Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-04-24
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VARIOUS TOPICS.
AUSTRIA can put in the field for wal
purposes astanding army of 800, 900 men
including reserves, besides landwehr
ersatz, reserve and sturm. The compul
sorry system will attain its full develop
ment this year, 1873, and it would moi
be an exaggeration of the results of
Baron kuhn's organization if we esti.
mate the force now available at 600, ,OOO
regular troops.
EDIsoN's phonograph has been on ex.
hibition among the scientists of Paris
When the instrument was placed on the
table and vociferated, "The phonograph
presents its compliments to the Academy
of Science" there was a roar of laughter
from the audience, which could with
difficulty be persuaded that the sound
did not proceed from some concealed
ventriloquist.
CHARLESTON, S. c., has been expert
menting with an artesian well lately, in
the hope of ultimately obtaining an in.
exhaustible supply of pure water for
the city from that novel source, and the
results, though not quite up to the antici-
pations, are so far encouraging. A we'll
has been sunk l,S47 feet, which dis
charges $50 gallons minute, with an
ascertained head of 65 feet, and proba-
bic real head of over 100 feet.
THERE are said to be still eleven or
twelve survivors of the men who de-
Tended Stonington from the British at
tack in 1914. Nearly all of them are
living there, the two oldest being John
Bennett, aged 80, and Colonel J. w.
Hull, aged "a. Another, Henry Lewis,
died last Friday, in the town he defend
ed, and in which he was of late the old
est person; his age being 81, lacking
three months.
lr will be interesting to many Ameri-
cans to learn that new steamer, Of
which great expectations arc entertained
has been built for the passage across the
English channel. The vessel is modelled
after the Castalia, which, it will be re-
membered, consists of two vessels placed
side by side, and is warranted to 60 twice
as fast, or at the rate Of sixteen miles
and three-quarters an hour. Her name
is the Express and her peculiar construc-
tion is said to be a guaranty against sea-
sickness.
A NUMBER of valuable patent rights
were sold at auction, recently, at New
York, the entire sale netting $20,700.
Among the more prominent inventions
were an improvement in water coolers,
81 200; improvement in boot and shoe
trimming machine, $l,o75; improve
ment in bale ties, whereby they can be
manufactured at one-half the present
cost, $3.50; improvement in dosimeter,
$2,050; improvement in gliding frames,
$l,o75; improvement in gas stoves,
whereby more perfect combustion is
obtained, thus saving at least 40 per
cent. of gas, 50, 225, and 80 on.
ADoLPH SUTRo, of sutro tunnel fame
is remarkable man. When he project
ed his now famous tunnel he was laughed
at. When he went to Washington and
illustrated his views by lectures, he was
made butt of. At every stage of his
progress he has encountered ridicule and
abuse, but he has never turned back.
Despite all predictions, despite all oppo-
sition, his tunnel has been prosecuted
steadily When he has made apparently
wild and intolerable demands, they have
somehow been ceded, notwithstanding
their Objectionable character. He has
made his way, inch by inch and foot by
foot, until his tunnel has come to be re-
gardcd as an established institution.
THE Cincinnati Price Current twenty
ninth annual report of the pork packing
in the west shows the total winter pack
ing was 6,5O5, 600; average ret weight
226 4-l0O pounds; yield of lard, 3s 61-l00
pounds per hog; cost per 100 pounds, net,
four dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Compared with last winter, there is
gain of / ,404, 600 in the number of hogs
packed. ten and twelve hundredths
pounds is the average, net weight, four
and fifty-three hundredths is the average
yield of lard, and decrease of two dol
lars and nineteen cents is the average
cost per 100 pounds.
The King Of Italy begins his reign as
a generous and judicicus assistant of Ital-
ian culture. He has written to the pres
ident of the Lincei to announce to the
academy the foundation of two annual
prizes of 10000 francs each, from his
private purse, one paper on the physical
or natural sciences; the other on
moral, historical or philosophical sub.
ject. This academy is the most ancient
scientific association in Italy, dating
from 1908, and Galileo was one of the
founders. In his letter the king says:
81 am perfectly of opinion with you
that the value of nations must be meas
ured by their knowledge. For that
reason l shall neglect nothing to favor
the progress of the national culture"
THE Pacific Life publishes a letter
from Seth Green to the effect that fish
have an enemy in the cormorant much
more dangerous than the sea lion. These
voracious and predatory birds swarm in
thousands along the shores, and each one,
Mr.. Green says, consumes a pound OF
fish day. The difference between cor
morant and the sea lion in selecting food
is very great. While the latter eats
only the full grown, marketable fish, the
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