Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-01-09

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EVERYTHING in furniture covering now
adays is a .'scarf. : There are no moro
table cloths.
California has 900 churches of all de-
nominations, and about 100000 in
habitants.
Travellers in Africa assert that the.
most certain cure for malarial fever il
strong coffee.
A niece of Richard Wagner Is in New
York with q crippled husband and four
hungry children.
Major Robins, chief Of police at In
dianapoiis, is charged with speaking OF
the police as '.thicves and blackguards
not worth he'll room.
The subject of bridge across the
Mississippi at New Or.eans is under
discussion. the estimated cost being
$i3,oo0.0ao.
A Washington woman who was ac.
Quilted OF murder On the ground of in.
sanity some time ago has just married
her lawyer.
"A Baptist divine estimates that all
India will be Christianized in fifty
wears should the present. good work DO
continued.
Experiments are in progress in Ohio
for turning pslraetto leaves into paper
for news print. II was the material
Used for Bank of England notes with
such secresy for years.
Paris last year ste 5000, 900 chick
ems end go, 900. GOO eggs. The frogs
couldn't be counted. 10 wash down
these and other kinds of solid food
1000, 600 gallons OF wine was used.
The income of the Girard properties
in Philadelphia and elsewhere ia PENN
sylvania has increased over SIC, ,0aO IN
the past ten months, compared with
the same time last year.
A curious debntc is going ON between
a, San Francisco and several interior
papers rs H. Mhethsr the wife whose
band Is worth HAVING.
MIR. Bell. the new Supervisor of Arch
itectuue at Washington, thinks the
Capitol Building las been built to on
all sides until it is all cut Of proportion.
.'It looks like . very big hat ON small
man.
A Cincinnati rh, sician has examined
l40 of the oest waistiers in tae city.
and finds them sadly hacking IN mental
development
The engineer in charge OF the gov
ernment works 81 Key West has fished
up copper cannon of the fifteenth
century. 1t belonged to tho early
Spanish Invaders
Dried apples are used in Kentucky
for making appie-iack, but the beverage
must be stored in stone jugs or glass
bottles, as it will eaS our OF wooden
barrel.
The Santa Barbara lndene,sdsnt adj
yocates division Of Galifornia and an-
4 nexing the southern part, including San
Luis Obispo to Arizona, forming . new
/ State.
| The United States has l6i doctors to
every 10000 persons. In England the
| proportion is s to 10, 900; in France. 5;
Germany, 8 and fraction; Hungary
and Italy, &, and Switzerland Z.
| Judge Hoover. who onse upon time
/ was Chief Justice Of Arizona, is now
1 chief waiter in restaurant in Southern
California. Judge Sattherthwaite. Also
Of Arizona, is now doing tinker's Jobs
for living.
The Memphis (Tenn.) AvalaneAs
SAYS that q census OF Southern editors
4 shows two Captains, seventeen Majors
Generals and 1926 Colonels There
are no privates and no officers below
4 thc rank OF Captain.
4 A Mississippi paper says that whilt
come persons were boring an artssiaI
4 well in Lee County. that state, tho,
found log 325 feet under the earth
which was in fair state Of preses,
vation md resembled poplar.
! The treasurer OF Carroll County
Ark, placed 1900 in IN old boot III
sale keeping, placing the boot u pitt
of rubbish. Now he Ii 4 trying 1,
4 negotiate with the msn who stole m
hv5t. u u q Z
"A cane brnurht over In the May
dover by Wslsiain White, the fashc
Of Pcreqr.ns White, thD first whit
child born in NV Eag lsn:A. il NOW i
! , possession of Captain Willism White, 9
,, Yarmouth, Mass.
II IA rose farm Isl o new industry i
Alabama. Two gardeners have thro
acres I'M rose trees. This year the
. sold ~. OOo trees 70 parties at tn
z North, ana laasi orders tor ~. 900 while
they could not ill. Tlsey bring abos
e2o per 100.
!, Kwang Lee the young emperor I
! China. tle.otes, three hSsti's 4 day 1
. staiying thc. language Of bis cvsintia
trfs,!i ti ss,f "a mi h, ~ = x,sss