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Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1894-01-12
Money for the Schools.

Through the kindness Of Supt. Geo.
A. West the REGISTER is enabled to
furnish its readers with complete list
of the school districts of Brookings
county and the amount of money to be
received by each district. The sum is
the aggregate of
1st, Interest on school fund.
2nd, 81 90 county school poll.
3rd, Two per cent levy by county
commissioners.
The apportionment is made quarter
ly by the county superintendent of
schools. For the two quarters last
past the apportionment is as follows:
Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1894-01-12
The Survey will be Completed

K. E. Carpenter, South Dakota di-
rector Of the Gulf and Interstate rail
way, has effected contract with the
WatertOwn business men to make at
their own expense the preliminary
survey from point on the North
western, in Kingsbury county. to the
north line of the state. This arrange
ment, so Mr.. Carpenter says, COM
pletes contracts for the preliminary
from Ligerwood, in North Dakota, to
the Gulf. The projected line enters
South Dakota at Canton, then by the
way of Sioux Falls to Madison and
Watertown, through the heart of the
Sisseton reservation to North Dako-
ia.
Hoods Pills arc easy and gentle in
effect.
Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1894-01-12

1t will be seen from the above table
that the apportionment is based on
the number of pupils in each district.
1t is necessary therefore for district
clerks to be sure and send in the
names of every pupil in their respect
i've districts in order to get their full
appO rtionment. AS the amount re-
ceived for each pupil is $1.7s should
any pupil be left out the district
looses that much money.
1t seems, inasmuch as the county
schools are receiving so much money
that it would be wise to pay better
wages to teachers and thereby secure
better instruction in the district
schools. AT present Brookings county
is paying very low wages to teachers.
In fact much lower than almost any
other county in the state. This sends
the better class Of teachers into other
counties. Our county schools are as
deserving of competent instruction as
those in any other county anywhere.
1t is the duty of school officers to en-
gage the very best teachers possible on
reasonable salary and it is moreover
the imperitive duty that parents see
that their children receive the best
of instruction.
Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1894-01-12

Hoods Pills arc easy and gentle in
effect.
Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1894-01-12

Thin and impure blood is made rich
and healthful by taking Hoods Sarsap-
arilla. 1t braces up the nerves and
gives renewed strength.
Brookings register. (Brookings, S.D.) 1890-1894, 1894-01-12
81. 90 DAY RATES.
The Committee On Entertainment Re
ports this to the Editors

pOrts thIs z" the EuItOrs.
The members of the S. d. p. A. are
assured of $l.OO rates at the two best
hotels in the city and will have every
attention to make their stay in the
city pleasant. The city hopes that
the publishers will flood us and we
promise them a good time ana the
best of treatment.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
ALA i LAMP.

You have road the famous story T. -
OF the lamp Aladdin owned; -..-...t. - .
How it brought him wealth ana glory
Won him wife Ger realms enthroneo:l
And have wished, no doubt, when reading
You like magic power possesseo-
That desiring aught or needing.
It might come at your behcst.
But methinlss deeper meaning.
Ono may in tho fiction ind; -
Truth a moment thoughtful cleaning
WIN reveal unto the mind
For deem the lamp is waiting
Sttil the touch OF hecdful hama;
IT'S not fancys idle stating,
Man to-day may fate command
Would you then the Gift be granted
Like Aladdin, now to do?
tRccollect his lamp enchanted,
Seemed mere copper to tho vle~.)
Well, tho charn, in which such wonders,
Little guessed, yet latent Turk,
Is, unless my judgment biunders'
Just old-fashioncd, common work!
Philip b. Strong. in Golden DayA
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

D1s1xrEeRAr1oN OF rocks is caused
partly by minute animal organisms.
THE average speed Of the transmis-
sion of earthquake shocks is nearly 49,
900 feet per second. 't
2 THREE hundred and sixty mountains
in the United states are over 10000
feet high.
THERE will be two ec1ipses of the sun
during the year, but both will be in
visible in the United States.
AN ''inch of rain means a gallon of
water spread over surface of nearly
two square feet, or fall of about 100
tons upon an acre.
THE largest trees are not the sequoia
gigantes of California, but certain spe-
| cies of eucalyptus in Australasia. One
specimen in Victoria is said to be AL
, feet high. - - @- a.
A CUBIC foot. of fresh water weighs
G21a pounds, a cubic foot of salt water
: weighs 64.3 pounds, a cubic foot OF ice
at 80 degrees weighs 5715 pounds. This
is ascertained by weighing the differ
ent materials.
! In calculating ''exact tin1e' at the
| national observatory at Washington
; the astronomers do not, as is general
ly supposed, use the sun as basis
of their calculations. Such deductions
are made only from the relative posi-
ton of the fixed stars"
u. OFFICIAL. tests of different qualities
of steel at the Massachusetts Arsenal
show, contrary to the popular opinion,
that steel is stronger at zero Fahren-
heit than at ordinary temperatures.
The minimum of strength is at about
21O degrees, but above that it rises
again till it reaches its maximum at
$50 degrees.
PROF. EI1HU THOMPSON, in lecture
on "Cosmical Electricity" suggests the
= idea that temporary or shooting stars
becoming visible and then fading
away. may be merely the exchange
of electric energy between highly
charged planets possessing different
polarity, and not stars at all.
a POUND of rice is shown by chemical
analysis to contain 5000 per cent. OF
nutritive matter. The same quantity
of wheat contains S2.54 per cent; rye
S2.7o per cent: oats. 74.2 per cent
corn, s2.a7 per cent; potatoes. 3D.
per cent: fat beef. l6.O> per cent; lear
beef. PC. 81; per cent.
An electric motor attachment h;t:
been applied to the Gatl;ng gun, which
promises not only to more than double
the destructive capabilities of tina
particular machine. but to effect
great advance in the efficiency of al
machine guns. The motor is detach
able. is of one horsepower. is yer.
small. weighing but u trihe over lift!
pounds and is placed in the brecch o
the gun. amply protected. The motto
increases the present rate of firm:
1.2OO shots q minute, to more than 300
shots minute.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02

PORTABLE POULTRY. RUN.

made of stri ps which are thirteen fee,
long. Five of these strips will be
needed to make a frame of this size.
First make the frames for the top and
sides Two. of the frames should be
made six by two feet, two: three by
two feet, and one six by. three feet:
They should all be covered with coarse.
ly woven wire fencing. The illustra-
ton shows the frame. put togethet
without the wire. These frames ard
to be fastened together by the mortised
joint shown at a, and pinned with
wooden pins or nails. A door may be
put in on one side to suit the one WHO
is making the yard. This yard is east
ly moved about on the grass or ground.
American Agricu1turist-
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02
HERE AND THERE.

The tender fruits are believed to
have been swept clean by the recent
cold wave that bore down on Texas.
Even straw berry plants We're killed.
1T is impossible to spread manure
evenly and rapidly by hand. a great
part of the stable manure drawn upon
the land has little effect. because it is
left in large Jumps instead of being
well incorporated with the soil. The
spreader's the thing.
There is never any necessity for
deeply covering seed OF any kind
Wherever it is done either by hand OF
machinery, the seed is pretty sure to
be planted too deeply. A slight cover
ing we'll packed down over the seed is
better than depending on the amount
of soil above it to pack it.
Every farmer ought to have Il set
of farm scales, not to superSedc his own
Judgment to the weight of stock, but
to test it. If he does not have the
scales the farmer is always at Il disad-
vantage. The butcher and speculative
buyer are constantly exercising their
Judgment in guessing at live weights.
ALL farmers know that summer
made pork costs less than that made in
winter. 1t is not altogether the cold
which prevents hogs from gaining as
rapidly in winter. a good share of the
difference is due tosthe fact tina. in
summer there is plenty of grass, clover
and other succulent feed. and in win.
ter these are rarely supplied.
No horse, however lightly worked,
| should be fed on hay alone. The ration
| should include grass roots, and
| when the work is hard enough suit
able quantity of grain. No horse tina t
| is lightly worked should be highly fed
| on grain. 1t is a common and cost y
| practice which causes many a horse to
be discarded long before his time.
| Many farmers sustain a loss in the
yield of the crop by using small ears of
corn for seed. The largest ears that
| will mature in the locality should in
varia bly, be used for seed. and, in fact.
corn can be bred up to grow large
ears, as the principle applied to the
breeding of live stock is just as appli.
| cable to the growing of grains and
| vegetab les.
In the large markets it makes nc
difference whether eggs are brown OF
! white, the price is the same, but il
does make a difference whether they
are mixed Promiscuously or not. For
the higher and ia ncy' they should be
ofuniform size and color-either brown
| or white. It's this fancy price which
| pays, and to secure it, extra skill in
| selecting and packing is called for.
| The horses natural food is grass
| There is nothing else upon which he
| will do SO well or live SO long. His in
| ternal economy can accommodate itself
| to the dried, seedless sGallSs OF winter
the luxuriant foliage of spring the
highly nutritious seed pods OF summer
The stalks preserve his health, the
green foliage fattens him and the seed
pods invigorate and strengthen him,
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02
JACkY'S LITTLE MISTAKE.

This Talo Rls Friends Call the True
STORY OF the Flood.
Jack Gray's father and mother lived
In New York eleven months in the
year. but the whole family almost in
variably spent August ut the sea shore
Or in the country.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gray had purchased
lot on Fifth avenue long before so
much wealth and fashion congregated
in that particular section OF the city,
and, although there were many more
pretentious homes than theirs on every
side, still their house was handsome
without, and the books. pictures,
furniture and carpets were what might
be expected in that locality, notwith,
standing the fact that they regarded
themselves plain people. who had
not pursued, but been overtaken by,
fashion.
A sultry morning, the last day of
July, found the furniture covered up
and packed away for months nap
and carriage at the door ready to
take the trays to the station.
AS Mrs. Gray passed through the hall
she noticed that one piece of baggage
| was unmarked. "Jacky. DEAR she
said. ''please run upstais and write
IA theirs name on a card for the leather
| trunk; it has all our bathing suits in
| it, and we must not risk losing it.
Jacl<y few to the third story. his
! especial property. and he wrote
| Jonathan Gray with such a flourish
| he splashed ink all over his fingers
He went to an upstairs bathroom to
| wash his hands: but the water would
not come, he rushed down to the
| second story bathroom. made himself
| prcsenta BILE. and was in the carriage
| by the driver before his mother thought
it possible.
Mr.. Gray locked the front door. and
sending the key to his brothers by a
servant. started on his summer holiday
with the comfortable feeling that he
was taking a needed rest and leavin g
Everything safe in his absence.
About ten days later two policemen
were lounging by lamp post near the
house. 1t had been raining for twenty
four hours preceding, and. although
the sun was now shining brilliantly
the caves were still dripping. and from
the marble steps ran steady little
stream to the street.
II say, BILL remarked one of the
, men to his comradc, Its a monstrous
quare thing. but l b'lieve it rainec
more on this one house yesterday thar
, any three in the city: every time
; passed there was a regular pond on the
pavement, and it's still a-comin' dowr
. them steps,"
You everlasting igiot!'' returned
). Bill, Its a-running out of the house
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02
BUILDING AND SCIENCE
THE BEST or M,MlcS.

An ynscct Which Looks Exactly Like
I.onf-why tho PhylAum 0cythe 10 Ex-
@ ceodlngly Dlmcult: to Detect In Its
uaunts-Ie Initiates Twigsas Well ~
Leaves. ..-7 i''-'-'- $50 h'H-i- -
1 There is. perhaps. no other group of
insects which in form and color are SO
generally initiative, and which
naturalists have found more difficult
to detect in their haunts. ~. Their
bodies often resemble the roughened
bark of the trees among which they
live; or they seem to have growing to
them little f1ccks of ichen or moss,
which add to the deception. The dis
guise of the walking leaf Phyllium is
the more striking to a naturalist be-
cause he will notice that whereas
among all other members of the tribe
the wing-cover (vvhen they EXIST arc
greatly abbreviated, the very opposite
is true in Phylliun, the wing-covers,
the onlv members which could be
made to resemble a leaf to perfection,
being greatly developed, while the
wings are aborted, as if the wing COW
ers were here, developed for the eS-
press purpose of this mimicry.
Twenty-Five years ago, at tho Jardin
| d'Acclimation at Paris. some of these
| walking leaves were exhibited alive.
They were placed on growing plants
from which the larger part of the
leaves were stripped, that the insects
might not too easily conceal them
| selves. If large placard announcing
| the presence of these creatures hao
not drawn attention to them, certainlJ
no one would have recognized any
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02
SEBAS1OPOL GEESE.
They Have n Most Beautiful PlumaEe anu
Rounded Bodies.

rbcx Have N Most Beautiful I'lumnEe and
Rounded bodies.
The Scbastopol goose resembles the
Embden or German races in shape. al
though the former is possessed OF lit
tie more elegance of form, and is per-
hapes more swanlilSe. 1t is found in
nearly all the colors which the Ger
man geese show, white and gray, OF
white alone. The pure white are
probably considered the most hand
some, and arc the only ones sent to
purchasers paying high figures, but
those with gray upon them would be
lust as attractive. The distinguishing
features in the Sebastopol geese are
the long, ribbon like plumes which
grow above the wing bar. These grace.
ful feathers lend very aristocratic
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02
D,scoloration OF Piano Keys.

The process of discoloration in ivory
proceeds moro rapidly when light and
air cannot get to it than when it is ex-
posed to their influence. This is cspe-
cially the case in the keys of piano
forte, which often exhibit n distinctly
yellow hue A recent invention is de-
signed to prevent this discoloration.
and consists essentially in SO construct
ing the casing of the keyboard that the
keys shall always be exposed to the
light and the atmosphere. Silvered
glass gathers and reflects the light on
the keyboard. to which the air also has
free access. and the inventor claims
that by this arrangement the attract
iveness of the exterior of the instru-
ment is greatly enhanced.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02
Ashes as Absorbent Is.

The best use that can be made of
coal ashes is to slit and put them un-
der the hen roost as an absor bent, says
a writer in American Poultry Advo-
cate. Sifred coal ashes absorb liquids,
fix volatile ammonia. thus preventing
offensive doors. But with wood ashes
it is different. The worst possible use
you can make of wood ashes is potash,
which makes it very valuable ma
nure. But put under the hen roost the
potash mikes with the ammonia
another valua BILE element in the hen
manure and the potash is changed to
the volatile carbonate of ammonia and
away it goes up among the fowls, per.
haps doing much damage to them.
After the heat has subsidized you
have IL manure sthat isn't worth
very much. This process is gen
orally termed heating. Coal ashes
Fix the ammonia SO that it
does not heat and yet the ammonia is
retained all the same and you have a
valuable manure. Some people Say
that you should never put wood-ashes
where the hens can wallovv in them
claiming that the potash in the ashe:
will make sores on the legs and bodie:
of the fowls. Now it will not do thi:
unless the ashes or the fowls bodies
are wet, and we claim that this is thu
real use of wood-ashes in the poultry
yard. You can have Il box with a cove
in which to keep the ashes, shuttin.
the cover down on wet or rainy day
when the fowls bodies are liable to b
wet. The ashes will be great help T.
| the fowls in keeping off insect pests
| and they will find quite a little char
coal in the ashes which will aid in d
costing their food and correcting bowc
| disorders We think, too it would
a good plan to have a box of site
| coal-asIes for the hens to dust in.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02

thing extraordinary: and even as it
was many person. after examining
the case with care. left without seeing
anything but the plant. and with the
opinion that what the placard told
them to look for was some minute
object too microscopic for their sight.
Even those who knew what to expect
had often Il long search to discover what
was in reality in full sight.
The same was true of the living
specimens at Edinburgh. OF one of
them Murray says: ''For the greatest
period of its life it exactly resetn-
blcd the leaf on which it fed that when
visitors were shown it they usually.
4 fter looking carefully over the plant
for :, minute or two. declared that they
could see no insect. 1t had then to
be more infinitely pointed out to them;
and. although seeing is VIGOROUSLY
said to be believing. it looked so abso-
1utcly the same as the leaves among
which it rested that this test rarely
satisfied them. and nothing would con-
vince them that there was real live
| insect there but the test of touch.
| 1t had to be stirred up to make 1t
| move
| Undoubtedly this initiative resem-
blance is most striking in the walking
| leaf, but it is quite as complete in
many of the walking sticks proper
| The naturalist Wallace. familiar with
| them in tropical forests. says that in
the Moluccas they are found changing
| on the shrubs that line the forest
paths; and they resemble sticks SO eN-
| actly in color. in the small rugositics
| of the bark, in the knots and small
branches Initiated by the joints of the
| legs. which are either pressed close to
the body or stuck out a random. that
| it is absolutely impossible by the eye
alone to distinguish the real dead
twiys which fall down from the trees
| overhead from the living insects. >
And he adds that he has ''often
looked at them in doubt. and has often
been obliged to use the sense Of touch
to determine the point. ''-Samuel II
Scudder, in IIarper's Magazine.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02

Where's your eyes-don't you see it
coming right under.the door,
And so it was!
Fortunately, the first speaker knew
where Mr.. Gray's brother lived. and
Fastening to the place, he told Mr..
William Gray that there appeared to
be something the matter. Within an
hour the front door was unlocked and
a tlcplora BILE sight was revealed. The
bcholders might have said with the
Ancient Mariner. that there was
water. water everywhere;'' for it was
flowing gently down the front stair
way, dripping from the ceilings, and
each floor was full of little pools. All
the carpets had been left on the lower
story. and they had been saturated to
such an extent that the sensation was
that of walking on sponges: from the
arlor walls hung long festoons of rich
velvet paper.
Uncle William. almost raising an
umbrella in his excitement, rushed up
to the thiru-story bathroom. and there
was a tub Overlooking on every side,
and Il full head on in the -spigot Jaclxy
had forgotten to turn back. Well,
they stopped 1t. you may be sure. and
1.-The long tongue" as the Indians call
the telegraph. said to Mr.. Gray. down
/ at Cape May: Come at once. House
| damaged by water" He came by the
first train and he sent for women with
cloths and buckets. and for plumbers
and carpenters and painters and pa per-
| hangers and upholsterers, and he spent
more than three thousand dollars
| ''cleaning house" that autumn.
Now. how old Go you suppose Jacky
must have been to have done all that
| mischief? Ten did you say? No,
| he was more than that. 'Twelve?'
No, wrong again. 'Thirteen?' I see
I shall have to help you guess-he was
| twenty-six years old, and weighed one
hundred and sixty pounds; and it was
n good thing he was so old and big. for
| if he had been n small boy it would
have seemed q very careless trick in
| Iced: but as it was, people only said:
Dear. dear. dear! Well, accidents
! will happen:'-Mnry Bentley Thomas,
| In st. Nicholas.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-06-02
liNeaEEplNo ,oF, BEES.


supposed t. cave Been Prao-
- - ticed to . Crest Extsnt.
When there il but d single colony OF
bees for miles aroundit Is very PROB
able that c.ose inbreeding occurs, says
exchange This would seem to arise
from the necessity of the case. For
many wears the best authorities sup
posed inbreeding to be the rule among
bees, from the: fact that the hive was
tenanted by a single female. ano INC ~
bees of different hives were known 20
be hostile toward each other: buH
Tepetmeir has shown that this hostii-
tv does not apply to the drones, wnlch
are permitted to enter any hive un
molested, and Darwin believed tnat
..the union invariably and necessarily
taking place on the wing. during the
queens nuptial fight was as'spec1aA
provision against continued 1noreeo-
ing - -.
Proof of this is found in the cross
bred bees. Darwin cites the toiiG ;s.r
cases: ..Mr Woodbury., who intro
duced Lipurian bees into Devonsh1re.
found during q single season that tnose
stocks, at q distance from one 20 Two
miles from his hive, were crossed oy
his droues In one case, the L1gur1an
drones must have flown over the city OF
Exeter, and over several intermed1ate
hives. On another occasion. several
common black queens were crossed ny
Lipurian drones, at a distance OF from
ono to three and a half miles IL ls
not altogether improbable tnaI the
nuptial fight of the queen is lnd"cea
by the collecting of drones, which call
her by their loud humrning. This may
be the signal to her to start on the
journey which is to prepare her LOT heF
life work; and the presence OF a"een'
readv to take her nuptial fight, may
b. scented by the bees. 1t does not
seem necessary, therefore, to hold that
inbreeding is the rule in situations
where the reverse is possible. The
| free out crossing of different varieties
the collecting of drones in great num-
| bcrs in out of way places, the absence
| of hostility to foreign drones' and the
liberal provision throughout nature to
| prevent inbreeding aud secure cross
ing. all seem to converge to the idea
that inbreetlinRis not resorted to only
when -circu instances compel it. 1t is
probably the exception rather than the
rule, and the crossing is nature 3
method of keeping up the constltutl"I.
| of the bee. This may be theory. but
| the reverse is also theory. and this
theory really seems to have the strong
/ est support.