The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-10-20
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Ihe population of Rome grows Mt
the rate of $4,000 to 10000 year. At
the close of 1887 it was 3S2,973.
A Butte (Cal.) man who began
farming on rented land ten years ago
has this year SCI 900 worth of wheat TO
sell.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward, author of
Robert Elsmere," is the wife of n
London Times writer She is of slight
figure, with 4 colorlcss face, dark hair,
and bright eyes.
Mrs. "St Elmo Evans Wilson has
bought and decorated luxurious
home near Mobile with the proceeds of
her gorgeous novels. She writes in q
Chinese pagoda bower in her flower
| garden.
II. Rider Haggard is just home from
a trip to Iceland, which country he in
tends TO make the scene of his next
novel. He will freeze the readers
blood even if he has to take him to the
North Pole.
Mrs. Burnett is to receive n testi-
monial purse and address from Eng
! lish authors i'll recognition of her
plucky stand for her rights in the case
@f 'Little Lord Fauntleroy," which was
put on the boards in London without
| her consent.
BY the naval maneuvers now fin
ished in the Irish Sea, it appears that
'the average speed of even the best
ships was much below the figure given
in any authoritative naval work" A
| Cunard steamer ran bythem as though
they were anchored.
The king of the Belgians hates to-
bacco, never wears gloves, nd goes
barehanded as much as possible. He
is fond of bathing but does not swim.
He is handsome man, slightly built,
but muscular, with blue eyes and big
brown beard touched with gray.
J. X. Emmett, the actor, has Just
purchased for $1,000 the st. Bernard
dog Plinlimmon, said to be the finest
of the breed in the world. Plinlimmon
is five years old and has never been
beaten but once on the show bench.
This is the largest price ever paid for
n dog.
Bismarck has weighing chair in
his bathroom and never fails each day
to ''try his weight and make record
in his diary. There was time when
the Prince scaled the weight of 247
pounds, but by the practice of some
modern system he has reduced the iig-
| ure to 100.
The French Government is said to
have ordered 10000 portable cooking
stoves for camp use for the army. The
| inventor, on test, served up II dinner
of three courses for thirty persons ut q
cost for heating and cooking of less
than 1 cents. He uses steam rs the
basis of his heat.
The French sugar-makers have COM
menced campaign against saccharine
| extracted from coal tar. Experiments
have shown that it is not noxious,
but the Society of Agriculturists has
pctitioned the government to forbid its
manufacture as prejudicial TO the beet
root sugar trade.
Among the exhibits in Belgian dog
show is Il breed of dogs, the Schipper-
kes, found only in Belgium. They
are made use of rs watch dogs on
| board numerous inland navigation
| boats. They are small black dogs,
without tails and with pointed ears, of
extraordinary intelligence and fidelity.
The colossal statue of William
| Penn, which is to surmount the tall
tower of the new city hall ut
| Philadelphia, will be the largest bronze
figure ever cast standing thirty-sevcn
feet in height. The model is COM
| pleted, but there is no foundry in the
| United States where the casting can be
done.
Queen Regent Christina of Spain is
| exceedingly superstitious and is n
| great believer in what is called fate;
| she has, moreover. great faith in 'af-
ilnitics" and the influence of one per-
son over another for good or evil. She
is convinced that is is possible for
person to magnetic another by look,
by touch, or by desire.
Mrs. Kate Chase, rs brilliant rs ever
and nearly rs beautiful. is living
quietly on her estate ut "Edgewood,n
near Washington. There is aprospect
that the lady, whose life since her
fathers death has been full of care and
anxiety, may enjoy great prosperity
again, as her property, owing TO inn
provements in its vicinity, is rapidly
rising in value.
A poorly-clad little girl went into
the store of an Augusta stationer re-
Gently. She wished TO buy some writ
ing paper, and was finally shown
some for cents quire. How much
will half quire beP" she inquired in
half-fed, plaintive little voice. Three
cents" replied the clerk. IF you
please, I'll take the other half" was
the quick response.
An Englishman who was playing
billiards in a public house in Bromley
made bet that he would get one of
the ivory balls into his mouth. He
did get it in ard there it stuck, in spite
of all his efforts to dislodgc il. The
surgeon who was called in extracted
the lump of ivory, but only after taxi
ing out several Of the Experimental
lists" front teeth.
Mr.. James Whitcomb Riley, the
poet, has curious inability To form
true conceptions of distances and di-
rections. lie breads Il journey more