Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1883-01-17
GLEANINGS
Artificial essence of almonds may be
nlAd. from hapyipa

Artificial essence of almonds may be
made from benzine.
Within a radius of eight miles of
Sanford, Fla, there are 1892 orange
groves, containing 165. .235 trees The
state produces 50,oo0,0oO oranges.
Seven lawyers were lately engaged
in trial at Red Bluff, Cal, to obtain q
ldecree OF the superior court determine
ing the ownership of eight hogs.
The Vicksburg, Miss. papers COM
plain that. with population of from
1900 to $4,000 they can count upon
but one mail per week.
North Idahoans, iu mass-meeting
n Lewiston, pledged themselves to urge
the annexation of that region to Wash
fngton territory.
! Alligator farms have been started in
sss1rious parts Of Florida. The animals
are raised for their hides. for which
there is always a good demand and big
prices.
1t is calculated that five active men
can secure 10000 signatures TO petit
ton to the Legislature in two weeks
time, and it doesn't matter the least bit
what the subject of the petition is.
The Russians are noted card players,
and the manufacture of cards being a
state monopoly one is able to form some
idea of the extent to which the passion
is indulged from the fact just officially
noted that last year the state manufac-
turers turned out 7, 200, 900 packs.
A human brute in Evansville, Ind, =,
kicked his wife until she was insensible
and then deliberately whitfield the flesh
off her fingers. Had he not been re-
moved to an adjoining county his neck
would have paid dearly for his amuse-
ment.
A wicked and perverse Indiana news
paper says: Three young ladies at
Three Rivers, Mich, attempted to stand
on their heads for a wager last week.
This was certainly the most brilliant
display by hose company made ia
Michigan this year"
Charles Reade writes so dramatically
and without explanatory description,
says a recent English criticism, that
the average cold-minded Briton does
not appreciate him as the American
does, who has Imagination, and who
supplies stage scenery to the dialogue.
The steeple of Grace Church, which
has been the most prominent landmark
in Broadway for many decade, has
been taken down. The square tower
that remains looks all the better for the
loss of the cheap and senselcss steeple,
but lovers of New York streets will be
likely to miss and perhaps regret it.
Rufus Hatch makes more and more
progress as a journalist. and is on hand
every week to the Hour. The financial
articles signed by him and published in
that paper are reproduced in other pa
pers, and people will say that he paws
for the reproduction at SO much per
line. In Uncle Rufus George Francis
Train has dangerous ink-throwing,
quill-manipulating rival.
Tie census shows that Of the whole
number OF farms, the largest proportion
occupied by actual owners is in New
England. ninety-one per cent The
next largest is eighty-two per cent, in
the Pacific States; in the West it is
seventy-nine per cent. in the middle
West and the middle group it is seven
ty-eight per cent; and in the South il
is sixty per cent.
A fountain in public square of San
Francisco needed painting. An artist
agreed to do it for nothing, provided he
could take as much time rs he pleased
for the job and erect fence to protect
him from idle curiosity while at work.
The contract was made on those terms.
But it seems that the painter has sold
the surface of the fence to advertisers,
and nobody knows how long he will be
painting the fountain.
In a piece of woods near Charlton,
Saratoga county. N. Y, there has been
discovered a hidden place where it is
believed robbers have been secreted. A
large barn door had been erected and
covered with brush so as to make
snug refuge during inclement weather.
1t is believed that the masked burglars
who took $4,000 from Supervisor Gil
christ occupied this den.
Special Officer in Petticoats
A Western woman, observes the New
York Herald, has just done her sex
service of a kind that officers who wear
trousers are generally slow to do. A
feminine friend was persuaded tn mar
ry fellow who afterward proved to be
already more married than the law al
lows. A male officer would have said
"Poor thingr' and then gone on talk
ing politics; but not SO this Indiana
woman. She found that the bigamist
had taken his victim to Kansas, SO, OBJ
tanning special commission and a req
uisition from the governor of Indiana,
she went west, caught the rogue,
brought him back to the locality where
his offense was committed and lodged
him in Jail. No man in office would
have done SO much unless specially
hired. Moral, let us have some strong
minded women in office to look after
women who are not able to take care of
themselves. If there were such per-
sons on constabulary duty there would
be diminution in the number of the
two-footed beasts of prey who seek