The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-12-05

English Importation.
Glue from whale refuse is new
| article of commerce i'm Russia.
AT Frankfort. Germany. 500 horse
| power is transmitted by electricity to
| distance of lao miles.
According 10 Chaunccy Nj. Depcw,
| more than million dollars is spent
in New York annually for public ban
| qucts.
Corporal Tanner is said to have
| mad $l17 600 since leaving the pen
| sion bureau in fees out of pension eases
| he has handled.
T-hcng- -ki-rong. the Chinese gen
eral has published in French book
tina; is said to be an imitation of the
modern French novel.
Robert G.. Ingrrsoll denies that he
made the prediction attributed to him
! thai about this time two theaters would
he built To- one church.
Daring tie last aca.lrmical year at
| Cambridge O2l students malriculated
| and |. 546 degrees were conferred, both
being the largest numbers on record.
Won Motke. on his ninetieth birth
| day. was asked how Young he would
| like to be. about so answered he,
the vision of youth rising to his minds
eye.
The submarine war boat has led to
| the tlving of balloons from war ships
| A balloon lowering over ship can de-
| tect every movement OF submarine
boat coming to the attack.
The city gas works of Berlin brought
81. 75O 600 clear profit into the treasury
during the last financial year despite
the unusually heavy expenditures for
new gas house and conductors.
A Connecticut boy is famous just
now because he has a tin whistle one
and IA half inches in diameter and
| several inches long in his stomach. He
swallowed the toy while playing on ii.
There are few such common sense
! proverbs as every man is the archi-.
| tect of his own fortune" Appius
| Claudius. Roman censor, used it in
| speech delivered by him $50 years be-
fore the christian era.
Birds are the only animals besides
man which can he taught distinctly to
|
though of course not understood by the
| birds themselves. are none the less sur
pri>iug to listen 10.
II is an old remedy for the hicccugh
| TO hold ones breath, aud if that fails
then to gargle with little water and
if tie hiccough still continues to tickle
| the nose To the point of Sucezing once
or twice, when the hccough is sure to
| 20.
| The Panama Canal works are
| wrecked; even traces of the excava-
tions are vanishing and the construct
i've machinery is worthless. This en-
terprise, in which $4OO. 900, 900 has
ieen sunk will figure as the monument-
al failure of the age.
In the discussion lately carried on in
Europe as to the distance ut which
large objects on the earth's surface are
visible it was stated that the Hinialaya
Mountains have appeared TO view from
the great distance Of 22i miles and
Mont Blame 2l0 miles.
According to Weismann, every
character possessed by every animal is
due to the preservation in the struggle
in the molecular structEe of germ
plasnl, which alone has adapted every
being 10 its environment.
Bones are necessarily more or less
heavy structures. but the homes of most
birds. while their solid substance is en-
ceedinglv strong, are wonderfully
ightcned by the details of their ar
rangement. and still more by the fact
that most of them contain not marrow,
bat warm (and therefore lighD air.
Birds stand between beasts and
reptiles. but are widely distinct from
| noth. All beasts possess, as we
possess. warm blood. but the blood Of
a bird is warmer still, and thns birds
rltler greatly from reptiles, in spite of
their possessing certain structural
characters in common with that cold
hlooded class
1t is told of Able Liszt that on one
of his concert tours through Germany
he WAS rendered "A banquet ut small
town by his admirers. When it was
found that thirteen were seated ut the
table the general embarrassment was
checked by LiSzt remarking: DO not
he alarmed at such triile. | can eat
! or two persons.
So careful is the packing process in
birds that the parts that grind the food
and act as teeth are placed. not in the
| Jaws, but i'm the center OF the body-in
the gizzard These parts consist of
small stones, which most birds swallow
for this purpose-all those, that is
which feed on grain and other sub
stances that require grinding.
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild of
Vienna can he seen walking about tie
village Of Waereshofen, near Munich.
barefooted. undergoing the nerve-cure
of the Roman Catholic priest, Father
Kneip. This doctor makes his patients
70 barefooted most Of the time. take a
plunge every morning into icy cold
water and eschew all meats and in-
toxicating drinks.
ANY vessel causing a disaster nj her
launcl is regarded hv the Japanes" as
doomed to ill-lnrtunr for her whole