The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-24
MISSING LINKS.

There are now more Cinnamon in
the Sandwich Islands than native male
Hawaiians.
The Telephone Exchange of Stock
holm, Sweden, is equipped with Ameri
can apparatus.
The kitchen and dining-room of Q
Kansas City hotel are located on the
eighth floor, and reached by six eleva
tors.
Of the students sent by the govern.
ment of Siam to receive professional
training in England, four are young
women.
1t takes more than ninety DAYS fol
some ideas to 60 around the world
The roller-skating craze has just reach.
ed Australia.
Returns for 1888 show that British
live stock has decreased AS per cent
compared to 1887 and 7.S compared
with 1886.
A rancher ut Puente, CAL, has las.
seed genuine condor. and it is now
in the hands of Los Angeles taxider.
mist. 1t measures nine feet from tip
to tip.
William Pool, of Limestone Hill, w.
Va, has powder horn that General
Washington gave to his grandfather
over hundred years ago. Mr.. Pool
prizes this treasure very highly.
At n country picnic in Massachus.
etts an old gentleman of seventy-six
had n lively waltz with an old lady OF
eighty-one. Another couple danced
together whose combined ages were
161.
The quickest passage evermade from
land to land across the Atlantic was
made in August by the Allan steamer
Partisan. From Tory Island, off Mo.
vile, to Belle Isle took days II hours
10 minutes.
Mrs. Cleveland writes to n lady IN
Allegheny, who had named a baby for
her: II ought, perhaps, to tell you
that I'm never called Frankie nj.
though my intimate friends sometimes
call me Frank"
A boy named Ford, who lives in
Sevierville. Tenn, no longer thinks
tame bears are nice pets. One seized
him the other day, tore off the calf OF
his leg and made horrible cash in
his stomach. He may not recover
Southern women are said to have
taken the lead of their Sex in money
making in New York. The head OF
the richest firm of dressmakers is n
Southern woman, and women of South
ern birth come To the front in other
directions.
\ cane made by prisoners confined
in the state prison at Carson, New,
was sent to Senator Stewart The
cane is composed of 5,674 pieces OF
wood and thirty-tive different varieties
are used in its construction, coming
from all quarters of the globe.
A Scotch beadle took his sweet
heart to a graveyard, and showing her
a dark corner, said: MARY, my folks
lie there. Would you like to lie there
when you die?" 1t was grim way of
proposing, but Mary was sensible
Scotch lassie and accepted him.
A Georgia man is ready to swear
that common soda is the sovereignest
thing on earth for the bite of either
mad dog or snakc-notwithstan
there is not the remotest possibility
that fishing parties and so on will SUBJ
stitute it for the usual antidote.
A California company has been or
ganized to manufacture soap out of a
material that is skinned from boil
ing spring. in that state. The SUBJ
stance hardens by exposure to the air,
is like soft clay, and is supposed to be
mixture of borax, alkali and lubricat-
ing oil.
S. A. Haines of New York, President
of the Commercial Travellers Temper
ance League. has been on the road
since 1856. He is now delivering n
lecture entitled Lend Me a Hand" :"
If he is satisfied with one hand he is
an unusually modest member of his
profession.
Whist players win be interested TO
know that all thirteen of the trumps
were recently dealt in hand, aud
that, too, under circumstances that
quite forbid trickery. According to
Pole, the recognized authority, the
odds against such an occurrence are as
157, 1850, 900, 900 to /.
The French have discovered a
method of making smokeless powder,
the detonations of which are scarcely
audible, so that the firing will not re-
veal the whereabouts OF an army.
This invention and tho superiority of
the Lebel rifle have excited great at
tention in military circles in Europe,
and are likely to effect n revolution in
warfare.
Army recruits are not of first quality
nowadays. OF sixteen recruits recent
ly arrived at Livingston, Mont, six are
in the guard house for serious offenses,
three have deserted, one has been sent
to Fort Benton for trial by court-mar-
tial, and one was strung up by indig-