Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-02-15
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near Worcester, Mass.
a factory-owner in Brooklyn claims
to have sold six million pounds Of
licorice last year to q tobacco firm.
A large number Of petrified trees
have recently been discovered on the
line of the Rideau canal in Canada.
A preacher at Jamestown, Mass. has
married since he began his ministerial
career over fifteen hundred couples.
Peantitraising has been commenced
on the James river lowlands neaf
Scottsyille. Va, by an entcrprising
firm.
| There are More Students from farni-
ers' families in the Ann Arbor uni
versity than from those of any other
occupation.
| AGeorgia debating society discussed
the question: "Did Zeke SHADES to-
bacco barn burn up or d0WnP' It was
decided that it did.
Francis Grammar Of Brooklyn wants
a divorce from his wife, who has de-
| serted him. He claims that she. is a
specimen of bad Grammar.
Several prominent Muskegon lum-
bermen state that they do not consider
feasible the proposed plan of rafting
logs across Lake Michigan
Columbus Delano, Gen. Grants Sec
| ietary of the Interior, is still living ON
his farm near Mount Vernon; Ohio;
and has preserved his vigor wonderful
ly.
Prof. w. Fl. Payne Resigns from the
chair OF science of teaching at Ann Ar
Dor university to take the chancellor.
ship of the Nashville Tenn.) univer-
sity.
The Rev. Henry W. Kuhn owns
some property in Omaha which he tried
to sell few years ago for 81, 900, and
| for which he has since refused $780,
000.. Lucky Kuhn!
Queen Emma of Holland is a brunei
whose eyes would be pretty did she
not continually wink when speaking,
thus giving you the impression of pre-
pairing for good burst of tears.
The board of regent of the Oregon
state university has increased the sal
airy of the president from $2,30 to
$500, and the salaries of the other
professors from 81, 760 to $1,000.
The oldest volunteer fireman in the
United States is said to be John de
Mier of Allentown, Mo-, who Joined
Relief company No. 2 of Cincinnati in
1928. He is more than 30 years of
age.
| A Boston man who was accused of
selling cigars on the Lords day plead
ed that he had the right to sell them
because tobacco is drug. He was
fined $40, and appealed to the Super
| ior court.
The Taltan water-works tunnel for
supplying Hong Kong with fresh wa
ter was completed the 18th of August.
The. tunnel is 1880 feet long, 6 wide,
and z in heighth, and is bored through
LII =oeL.
Thomas Brown of White county, Ca,
has Just rounded century of life. He
cultivates flowers and gourds. He
once raised gourd that was four feet
in circumference and which, held a
bushel of shelled corn.
Several. days -agoa cougar caught
and killed Duff Greene's fine pointer
tdog on Salmon rivers / Ia and only
released its, hold when the canine's
owner showed the muzzle3of his gun
into his hide and blew him to pieces.
The Albany Evening Journal has in
troduced typesetting machine into
it's office by which fully onc-half of
the matter on the paper is set. 1t is
said that the machine will do even bet
ter upon book type than newspaper
type.
Maj. Campbell Wallace, Railroad
Commissioner of Georgia, is over so
years old, but there are no flies on him.
4 He has lately become immensely
wealthy by buying stock in land
company at 10 cents and holding it at
81 share.
Public improvements now being
made along the Tiber will presently
reach the ancient church of st. Bon
osa, in Rome, and it will then proba-
bly, be ascertained if, as tradition has
it, the remains of Cola di Rienzi are
really buried there.
On account of the stencil arising
from the millions of dead salmon in
the McCloud river, says the Yreka
(CaL) Union, trout-fishing along that
stream is robbed of its charms. The
smell of the decaying fish is attracting
bears by the wholesale.
Mrs. Clarissa Cox of Wakefield,
Mass, who recently rounded out 100
years of life in this vale of tears, was
asked the secret of her longevity.
Hard work." said she; ''hard work
has always been good for me, and I've
always had plenty Of it to do"
1t is not generally known that the
co-education of the sexes is carried on
without limitations in the University
of Texas. The young men and young
women are admitted to the same
classes in every department, and are
eligible to degrees and honors without
exception.
One day recently Col. E. S. N. Briant
of Loganville, e., went to his well for
a bucket of water, and when he drew
it up he was surprised to see an inn
monse spreading-adder snake as thick
as his arm, covering the whole inside
of the bucket, with his head erect,
ready for business.
A Hartford man has invented an APP
paratus for timeing horses. A clock
with three hands-minute. second and
quarter seconds started by the Of
| fetal timer. When the winning horse
touches the wire the clock is stopped
by electricity. At the same instant
the current opens a camera, which