Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-25

CRISP AND CASUAL.
New York has 1000 Indians.

LlSHlllDS 10 lO" plfpbOSI dpiSu.
Coal sold for 50 a ton in Hartford,
Conn, in 1898.
The cavalry brigade of the Saliva
tion Army has been disbanded by
General Booth.
Among the relics to be exhibited at
the Worlds Fair is a necklace which
once belonged to Pocohontas.
The fastest time in which a train
has been known to travel a mile is
forty-nine seconds and a fraction.
The total immigration to the
United States in the year ending June
to, 1892, amounted to 619, 800 souls.
The color Of the sharks egg is
black, of leathery texture, thin,
tough, and in form similar to a hand
barrow.
The per capita consumption of
intoxicants in the United States was
$50 gallons in 1875 and 142 gallons in
1891.
Myron Jilson, of Nottingham, VT,
is a promising young fellow. He is
only Is, but he stands six feet ter
inches.
A recent advertisement in a Phila-
delphia paper calls for a "young
woman to wash, iron and milk one or
two cows"
Q Eighteen British Columbia Indians
took a ride in a boat-bOat struck a
snag-eightecn good Indians-sorry
for McGinty.
Successive generations Of the Allin
family Of Harrodsburg, KY, have
been in office continuously as circuit
or county clerk since 1856.
The cocoon of a well fed silkworm.
it is said, will often yield a thread
1000 yards long, and one has been
produced which contained l ,295 yards.
0The Rev. DR.. Joseph G. Stockbridge
who is at the head of the list of chap
lains in the United States navy, Is
the only n who has the rank of
commodore.
There is a surface of 5000 acres in
Silesia, Prussia, which is usually dry,
but which every thirty years fills
with water in some unknown way and
becomes a lake.
A will recently probated in the
SurrOgate's court at Albany, contains
this clause: ITO my son Simeon /
give the sum of so cents for the
trouble he has taken to i'll treat me-"
Nj. Paule, who recently died in
Paris, was the inventor of the "peg
top" trousers which we're so much
worn by American volunteer fireman
and village sports" quarter of a
century ago.
Charles Coolidge, of Tacoma,
Wash, could nOtget amarriage license
a few days ago, because he forgot
the name of his bride. He knew her
first name was Kittie, but could not
remember her last name.
Miss Zoe Gayton, who has already
made a pedestrian record of 1896
miles in 167 days between San Fran
cisco and New York, now proposes to
walk on a wager of $40, 200 from New
York, via New Orleans, to San Fran
cisco.
When Jumbo was dissected a pint
and a half of gold, silver, copper and
bronze coins were found in his
stomach. In the lot were coins OF
three kingdoms, two republics, five
dukedoms, two principalities and one
dependency.
Andrew III. Burke, who has Just
been renominated for governor by
the republicans of North Dakota,
was once a New York newsboy. He
was a homeless, barefooted orphan
when he secured his first situation as
GRAND boy thirty-lve years ago, and
he saved money enough to go west
before he was twenty. He is pros
porous and popular and the first gov
ernor of his adopted state. He SAYS
that since he was ten years OLD he
mao not mad n dollar of assistance
from any man.
A smart New York printer has set
out to beat the new type setting
machines by inventing a device that
will enable him to set type with both
hands. He has rugged up a contriv-
ance that takes the place of the
thumb in the composing stick and by
usingboth hands has already increased
his capacity go per cent. Here is a
chance for the dime museum lady
who plays the piano with both hands
and feet and paints a picture with
the brush held in her teeth at the
same time. As a compositor she
ought to be a bright and shining
light unless the proof reader should
seek her hand in marriage TO get her
off the force.