Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-06-25
GLEANTNGS.

Nearly one-flfth OF ait the children in
Providence, Il. l., Of school age, did
not attend school single day during
the year 1888.
From 1884 to 1881 sumptuary edicts
as to dress were issued at Berlin. The
last forbade women without rank to
wear silk dresses.
There are eleven states in which wo-
men vote for school directors. Most
people will be surprised to learn that
Kentucky is one Of the states.
Theodore Irwin. of Oswego, N. Y,
is ranked among the greatest living
book collectors. Among his other
treasures Is 4 Gutenberg bible.
Mr.. Peel, tho new Speaker OF thu
ssIsIsa seEfe feHeRt Iinraln a11In|
Of tho sculptured warriors Of Ninevah.
The Empress OF Austria has learned
to set type, and she glories IN the fact
that she can keep up with the smartest
OF the Vicnnese compositors Of the other
sex.
Captain Waddell, who commanded
the famous Confederate cruiser. the
Shenardoah, has been elected command
or Of an oyster police-boat on the Ches-
apeake.
Miss Susan Fcnnimore Cooper,
daughter Of the dead novelist, is a mod
ell maiden lady, who conducts at Coop
erstown an industrial school for 100
orphans.
In Paris there are hundreds of cases
ofinvoluntary suicide by absinthc month
by month. which are passed by ms un-
noticed as cases Of death from phthisis
or pneumonia.
The German Admiralty now thinks
that it must alter its coast defenees,
inasmuch as krupp's improved mon
ster guns are found to penetrate easily
the strongest armor plates.
There is great drop in tho price of
patent medicines, owing To rivalries
among apothccaries. The $1-a-bottle
species, for instance, now sell Mt Is
cents apiece and still yield the seller so
per cent. profit after the manufacturer
has taken out his IS.
The Boston advertiser says that the
State of Massachusetts has made a net
profit Of IS, 2S5, COZ from It's enterprise
Of filling the Black Bay lands in Dos-
ton, and that the filling of the South
Boston flats. although only partly COM
p!eted, has nearly paid for itself.
Astronomers are respectfully refer.
rcd to the theory OF the Maya peasantry
of Yucatan in regard 10 the asteroids.
They say the sky is inhabited, among
other tribes OF spirits. by a friendly
race called Balams, who arc great
smokers, and the shooting stars are the
cigar stumps they throw away.
A critic in tho Russian Iaua' 'id asserts
that seventy miles day may be contin.
uously done by Russian cavalry with
out any fear for horses or men. A few
years ago General Gourko, at Warsaw,
inspected couple of sotnias oi Don
Cossacks, who had cleared $40 yersts
in three days about seventy-four miles
day.
A lady from interior New York,
while recently in Washington, visited
the House of Representatives, taking a
seat in the gallery. She was quickly
driven out by the tobacco smoke rising
from the lobby and cloak rooms below
She thinks Congress the biggest smoke
house in the United States. - Utica
Herald.
DR.. Otto Krummel. of Gottingen,
who has been investigating the area Of
oceans. estimates the superficies Of tho
Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans at
1874, 787, AIS square miles, and the total
superiicies OF all the seas on the globe
N Al
cies of the continents and islands he
puts at 81, ,354,9 square miles.
Toledo boasts of being the health-
lest city OF its size in the world, and
the statistics produced by the Bee go
far to support the claim. According
to these figures the death-rate in 1883
was only l3 2 per thousand. and the
average death-rate for the last eighteen
years Is ?.