Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-09-04

other, and because he could not get it
within foot or two he jumped off
wharf with suicidal intent. Although
August never had pile foot high he
wanted to be exact about other peoples
money.
A WONDERFUL poplar tree was recent
ly cut in Logan County, Virginia. The
log measures 81 feet long, is So inches
in diameter, cubes 1,090 feet, or 81, 125
feet board measure. It will be run out
on the first water that will carry log
of such dimensions. It is probably the
biggest log ever cut and sent to saw
mill in one piece.
Mrs. WINNIE MITCHELL, living near
Rochelle, Ca, has hide-coyered, hair
less trunk, which dates back $50 years.
That it is bald-headed is no wonder,
for it is handed down through seven
generations. It was brought from Eu-
rope long before the revolution, full of
British gold, and was used by Mrs.
MitchelIs grandfather while in service
In some places washerwomen have
found their legitimate occupations al
most gone through the introduction of
machinery. A great part of the city
of Troyis devoted to the manufacture of
engines, whizzers, starchers and other
machines of the steam laundry. The
most interesting machine is the whiz-
ger, which dries clothes in one thous-
and revolutions minute.
Down in Raleigh the other day col
ored man who had done some work for
the city called at the collectors Office
for his pay. His certificate was o. KID,
and the auditor called to his clerk to
issue a warrant for the colored man,
meaning, of course, for the amount
due, when, with his eyes bulged out,
exclaimed "For de Lords sake, boss,
don't get no warrant for me. 'clar ter
gracious, / amt done nothin'."
The great wall of China, extending
for twelve hundred English miles along
what was once the whole northern from
tier of the Chinese empire-from TWEEN
ty to twenty-five feet high, wide enough
for six horses to run abreast and fur
nished with suitable number of gates
and bastions contains, it has been
carefully estimated, more material than
all the buildings of the British empire
put together.
A FEW weeks before the census
takers began the regular census the
citizens of Elm Grove, w. Va, thought
to enumerate their population prepare
tory to incorporating the town. The
following is the remarkable result:
Number of males over twenty-one years
of age, 148; huber of males under
twenty-one years of age 14S; number
Of females over sixteen years of age,
148; number of females under sixteen
years of age, 14S; grand total, 500.
SOCIETY journalism in Japan, when
it comes, will be delicate vocation,
for so sensitive is the Government as
to speaking evil of dignitaries, that
it has just sentenced the editor of the
GJu Gazette to penal servitude for
four years and fine of $4,000 for
speaking lightly of the 2,555th ami
versary of the Emperor Jimum. An
American journalist, or even some OF
our indigenous specimens, would either
smash up r be smashed up by the
Government in about week.
A MONUMENT to the lifeboat now
stands at South Shields, said to be the
lifeboat's birthplace. In 1889 the ship
Adventure was wrecked off the Tyne
and committee was formed to con-
slider the matter of providing life
boat. The models submitted by Henry
Greathead, boat builder, and by
William Wouldhaye, journeyman
painter, were selected by the committee
for use. Whether Wouldhave or
Greathead was the actual inventor is
mooted point; but locally Wouldhave is
looked upon as the author of the model.
The names of both men are given on
Lie H0lAOfldI. LIE uTSb OCcdSIOH Oh
which shipwrecked crew was landed
by means of lifeboat was on June 80,
1890.
MRS. EMMA p. EwINe, an authority
on cooking, agues that the culinary art
has q great influence on public moral
ity. OF the many drunkards who die
in the United States every year, che as
serts, "a large proportion have the APP
petite for intoxicating drinks aggra-
waited, if not implanted, by the food
which constitutes their daily diet.
Grease-soaked meats. watery yege-
tables, sloppy coffee and bad bread In
many cases cornpel q resort to stimu-
Iants. Poor coffee produces unnatural
thirst for lager beer, and there Is
terrible affinity between sour bread
and sour-mash whisky A healthy
stomach has no abnormal craving for
either Iqnor, cigars, candy Of chewing
gun.
Two PERSONS may be born at the
same time and die at the same time.
md st one hare lived one hundred