Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1890-04-09
Things Here and There.

Things Here and There.
The London county counsel have cut out
from their theatrical license bill the pro-
vision requiring each actor to take out q
license.
THE Ventura county, California, papers
are urging their readers 10 plant camphor
trees. They are said to grow % rapidly as
the eucalyptus.
ONLY IL per cent. OF the population OF
Russia can read and write. The number
OF primary schools is 81, 900 for the popu
latiou Of 100, 900. 600.
Mrs. Woop, Of Kennebunk, Me-, had
been lame all her life, but she fell down
stairs in . barn the other day, and since
then has walked as we'll as anybody.
THE French army authorities are con.
sideyiog the adoption of . helmet OF one
design for the entire army except the cav
airy, and models have been invited from
the leading hatmakers.
Mks. ELIZA PORTER. a young lady ~
West Virginia. owns a saw and grist mill
on Camp Creek, Boone county, which she
conduct herself, and she is laying the
foundations of q fortune.
BosroN is soon to receive a handsome
addition to her art treasures in seven
cSutPNut0t ploSAo VI lCu oytulSG 0ultP
which have been sent by Rev. william c..
Williams, OF the Egyptian exploration
fund.
A HUGE squash that has been exhibited
in an Auburn, Me-, store window for sew
eral months. being cut open. it was found
that the seeds had commenced to sprout.
and there we're q number of we'll. formed
leavas.
ARABELLA GODDARD, once a famous
pianist, has been discovered recently in ex-
treme poverty in London, and a benefit
concert fer her has realized $2,50e, which.
with other Contributions, makes o total of
1000.
SINCE the eldest woman of Vienna died
a short time ago q most animated COMPETE
ton has been in progress for recognition
as her successor, This competition shows
that the Austrian capital has several
womeu over 100.
calhoun, in Illinois, is the banner
county of the union. There is not within
it q railroad, telegraph, bank or express
Office. TIE county Jail has not had an in
mate for five years and the couits rarely
have any lawsuits to settle.
THE news comes from Teheran that the
shah has af1anced to his youngest daugh-
ter, the little page who was bis constant
%companion during his recent European
trip, and the nature of whose relations to
his master was something Of q mystery.
THE problem of whether kangaroos can
be acc imatized seems to have BEEN settled
at Tring park, London, where they are
being successfully raised. The secret was
in letting them run wild, instead Of keep
ing them in pens, as had heretofore been
done.
ONE farmer, OF Big Bend, WASH, lost
all his stock except q COW. He keeps
her alive by feeding her on 1onr. A mail
carrier from that country reached Walla
Wa'la recently and said he did not believe
there we're 100 head left in the whole coun-
try.
CHARLES MCRoBERTs and wife. who
lived two miles south OF Worthwhile. Pa,
we're born SATURDAY., married on Saturday,
ce' ebrated their COLLEEN wedding on Satur-
day. took their last sickness on SATURDAY,
and died last Saturday. Sunday they we're
buried in one grave.
on February IL James Barton, of Spring.
port. Jackson county. Pa, died. leaving q
widow aud seven children. SATURDAY. the
administrator, while looking through Bar.
toms safe, found $1,000 IN moidy bills,
which had been secreted years ago. The
bills are good and will go.
DETROIT is to hold ity second annual
floral aud musical charity festival April
% Is. Twenty.three charities will be
represented, each by q booth built in the
architecture of the country it has chosen,
and 800 ladies of the highest social stand.
ing in Detroit will take charge of these
booths.
a. M n GNsvRc Ssa 1oa1nv ~ ALA p.A..N
house of commons, has recently built q
new church at Pertsea at a cost Of more
than $1,000 He has no interest in the
plsce whatever, Lut happening to visit ii
for q day ON government business be mo-
ticed that it greatly needed a new church.
DUDLEY FOSTER, Of Bitlerica, Mess /.
hale, hearty and in his S1st year, was
ole .ted for bis thirty sixth year az clerk
and forty 9th year ~ t~reasurer at 10
town meeting in that place q few days ago.
He declined to be a candidate. but was
elected to both offices by . handsome ma
jority.
THE military defenses Of the Thames,
which have been in such = poor condition
that there was not q single gun in the Med
way capable Of preventing the passage Of
4 large ironclad, are to- be strengthened i'm
mediately by the creation OF new forts and
the ornaments Of those existing.
The Latin Union, . French European
league, is constituted OF France, Belgium,
Greece, Italy and Switzerland, and their
coins are alike In weight a1d 6neness,
though different in name. Spain, Servia,
Russia, Bulgaria and Roumania have
adopted in part the same system, but they
have mot Joined the Union"
A SLIGHT L II neglected. often attacks