The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890, 1889-05-10
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AcrOphobia is new term used to de.
scribe m exaggerated condition Of fear
when IN high places.
u Is said that intemperance has
greatly increased among the Indians
olnoo they were placed on reservations.
The Connecticut senate has passed A
I'LL making it a msdemeanor to tap
! eelegraph or telephone wire for de-
teCtlvc purposes.
Editor Grady Of the Atlanta Constt-
tetioH is to write history of the South
from Its settlement to date. The book
Y viii be volume Of about 900 pages.
Gen. Tracy, the new Secretary Of
Naxy, WAS to y large extent the crpa-
t0E 0t our internal revenue system,
4 which has been copied by many foreign
i eteatries.
\ new watch factory has just been
built at Otay, ten miles down the bav
from San Diego. Twenty watch
makers and their families were shipped
from the East.
An enterprisng editor in Nebraska,
wanting TO boom the matrimonial
market, offers TO send his paper free
tor six months to every couple getting
married in the county.
Guns are now being made so power
ful that the objects which their missiles
aro Intended to strike will be out Of
), sight. Consequently the guns can
Ouly be directed by the map.
:, The question Of female physicians
has b<.en settled in Russia in the af-
1 frmative, with the stipulation that
ladies shall only attend on adults OF
their Owu sex ;tGd Or children OF both
sexes
II w. Won der Wettern. ! Baltimore
sportsman, has Il collection Of deer
horns that are valued at $4,000 The
finest specimen is from !. black-tailed
deer Killed in Colorado. 1t has fifteen
.prongs-
Y, a bill has been presented to the
PrAssian parliament for extending and
iinproving the railway system of the
mOnarclly ut III estimated total cost Of
nearly one hundred and iifty-seven
million marks.
Tho clergyman in an English town,
having published the bans of matri-
Il gnOny between two persons, was fol-
flowed BY the clerk, reading the hymn
beginning with these words: Mistaken
souls, who dream Of heaven
Empress FREDERICK 8 income is est-
. mated 1T 100000. OF this $500, 900
comes from the State and the remain
der from her private fortune. She has
.ust Inherited 5000, 600 francs from the
estate of the Duchess of Gailiera
About one hundred years ago man
named Droz made very curious clock.
Upon the top sat a negro, shepherd
and dog. When the clock struck
,nthe negro played six tunes upon a
u dute. aud the dog moved toward him
, = though glad to see him.
The expression "by hook or by
creek" originated in an old custom in
ra3arM to gathering wood in forests.
Tie wood gathcrer was permitted to
haye all the wood fallen on the ground
and all that he could reach with his
crook from the branches Of trees.
n w. j. Doris, Of New Haven, Conn,
has an African boa constructor twenty
! two years old. It is thirty feet long
J and weighs 27S pounds. The snake 5
doesn't trouble it only four
times year, but at each meal il is fed
at least fifteen chickens or rabbits.
John G. Whittier writes: 1T is
scAScely necessary for me to stamp the
= ruuacf of an intended visit to Europe
Y - utterly without foundation. The
time has long passed when such a trip
would have been practicable or desra-
ule. At my age one travels easiest by
\ proxy
Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire
tr0u-tounder, says that he began his
business career by sweeping out an
uatce, and that his fellow sweepers
wetO David McCaryo, now President
J, a. - Allegheny Valley Railroad; Rob
;ls Art Fitcairn, Superintendent Of th'
Fe1nsylvania Railroad; and Mr.. More
land, City Attorney Of Pittsburg.
II ~ weddings among Germans in tn
ueOUtAern colonies 150 years ago tn
4rcO1Asmen attended in their beautiful
Nheoidered white aprons. Their dut.
Wpo 10 protect the bride from having
1er 1)ipper stolen from her foot |
:t'ADy one succeeded in capturing it tn
Gomsman paid bottle of wine 70
tle loss, as the BRIDE dancing depend
Apon it.
- king of Wurtemburg has fame,
No ascertain whether the moon is in
hited by causing photographs to b
e 4Eoa Of that luminary and then mag
y h11yiog the negative hundred thou
4a14 fOld. The pictures produced g
kje peocess show nebulm with littl
6Ceos and the king declares the dots I
Edbe 80 and women. He hopes event