Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-02-27
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lHc tlLJ VI bOstOH mas licensed =, 100
liquor saloons.
Talmage's church has 2, 900 members,
or Ala more than Bcccher's.
st. Louis proposes to Try fire bricks
for street pavemcnts.
Rev. Dr.. John Hall says New York
needs forty more churches.
Opium is smuggled in soles OF Chi
nese shoes at San Francisco.
Flour to the value of 1926, 900, 900 is
annually consumed in Great Britain
and Ireland.
Samuel Bio !gett. the ancient Provi-
dence defaulter. cheated hi, widowed
daughter out OF $40, OJ0.
A Philadelphia lady gave party to
her pet poodle, all the other dogs In
Lorillard's horses won him $5S, 295
last year. The largest winnings were
by Pizarro. $l2, 4S5.
Minnesota's butter product for 1882
will nearly reach 1S,0o0,000 pounds.
worth $500, 600.
Latest estimates put Lcadville's
output Of silver this year at $l8,o00,-
600.
London has 700. coo houses and near
ly 5,00O,0 900 nhabitants-ab seven
people TO each house.
1t is - London fashion to get up and
see the sun rise. and then talk about it
for week.
A black lizard nearly six inches long
was found in the boiler of u locomotive
at Altoona, Pa, the other day.
Abe Buzzard, tho Pennsylvania out
law, has escaped from that state and is
expected to settle in Missouri
Beethoven became deaf in 1901, blind
in 1928, and died in 1927. after compos-
ing 1877 different works.
The new speaker Of the Kentucky
legislature is but twenty-seyen years
old, but he studied law under Speaker
Carlisle.
j. w. Wright, of Addison, Vermont,
freezes 400 tn keys daily, and will keep
them frozen for the New York market
next summer.
A cage containing twenty convicts
fell 204 feet in the Pratt coal mine at
Birmingham, Ala, and but one man
was killed.
The telephone system of London in
cludes seventeen stations and 5000
subscribers. There are 10000 tcle-
phones in use in the United Kingdom.
The meanest, lowest tenement houses
in New York pay their owners from
fifteen 10 twenty per cent. annually on
their value.
FIoridians complain that cores
pondents are trying to ruin jack
sonville by calling il "the Saratoga of
the South
Two hundred and sixty millions
acres OF public lands have been given
away to corporations within score of
years.
Several valuable diamonds have heen
found in Montana, aud many gold
hunters are turning their attention TO
the precious pebbles.
Another alleged cousin of the late A.
T. Stewart has just anhounced himself
at st. Adams. VI, and he proposes to
appeal to the courts for share Of the
milionare's estate.
Oscar Wilde first saw his aflianced
at Liverpool, where he delivered his
lecture in ST. Georges hall, she being
one of the three that composed his au-
diencc.
Mr.. Kinr, of Middleton, Mass, is
one hundred and three years old. His
eldest daughter is seventy-six, and his
two sons are respectively aged sixty-six
and forty.
G neral Sheridan, Colonel Taylor,
Colonel Benjamin, and DR.. John Bill
lings, all of the regular army, stationed
at Washington, are the happy fathers
Of twins.
The Minnesota Historical Society at
St. Paul. has a library valued at $50,
O0). 1t includes ll.000 bound vol
umes and a large number OF maps,
pictures, manuscripts, historical relics,