage shown at Palatka, Fla,
recently eigheds eig hteen pounds.
Apiece Of gold worth S1,515 was
recently found near Placerville, Cal.
Immense numbers Of hogs have died
in Onondaga county New York, from
cholera. 5F
Its estimated thatsa ton Of gold; is
buried each year with those who die
in this country.
IN one year a Jacksonville, Fla,
lady became a wife, widow, mother,
and wife again. y
N The cost Of each saloon to the city
of indianapolis last year was S153, and
the license only $52.
Selling orange blossoms TO be
shipped north is q booming industry
at Jacksonville just now. .iszsts. S
IL Down in Alabama thezcows begin To
die as soon as people begin to trim
their mock-orange trees. 81.
a South Caroline planter raises sea
island cotton for q French spinner,
and receives 81 per pound. 81 .
Fifteen men have been indicted IN
Sarasota, Ella. fors completely in the
murder Of Postmaster Able.
"A resident Of Lake City, Fla, has
sixty-three varieties Of grapes on his
place, and one hundred Of roses. y
a Lawrence county, Pennsylvania,
legislator can not use his hands, and
his wife acts as his amanuensIs. s%
L A census. Of the population of the
state of New York will be4taken this
year by the state authorities ;$.E II
The United States fish commissioner
talks Of establishing a shad hatchery
on the St. Johns river, Florida.
Maud s. has just celebrated ,he1
eleventh birthday, and will soon be
put on the track to s.beat her record. y
The present population OF St
Augustine, Fla, including the strang
ers, is not far from twenty Thousand
Gov. Moody, having the appoint
ment of eight officials lin Morrow
county, Oregan, divided them equally
between republicans and democrats
Ladies who desire quiet in New
| Y ork now fit up artistic sitting rooml
at the top of tho house, where they re
ceive only, intimate friends in a yer
table sky parlor.
Sybella June, colored, died at SUIT
tors, Williamsburg county, S. c., ,
short time ago. She is said to hav
been ITO years of age.
In Woburn, Mass, last Friday
while men were cutting ice on one Q
the ponds, robins in the trees on tn
shore were singing merrily.
L Miss Addie Kurtz is the deput,
I; sheriff of Franklin county, PennsYlya
mia, and she recently escorted sevel
male prisoners; from the county jail t.
4 the penitentiary at Philadelphia.
The Salvation army in Oakland, Cal:
is rapidly breaking up About once
week some one of the hallelujah lassie
i elopes with some outside barbarian
4 and there; isn't corporal's guard left
Il a church at St. Clairsville, o.. Sc
cured an Injunction to 4restrain tn
manager of the (skatingtrmk fror
opening his place on Thursday nights
when prayer-mee tings are held. Til
two buildings are SO near togethc
4 that the noise of the interrupt
I the services at the church. IA & 5:5l
Children of school age must be re
markedly scarce in come sections 9
New Hampshire, Judging from til
following taken from q Boston paper
In Warner there Is one school distric
which contains but one pupil, fou
! districts have but two pupils each, an
two have only six between them.
The name Metis used frequently il
connection with the Riel rebellion
{ was originally applied to all the mike
!, breeds OF the northwest. There ar
two divisions of Metis- the sMetis
Francois, or Canadians, and the Metis
} :Anglais, descendants of the Scottisl
officers of the Hudson Bay company.
The fire relief committee of Cal
thage, N. ", request all who. sen
money for the aid Of the sufferers b
the great fire in thatplace in. Octobe
y last, and who have not received &C
4 acknowledgement from the treasurer
I Charles P. Ryther, to 3communicat
with that gentleman, giving amour
sent, and to whom:
An oddity in the shape Of religion
publication comes from Los Angeles
/ Cal; and it calls to the Funconverte
under 1.-The sonorous speculation 4 q
The Lost 4rgels, Trumpet Call. It
1 prospectus sets forth that it is l'put
I lished by the holy family, for tn
4 heavenly host Of angels. 1t is also til
horn Of salvation. One foot cent.
Speculation in stocks and grain
.Isaid to be on the increase anon
3Ewomen in Cleveland, but only thei
i surplus money is used for the purpose
4 Certain female teachers 10 the, publ
4 schools buy large lots Of grain on maj
/ gin, and a propositionwas lately mad
to invest the savings OF a church Sc
cietY Is this auctuating Commodity.
q "a New York man has invented
4 clock which is intended to be attaehe
Il to street gas lamps. twenty thou
Il sand Of these clocks are TO be put o
trial in New X orkS city. They hav
four faces OF ground and til
4 hands are worked through hollow tub
thrt meet in the center of6the lamI
I The whole system is to be regulateda
tones central station. ;5.S,s!
In the town of Warwick, RI I. is
a EbOWlder so poised ON another roc