Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-04-30
FACT AND FANCY.

S. c.
4 Nevada has i3l postofiices of the
( fourth class, Of the third class, and
{ of the second class.
A South Carolina p1dntcr raises Sea
island cotton for French spintrer
and receives 81 per pound.
The Oneida community New York
( papers published in the vicinity say has
virtually fallen to pieces.
A Youkers bride received, among
her wedding gifts, receipted bill of
80 for gate hinges from her father.
/ As high as $50 head Is offered to
officers of Victoria AMI Puget sound
steamers to smuggle Chinese across
/ the line.
/ The Philadelphia Times celebrated its
/ tenth anniversary as newspaper on
the 18th inst. by publishing twenty
eight pages.
In Death valley, Inyo county, Cali.
/ fornia, week before last the thermom-
eter for several days marked 120 de-
grees in the shade.
Marriages a speciality, acceptable
at all hours; strangers particularly
invited" is the unique advertisement
of clergyman at York, Me.
Mr.. w. Ii. Harp, of Americas. Ga.
uses a coffee mill which has been in
constant use in his family for nearly
sixty years and is efficient as ever.
A flying snake is ON exhibition at
Virginia City, New. The reptile is
four feet long and has two wings at
tached to its body about four inches
back of the head.
The juice of the curious ink-plant
of New Granada requires no prepare
ten before being used for writing.
The color is reddish when first applied
to the paper, but soon becomes a deep
black which is very durable.
The story is going the rounds that a
Tennessee woman, convicted of steal
ing diamond ring, IS boarding at a
hotel under guard instead of occupy
ing small apartment in peniten-
tiary.
1t is sand there is hardly telegraph
operator of any experience who has
not had touch of operators paraly-
SIS, and that many of the mistakes
made by operators can be traced to
this ailment.
A gentleman at Lake Jesup, Fla,
while experimenting with an orange
tree, placed some fertilizer on one side
and none on the other. The side that
was fortified bore large, bright or
anges, and the other small, rusty ones.
Yale has, in the way of trophies,
si&ty-nine base balls, won from her
various adversaries. Each ball Is
painted the color of the stockings of
the vanquished nine, and is lettered to
Indicate the time and place of win
ming.
There are twenty thousand tons of
wheat in the various warehouses along
Snake river Washington territory,
waiting for the prices to rise: Farm
ers in that section claim to have about
half as much more in their home gran.
aries.
According to Florida paper, the
pumpkin is perennial in that
state. 1t is said that there is pump
kin vine growing near Rock Ledge
which has been bearing three years,
out for another.
A bill has been introduced in the
city council of New York to regulate
roller skating. The proposed ordi-
nance prohibits minors, unless accom-
panied by parents or guardians, from
attending roller-skating Kinks, and
also forbids roller skating in parks
and streets.
A new machine for bicycle practice,
designed by DR.. Sargent, has been put
in the Harvard college gymnasium.
1t consists of stationery wheel, over
which is seat which can be raised or
lowered at pleasure to accommodate
any one. The pressure on the wheel
can be so regulated as to make the
work as hard or easy as is desired.
What strange creatures we are, to
be surei A sailor soon forgets the ter
rors of the sea, and ships again ere he
has been ashore month; the convict
is almost certain to return to the
short time back, and the widow will
marry the second time if she gets the
chance, and she usually gets the
chance.
One of the funny things of the inau-
guratiOn ball, it is said, was the at
tempts of commonplace people to
force their names on newspaper cor
respondents. Many ladies brought
elaborate accounts of their toilets in
their pockets, written out in the most
angular style, and sent their escorts
to the press headquarters with this
sort of information.
A romantic scribe thus describes
the first kiss of a newly welded
couple: "Up the perfumeswept av-
enue of love and under the roseat
archway of hymen they had passed
into the joy-lit realms of that hig her
and holier existence where soul meets
soul on limpid waves of ecstatic feel
ing, and hearts touch hearts through
the blended channel of lips in rapture
linked
The late Gen. Gordon's sisters have
declined the annuity which Mr.. Glad
stone offered to them. The general
left three sisters, one OF whom is I'M
married, and they are all residing at
Southampton. He had two brothers,
one of whom Enderby Gordon, died
many years ago. The survivor is Sir
Henry w. Gordon, X. &. b. Gen.
Gordon's sisters last heard direct from
Khartoum in November.
The descriptive terms used for neu.
Biological conditions are rapidly in
creasing in number, and bid lair to
make an interesting vocabulary. Some
of the comparatively recent terms are
"anthrophobia," being afraid to meet
anyone about the house; "polypito-
bia, afraid of everything, sometimes;
"phobophobia," being afraid some
thing is going to happen to frighten
him.
One of the most novel and interest
ing lawsuits that ever went to trial
was before the Helena, Ark, magis-
trate courts on the Sth inst. Mount
Zion Baptist church (coiored) was
burned to the ground on Monday
night, and one portion OF the congre-
CATION had the other arrested, charged
with the burning. The entire congre-
cation were arraigned and very bit
ter fight made. The evidence pro-
duced was insufficient for conviction,
and thew were diseharped