Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-03-26
PASSING EVENTS,

PASSING EVENTS.
The Standard Oil conpanv
$4,000 men. enHa
Deer are killed almost dan.
Talluiah Falls, Ga. "
There Is a fighting chick,
lanta, Ga, valued at $3.50.
One Of the Indian chiefs IN Il.
leans is expressiyely named
Gall.
There r six hundred II.
lodges in Texas, and sixteen sh0ss
Masons.
The pulse Of a hen is 140. Of
to 40, of a dog 80 to 100, and y
OK 25 to AZ.
A Bridgeport, Conn, woma, !.
an election bet win publicly kiss
friend March 4.
Indians are used in place a, .
mules between Cour d'Aleue c;tJ
Murray, Indian territory.
An Ironton (O.) ~saloonist h,,
rates on his beer an | whisky tos
8 cents a glass respectively.
Two local pedestrians of Pouvbl.
sic, N. T., are about setting out Il ~
from that city to New Orleans.
A lace factory Is to be establisb.a
W~ilksbarre, Pa. 1t will be this ID
one of the kind in the country.
The California treasury is in A,
poverished condition, and the ~
has Ss00,000 worth of warrants out
For the first time in twelve y.,I
the school committee Of Boston
meet with no women in its memA.,
ship. II
There is 81 much suffering in IrrS
n. Y, from want Of food that eFcg
are being made to establish a sOm
house.
At West Point, Ga, a fruit-grov.{
has sold since 1881 $40, 900 WORT
peaches off of not more than fifty acr.l
of trees.
George Winfield Scott Hancock G,I
field Patterson Yerks san uufortupn,'
infant in an interior county Of Psrs|
sylvania.
The people Of Shasta county, Cd|
~fornia, are Boosting of ripe waterus
ons in December. They are grcgs |;
the foothills.
In Placer county, California, are ID
only red date palm trees in the Unita
States that bear fruit. The tree il ,
native of China.
Miss Annie Boyer, an eccentric Eng
lish lady, has just died at Middletu.
Del, at the age of 81, with toe-nsli
three inches long.
A German weekly paper Of Ne,
Haven has been purchased by socii
lists, and is to be used for the disseu
ination of their ideas.
Connecticut's contribution TO Il
New Orleans exposition contains h
of wooden nutmegs made out Of u
original charter oak.
An ~artesian well in Tulare count
California, supplies four cubic feet
water per second, or enough to in
gate $40 acres of land.
ASt. Louis man has discovered II
cod fish skin, when properly tame
makes elegant leather. 1t is OF a pea
gray color, and very tough.
Young banaua trees are grown
finely, at Los Angeles, Cal, and
some sheltered valleys there will
quite a large crop of fruit this year,
A Newburyport (Mass.) painter v
surprised, a day or two since, to
ceive from a boy an order for 20 cen
worth of paint the color of frog ey'
Francis M1rphy, the temperaI
evangelist, assisted by two Method
preachers, recently held a very s
cessful meeting in one OF the larg
saloons in Pittsburgh.
The great dam at Bear valley,
San Bernardino county, California,
finished. 1t cost $4,000, and
pounds water enough to furnish o c
tinuous stream Of 5000 inches.
A bill pending before the Alaba
legislature compelling persons cal
ing concealed weapons to design
the fact on their persons by wearir
badge inscribed II am armed"
A mineralogist has gathered Fl
several farms in Clermont county,
specimens of rock and earth, al
which yield $1,000 in gold to the
A company has been formed to buy
farms.
Two Oregon hunters caught a
in a trap, but he wrenched his
of, and next day the hunters 70
tracks in the snow where the
creature had walked on the bro
bone.
There are but four national bank
Mississippi. There is said to b
movement on foot among Nash'
capitalists TO establish one at Nate
where there has never been a matte
bank.
Col. r. M. Littler, secretary Of
National, Butter, Cheese, and Egg
ISOLATION. says there are now in OPP
ton $50 creameries in Iowa, 67C
Illinois, $50 in Missouri, and l89
Minnesota.
A 6-year-old child was found try
to keep warm at the pudding fur
of the Susquehanna rolling-mill
Columbia, Pa, on Friday morn
He had been in the mill all night,
his feet were frozen.
A Nevada miner and capitalist,
Gently returned from Alaska, rep
the finding there Of a remarkable
marble quarry, in which, strang
say, were both red and white ma
of the finest quality.
Cartridges of giant powder were
Gently thrown into the pond belong
to the San Jose, Cal, water comps
the result being that all the trout in
pond destroyed. Nearly a to
the fish were taken out dead.
The aggregate strength Of the
ted States army is 2S,028, and
number of commissioned officer
2,193. There are 1890 non-com'
stoned officers, 2,9l3 storekeepers,
sicians, ETC., and 10, 262 privates.
A few weeks ago a man who
walking from Peckskill to Sing
became tired, and coolly turned
signal light near him and stoppe
freight train. Hegot aboard the tr
but was arrested. and has been