Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1882-11-08

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4 = = a eially stated that 1s0, i6S, -
negss hays BIN granted By the United
G1atss ~ IN and wagon roads Il
would naks I, 238, 636 farms q 100 acrs.
oA1&, and II axea = greater than thas q
- Ayo Gtatn 81 Indiana, 1llinois, 6wA
Rannao ond Minnesota IT. valu1 -
g - asrs would b tB96. S31, 66A
tn reason alleged IN China why OH
$500 beconae Christians On reading -
Bible u. that the ink used has . power
- s4upely the reader and take away ~
reason. md 20 make him ready TO be-
keve false doctrine. Tho people are
vAEned asninst buying or reading for
sicn books. The missionaries arc sus.
pssssl q desiring to kidnap Chinese
0hildsea u sell them.
u - formerly held that sponges
we're vegetables, hut they are now gen.
orally almitsei 10 be animals. They
- hxNl BY kind Of root Il We base,
q incsust other bodies, growing mostly
4 a1oppe, sometimes In fresh water,
generally IN salt water; soms In shall
Ow. some ia very deep water. They
ars sail 70 grow BY division. Scarce and
GnAn il cold latitudes, they increase in
siso and number toward tho tropics,
bein9 most abundant In ths Australian
ssas. Tia sponges Of commerce are
pocured chiefly in the Msditerranean
nd The Bahama islands.
a CUnsoUs case occurred q the Chill
AssAs Hospital IN Paris. A girl Of II
was a school, and during . thunder
storm the electric 6uid fell close 70 her.
Yu moment abe seemed 10 b suAo-
eAting. but this sensation SOON passed
~ into : az Of the hiccoughs. These
becAane % distressing that after three
days ~ mother took her TO the hospital
tor sdvics. The surgeon ordered her to
b taken 10 the operating theater, whore.
- seeing the medical man standing at .
table covered with Some swful-looking
instruments, and surrounded by NUM-
her n a4.istAnts in white aprons, the
child became 80 terrified that she forgot
hss hiceoughs, which did not recon-
nsaaCs. and she was Thus cured.
II inhospitAble Arctic regions have
ben esnerAlly regarded - the very OPP
posiAe q hfe-sustAining cr fertile in food.
Yet recent traveller in Siberia asserts
NhAA hirxss 70 there to breed, not in thou
saa,ds bot in millions, snd that for the
rcasoa they fnd there prodigal abrMl-
dance OF l0osls. Berries VI many kinds
In insxAaastible quantities. frozen dur
ing Ms winter. arc rsA4iy the moment
tho aow has melted for the fruit eating
birds and, for the inssct-worm varie-
tias. mosquitoes in such swarms that the
birds have but to open their bills TO have
chem ~ down their threats. That il the
o3Asst feature Of all. Ono would scarcely
think Il going 70 tho North pole to look
for mosquitoes.
Duane the draining Of some hugs
sasp ponds in 6ilesia it was observed
that frogs were clinging to the backs Of
many II the larger fish, and that most Of
these fish were blind, the frogs fore fee,
being found firmly axed in the eye sock
ets u TIER victims. The carp frequent
u had spongy crust on its head, upon
which the frog feeds, and when Once
solItfy seated they soon succeed in goug
in1 thor 6nny stseds, binding them,
and, ksing unable to lnok out for theil
food, sson perish d hunger. How tight
II theas vosncious batracliians held or
= their living pastures was exempli6si
b. ths pond master, who picked up I
easp weighing two pounds and half
and held il suspesded la The air by on'
Of this hind legs ii frog perched upos
IL back In tbs manner above described
Cnsps thns frog ridden to death begil
b turn yellow on the third day after tn
pasasiticsl croaker has taken his ssat
rapidly waste away. and die within
bcstuight from the commencement 9
thnax nsastyrdom.