The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-22
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over twenty-five miles an hour
France is to establish commercial
museums in each of it's colonies.
"A Pennsylvania woman has a varied
collection of teeth of her relatives.
No woman has been hanged for
murder in Massachusetts within men,
ory.
According to ancient tradition Mo-
ses wrote the Book of Job at the age
of 70.
Fleet street, London, has been Wis
tied by plague of tiny but persistent
and venomous mosquitoes.
London's six principal railway lines
carry annually over 200,000,000 people
and the tramways about 150, 900.
The northernmost newspaper in the
world is the Nord Kap, published by
?. Johansen, at Hammerfest, Norway.
The government of the United States
has saved $2,OJO,0O0 on money orders
that have been lost or for some reason
remain unpaid.
One million dollars in gold coin
would weigh S,GS5.S pounds. The
same amount of silver coins would
weigh 59,939.9 pounds.
There are said to be over $4,000 In
dians in the United States who can
read English, and over 10000 who can
read Indian languages.
A train a mile and a quarter in
length was lately hauled over the Read
ing railroad by single engine. 1t
consisted OF 250 empty cars.
In spite Of its ice and severe cold,
La brador possesses 900 species of flow
ering plants, tifty-nine ferns and over
25J species Of MOSES and linhens.
A protective club of mothers-in-law
has been organized in London. The
mothers of wives only, and not of Lus-
bands, are eligible for mem bership.
An old soldier in Kansas recently
received from the government 8 cents
which had been due him without his
knowledge for more than thirty years.
A Mr.. Goodman, of London, bet that
he could smoke eighty-six cigars down
to an inch in less than twelve hours.
He did it with forty-two minutes to
spare.
In England they do not chew gum,
looking upon the habit as vulgar and
low, but the Australians have already
taken kindly to it, and are indulgtng
freely.
An orange fad are among the posi-
bilities of the day. Free consumption
of the fruit is said to be good for the
complexion, and many ladies are test
ing the claim.
The Vulcan, the British ironclad, is
provided with rudder weighing twen-
tytwo tons, or something like six tons
heavier than the rudder used on the
Great Eastern.
The lands included in the territory
known as the Cherokee land strip were
given to that tribe of Indians in 1921
in exchange for their lands in Georgia
and Alabama.
Petersham is one of those primitive
Massachusetts, towns that the railroad
has never reached. 1t was the scene
of the end of Shay's rebellion in the
days succeeding the revolution.
Four citizens of Winnipeg have left
that city for a carriage drive to Jack
sonville, Fla, $3.50 miles. After
spending the winter in Florida they
will return by way of the worlds fair.
Jane Cakebread holds the London
record in the matter of the number of
arraignments for being drunk and dis
orderly. She has recently made her
thirtieth appearance in the police
court.
Great preparations are being made
by the authorities of the University of
Padua for the celebration, on Decem-
Der Z, of the precautionary Of Galileo's
installment as professor of mathema-
tics in that institution.
One of the few women who were
privileged to call Mr.. Gladstone Evil
liam" died recently near Liverpool in
her S7th year. She was Mary Ann
Mexican, and for more than half q cen
tury she was in the service of the Glad
stone family.
The coronach, or mourning for the
dead, is still heard in many parts of
Scotland, as well as in Ireland. 1t is
weird chant, cries of lamentation be-
ing mingled with remonstrances ad
dressed to the departed for leaving his
friends and relatives.
In the German artillery they have
tried three-legged ladder of steel
tubing for enabling the captain of
battery to survey the enemy and di
rect the fire. The ladder is erected in
wagon and the officer climbs to the
top with his field glasses to recon-
noiter.
The Chapter of st. Peters cathedral
has submitted, to his holiness the pope
the designs for the golden throne
which the chapter. in cooperation with
all the other roman catholic cathedrais
of the world, will present to his holi-
ness. The throne is designed in
Gothic form, and will cost 100000
francs.
There is Pennsylvania rivalry as
to the tallest and biggest suntlower.
At latest reports Berks county was
ahead with stalk IA feet II inches
high, bearing forty-four fully devel
oped flowers and forty-four buds in
sight Lancaster is close second
with a stalk ii feet inches high, bear
ing forty-three flowers.
The TombStOne Enif1Dh recantIv