The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-01-20
MISSING LINKS.

In B. G.. 1898 Abraham cooked calf
to entertain his friends.
The smallest known quadruped is
the pigmy mouse of Siberia.
In India there is species of crow
that laughs just like human being.
The methodist episcopal church
stands possessed of property valued
at $96, OO0,0 900.
The list of musical prodigies in Bos-
ton at present includes young Cher
okee Indian girl.
More births occur in February than
any other month. July is the month
of feWest births.
The tallest woman in Idaho lives at
Boise City. She stands feet inches
in her stockings.
Queen Victoria is quite a successful
farmer, and has taken 4i7 prizes at
English cattle shows.
M. Pasteur has completely recovered
his health, and is working hard in Par
is at his experiments.
Tennyson is reported to be the l.
173d person whose body has been de-
posted in Westminster abbey.
1t is estimated that last year Arizona
produced So. 900, O0J in gold. 81, 100000
in silver and "a, 800, 900 in copper.
Glass in oven doors is new con-
trivance. 1t enables cooks to watch
the food without opening the doors.
The Michigan lumbermen carry
cedar knots in their pockets as cure,
and also as preventive of rheu-
matism.
The receipts of the elevated railway
i'll New York for the three days of the
Colum bian celebration were about
$4,000.
The tea crop in the Assam valley is
the smallest on record. Compared
with last year it showed a decrease Of
3,0o0,O0) pounds.
The longest word in the new Cen
tury dictionary is palatopharinceo
ryngcal. The next longest is tram
Observation-Disclosures.
Herculie, the new French explosive,
is so powerful that half pound of it,
in recent test, displaced stone
weighing thirty tons.
The Guadaloupe bees lay their honey
in bladders of wax about as large as
pigeons egg and not in combs. The
honey never hardens.
There is tooth of Buddha, pre-
served and worshipped in an Indian
temple, which proba bly, all the gold in
the world could not buy.
1t hardly seems possible, yet figures
are said to prove that the entire pop
ulation of the earth could find stand
ing room on a field ten miles square.
The smallest inhabited island in the
world is that upon which the Eddy
stone lighthouse stands. At time of
low water it is only thirty feet in dia-
meter.
The English court of queens bench
has decided that grocers may weigh
paper with tea, coffee, sugar and such
commodities without being guilty of
fraud upon the purchaser.
A freight car Sc feet long has been
built of steel in Manchester for Mex
lean railway company. 1t is said to
be no heavier than a "a foot wooden
car and will hold nearly three times as
| much.
The electricians of Earlscourt, Lon
don, have an apparatus by which large
letters are thrown upon the clouds
and the well-known features of lead
ing statesmen are outlined in the
heavens.
The number of pilgrims to the house
at Ecclefechan, in which Carlyle was
born, is. yearly increasing During
the past three months 800 names have,
says the GIUSgoaO Mail, been added to
the visitors book.
A Manitou, Mich, young woman re-
ceived letter from Kansas man,
in which he devoted seven pages lit
telling of business, crops and politics.
In postscript he said he would like
her to marry him.
Princess Marie Of Edinburg. the be.
trothed of Prince Ferdinand of Rou-
mania, is a beautiful and clever wo-
man, and has already won warm
place in the heart of the queen of Rou-
mania, Carmen Sylvia.
The city council of Vienna recently
suppressed q gymnastic society for
adopting the colOrs of the German en-
plre for its own and passing resolu-
ton to admit no foreigners except
Germans to membership.
A French electro o-metallurgical COM
pany asserts that it will be able to sell
the aluminium at a price equivalent to
10 cents a pound, provided it is in a
position to dispose of yearly output
of 5000 tons of the metal.
There are chicken factories in New
England that are turning out thou
sands of motherless chickens every
week more successfully than by the
old method. The old hen is nowhere
when compared with the modern in
cubator.
| The longest electric railway in the
world is reported to be contemplated
in Russia The project is to construct
line from ST. Petersburg to Arch
angel, port on the White sea, dis
tance of more than 100 kilometers
| (l5O miles,
James Stephens. the former feuian