Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-09-25
alaion County Courier.
RATES OF ADVERTISING
VARIOUS TOPICS.

VARIOUS TOPICS.
The price of quinine h higher than
since the war, and still riaing, not, as ID
generally supposed, because the Russians
cleared the market for their armies, but
because the South American Indians
who suppy the bark are fighting among
themselves, and have shipped none for
eight or nine months.~
To get some good out Of the Tullis
murder it is proposed in California to
abolish the Office of public administrat-
or, on the ground that no one man can
properly settle all kinds of business; and
also to allow wives, like partners, to set-
tie the affairs of their husbands, OF, in
case man leaves neither wife nor part
ner, that the court shall appoint suita-
bic person to the task.
A CALL is soon to be issued by the
committee of the National Christian
Temperance Union for worlds temper
ance congress, to be held at Old Orchard
Beach about the first of July next, and
lasting about two weeks. 1t is proposed
to invite Canon Farrar, DR.. Richardson
and other prominent English temper.
ance workers, President Hayes and q
number of the governors of the states,
and leading temperance advocates
throughout the Union.
CAPITAL punishment has been abolish
ed in Switzerland, and the punishment
for murder ordinarily amounts to five OF
six years imprisonment. As conse-
quence the most atrocious crimes have
become quite frequent. One of the
latest cases is that of vagrant Italian,
who brutally murdered an unprotected
woman in her husbands absence, in
order to get her money, which amounted
to about $40.
The Anglo-Saxon is destructive ami
NAL wherever you find him. The Nor
wegians are bitterly complaining that
English sportsmen will soon extermi-
nate their reindeer and &ild fowl, if
some limitation is not set to their slaugh-
tering proclivities. More than fifty rein
deer are now seldom seen on the Har-
danger table-lsnd, where three or four
hundred could formerly be found; and
prnfassnP Eriia tho 20.
sportsman, says there are only six thou
sand or eight thousand in the whole
country.
A Boston workman was sent to
fashionable residence to make some re-
pairs, and Immediately after he left the
building valuable watch and chain
were missed from a room which only he
and the mistress of the house had enter.
ed. He was charged with the theft, ar.
rested and locked up, when the watch
was found, having been removed by the
woman's little daughter. Every effort
has been made to repair the wrong to
the unjustly imprisoned man, but he de-
clines all apologies or offers of remunera-
tion, and proposes, as he might have
been convicted and ruined by the charge,
to have the case 60 into the court and
receive his acquittal there.
IT now ascertained that humming
birds are only found on this continent,
in the West India islands, and in two
islands of the Pacific. Those in the
United States pass from their winter
quarters in Mexico as far north as Cana.
da, which is is their extreme northern
limit. From Bolivia the proceed as far
as Terra del Fuego, where the officers Of
the British man-of-war Bengle found
them feeding on insects in the blossom of
the fuchsia when snow was on the
ground, for they do not necessarily de-
mand high temperature, and some spe-
cies are found at an elevation of 10000
to $4,000 feet above the sea. The tenn
perate region of the Andes produces the
greatest variety. Their flight is exces-
sively rapid.
How severely France suffered last
year from the political agitation and
stagnation of trade, appears from the re-
ports of the Mont de Piete, of Paris,
which in 1877 made loans of $7,O36, ,O76
On l,7S9, 500 objects. The average loan
was $2.13, ~ against 1898 in 1876 and
$4.0l in 1875, and there was such gen.
eral pawning of mattresses and heavy
articles of furniture that great ware
houses had to be rented wherein to store
these bulky pledges. There was an un-
usual increase in the number Of renew
ais and of articles abandoned. In 1877
there were abandoned l72, ,45l articles,
on which 1861, 2,02S had been advanced;
they brought when sold, $76l, ,56l.
PRoF. COLLIER, chemist Of the agri.
cultural department, is engaged in some
very interesting experiments, the pur-
pose of which is to demonstrate the
practicability of making sugar from
sorghum and from common corn stalks.
Notwithstanding it has been asserted
that a. q result of the experiments it
has been shown that the United States
can make its own sugar from Indian
corn. Prof. Collier said that all ex-
periments made thus far are merely ten
tative. The only fact proved is that
sugar can be made from Indian corn and
sorghum. Whether any process can Be
devised 90 that it can be made cheap
enough for practical use is question
yet undetermined. Prof. Collier hopes
to know soon.
SUCCESSFUL tests, it appears, have
been made with cotton seed hulls ~ q
non-conductor of heat in the case of FIRE
less railroad engines. The tank or re-
ceiver Of steam was covered about two
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