The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-02-24
MISSING LINKS.
The Egyptians cooked meat as soon
as the animal was killed.

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Over 200 omnibuses in London are
now fitted with electric lights.
The earliest mining schools were es-
tabllshed in Saxony about 1900.
The best handles of small tools ara
made from the wood of the apple tree.
The strongest telescope brings the
moon to an apparent distance of 100
miles.
In Shakspeare's time wits. critics
and noblemen were given seats on the
stage.
Kentucky leads all the other south
ern states in the mum Der of her women
school commissioners.
A recent invention is cradle which
rocks by clockwork mechanisn and at
the same time plays baby tunes.
Alcohol distilled from wine was first
mentioned as aqua vite, water of life,
by Xillenouve, who died in 1918.
Over three hundred miles of irriga-
ton bitches are in operation or build
ing in Yakima county, Washington.
Men attending the pans in salt
works are never known to have chol-
era, smallpox, scarlet fever or infu-
enZa.
The queen OF Henry ". of France
on one great occasion wore dress
gown with $1,000 pearls and 5000 dia-
monds.
In the tower of the Medford, Mass,
unitarian church which was burned
recently was bell cast in 1899 by
Paul Revere.
The motto of the Bushnell Gll.)
Record is "Semper Unum Dollari ct
Halfeo per Annum in Advancibus, )"
which appears as a quotation from
George W. Casar."
The Royal Hungarian Railway COM
pany has decided to employ women at
all stations, giving preference to the
widows and orphans of men who have
died in their employ.
Genuine volcanic dust has been
found in Kansas and the Indian terri
tory. There is deposit near Galena,
in the territory, which is said to be
many feet in thickness.
The second largest diamond in the
world is now undergoing the cutting
process at Antwerp. When finished it
will be about the size of pigeons egg
and will weigh about 200 karats.
Cristield, Md, is interested in the
operations of stranger who has
bought seven islands to raise delica-
cies for market-hsh, soft-shell crabs
and perhaps terrapin among the posi-
bilities.
A bankrupt merchant at Acadia
Mines, n. S, has been sentenced to
two months in Jail for having willfully
contracted debt without having at
the time a reasonable expectation of
being able to pay it.
Women now vote for school commit-
tees in twenty states and three terri
tories: in municipal elections in Kan
sas and for president in Wyoming.
Twenty-Five years ago they had none
of these privileges.
A religious census of Australia Just
completed shows 1,4S5, ,066 members of
the church of England, S0,11S catho-
lies, 1913, 1863 presby terians and 394, 564
methodists. These are the four most
English ignorance of America did
not begin with this generation. Gold
smiths description Of Niagara falls in
cludes the statement that "some Ind
ians in their canoes, as it is said, have
ventured down it in safety"
Clara Edwards, a resident of Stew
art county, Georgia, owns hen which
she claims has laid two eggs about the
size of turkey eggs every day for the
past four years. She also asserts that
each egg contains two yolks.
Wolves are playing havoc with the
small domestic animals in the De Lar
tigo region and in Grant parish, Louisi-
anA, The ravenous beasts have cleaned
oat all the lambs and pigs and "are
now at work on the tougher muttons
and porkers."
Pagnier, the first French soldier
killed in the war of 1870, has now
handsome monument erected to his
memory in the cemetery of Neider-
bronn, near Strasbour@, on the initiat-
i've OF the patriotic association called
the Souvenir EranCais."
Twenty years ago an agricultural
estate in Essex, England. extending
over 800 acres, was purchased for $1O5,-
900, and $50, 900 was subsequently, ex-
pended on buildings and improve
ments. The property has just been
sold by auction for $24,750.
Sportsmen in southern Egypt have
not unfrequently met with accidents
to their barrels, owing directly or in
directly to using nitro-cartridges
charged for the damp atmosphere of
England and sent out for use in the
Try, raretied air of the desert.
Some experiments have lately been
made by the Northern Pacific car
builders at Tacoma, Wash, to test the
strength of oak and tir timber. The |
after proved one-third stronger than
eastern oak, and more than one-half |
stronger than eastern white pine.
The cholera commission of the sem
ate of Hamburg has decided that all
medical students who volunteered |
heir services during the cholera cpl
temic there "in the belief that their
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