Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-03-19
uattsrs IN General.

83GtCGD IN WoU0tHA
Tnr Engtsh Congressional Record
Hxnsard'I will hereafter put after the
| report Of each speech the time that was
occupied In its delivery.
ALASKA cost only $1,000, 900 and the
revenue to the national treasury II expected
10 amount to 1900, 900 a year for the NEXT
twenty years.
A GREAT show OF canary birds was re-
Gently held at the crystal palace, London,
and Was very successful. 1t was a. popu.
lar 20 q cattle or dog show.
THE hen Of the United States was worth
10 this country ON her own personal &C.
| count last year $500, OOO, 600. according to
the bureau Of industrial statistics.
NJ. DE FREycINET, the French minister
Of war, has published . decree forbidding
surgeons in the French army to mako use
of hypnotism in their practice, or to exper.
iment with it.
MER1DEN people are 10 worked mp over
their smallpox scare that many are vaccin-
ating themselves. One agent disposed of
over two thousand vaccine points in half
an hour.
CHARLES EMORY SMITH il the sixth
Pennsylvania in late years to be honored
with the Russian mission, his predecessors
having been Messrs. Boxer, Curtin, Cam
eron, Dallas and wilkins.
JAMES BoRTz, residing neal Macungie,
Pa., one day last week took q pair of boots
to q cobbler for slight repairs. He said
that he had owned them for nineteen years,
but had used them only On Sundays and
special occasions.
THERE is a good Methodist in Connect
cut, according to q religious periodical, who
boxes the compass every time he writes his
full name and address. He is Crandall J..
North, New York East Conference, 90 West
avenue, South Norwalk. Conn.
WHITE county, Ark, claims the cham
pion big girl. Her name is Nellie Arilda
Malone. She was 9 years old on Aug. IA,
1883, and now weighs $50 pounds. Her
father 10 dead, but abe has two sis
tiers and a brother, all younger than her.
self.
THE postage on o letter from the United
States through England to India is s cents.
The postage on q letter mailed in England
for India is 10 cents. On account Of this
the English business public is making a
big kick against the English postal depart
msnt.
PROF. RosKOFF, a French mesmerist, is
turning an honest penny by giving lectures
at which he demonstrates by experiments
upon other persons that Gabrielle Bonn
pard may have been under magnetic iniu-
ence when she acted as an accomplice at
the murder.
A UNIQUE dinner party is soon to be
given by one of the leading society men of
Rome, Ga, at which the young ladies
will attend, twelve in number, and will
wear gowns of different colors, with
flowers of the same shade. The ~sovenirs
will be handsome fans, imported for the
occasion.
A CITIZEN OF Addison, Me-. has the re-
mains of an ancient walrus that was
washed out Of q clay bank near his home.
The bones were Of least fifteen feet under
| ground, showing that the animal must
have died many years ago and that the
walrus once inhabited the Maine coast.
JUST before Robert Fisher, a wealthy
farmer of Spencer county, Maryland,
| died, q few weeks ago he informed his
! brother thai he buried $50. 900 in bonds in
q jar in his cellar. After his death the jar
was found as described, but the bonds
were gone and they have not been found.
A NEW departure in museums is an
nounced from Florence, where a "Psycho-
logical Museum" for the collection and
display of all documents serving to illus
trate human passions" has been estab-
lished by ministerial decree. Prof. Man
| tegazza is to be the director of the new in
stitution, and courses of instruction are
to be given there on experimental psy-
choIooy-"