Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-03-27

in length, through the the lagoon which
separates Cronstadt and st. Petersburg.
WHEN the Webster mansion at Marsh
field, Mass, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently, the entire roof, instead of falling
into the flames, was blown into the air.
1t is supposed that quantity of powder
had been concealed under the roof dur
ing the Revolutionary war, by the
soldiers who were quartered there.
THE Indian famine has cost the East
India government SAG, ,220, 900, and it is
proposed by the authorities hereafter to
regard these yisitations as regularly re-
curing, and not as exceptional events,
and to make preparations for them by
laying up $500, 900 year 30 as to meet
the scourge when it comes without un-
duly disturbing the revenue.
DURING the past year the expert
mental department of agriculture at
Washington distributed over 10000 tea
plants, grown in the greenhouses of the
department. Three hundred pounds of
the seed of this plant have been lately
sown, with view of extensive distribu.
tion in the southern states.
THE Adelaide Observer says that the
Australians think they can successfully
compete with America in the grain mar
kets of the world, II they can only keep
ahead of America in the invention of
labor-saving machinery. In the Austria
liam house of deputies member brought
in bill to award "boDus" of 500, 900
for the invention of "the best machine
for reaping, cleaning and bagging wheat
on the ground"
LANCASTER, Pa, is somewhat excited
because a very fine young lady of that
place eloped with merchant. The
young lady is a college graduate with all
that the name implies; still she eloped.
The parents Of the girl did not object to
merchants generally, but the stock in
trade of this particular merchant was
peanuts, and he only had one leg; be-
sides, his place of business was stand
on the street, 50 they naturally feel dis
pleased about the occurrence.
+. w. PERCIvAL publishes a letter re-
garding the excavations at Mycene, now
conducted by Mr.. Stamataki. A sixth
tomb has been discovered within the
circle of stone slabs on the Acropolis,
and as five only are mentioned by Pau
sanias, DR.. Schliemann's theory is de-
stroyed. Numerous remains of aTchao-
logical value continue to be found. On
one of the tombstones the lions sculp-
tured bear marks showing close con-
nection with Assyrian art.
ONE Of the prominent business men of
jacksonville, Fla, offers to take the con-
tract of running the city government for
year for two-thirds what it now costs.
He will be mayor, alderman, police-in
fact, the whole machinery of the govern
ment-and if, at the end of the year, the
people say by their votes that they have
not had as good city administration as
they have had for years, he will pay the
bills and claim nothing.
Mrs. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, the widow
of the late President Lincoln, is living a
secluded life in an interior town in
France, and declines to return to Amer
lea lest she may again be placed in a
lunatic asylum. It's said that in France
she still indulges, to moderate extent,
in her propensity for buying things for
which she has no Use, and filling closets
with articles wholly unnecessary.
A VERY extraordinary condition of
things exists in England as regards the
institution of clergymen to livings. The
bishop of Peterborough, for instance,
stated in 1876 that since he had been
bishop he had been called upon to insti
tute one clergyman who was paralytic;
another 30 aged and infrm that he ap-
piled for leave of perpetual absence;
third who was reclaimed drunkard,
and whose intemperance had occurred in
nc;ghboring parish; and a fourth who
had resigned public Office rather than
faca charge of the most horrible inn
morality. In each of these cases the
facts were known to the parties present.
ing these persons to ivings; but as re-
CARDS every one of them the bishop was
advised that he had no legal power to re-
fuse institution.
BAYARp TAYLOR says that the secret
of his enormous power of work is an un-
failing appetite, capacity of smoking
tobacco interminably, and eight hours
good sleep every night. So imperative
has the habit of sleeping at regular
time become, that, when now and then
he has had to defer going to bed at the
usual time, and has tried to induce wake
fulness by drinking two or three cups Of
the blackest coffee and by other means, he
has nevertheless dropped asleep while
working at his desk. Mr.. Taylor appears
thus to have enjoyed all the physical ad-
vantages Of being sleepy-head while es-
Gaping all the mental disadvantages.
A NOVEL discovery has been made in
the library of Lyons, in France. 1t is 9
map Of the entire system of the central
plateau Of Africa, which has been of lat<
years explored by Grant, Baker, Living
stone and Stanley. The system is tracet
upon globe which was constructed il
17Ol, and contains in detail the source
of the Nile and the Congo. The maj
was executed by order of Father Placid
De Saint Amour, principal Of the mona.
tery of the third order of st. Francis
by Crispurien Of Toulon, and by th
monks of Bonaventure and Gregoirt
both connected with the above establish
ment. The report does mot mention til