Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-03-11
Things Compressed.

Sixty million people speak Ter
man language As, 600, 900 the French.
and 100,O 900. 900 the English.
The finest churchin Buenos Ayses is
called the Church of the Remembrance.
1t is of pure Roman architecture, in
Italian marble, andeost about $3.50.
900. 1t is the property OF Senior Don
Carlos Guerrero, a wealthy citizen,
who erected it as a memorial to his
daughter, who was murdered by a re-
iected lover about ten years ago.
An alarm against violent exercise is
sounded by the medical and surgical
examiners. They sayit may be ac-
cepted as a truism that any nature or
amount OF exercise that will cause the
heart to jump or thump against the
chest-wall is exercise carried to an ex.
cessive and alarming extent. The
athlete and the slugger, for this rea.
son, are short lived.
Norristown Herald: "The new
special delivery service is a great
boom" said a Norrist own young lady
recently, sticking a 10-eent stamp on
a letter directed to a female friend in
Philadelphia, said missive conveying
the important intelligence that the
writer was out riding with Charley
and had an invitation to attend a
wedding
The manager of a circus which has
recently visited Canada says: enc
where else in the world are audiences
so interesting to the performers. In
Quebec, Montreal, Hemilton, andLon.
don, notable fugitiyes from United
States law-such as Emo, Mother Man
delbaum, and l suppose not less than
so more-are pointed out to the ring
people by some resident person.
These exiles are sure to 90 to the cir
Gus to relieve the tedium of life in their
uncongenial cities; and they are inter
esting to showmen, just as big tinan-
cial rogues are to all Americans"
The New Orleans Picayune says: "a
queen bee lays from 1000 to 1900
eggs in ninety-four hours. 1t is not
necessary to ask How doth the little
busy bee?' She doeth well, and should
be q shining example to the lazy hen
that can only be induced to lay one
egg in twenty-four hours, and then
only when eggs are cheap"
1t is worth remembering that dur,
ing the first visit of cholera at st.
Petersburg, in 1882, says Iron, a firm
OF iron founders employing five hun
dred men informed them that all those
who would not take n teaspoonful of
powdered charcoal on entering the
works in the morning must leavetheir
employ. The consequence was that
they did not lose q single man whea
myriads were dying around them.
The Hartford Times has the follow
ing interesting paragraph: "Jay
Gould's ancestor, Nathan Gold, was
the richest man in Fairfield, Ct, in
and was an Assistant OF his
colony ian Office answeringto Senator
at the present day.. He died in great
honor and respect as The Worship
full Major Nathan Gold, Esq, in 1884,
His son, Nathan Gold, died IN office
as Assistant Governor of Connecticut
in 1923. The latter was grandfather
of Colonel Abraham Gold or Gould
tJay Gould's great grandfather), who
was killed at the battle of Ridgefield,
in 1777, the place where he fell being
shown to the present day."
In 1868 the Rev. Newton Chance, OF
Texas, killed an editor in Sherman
and moved to Mississippi. At that
time he was a lawyer, but becoming
converted, he entered the ministry. {
Recently he returned to Texas, and
while on a visit to Sherman was ar
rested for the murder committed
twenty-five years ago.
Sir Arthur Bass (of BASES alefame)
has purchased Chesterfield House, for
nearly one million dollars. In the !.
hands of q famous architect it will be
restored to its old-time glory, and
among the restorations will be the !!
famous .mantelpieces which were taken
by Lord Chesterfield to Briefly.
The Severn tunnel in England, four
miles and a half long, has just been
opened. The distance was made by
five carriages in Is minutes. 1t can
scarcely be called one of the great tun- /
nels. These are Mount Gents, other
wise Frejus, about eight miles long, /
which took fourteen years to make; /
st. Gothard, nine miles long. which
took eight years to make; and the re-
Gently finished september, 1884 Arl
burg, about six miles long, which took
only two years to make.
Death from a strange cause isrepcrt-
ed from San Francisco. Frank n. /
Dwight, employed at the Methodist !
Book Depository, was taken i'll on the ]
18th ult. and gradually grew worse /
and died, his case puzzling all the physi-
clans. At the request of his parents an 1
autopsy was held, the result of which
was the finding of a jagged lemon seed
lodged In his mtestines. The seed had
been drank with some lemonade,
One of the new members ofthe Geor-
gia legislature kept quietly in his seat
for three hours on his first day in the
house, and then, timidly approaching
q doorkeeper, said in o whisper: ell
-I-say, I'd like to go out, tiff you
don't k-keer. I-I-won't be gone but
about ten minutes" The doorkeepeI
let him Quit