Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-08-18
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slowness.
The material for an AK head has to
be heated five times and pass throu ga
the hands of forty workmen before 1t
is in proper shape.
Two ladies only have obtained the
degree of Mus. Doc, namely the prin-
cess of Wales and Miss Annie Patter-
Oh, of Dublin.
A merchant of Yazoo City, Miss.
has a younp turtle with two distinct
heads and necks. 1t is covered by
one shell aud has only one set oil
legs.
Seals sleep upon land; they also do
so floating upon their backs in the sea.
This habit they mostly indulge IN
when the weather is fine and the sea
calm.
In Burmah it Is rather a suspicious
thing to give money for a charitable
object. It is supposed to mean that
the donor has been very wicked, and
is DESTROYS to make amends.
1t is not uncommon in NOrthumber-
land for a farmer to allow any OF his Ia
borers who wish forit the keep OF a COW
as part payment of wages, greatly to
the benefits of their families.
In France fortunes are counted not
in dollars but in francs, and the French
have invented 4 new word to describe
men like the late Mr.. Astor, whom
they call not a millionaire but a mil
liardaire.
Professor Swift, of Rochester, thinks
that the latest arrived comet has been
5000, 90 years in getting here. In
view of such figures as these is it not
time to call in jokes aimed at the
movements of the district messenger
boy?
The collection of fabrics in the Drexel
institute promises to become one OF
the finest in the country and OF the
highest importance to students. The
series of Indian prints is remarkable
and the Chinese embroideries comprise
several notable specimens.
1t is said that some of the Venetians
those who have never been to the
mainland-have never seen a horse in
all their lives. A Snowman once
brought one to a fair and called it a
monster, and the factory hands paid
10 cents each to see the marvel.
The Chinese are ahead of the world
in the preparation of roast pork fog the
table. After it is come out of the oven
it is hung in the smoke Of various
aromatic herbs, which gives it a de-
licious flavor and robs it of the
porky taste which is offensive to some
palates.
In England secondhand clothes are
called "left-off clothes" This an
nouncement was recently seen in a
Piccadilly shop window: ~Mr. and
Mrs. Brown have left-of clothes of
every description and invite your
careful inspection at a shilling a head"
Sir William Muir. the historian. says:
an the year Gil Gilman, third caliph
of Bagdad, commenced an Grafton
with, 'Unaccustomed as / am to pub
lie speaking Gilman did not live in
vain. For 1920 years or more his hap
Ply phrase has been q boon to bad
speakers"
From the twelfth to the fifteenth
century small mirrors carried in the
pocket or attached t. the girdle, were
regarded as indispensable adjuncts to
ladies' toilets. The pocket mirror was
d circular plaque of polished metal
fixed in a shallow box and covered with
a lid.
The Jerusalem and Jaffa railroad
will not enter the former city. but will
have its terminus about three-Juarters
of a mile outside the city limits. 1t IS
expected that a town will grow up
around the terminus. which msy be
called Jerusalemville or Jerusalem
hurst.
There is now playing in Paris a Rus
sian horn band, each horn being ca
pable of producing a single note only.
So perfect is the training that the
band produces the effect of one equip
ped with ordinary instruments, and
even running scales with the rapidity
and precision of a violin.
The French ministry of war has been
engaged for more than a year in max
ing experiments in the preservation OF
merit. The experiments have resulted
in the discovery that frozen meat can
be kept for eight months without any
change in its appearance or powers OF
nourishment.
Professor Lors, the Greek rifle shot.
is attracting much attention by his
feat of shooting a glass ball from his
own head. The trick is performed by
shooting at the trigger Of a rife held
In a frame, with the muzzle sighted at
a glass ball dangling by a string di,
rectly over the marksman's head.
The umbrella is undoubtedly of high
antiquity, appearing in various forms
upon the sculptured monuments OF
Egypt, Assyria, Greece and Rome, and
in hot countries it has been used since
the dawn Of history IS a sunshade-a
use signified by its name, derived from
the Latin umbra, a shade.
In Melbourne no Sunday papers are
permitted, no hotels are allowed 10
open their bar doors from midnight on
Saturday until Monday morning. and
anyone driving past a place of worship
at a faster pace than a walk while
service is in progress is liable to be
stopped and summoned by the police
man on duty.
Every sentimental traveller in Swift
erland repudiates the story that the
story of William Tell is a myth. and
will rejoice to know that a magnificent
design has been accepted for the mon-
ument to be erected to the patriots
memory at Altorf. kissing, of Zu-
rich, is the successful competitor for
the statue.
A physician in New York CITY is O
using an attachment to the stethoscope
by which, he claims, he can establish
the outline of the heart so accurately
that it would be possible with certain
" TO thrust a pin through the patients
chest to a point within a hairs breadth
Of the heart without touching the lat
Ter.
After a long march during a war.
the captain ordered, SIS a sanitary pre-
caution, that the men should change
their undershirts. The orderly ser
geant suggested that half of the men
only had n shirt each. The captain
hesltated for a moment and then said.
Military orders must be obeyed; let
the men change with each other.'
A paper published by DIR. ,Jeriscb on
the application of photography to the
detection of crimes proves, AMONG
other interesting facts, that by means
OF the camera not only erasions in q
document which cannot be detected nv
the eye, but the minutest difference in
the inks employed, can at once be
demonstrated in an enlarged copy of
the writing.
In many parts of Switzerland smooth.
nat stones, evidently hand polished
are often picked up. They are covered
with dots, lines circlas ,,1 ~ -