Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-04-03
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VARIOUS TOPICS.

The famous standard of Mohammed
is said to be at the museum of artillery
at Turin, Italy, having been purchased
by the Sandman ambassador at Con.
stantinople in 1889, and sent to King
Charles Albert. 1t is of red silk, with
verses of the Koran upon it in yellow
letters.
A TEXAS paper advised its readers to
sell their vacant town lots, and the Gal
weston Ne'os hurries in with the sug-
gestion that they may spare themselves
the trouble, as the tax collector will at
tend to all that kind of business in due
season.
PARIS street-cars are warmed by small
hot water pipes connected with little
stove placed beneath one of the plat
forms. The cost is about ten American
cents day, the fuel used being just suf.
hcient to keep a moderate quantity of
water hot. The Parisians are greatly
pleased with the plan.
TIE most luxuriant thing about Mrs.
Ben Wade, says q Washington letter,
was her long, waving and beautifully
golden hair. OF all the ladies that have
moved in the upper circles of society in
Washington for the last twenty years,
none has surpassed Mrs. Wade in the en-
chanting beauty of her magnificently
beautiful golden hair. 1t was the one
strong personal mark of her appearance
GOOD luck has come to genial Sam.
Ward. Keene, the California speculator,
grateful to him for personal kindness, is
said to have settled on him $50, 900 for
life, the proceeds then to revert to
Keene's family. This substantial addi-
tion to the income from the Astor
estate makes the king of the lobby COM
Portable for the rest of his days. So
shines a good deed in the naughty world
LUCRATIVE EMPLOYMENT" in Lon
don means-as two young ladies found
out who answered an advertisement-the
embroidering of colored "clocks" on
women's stockings at the rate of one
half-penny clock! This liberal offer
was hampered with one condition. The
candidates for employment have to pay
five shillings in the first instance TO be
taught in the art of clock embroidery.
Visitors to the late centennial show,
doubtless remember the hydraulic eleva-
tor that brought them to the upper story
of the buildings to "view the landscape
DER" The same old holster will crawl
up the towers of the rotuuda on the ex-
hibition grounds at Paris, and visitors
can go up by the hundred or two at a
time. The view from the top will take
in the valley of the Seine for miles on
either side, and every prominent build
ing the city will be easily seen.
The gasbage scow fleet of the street
cleaning department of New York is a
floating village, having a society pecu-
liarly its own, which is Just now interest
ed in the marriage of one of its men,
bers. Miss Matilda Baker, daughter of
the captain of scow 60, and long known
rs the queen of the garbage fleet, has
welded Capt. Thomas Matthews, Of the
garbage scow Highland Rose, who, by
virtue of the marriage, becomes prince
cOnsOrt.
PHILADELPHIA has forty-fve news
paper offices whose annual business
equals $4,3OO, 900; lO3 job printing Of
fees, who each year turn out work
amounting to $2,l76,0OO. The book
making interest in 1876 came to ~, 1885,
600. The annual sales of the paper mills
average $4,O49,000. The products Of
electrotyping, stereotyping, steel and
wood engraving each year equal 81 $780,
600. Four million dollars worth of web
paper is sold annually by its manufac-
turers.
IT has always been, the custom when
the acting-secretary of state presents .
newly-elected pope with the white skull
cap, in the conclave where the election
occurs for the pontiff to proclaim that
official always monsignor) cardinal
by placing his own red skull-cap upon
the secretary's head. Monsignor La
sagni, however, was disappointed at the
election of Leo Kill, for the new pope,
on receiving the white cap, put the red
one into his pocket.
PHILADELPHIA reioices and is glad
over the possession of probably the old.
est hearse-driver in the world. Fol
nearly fifty years has this sombre indi.
vidual held the ribbons of death and
driven slowly gravewards. He has aver
aged three funerals day, but what HI
is particularly proud of is his connection
with obsequies, real and ceremonial, Of
John Quincy Adams, Zachary ~aylor
Abraham Lincoln and Henry Wilson
He expects shortly TO patronise the
grave craft of drivers himself.
The alarming rapidity with whief
short-sightedness is increasing among
German students formed the subject of I
recent debate in the Prussian parliament
From extended observations made in tn
gymnasia, it appears that the number o
short-sighted persons increases from 2
per cent. in the first year to 25 per cent
in the ninth or last year. The too FIRE
quent custom in Germany of forcin,
lads to study during the evenings witt
insufficient light, in ill-ventilatcd rooms
is undoubtedly main cause of the wide
spread evil.
VENEZUELA is referred to now an
then in presidential messages as coun
try, the government of which, is prett
slow pay, and that is about all that th
majority Of our people know about i