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The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-12

A Berlin dispatch to the London
 Chronicle says that the hope is
 generally expressed in Berlin that in the event of a split-up the 200,- 900 Germans in Southern Brazil will ask for German protection, and that it is not improbable that an attempt will be made, with the help of the colonial party in Ger many, to secure to them partial if not complete independence. If Bismarck is wise he will go very slowly about creating a German state of any kind in South Ameri- ca. If the Germans in Brazil as- sert their independence that is matter for Brazil to take care of; but if they, with the help of the mother country, lttempt to set up a little branch Germany there the United States vii certainly call Germ ~ attention to the Monroe
 .octrine, and the probabilities are very strong that in such an event every American republic on the two continents would join hands with the United States, whereupon Bis marck would back down as grace fully as possible -S. F. Chronicle.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-12

The Governor of Alaska, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior, says "the natives be- come devoutly pious and swear like pirates"
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-12

The jury in a breach of promise case at Champaign, Illinois, award ed one cent damages, and advised the plaintiff to beware of book agents"
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-12
Odds and Ends.

Between 6OO and 700 tons o ivory are imported into England every year.
 An electric engineer says 200
 miles,,per hour will be made by cleo tric trains.
 l Nearly one-half the 4S7 doctors
 of medicine of Boston University , are woman.
 In his excitement Norristown,
 Pa., gunner shot his dog and the rabbit escaped.
 A Kentucky youth who loves peace and quiet has eloped with q deaf and dumb girl.
 Lord Woiseley's only warlike ex- ploits at present are connected with monthly magazines.
 You must have swallows on your note paper. It is the fashion :; besides it is "good luck"
 A plague of monkeys afflicts Tanjore, in southern India, and reward is paid for their destruction.
 The governor of Montana esti- mates the white population of the state at 10000 and the Indians at 15,OOO.
 An old lady and a child of twelve years are reported to have been de- voured by bears in Arizona recent ly.
 Prof. Frank Stouch has taught 23,6S5 persons at Reading, how to dance. It took him fifty three years to do it. E The idea of having an "old" slip per specially made to order to thr ow after bride appears to be New York fancy.
 Chinese are arriving at Mazat- 1 Ian, Mexico, in great numbers, and are making their way to California i and Arizona overland.
 Here is young lady who is of a practical turn of mind. Miss Eliza Jane Easter, an estimable young lady of Boone county.
 In Philadelphia Margaret Wat son was convicted of being a com mon scold. The court directed her to move from the neighborhood.
 It is said that hydrophobia has been practically stamped out by the adoption of the muzzle through out the provinces of Prussia.
 A man near Pottstown, Pa., brides himself on attending 4,OO0 funerals. He is a very cheerful man too. Some people really enjoy funerals.
 A 16-year-old girl has been arrest ed in New York for the atrocious crime of stealing her fathers trous- CTS while he slept and pawning them,
 A Maine town which sees the . coming reform has just built new town house and has fitted it with rooms for the Australian balloting system.
 The governor of Alaska, in his annual report to the Secretary of the Interior, says "the natives be- come devoutly pious and swear like pirates"
 John Tyndall, father of the fa- ] nous scientist, was carpentar by l trade. He lived in the little town of Carlow, forty-four miles from Dublin, Ireland.
 The Lewiston Journal says it would seem as if nobody need go t with an empty stomach in Maine l when sun-dried apples are selling s 'or 4 cents pound. S
 The saying "the horse was scared :, 70 death" is not entirely a fiction.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-12

guillotine. Still it would not great
 ly distress him to see it at work on
 some of his audacious critics. Zola
 is not tender hearted.
 W. Va, and daughter of Mich
 ael Easter, esq, justice of the
 peace for Scott district owns a saw
 and grist mill on Camp creek, which
 she operates in person.
 The surest way, the Washington
 Post thinks, to have greatness
 thrust upon you is to get yourself lost in Central Africa. Stevens of the World did not get lost.
 Read in a country weekly :"Want- ed, by family from the city, teacher of languages to call twice week to correct the pronuncia- tion of a Brazilian parrot"
 Large deposits of excellent hard coal have recently been discovered in Alaska and on some of the coast islands. The quantity is believed to be practically inexhaustible.
 A man in California who killed a neighbor's steer to save his own family from starving, declined coun- sel, pleaded guilty, and was sen fenced to one year in the state pris- on.
 The enemies of West Virginia justice of the peace, recently ap- pointed, are circulating the story that the magistrate signs his name without using single capital let ter.
 With the new smokeless powder, the fire of whole battary of artill- cry does not make half so much smoke as that made by company of infantry using the old black powder.
 One man in Ohio thinks of go- ing to Siberia. He says they are never troubled there with elections. The constant elections in Ohio be- gin to make some people there tired.
 The chief thoroughfares and p1b= lie place of Rome are to be illum- mated by electric lights, the power for generating which is to be ob- ,ained from the famous Tivoli ho- ,el.
 Maxwell Sommerville, of Phila- lelphia, has just purchased a beau ,iful antique cameo of Jupiter preserved from the frsS century. It is said to have cost more than $5O,OOO.
 A solid English dinner, typical 'f English cooking, is the city din- Ter of turtle soup, followed by tur- le fins, then cod or turbot and with a choice of danger Jus "made dishes" with joints, tur- zeys and plum buildings to wind ID.
 A remarkable "sink" exists in Bradford county, Fla. It is 200 ards across, perfectly round, with mooth sides, and the water is 100 eet below the surface. No bottom lad ever been found. The sink is by beautiful shade of rees.
 A Buffalo paper says Niagara iver, below the falls, is unusually ow, and, what is more singular, he waters have been gradually fail ng for the past three or four years. is still from 15O to 200 feet deep, owever, and is not likely to dry up ct awhile.
 Egyptains are said to bear surgi- al operations with extraordinary and success. Clot Bey, he founder of modern medicine in ,gypt, says: "It requires as much urgery to kill one Egyptian as ovon Fn-Opoopc Tn fbo oof;uo
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-12
The Silver Problem.


 cy of intrinsic value is always ar
 assurance against financial panic
 and disorder. It cannot be destroy.
 ed or impaired. In 1857, when the
 peoplewere frightened into demand ing specie for their bank-notes, it
 was found that there was no specie. The notes became worthless, the country was without a currency, and wreck and ruin followed. It would not have been so bad if there had been proportionately as many silver dollars in the country as now. Denver Times.
 The Nation that has seen all the arguments of the monometalists absolutely overthrown and utterly discredited will not be frightened by a rehash of the exploded theo- ries. The single standard favors the interests of the money kings of London, Paris, Frankfort and Am sterdam. It is, too, in the interests of the money-lenders of our East ern States, for it promises them more than fair returns. But the people demand full remonetization and they will have it. Any party that attempts to stand in the way of such demand will get hurt Washington Press.
 By issuing certificates against bullion the Government would save the cost of coinage and the people would have a currency just as se- cure as that which they use now Rochester Post-Express.
 The New York Times admits that there is a good deal of force in MT. St. Johns figures, and asserts that silver certificates are superior in intrinsic value to the present Treas ury notes, which are "mere paper pkomises to pay Mr. St. John has a strong backing in the Bank ers' Association, Ind those that are not with him have nothing on which | they can agree.-SYracuse Standard.
 The important question now is how to undo the mischief done by the abandonment of bimetallism without doing other mischief in the process of changing back. There is disagreement among silver men on this point, and the main object of the St. Louis convention is to secure uniformity of sentiment and a common plan of action. That object will hardly be reached until after thorough discussion and many concessions for the sake of the common object-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 If the Pan-American congress, now in session, can arrange for a common or equivalent silver coin age for all American countries they will do the best thing for bimetal- ' lism that is in sight.-Louisville { Commercial. (
 The United States is the greatest silver producing nation in the world It is to our interest to keep up the price of 1t. We would profit in many ways by such a course. Any , reasonable legislation to that end ought to receive the approval of [ Congress. But free coinage act , would not be reasonable legislation. And for that reason We hope the {; movement looking for the passage of such a bill will fail.-New York I News.
 The proposition that the United s States Treasury shall have power to sell as we'll as buy silver, would make it partner and sort of provi- | dence Tn the speculation, and would come dangerously near the prac- tices with which the Treasury was charged in the Black Friday scan- | dal. The more this proposition is ' canvassed the more hazardous it a
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-12

J the inventor. No invention shoul be allowed to cover what is no within it's scope. That is simpl
 justice to the public. Both inven
 tors and the public are concerned
 in having all disputed patent case
 promptly and authoritatively set
 tied. That is simple justice to all I-Scientific American.
 Nearly all foreign navies are using
 electric-lightning devices of Amer
 ican origin, and no vessels, so fal
 as known, have yet been provided
 with installations superior to those
 equipped by the United States Gov.
 ernment, either in perfection of de-
 sign or quality of workmanship
 Electrical Review.
 pr. Burdon Sanderson foresees
 another division in science. He ob- serves, in a biological paper in the
 British Association, that morphol- ogy and physiology have now di-
 verged so widely, as regards sub ject and method, that there seems to be danger of complete separa- tion of one from the other.-Popu- lar Science Monthly.
 The Washington statistician of the amateur kind who are figuring on the total of the coming census differ widely. Some hold that the census will show 62,000,000 people Tn the United States. and others set the total as high as 75, 100000. The more general estimate, and that of trained statisticians, is that the population will be found to be 65,- 100000, they assuming that the rate of increase per decade of 30 per cent has been maintained.-Boston Transcript.
 Near Miers, in the Department of the Lot, between Auvergne and the Garonne, the course of a subterra- mean river has been traced in a boat for a distance of over two kilome- ters. Seven small lakes and thirty two waterfalls were passed in the voyage made in a small boat. It is estimated that the un- derground course is fully seven kill ometers, the stream joining the Dordogne near St. Denis Martel. It is to be remembered that all that region is of limestone formation.-I Engineering and Mining Journal.
 A canvas-back duch flies at an habitual rate of 80 miles per hour, which is increased in emergency to 120. The mallard has a flight of AS miles an hour; the black duck, pin-tail, widgeon, and wood duck | cannot do much better. The blue wing and green-wing teals can do 100 miles an hour and take it easy. The red head can fly all day at 90 miles per hour. The gadwall can 10 90 miles. The flight of the wild goose is 100 miles per hour.-Na-S ,ure.
 Over nine thousand children have been examined in the schools of he following cities-New York, Stuttgart, Bordeaux, Munich and Ilasgow-and the average of defec- lively hearing pupils is 26 per cent. plus. As a comparison test be- ween children who were regarded IS bright and those considered back yard and dull scholars, teachers were requested to make a selection # seventy of each group. The re- ults of the examination of the two cts, says the British Medical Jour- lal, show twice as many with de- ective hearing among backward hildren as among the forward chil- Iren.-Science.
 The Eiffel Tower, in Paris, is 994 eet high the next tallest building
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-12

A contract made with a lunatic is void.
The St. Johns herald., 1889-12-12
General Intelligence.

Every inventor, of course, should be protected in all his patented in ventions. Thatis simple justice to the inventor. No invention should be allowed to cover what is not within it's scope. That is simple justice to the public. Both inven- tors and the public are concerned in having all disputed patent cases promptly and authoritatively set tied. That is simple justice to all Scientific American.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28
DIRE DISASTERS.


Fifty Persons Poisoned by Drinking Pic
mic Lemonade Made OF Tartaric Acid.
MONTREAL, Que. June 26. Fifty per-
sons have been poisoned at Weston at q
picnic. A druggist had sold sugar OF
lead instead of tartaric acid for making
lemonade. Fifteen are reported to be
dying. The others are considered out of
danger. The druggist has disappeared
to evade arrest.
A crowd has started after Alexander
with the openly avowed intention of
capturing and lynchiDg him
Fatal BIaxe In Boston Ffreworks Es
tablishment. y
Boston, June 90. "A disastrous fire,
accompanied by toss of life, occurred in
the fire works estab tablishment Of Heyer
Bros, corner of Sumner and Hawley
streets. N.foe dead bodies have been
taken fron3 M ruins and three persons
are known - be fatally injured. II lis
feared that there may be more victims
among the. debfis,
SsySn>y l(lpsss Entoanbsd. ii
SYDNEY, IN n 4 E;ss "a. by the
~ ~ !: 8! ]; u! !:
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28
FuLLYx1o,ooo LOST.

After CoropariHg Notes Johnstown Ply
sicians give That as Their Estimate of
tho Number ofyictims.
JoHasTowN, b., June 24.-The Red
Cross hospital reports four new cases
received. Two are serious cases Of
blood poisoning and two typhoid fever.
At meeting OF the local physicians of
this city the sanitary and general condi-
ton of health in4he flooded district was
under consideration. The physicians
also compared notes as to the number Of
lives lost in tho Hood. All agreed that
the dead number at least $4,000. These
resident physicians have rl1h..Siy had
better opportunity for jtitsinG the loss
of life than aqy, other ylrscn hsre.
Their judgment % this srlbiscl Is acA
cepted with confidence.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28
J0HNSTOWN'S BADLUCK
Fire Threatens IN Complete the
Destruction or the stricken
City.
About Thirty Houses Were Destroyed,
Involving Loss Of Probably
$35,0OO.
Only the Yeering OF the Wind Saved the
City From Almost Total De-
StructiOn.

JoHNsTowN, Pa, June est was
only due to the direction of the wind
that the remains of Johnstown were not
entirely wiped out by fire. The blaze
began at lp'clock with the First Ward
school house, which stood on the bank
of Stoney creek. That building stood on
the upper side of the dismal waste, which
the torrent of water swept c.aar across
the town. Close by the school building,
all jumblcd up together, were about
thirty buildings, some of them in good
state of preservation and inhabited.
Next to these houses was a street, the
only one not yet cleared of Debris, and
Oh the opposite side was wide stretch
OF ground tightly packed with frame
buildings in all manner of decrepit at
titudes. Still further above were some
of the best preserved buildings in the
city. Had the wind carried the flame
in the opposite direction tire would have
destroyed what the flood had left. AS
it was the fire
Caused = veritabIe Panic
in the immediate neighborhood, as it
enveloped one honse after another in
rapid succession. One OF the abandoned
houses had been hardware store, and
the explosion Of keg Of powder in it
sent the buaaing roof flying in frag-
ments, thus increasing the danger. Men
were put to work sniothering the bon
fires that str@{ehed across the open space,
with earth, and in this manner cut off
the fires lineM communication to the
threatened buildings, whose oc-
cupants w(xe already moving the
remnants of their furniture. This bank
ing of the bcnfires with earth and the
ering of theSwind 30 that the burning
embers were carried into Stoney creek
ended the danger in this direction. On
sha otl,ar siAA tlss G~a mot nnnacitinn
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28

cipal leaders of these mouuta:2eESa ii
sworn allegiance to the Northern- cal a,
and they are n0w among tie. escort cf
the president. NOwn mot single plac { Il,
any of the tliree Aepartnepts OF drk
North is occupied by the enemy, s'. g.
Yesterday wqhad newsfrom pcfg
au Prince up I'd 3lst nlt. FnrtfAr
desertions in tha xanks css; egitiinesS
friends are reported ainse,Hne ProplntN.
Legitimes minister nf war, who had left
his command in the North First airIiy
corps-aId reported at Port au Prince
before the breaking up Of his aTIdy, has
resigned and left the country. Gen
LaF Forest, who was military governor sf
Port au Prince, has also iaft. ADess
ministry has been formed. Tie arcA-
bishop OF Port au Prince and other
friends cf Legitime called upon hiia,,.
begging him to leave tte country, so as
to insIrepeace. He ref. Nd To do SO. Il
Insnrrection Imminent In Port au Prince.
NEW York. June 2e.--Capt. Clan, of
the steamer Selta, from Port de Paix, !.
June 16. reports that Gen. Hippolyte had,
arrived 1T Cape Haytien with bis staff, &
and was preparing to join his troops be-
fore Portau Prince. Gen. Legit;me re-
fuses tos eapitulate, and there is consid-
cradle scitement in Port au Prince,s
and fears ere entertained Of All insurrecs,
ton.
TIRS. HAYES IS DEAD.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28

had their effect and the fire was under
control aftee burning for two hours, and
twenty-five or thirty houses were in
ashes. The kwhole population of the
valley turned out to watch the conflagra-
tion and so general became the belief
that everything remaining would 60 up
in smoke thet in all directions people
were loading their etEeets on wagons
preparatory to- fleeing to the hills. The
money loss viii be about 5000. The
fire was caused by three small boys set
ting fire to pile Of rubbish.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28
SEVENTY LIVES LOST.

Terrific Cyclone In cubs- Great Damage
Done rGProperty.
HAVANA. June 20. Reports regarding
the damage done ~ the recent storm
continue to comain. Batoclana, on the
southern side, just opposite Havana, was
flooded, the principal streets being inun-
dated to depth of three feet.
A number of houses were blown down
Ia the suburbs of Havana. Four people
Sssre killed at Ell Velardo and two others
at Cerro. 1t is now thought that over
seventy people were killed during the
cyclone, s
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28

gradually weaker, and passed away at
$50 a. in. The family, Mrs. Mitchell,
of Columbus, Mrs. Huntington, Miss
Lucy KeeIer and Mrs. A. II. Miller were
at her hdside.
kilograms Of coincidence have been re-
ceised from many friends, among them
President and Mrs. Harrison.
The entire city isin mourning and
flags are at half-mast. Arrangements
for the funeral have not yet bsen com
pleted.
Lucy Ware Hayes was daughter Of
Ur. Isaac Webb. She was born ut Chill.
icothe, Ohio, in 1888. Her father, DIR.
Isaac Webb, when quite young. served
in the war of 1912 as a member or the
Kentucky Mounted Rifemen.
Mrs. Hayes well known earnestness
of conviction with regard to the subject
Of temperance was inherited from her
maternal grandfather. The inherent
feeling was fostered throughout her
fchooi days, both during the six years az
her education in Delaware and later In
the Wesleyan Female seminary at Gin
cinnati, where she completed her school
course snd was graduated. -
1t shaped simply and naturally the
ways Of her home life, the manner OF
her hosptalities and her c1stsni IN So
ciety while she moved shrcugh them all
as the wife Of private citizens a. Union
general, member of congress, gov
ernor of her native state and president
of the United States. ~ sss
Gen. Cameron Cannot Live Another Day.
LANCASTER, June 28.--Dilring the
night Gen. Cameron had q weak spell
but from which he subsequently rallied.
He is still very weak and the doctors say
he cannot live another twenty four
hours.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28
couNTy OFFICER ).

|of Court - L,,lis I'aia,at,d.
Or-~M ii orneii,
us of DECIDE i,urrc II. Lien.
A.rer-- Mm. S,che,sun.
uf Probate ID. H. Sweczcy. ...--
ky Snryeyor---J "A Hegcinan,
! n tico. w. Hhrd.
|hDi Attorncy--J. q. Andrews.
tintcndcnt Of Schools -char. Robinson.
her L. W. Higgins,
oi observation-disclosures "A. X. Kinney, chair ma
IN smith, N. A. Stamiey, .. }. J.5Ottcrncs
D. Davis. ~
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28
CRY OFFICERS.

Wv. II. Roddie.
rilmen.-A.J Dox, W. ~, iir""kr. ~. Ad
Il. IL. Lien.
%. }. Durr0w.
lirrt ID. II. Campbell.
Z,ai-~h, Il. Hayward.
JIisttcc---iD. II SwceZry. .Es
ur lice Louis Painand
sseesUr--li. ~. P0nd. @
Poiice.~A. Il. Hayward
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28
No Extra Session Until Noyem Der,

WASHINGTON, June 26.--It is thought
likely now that the extra session OF con
gress which the president Is expected II
ell will not be held until November,
The impression has prevailed that con-
gress would likely be called together ID
October. but several senators prominent
on the Republican side Of the ,chaphbss
have stated recently that the prssidsf'
fore the first week In November. &.yss
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28
Part Of the Crew Lost.

BRISBANE, Queensland, June "A. AThe
American bark Brazos, Capt. Edgett,
from Newcastle, N. S. W.,f5r Hong
Kong, has been wrecked 900 miles from
Sandy Cupo. Part of the crew were
saved. The remainder are missing.
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28
Thirty RniIding. Rarned,

PORTLAND, Ore, June 2t''.~-
olt Saturday in Vancouver,
less than two hours sweP
four blocks in the business
the town. These blocks, 4
were covered with small II. M
ings, and the loss will probably not rear
$4,000. Thirty buildings were b1rHe
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28
AFFAIRS IN hAyTf

Hyppolits .TriumpAs 81 ~ IN sit3nss ~ y
thegsLatter AsASd 10 LsHvc.
New YpRK, juno The follpEilN
has been received 6y Sf6Amer &insA
from Hayti bearing date June
terday afternoon Gen. Hyppoll
visionary president Of 4he Rep
rived at Cape Hayti WITH D
men. He was very wei e
populace. Before coming f Y
visited The mountains IN e
VALERIE and Than. occpT k{
ago by the so-called CT -
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28
prohibition Dsfeated in isl,oae nj

y PnoyJDENCr, r. l.. June ~. .-Thx NO
hibitory asnendment to the conetjt m
Sof Rhode Island has been repe6} "a
al the people. The total VOTE "a n &,
Sstats Was 2S, ,440 for repeak ~ 3,St5,ii
2g{ 1AlAt, pr 400 more than The ta,ue
fil{ As vote required. K The vots ysaa ts sff
on Article 1NIIIy OF the amapfl flys1 tyJ-
I sthS COnstitution, which auS,t sscI,
VI ~ ~ bitoFy srtiDlss 6. " " s:s!s s s
Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1889-06-28

iRS. HAYES IS DEAD.