Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-07-10
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VARIOUS TOPICS.

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that the neAt census will sbPx popula-
tion, of hired millions hat state.
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The site Of Thorough's hut, on the
s'ese ss q! iS iyaltsa t psntE E}s nov Tmsfksd
by a cafrh begun sevsfar years ago ty a q
western hsls 80 aat3 bhyfiSY hafl
added stones to the pile that It has
grown very large.
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The most sth4 tlse tii1nr Il II LIE wIrii
is evidently iAS sbkSfK At 4 brillV&
horse-race. At Epsomydoxps, tte other
day, mere r.lnlor that the sfavorite,
"Bonnie Scotland, Mad oonshed a little,
sent the odds, in panic, frokn2 to1 to
8 to l.
VNroR 9HuGo riyls sh1 American
George Francis iht hia love foS ehillren.
lie invites troops of them to his home.
loads them with presents, romps with
them and tells, them stories. and the
greatest difficulty he finds is to get them i.
The unequal length Of the lower limbs
sometimes observed in man can be more
readily detected'wlen the man is lying
down on the floor than when he is stand.
ing up. Experienced tailors assert that
this alteration, accounts for some misfits
I"NS'S " ------To OF.
Four years ago, in Forestviile, Sono..
ma county, Gal mans named Lee shot
and killed"his wife while She was asleep
IN bed. One of his children saw the
shot fired. The mai. escaped, but was
the other day arrested in Washington
territory, and returned to Sonoma
county Jail for trial. ., The little girl will
be the chief witness. f5}EhE -.48H.
JESSIE BENTON FREhoST is as attrac-
tive wopan pa in old age .as she was in
her youth and in her prime. Her
abundant hair is as,twhite AZ snow. her
complexion is fresh, her features are ami
mated, and her hand is sought by sculp-
tors as a model. r 'TF~YS aa r~F' A
I. G. EAsTMAN, a celebrated cattle
man OF Paris, KY, has sent ten head of
choice cattle for exhibition at the Paris /
worlds fair The cattle were all bred
and raised in the vicinity of Paris Ky.,
are three years old and upward, and
weigh from, 0O5 to ., 1888 pounds. After
the close of the Paris exposition they
will be sent to London.
LAwN-1ENNIs is now "the" fashion
able game in England. 1t has supersed
ed rinking and croquet in popular fa-
vor, and peryades the country like an
epidemic. It has even been introduced
by English colonies in different parts of
the continent, and is said, to excite. the
liveliest wonderment and interest among
the staids Germans of Hamburg, who,
however, % notexhibit the least inten-
ton or desire of participation in a game
requiring so much useless exertion.
EDWARD FoURNIER,. the French an
thor of work on ancient inventions, |
says the guillotine was invented three
centuries before the days of DR.. Guillo-
tin. Lightning rods have been in bse I
on the shoresaof the Adriatic from time I
immemorfal. Dining-room cars were
anticipated by French omnibus res.
taurant. The sewing-machine was in.
vented and patented by a Frenchman in
1880, and 'Hesiod, who lived in Greece,
nobody knows how many centuries ago,
warned the young men OF his day against
the womanwhc were a pull l.back. 4
THE most romantic rincident connected
with the Voltaire celebration was the
formal opening of TIE windows Sf the
room in which Voltaire died. The house,
which forms the corner of the Quai Vol
taire and the Rue de Beaune, belonged
to the Marquis de Villotte at the time +
Of Voltaire's death; and, in memory of
the great philosopher, she caused the
windows to be closed Immediately lie ex-
pired, and special clause in her will
ordered that they should not be opened
until 100 years had elapsed from that
date.
The proposed tunnel between Spain
and Africa would appear to be no longer
a matter of doubt. This tunnel, accord
ing to the plan at present contemplated,
is to extend from within short distance
of Algisira4 on the Spanish side, to be-
tween TAM Her and Ceata, on the African
side. The length of the submarine tun-
mel will be- nine miles, with an iaclina-
tion of one foot per hundred, and the ap.
proaches will haye an extent of six or
seven miles. The greatest depth of the
sea is 5000 feet; and, as it is intended to
have thickness of some 800 feet Of
rock left between the roof of the tunnel
and thesea bottom, the greatcstaepth Of
the tnnDel win thus be $500 feet Below
the level of the sea. This tunnel, with |
that between Dover and Calais, will form
Gland route" between England and
Africa. . a. sft Il, ts,E
OBSERVATION shows that rails in use
corrode less than those out of use, the
difference, however, constantly decfeas-
ing with the lapse of time. The abso-
lutte amount Of corrosion is, Of course, =
source " destruction Of the rail- greatly
inferibr tktlRt due. tostxafiic.s. It II also
regarded as highly pF0bdbie that the
electric and magnetic forces developed
in the rails BY terrestrial magnetism,
and by rolling traffic, react in some way |
upon thT cd6mical forces concerned in
their cUfsusiSn, and that, therefore, the
direction af lines sf railway in azimuth
is not not wholly Indifferent as respects
the question Of the durability of rails. |