Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-09-08
iati0h Is INCREASING at 4 rate OF near
LIZ & 900 nla a rear

purchased for 50.
A debt of 8 cents which has been
owed by a Philadelphia woman for
forty years has just been paid.
The tooth of a mastodon has been
found on a farm near GAINESVILLE, ..
1t (the tooth) weighed eight and one
quarter pounds.
Mrs. Priscilla Scroggins, Of Georgia,
who is said to be 1l5 years old, has
1,274 descendants living, OF whom 25O
are great-grandchildren.
Albert G. Wakefield, Bangor's vet
eran lawyer, wears a pair of caltskln
boots that he has had since 1861, and
they are in good condition now.
A Georgia shoemaker has made for
the use of a customer a pair OF shoes
with soles fourteen inches long and
five and one-half inches wide.
A fine collection of seventeenth cen-
fury tobacco pipes has just been found
under an old London cellar and dcpOs-
tied in the Guildhall museum.
Returns just published show that the
population of the colony Of Western
Australia on Dec. 81 last was 5S, 2S5-
80, 22S males and p 1857 females.
1t is surprising to learn that the
United States contain more than 3d.
900 almond trees and nearly as many
cocoanut trees, all of which bear fruit.
The last language into which the
new testament has been translated is
the Motu language of New Guinea, the
latest tribe to become English subjects.
There was until a short time ago an
ordinance in Flowery Branch, Ga, inn
posing a fac Of s. on any person who
hallooed Snakes" in the streets of the
town.
Four railway companies, the Great
Western, the Great Eastern, the South
western and the Northwestern, bring
into London about 20,000,0)) gallons
of milk every day.
Leonard Whitton, of Brighton, Cam
ada, weighs 469 pounds, 80 pounds of
which he has acquired within ten
years. He is not yet forty, and is
still increasing in weight.
The fine salmon that used to tempt
the angler in New England streams
have about entirely disappeared, and
there are but two or three rivers in
Maine where any may still be found.
The discovery is made that the
Alaska soil and climate are peculiarly
adapted to hop-raising. An Oregon
syndicate has purchased a large tract
near Fort Wrangle and will plant it
with hops.
A woman travelling from Bologna To-
Florence, in Italy, recently had her
hair set on fire by a spark from a loco
motive. 1t turned out that the hair
was artificial, and the loss was not so
grave as was feared.
Lovers of genuine cOgnac will be in
terested in the announcement that the
distillers of the city of Cognac propose
to 90 into court to test the right of
distillers in other cities TO label their
brandy as coming from Cognac.
All the millstones used in the United
States formerly came from France, but
an excellent substitute was found in
the buhr stone of Pennsylvania and
Ohio, and that is now used to the ex-
clusiOn of the foreign product.
During the recent cyclone in Kansas
Il COW was lifted from the ground, car
ried to the top of a house and depos-
tied on the angle of the roof, where
she could neither fall nor be taken
down. So they had to go up on the
roof and kill her.
One form of insects resembles 8
broken bit of bamboo, and another is
provided with hairs, distributed in
such a way as TO make it appear over
grown with moss. Others have as
sumed their form and color for the OBJ
iect Of catching their prey.
A Walla Walla, Wash, man about a
year ago started a man out with a
band of sheep on the range. A few
DAYS ago he received the following
from him: "If you want me to re-
main here any longer, you'll have to
get another band of sheep; them's all
gone"
1t is believed that fully % per cent
of the population of the Argentine Re-
public at the present time consists of
European settlers, most of whOm-now
that the undesirable e have been
compelled to leave-are well estab-
lished and have all their interests iden-
teal with the country.
According to theosophists $50 days
and nights of Brahma make n year
of Bralfma, and 100 years of Brahma
make the great Kalpa,a period of 311,-
040, 900, 10000 years, after which the
entire solar system passes into its
night, and everything in it is destroyed
on the objective plane.
The following are a few examples Of
the rate of pay of women in London:
Making paper bags, Al per 1900; pos
sible earnings, IS to 9s per week. But
tonholes, Sd per dozen; spossible earn
ings, IS per week. Shirts, I'd, each
worker finding her own cotton; can
get six done between 6 a. m. and II I'm.
Originally there were no pews in old
English churches; the only fixed seats
were stone benches carried along the
sides of the churches, of which exam
pies still remain in Salisbury and other
c~athedrals, in Romsey church, Hants
aud Portbury church. Somerset, and
many other of the old parish churches.
New York's weekly newspaper in
Arabic is called kdUkGb america, which
mean the Star Of Americd. 1t will
have correspondents in India, Egypt,
Zanzibar, Syria. Palestine, Tunis, Mo-
rocco and Algiers. There are about
1000 Arabs, Persians and Syrians in
New York, and about 150, 900 in North
and South America.
The wOmen in some of the provinces
of Chill have a new and useful pas
time. Some raw beef is placed in the
center of a sheet of adhesive fly paper.
The feas with which the country is in
tested jump for the meat, but reach
only the paper, where they stick. The
side on which the flea first reaches the
beef wins. As many people can play
as there are sides to the paper. A
small stake usually gives zest to the
game.
A woman who is building a home on
a bluff of the Mississippi river will
have the big chimney piece in the hall
constructed OF stones from every state
in the union. Each has been contrib
uted by a friend, and, as in asking, the
size has been designated about that of
an medium cobblestone, symmetry is
preserved. She already has one from
Alaska. and also several washed by the
waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The
house itself is built of stone, but my
cObblestone mantel," writes the wo-
man, "will be the pride of the place"
Twice or thrice this year there have
been accounts of warlike operations of
native East Indian troops in the serv-
ice of the British government in Africa.
A report of the British consul at
MoZambique. which was RECENTLY laid