The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-08-18
MISSING LINKS.


There are 400 less boats engaged in |
the salmon industry ut Astora this year |
than last.
a lily jet black in color ISL bloom at
at Chico, Cal 1t emits very disagree
able odor.
1t is expected that n thousand Ice
landers will arrive in Manitoba during
the summer.
| 1t is estimated that the girl who
/ dances eighteen waltzcs travels about
/ fourteen miles.
Cattle raising and milk farming are
receiving increased attention in Mis-
souri, every year.
The average Mexican laborer sup
| ports his family on 10 cents per diem,
! invested in corn and beans.
All the policemen of Kansas City arc
church members. two of whom are
/ elders and several of them are dcacons.
George Shcnbergcr, of York, Pa, has
n German Bible which was printed in
the yeai 1880. The print is quite plain.
Miss Alice McKecl, of Wavery, Tenn,
while working in the garden, killed
rattlesnake by cutting its head off with
hoe.
1t is said the tightening rod is relic
OF superstitution, and viii soon be re-
gardcd in the same light rs horse
shoe over door.
A curious theft was committed by an
old woman of Orange, n. j. She dug
up the cobble stones from the highway
to pave her cellar floor.
The New York Mail and Express
wisely remarks that nobody regrets the
departure from town of the women
whose specially is subscription papers.
An English canal company makes use
of the locomotive upon the towing path.
A small engine employed upon lS-inch
rails draws four boats at the rate OF
seven miles an hour.
Alexander Rostoff is the name OF Il
laboring man in Bridgeport Conn, who
can speak Russian, his native tongue.
and German. Hungarian, Hebrew, Latin,
English and Italian.
japanese engineers propose to adopt
n system of carthwork defenses pro-
tected by an iron shield one foot in
thickness and extending twenty-five
, feet each side of the gun.
There is n couple in Wilkes County
Georgia, who have been married about
forty wears, and during that time the
wife has never asked the husband for
any money except ten cents.
A South Carolina girl was married
five times in saven weeks, and is now
bothered to know which one o. the
chaps is her true husband, She has
.a,l 60
[ Pullman has invented street cars
, with reversible seats and central aisle
rs in passenger coaches, and proposes
, to upholster them like the vestibule
: cars and make smoking rooms.
A New York paper tells of q Harlem
!, woman who has double rows of teeth,
while her son has no teeth ut all. There
!; manifestly is such n thing as carrying
this s-rights matter too far.
! A New York studio is dimly lighted
as dusk comes on by pile of skulls
, smearcd with phosphorous. To the
topmost one is fastened bone con
tanning Il candle. 1t is a lady's studio
3 too.
A Burton, Ohio, man, suspecting
l that one of his fowls had stolen hel
/ nest watched her and found that she
had appropriated hollow apple tree
J, and built "A nest ten feet from tht
ground.
). A number of society girls in Mobil,
recently organized themselves into ;
|. minstrel troupe. blacked their faces
n donned the professional wigs and gav,
Il n performance for the benefit of
charitable society.
p Some Australian parasites that ar
warranted to kill fruit pests have beer
10 received in California, and are bein:
tried by orchardists. 1t IS claime'
- that these little bugs, no larger thar
tleas, feed on fruit pests, and rapidly
,r destroy them.
D. A new table ornament is jelly illumi
mated by electric light. The dish
ID hidden from observation at first by
silver cover and n mass of flowers, i
suddenly revclad from the light shin
d, through the mass from the center, AM
lr the effect is esctrifying.
Shorts@htcdncss in California is at
w tributed by some physicians TO the al
"a sence of color in that country, the pre-
n vailing tint being dull brown or drat
In the land OF perpetual sunshin
10 white houses aud white concrete side
as walks are said to bo most injurious t
at the sight
The rain seems to be appreciated q
~ the South, if one can Judge from tn
o following lines from n Southern paper
OF 80, the rain, the beautiful rain. flood
y, NJ ing the valley and soaking the plair
unto the farmer in music it drips, hell
40 ing the cotton and saving the slips
@ @0 Far and near its patter we hear; ., 10
~ such seasons the rest of the year!'
ID, The finest private collection of oil
at almanacs in America is said to b
owned by one of the Justices of th
Supreme Court OF the United State
The rarcst almanac in the countr
probably is the one published by Wi
liam Bradford in 1859. 1t is in the co
lection of the Historical Society
-. Pennsylvania, and is valued at 800.