The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1892-10-29
MISSING LINKS.


months.
The Swiss guards, a part of the
pope's household, are to be dispensed
with.
The standard yard of America is
said to be one-thousanth of an inch
larger than It's British parents.
The Chinese, Japanese, Malays, Sia-
mese, New Zealanders and the North
American Indians are all beardless.
Four-iifths of the engines now work
ing in the world have been con-
structcd during the last twenty-five
years.
The new German army tent is divis-
ible into two portions, each of which
can be converted into an overcoat in
case Of rain.
A water moccasin six feet long was
lately killed at Utica, Ill. When cut
open sixteen frogs were found, several
of which were alive.
A 2-year old colt, the property Of
Putnam Wilson, Newport, Me-, was
found a short time ago fastened to a
tree by the hair of his tail.
The guests at Springfield hotel re-
Gently presented one of the mattresses
with a pair of roller skates in hopes
of being waited on more rapidly.
An old soldier in Kansas recently re-
ceived from the government cents,
which had been due him without his
knowledge for more than thirty years.
MARYLAND was named from Queen
Henrietta Maria. In the charter its
name in Latin was Terra Marie,
meaning the land of Maria or Mary's
land.
English medical authorities are COM
ing to the conclusion that the smoking
of pure opium is not nearly SO injur-
ious to Cinnamon as has been sup
posed.
Rain has fallen only twice in twenty
nine years in Alden, Arabia Previous
to the last rain, which occurred in
1888, none had fallen in twenty-six
years.
A Maiden man has invented device
for lifting the lid of street letter-box
by touching the foot on a treadle at
the foot of the post to which the box is
attached.
Out of 5000 guesses on a big cake
of soap on exhibition in Berlin onl y
| two were correct The cake was soap
makers advertisement, and weighed
l, JAP pounds.
There is man in Portland Me, who
has worn the same straw hat for forty
years, and another man in Bangor who
has worn the same pair of boots for
thirty years.
An indianapolis Gnd.) beggar dis,
plays queer ign which reads as fol.
lows: Help q blind cripple. Was
run over by a baby carriage and struck
i'll the eye by a parasol."
In the new Maine town of Rumford
Falls. where not even a log hut stood
a year ago, a $40, 900 residence is build
ing and 700 men are at work upon
mills and other structures.
Manufacturers of obituary rloliu-
ments in the United States have the
right to remove their handiwork from
the graves in the event of its not be-
ing paid for within six months.
A fishing party in Texas took the
following with them: Six fishing rods,
a loaf of bread, three cans of sardines.
a frying pan, one towel, one bar Of
soap, thirteen bottles and two jugs.
Madison, Ga, has queer dog that
has complete figure of the moon and
seven stars on one side of his head.
| The effect is produced by the different
coloring of the hair, in black and
white.
The natural confguration of many
mountains suggests the human face,
and such physiognomies cut out of the
rocks on gigantic scale are common
ly regarded by savages as objects of
| worship.
The taxidermist of the Smithsonian
| institution at Washington denies that
the peacock has ugly feet--a condition
of affairs which has been very gener-
ally accepted as truth as long as the
peacock has been known.
A new method Of quickly rendering
glass transparent during the process
of manufacture consists of forcing
into the melted materials stream Of
| oxygen gas, the enormous heat gen,
Grated oxidizing all deleterious mate
rials.
Rila Kittridge, an expert microscopic
penman, of Belfast, Me-, has written
several OF Gladstone's speeches upon a
postal card and sent the curiosity to
the great liberal leader. Some of Mr..
Kittridge's writing averages 10000
words to postal card.
German born residents furnished
S.76 per cent OF the strength of the
! union army during the war of the re-
bellion. The English were represented
by the smallest percentage, 2.26, as
against 2.3S for other foreigners not
classified, and 1888 Of unknown nativ-
ity.
A French actress has just obtained
damages against a biscuit manufac-
turcr who advertised her portrait with
his wares and which the lady main
tanned was perfect libel. The Judge
agreed with her, and the lady's
wounded vanity was consoled by sum
| of cash.
A. country newspaper correspon dent
in Maine recently sent this cheerful
bit of news to his paper: Brooks is