The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-10
MISSING LINKS.

A mountain in Colorado has been
named Mount Sheridan.
Snobisme is the latest word which
France has borrowed from England.
The French propose to send pigeon
messages from ship to ship upon the
broad seas.
Savannah is now the largest cotton
port in the United States, and Norfolk
second.
A Modesto (Cal.) lady has raised
sunflowcr twenty-nine inches in diam
eter and weighing eight pounds.
A Butte, Cal. man who began farm
ing on rented land ten years ago has
this year SCI, 900 worth of wheat to
sell.
Irish agriculture continues to de-
cline. Last year tillage decreased by
$4,000 acres, and grass lands increased
by 1000 acres.
The island of La COST, on the Flori-
da coast, is being set out with cocoanut
trees so rapidly that it will soon be one
immense cocoanut grove.
A tract of land containing 100000
UCEtS III alOOSlObh AhiiuSt HIS
been sold for 100000. The deed re-
corded contains $4,000 words.
The chief reason for Moltke's resig-
nation, expressed in his letter to En-
peror William, is that at my great
age l am no longer able to mount q
horse"
Cattle are so cheap in Nevada that
the present season will prove very
improbable one for stock raisers. Beef
is selling at to 81 cents pound,wi
few buyers.
A correspondent or the o.rcol
MercUry says that he heard some COR
net playing from n phonograph which
had been repeated more than n thousand
times, and all the notes were rs clear
| and distinct as ever.
Paris H'd,tstre, without question the
most elegant illustrated paper in the
world, is to be published in an English
edition, and the international News
Company, of New York, has the ex-
elusive agency for the United States.
An absent-minded Albany clergy
man having forgotten his appointment
to attend funeral, n neighboring
cooper, who is gifted with the power
of prayer, was called in and performed
the function of the minister.
The Institute OF the Brothers of the
Christion Schools now numbers 1920
establishments, scattered throughout
the world. There are HIP brothers,
and 1,070 schools, with 307, 1897 pupils,
besides many colleges and boarding
schools.
The doors of St. Paul's Chathedral
| are kept closed during the week on ac-
count of the mischief and indeeorum
| which would take place if they were
| opened. 1t is said that even with a
| restricted right of enterance the cathe-
dral is constantly polluted.
The Country Court House at Pitts
burg, Pa, cost nearly S3,0OO,000 The
| tower rises TO n height of 42O feet. 1t
has Il bridge over which the prisoners
pass between the court-roOms and the
Jail, which is modelled after the famous
Bridge of Sighs' in Venice.
The oldest woman's club in the Unit
ed States is the Woman's Physiologic-
al Institute of Boston. Forty-one
| years ago it was organized with the
| purpose of promoting the more perfect
health of woman. There is one surviv-
ing charter member, Mrs. Hobbs, and
she is eighty years old.
An old writer says: "a long chin
declarcth man to be peaceable, yet a
| babbler. They that have little chins
| are much to be avoided and taken heed
of, for they are full of impiety and
wickedncss, and are spies like unto
serpents. If the end of the chin be
| round, it is the sign of nice manners;
| but the chin of n real man is square,"
The Beautiful and Gifted.
Miss Amelie Rives (Mrs. Chanler)
said in regard TO her literary work: II
| think out my own plots, but | don't
know what the characters will say I'M
til take up the pen. 'Herod and
Marianne was written a year ago last
winter. 1t was n months task. had
had the plot in my mind two years be-
fore, but had not put it to paper"
''Will 1t be put on the stage?'
81 don't know. A manager wanted
me to 90 on tho platform and read,
! lat that was out of the question. He
has made proposition to 'dramatize'
'Herod and Marianne That is what
he wrote. Perhaps he meant to re-
duce 1t TO stage proportions, but his
offer was vague"
What will come next---a play or
novel?"
The next will be play. It's title
is 'Ethelwold." 1t is based on incidents
in English history just prior to the
reign of Henry ii. The Harpers have
secured il, and it will be issued about
the first Of the year. After that /
have no fixed plans, butwill, naturally,
continue To write"
She Had Been Untrue.