Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-05-21
FACT AND FANCY.


artesian well almost unanimously.
The Germans are pow making deli
cate watch wheels from paper pulp.
The board of health is making wat
on the carp ponds in South Carolina.
HYDE county, organized but q year
ago, has succeeded in creating DEBT
OF $4,000.
Simmer cottages in chrome yellow
will vie with the tawny sea-sands this
season.
Making envelopes out of straw pa
per is a new and flourishing industry in
ireland.
Penjdeh is accurately written and
pronounced Punjdeh, and means "hye
villages.
The number of letters posted IN the
world each year averages about o.
0O0, 100000 ..fr. .-..
The pine tree, says an authority,
serves as refuge for more than 4oV
species OF meets.
II is claimed that there are 10000
republican voters in Tennessee, TO
l35, 900 democrats.
The cost OF each saloon to the city
OF indianapolis last year was Slo3' ana
thelicense only S52.
The governor of Oaxaca, Mexico, is
distributing by thousands textbooks
in the public schools.
The base bali clubs of this country,
1t is estimated, will cost the people
SO, 600, 900 this year. sr.e
Thirteen hundred neg buildings,
worth about $4,000 were erected
in Washington last year.
Fresno, Marysville, and San Jose,
Cal, were visited By nv earthquake
shock Saturday, April 4.
A farmhouse at Sumter City, Ga,
takes hrs fodder to the water trough
and vets it before eating.
The shipment of cigars from Key
West, weekly. amount to l,5oO,OOO,
with an increasing tendency.
Some genius has invented fishing
rod that registers the precise number
and weight of the fishes caught.
Mexican soldiers are said to be OF
all shades of color, ranging from near
iy pure white 10 perfect black.
A novelty in ice. pitchers is one
which throws forth a stream of water
when spring at the top is pressed
A real.estate owner in San Francisco
| adds 10 bis large income from that
source by peddling fruit about the
| city.
4 wealthy timber merchant has had
his coat-of-arms painted on his CARR
age with the Latin motto "Vidi"-I
| saw.
Coal mining machines capable OF
doing the work of twenty men are
being introduced in the Panhandle
| mines.
The pvrometer, an instrument in
which heat is measured by the expan-
sion of metals, will accurately mea-
sure heat up to 1900 degrees.
Every penitentiary in Texas is pro-
| yided with kennel of three or more
fierce bloodhounds for the purpose OF
hunting and capturing escaped pris'
oners.
A train composed of two cars oil
gold FULTON, three cars Of silver, eight
| cars of silk aid fonr ears of tea, is on
It's way east from CaliforBia and Col
| orado.
An iror car-wheel will travel about
10000 miles. A steel tire will run
| 100000 miles, costing two and bal
| times as much and running more thar
four times as long as an iron wheel.
W. II, Wood, OF New York city, re.
Gently caught on the gulf coast o.
Florida a tarpon weighing III pounds
The tackle used was the ordinary rod
reel, and line employed by bass fisher:
IN the Atlantic coast, and the feaI
ranks E,,hout known parallel.
An enterprisine iran. who wished t
be able 10 announce the first Sign o.
spring placed twig on which nas ;
cocoon of caterpillar near the stoyt
for a week or two. The butterfly wai
Matched IN the month of March anC
exhibited as the FIRST harblnger o
spring"
A Philadelphia minister has ever
exceeded Mr.. Gifford's denunciatior
of pleasure. lie condemns not onl!
skating -rinks and theaters, but al
church fairs and festivals. and says
"It's shame that whenever mone'
has to be raised for church purpose
some people think it can't be done un
less they must have a little fun over It,
The tunneling of Tuscarora noun
! tain, in Fulton county, Pennsylvania
is gigantic work. Drills propelled
. I L. Il. -,
each end of the tunnel night and day
The tunnel is already bored /, 2Dd fee
on the west side aud l, 800 on the cas-,
As the mountain is calculated to
just one mile through the boring
now half completed.
An effort has recently been made &
measure the dimensions and speed o
deep.sea waves with marked success
The longest wave recorded measure,
a half-mile from crest to crest, with
period of twenty-three seconds. Wave
having length OF five hundred to ST,
hundred feet and periods OF ten {,
twelve seconds are the ordinary storm
waves OF the north Atlantic ocean.
1t is not generally known that Yer
mont has gold mine. 1t is called tn,
Brooks, and Is located at Plymouth
From annual report il appears that th
mine produced from September, 1883
TO January, 1885, SOS, 070 in gold, an,
paid four dividends aggregating SAG,
900, the yield varying between S33 q
and $50 SO; while the cost declined
$40 10 to 81 20 per ton for mining and
milling.
A colered preacher in the outskirt.
OF Columbia, 5. c., notified his congre
CATION on recent Sunday that h,
would not preach till he had IS. Tn,
hat was passed round, and when re
turns were made SO. 80 was in the pot
whereupon the preacher said he mus
have $3.50 moro before he woulC
preach. The hat was passed around
the second time, and the IS made M
when the congregation was treated tc
one OF the best efforts OF the thrift,
pastor.
From recent surveys ii has beer
: ascertained that the entire city of yir
GINA. Nevada, has moved over thirty
inches to the east since the big fire 81
1876. The Maynard block, 10 Golden
Hill, is known TO be gradually slidjnn
down in the direction of Gold cauyon
and haa