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

Oaxaca, Mexico, has $4,000 in her
state treasury.
a bullet travels mile In three and
two-tenths seconds.
Ipswich voted $1,000 bonds for Its
artesian well almost unanimously.
The Germans are now making deli
cate watch wheels from paper pulp
The board of health is making wal
on the carp ponds in South Carolina
HYDE county, organized but year
AGO, has succeeded in creating debt
of $4,000.
Summer cottages in chrome yellow
will vie with the tawny sea-sands this
season.
Making envelopes out of straw pa
per is new and ilourishing industry In
Ireland.
Pepideh is accurately written and
pronounced Punjdeh, and means "hye
villages"
The number of letters posted IN the
world each year averages ahodt o.
100000 ~.
The pine tree, says an authority,
serves as a refuge for more than ioO
species Of meets.
1t is claimed that there are 10000
republican voters in Tennessee, to
1875, 0C0 democrats.
The cost of each saloon TO the city
of indianapolis last year was Sl5S, and
thelicense only S52.
The governor of Oaxaca, Mexico, Is
distributing by thousands textbooks
in the public schools.
The base ball clubs of this country,
it is estimated, will cost the people
$40, 600, 900 this year.
Thirteen hundred new buildings,
worth about $4,000, 900, were erected
in Washington last year.
Fresno, Marysville, and San Jose,
Cal . were visited by an earthquake
shock Saturday, April 4.
A farmhouse at Sumter City, Ca,
takes his fodder to the water trough
and vets it before eating.
The shipment of cigars from Key
West, weekly. amount to 1900, OO0,
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
ly pure white 10 perfect black.
A novelty in ice-pitchcrs is one
which throws forth stream of water
when a spring at the top is pressed.
A real-estate owner in San Francisco
adds TO his large income from that
source by peddling fruit about the
| city.
4 wealthy timber merchant has had
his cOat-of-arms painted on his carri-
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 pyrometer, an instrument in
which heat is measured by the expan-
sion of metals, will accurately mea-
sure heat up to 1000 degrees.
Every penitentiary in Texas is pro-
vided with kennel of three or more
fierce bloodhounds for the purpose Of
hunting and capturing escaped pris'
oners.
A train composed of two cars OF
| gold bullion, three cars of silver, eight
| cars of silk and four cars of tea, is on
its way east from California and Col
orado.
An iror car-wheel viii travel about
10000 miles. A steel tire will run
1000 miles, costing two and a hall
times as much and running more than
four times as long as an iron wheel.
w. Ii. Wood, OF New York city, re,
Gently caught on the gulf coast Of
Florida a tarpon weighing Ill pounds
The tackle used was the ordinary rod
reel, and line employed by bass Usher:
on the Atlantic coast, and the feat
ranks without known parallel.
An enterprising man, who wished t.
be able 10 announce the first sign o
spring placed twig on which was
cocoon of a caterpillar near the stow
for week or two. The butterfly wa
Matched in the month of March ant
exhibited as the first harbinger o
spring"
A Philadelphia minister has ever
exceeded Mr.. Gifford's denunciatioI
of pleasure. He condemns not onh
skating -rinks and theaters, but al
church fairs and festivals, and saws
"lps "a shame that whenever money
has to be raised for church purposes
some people think it can't be done up
less they must have little fun over it. '
The tunneling of Tuscarora noun
tain, in Fulton county, Pennsylvania
is a gigantic work. Drills propelled
by compressed air are in operation on
each end of the tunnel night and day
The tunnel is already bored 1,200 fee
on the west side and 1900 on the east
AS the mountain is calculated to b.
just one mile through the boring /,
now half completed.
An effort has recently been made tc
measure the dimensions and speed oil
deep-sea waves with marked success
The longest wave recorded measured
a half-mile from crest to crest, with a
period of twenty-three seconds. Wave.
having length of five hundred to six
hundred feet and periods of ten tc
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 the
Brooks, " and is located at Plymouth.
From annual report it appears that the
mine produced from September, 1888,
to January, 1885, sos, O70 in gold, and
paid four dividends aggregating S46,.
900, the yield varying between S33 SO
and $50 50; while the cost declined
$40 10 to 81 20 per ton for mining and
milling.
A cclered preacher in the outskirts
OF Columbia, 5. c., notified his congre.
CATION on recent Sunday that he
would not preach till he had s.. The
hat was passed round, and when re-
turns were made 80 was in the pot,
whereupon the preacher said he must
have Sl.5O more before he would
preach The hat was nassad a.r,,,, 4