Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-04-01
MISSING LINKS.

AUTOMATIC boot-blacks will lie put on
They will b run Oh the nickel-in-the.
slot plan.
BANGOR had only about four weeks N
sleighlng this winter, and the streets
are bare now. In former years the
sleighing season averaged 100 days in
length.
A WOMAN who lives at Concord, n. G..
the other night dreamed that she saw
her husband cut in two by a circular
saw. The next day, it is related, her
dream came true.
TIE natives of Vera Cruz do a large
trade in tireilies, which they catch by
waving IA blazing coal at the end of a
stick. The insects fly toward the light.
and are captured in nets.
SrEEI. caskets for the bodies OF those
who die suddenly on %shipboard are be ng
carried on many of the trans Atlantic
liners. The remains are placed in them
and hermetically sealed.
CoNNECTICUr Is such a pious State
that it refuses to permit a Sunday night
exhibition of stereoptican views OF the
Holy ! and, or to allow the grating Of a
wooden nutmeg for hospital Cruel.
SEVERAL. medical journals assert that
the young women of the present day
are better developed physically, taller,
plumper, stronger and healthier than
the young of fifty, 100, 10 or 200 years
ago.
In the Criminal Court of Dusseldorf
a man has been condemned to five
years penal servitude for robbery and
to death for murder. The legal bother
now is which sentence should be car
ried out first.
BECAUSE a colored minister at Ionk
ers continues to preach to his congre-
cation after it was claimed his resigna-
ton had been accepted. he was arrested
on Il charge of ~disorderly conduct at
the instance of some OF the members.
Dr.. ScHILEMANN found bits of glass
in his excavations at Mycene, though
Homer does moi mention it as a SUBJ
stance known in hi; time. The most
eminent Psychologists place the date /, 1
the first use Of glass at a period too re-
mote to be given in years.
RABBITS are becoming a pest in Gail
fornia, as well as IN the Northern State
of the West, aud rabbit drives, similar
to the wolf drives in kansas, arc re-
sorted to as a means of abating the nui-
sance. A drive near Traver resulted in
the destruction OF several thousand
rabbits.
The French-CanadiAns Of Lewiston,
Me-, have an election trick that throws
most Yankee devices in the shade. j,
has been discovered that several Of the
astute Canucks voted In one ward under
their French names, and in another
under the English equivalents, thus; In
Ward l., Antoine Boisverte; in Ward 2,
Antoine Greenwood.
WHEN Herbert Sprague of Bangor
went to bed the other night he carried
to his room a bull TERROR pup. AT mi T.
night Sprague snored and the pup
scratched his face to awake him
Sprague cuffed the dog Wherein on
the animal with true or inst net,
seized his master by the nose and shooi
him as he would q rat. The dog is deaj
now, and Sprague s nose has lost much
OF its beauty.
THERE is no telling yet to what ex
tent the usefulness ct electricity may
be pushed. A French chemist, wht
has been giving considerable attention
W Vic pTOUi6Ui VI IcdtIuS anu lik NUM-
from a single source, has devised ,
novel stove, which in appearance re
sembles ordinary heating stoves. 1t Il
so arranged internally that the vast,
Of heat is utilized for the generation o
electricity.
|! WILLIAM Z. RUSSELL, now GOverno
of Massachs sets, was somewhat ali
sent-minded when q freshman In col
lcge. 1t is related that being charge
to do the marketing for Sundays dill
ner ono Saturday. he forgot it. and hl
family, who lived in Cam bridge, weT
left In the lurch. VIII am, however
went to q friends to dinner on the MOI
row and got a good square meal hin
self, On another occasion he invited
gentleman to dine with him, but did nc
70 home for q week. The friend q
rived. explained. what he was there 10
blu. excused himself when no discovers
that the meal MAS half over and yUun
Russell was not on hand.