Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-06-18
GLEANTNGs,

Fifty hours and $50 will take man
from New York to the City Of Mexico.
George Eastman. who invented and
perfected the machine which made the
first percussion caps in the United
States, is now living in Kalamazoo,
Mich. at the age of seventy.
An English traveller says that the
chief characteristic OF New York peo-
plc is that they look ono way while
walking another, and that others have
great trouble in dodging them.
Professor Huxley declares that in his
travels among barbarians and his study
of savage life, he ha. found no people
so wretched and degraded as those who
exist in the poorer quarters Of London.
Pasteur says concerning vivisection:
Never would have the courage to
kill bird for sport. but when it comes
10 experiments | have never been
troNbled by the slightest scruplc. Sci
enco has the right Of pleading tho SOW
ereignty OF the purpose.
There are supposed to be about
100000 species in tho animal king
dom. Of beetles alone, over 100, 600
species are known, and the whole
lumber Of insects 10 sot at 500, 900. OF
the higher animals there are l,2OU
mammals, $500 birds, 1000 reptiles
and 10, 600 fishes.
The facility with which New York
editors secure rich wives is something
noticeable. 1t is now announced that
Poultney Bigelow, who is one of the
editorial staff of the New York Herald,
is to he married to Miss Edith Jaifray,
who will receive from her father as q
wedding gift his check for $4,000
The German town of Furstenfield
thinks it has the oldest tree in the
world. 1t Is linden standing in the
churchyard among the tombs of CEN
turies, has trunk fully fifteen feet in
diameter and twisted branches which
seem to stretch out all over the enclos-
ure. and is supposed TO be 1000 years
| old.
A natural mistake: .ssc train had
run off the track and bumped for
| quarter of a mile over the sleepers be-
fore 1t could be stopped. Most OF the
| passengers were nearly dead from the
fright and Earring One man, how
ever, who is Philadelphian OF wealth,
keeps his carriage and does u good deal
Of riding over Philadelphia paved
streets, was noticed to awake from .
nap, rub his eyes and vel: Say, John.
drive slower. -Philatielf,hin Coll
What is medical and surgical scisnce
about, that it cannot cure snoringP
Here Is an unhappy woman in New
York suing for divorce from the GRAND
son of Commodore Vanderbilt for en-
dangcr;ng her life and destroying her
peace by his extravagant and profane
snoring. 1t is time that more atten-
ton was paid by the medical profession
to this vicious propensity. How many
lives are made miserable by it. and yet
the doctors have never yet devised any
but the one intellectual remedy of keep
ing the patient awake ali night. Phil
adelDAia Balietia.
Mr.. Mugg, of Mugg. Pitcher & Co.
tells the story OF being called to O
debtor in the country who had been in
honest business for forty years and at
last given out. '.Well. MIR. Cream
bowl" said Mugg. "what can we do
for youe Very bad fix?'' 80 so, Mr..
Mugg." What can you pay--75a'
mo, not SO much.'' We'll. how's
| Oos tDiuh Hpt. Ali - -tHtCCS
then? We want to be fair You know
with a customer of SO long standing
"Well, don't know exactlv," said the
debtor ''Bf the way, Mr.. Mugg.
about how much are they paying on 81
now in Boston? ?'- Hartford Posi-.
There may be several of our readers
who do not know what evolutions
mean. For the benefit of such it af
fords us pleasure to state that, accord.
ing to Herbert Spencer, evolution j;
simply "an intcgration Of matter and
concomitant dissipation of motion,
during which the matter passes from
an indefinite, incoherent houogeneity
to definite coherent heterogeneity, ant
during which the retained motion un
dergoes parallel transformation.
Now that they know the definition o
evolution they will marvel that it nevel
occurred to them before NorristOic'
HerGL.
The amende honorable. A strange
travelling on horseback through thu
backwoods of Arkansas was very mucl
impressed with the familiarity tha
existed between the pigs and the ma
,ives. The swine had = free pass Il
! tte privileges Of the house, and scenes
, to make liberal use OF it. Riding NJ
, TO shanty, the stranger asked q tall
{ unkempt specimen OF humanity, "Wh,,
, don't you keep your pigs out OF you
housep" ''Look here, stranger" re
spondcd the Arkansas man, putting hi
. hands in his pockets, .'cf you mean t
: say that my family amt ti.tcn for hog
! to associate with, just come out like