Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-07-01
NOTES AND COMMENTS,

Dt dCcOH1pIAbAeu.
"lMMENsE," ''prodigious," seem to
be the appropriate adjectives to apply to
the exhibition fruit which California pro-
poses to make at the Worlds Fair. An
order is to be given for such large nom
Der of special glass jars for this purpose
that they will fill twenty railroad cars.
The order is 80 big that there is some
doubt about filling it in time. California
may be trusted, however, to fill the jars
with neatness and cclerity.
A FRENCH paper reports that the en-
gineers in the Creusot establishment have
invented a new gun far more destructive
than anything yet seen. A military com
mission recently was perfectly astounded
at the results obtained One of the officers
of the commission said at the close of the
experiments: "Armed with such an en-
gine of war, our army could beat not only
Germany. but all the armies of the triple
alliance"
AN idea of the enormous traffic upon
New York City surface railways may be
had from the fact that during the year
!, 1891 the total number of passengers carried
was 226, ,650,6l5, or daily average of
$50, 49, Tpmove these, nearly 8, 900 en-
ployees. 15,S05 animals and 2, 42O cars
were required. The average receipts
from passengers was over $31 900 day.
The income from all sources during the
year was $lO,62s, 545 This is pretty
good paying property.
MORE than 10000 persons visited
Shakespeare birthplace last year. Three
fourths OF them inscribed their names in
the visitors book, and of these 9,549
were British subjects and more than half
as many, or 5.3s5, Americans. 1t is
strange to observe that ouly 81 Germans
are numbered among the visitors, for
Germany buys more copies of Shakes
pcare's works every year than probably
any other nation.
The amazing agricultural resources Of
our country are forcibly brought to mind
by the annual report of the New York
Chamber Of Commerce. which has Just
been issued. From this document we
learn that production has been SO great
during the past year rs to be almost ex-
Gessive. The great cotton staple, it is
stated, has even ''choked the markets of
manufacture" This exhibit is in strik-
ing contrast with agricultural conditions
in Russia and other poverty pinched
countries of Europe. No human fore
sight can Judge of the possibilities of
future years in the United States, but in
the face of such a showing AS that of last
year it is no wonder that the starvelings
of Europe are swarming into our ports.
IT is not only in the Old World. as
sc Is the New York News, that there are
Possibilities Of great engineering feats.
Some day the Suez Canal will be surpassed
by transcontinental thoroughfare across
our continent probably at Tehuantepec,
perhaps also at Panama Perhaps, in
course of time. the severity of the climate
mitigated by closing the straits of Belle
Isle, thus shutting e'F the procession OF
southwark bound icehergs in the spring
months, and sending them to melt in the
Gulf stream. Some audacious engineers
have even proposed a mighty wall where
by to shut of from the valley of the great
lakes the terrible north fresh winds which
blow from Manitoba and the kaskewat-
chan.
The German Crown Prince who on
completing his tenth year the other day
was made a lieutenant in the First Foot
Guards, is very bright and pretty little
fellow and promises to become fine
man. II is said, indeed. that it would be
hard to find likelier set of youngsters
than the six young children Of the en-
press. The little Crown Prince is espe-
cially pert and quick. One day he is
said to have asked his imperial father
why he never wore the uniform of the
Railway REGIMENT" belonging to the
Pioneer Detachment of the Guards.
"Why should l wear that uniform, my
SOM" returned the emperor. ''Oh, papa,
because thou art always travelling about
on the railway" replied the spry little
Prince.
CONTRARY to the proyerb, a German
savant has proved by an elaborate cita-
tion of statistics that the longest lived
people are those who lie abed late into
the morning An interesting corrobora-
tion Of this theory is found in the life of
Professor Blackie, the rugged old Edin-
burgh professor, who does not 60 to bed
till after midnight and rises correspond
ingly late in the morning. Until recently
Professor Blackie had not needed doc
tors services for thirty years. DR.. Ar
mold, the famous headmaster of Rugby,
is on record somewhere as saying that the
strongest weakness, SO to speak, that he
had to overcome was his inclination to
sleep late in the morning. And now
science comes gracefully to the moral re-
lief of people similarly inclined to lazi-
ness, though it must make Ben Franklin,
with his "poor Richard" maxim about
Early to bed and early to rise," turn in
his grave.
A NOVELTY in the advertising line il
promised by the floating exhibit to be
sent out by number of German manu-
facturers catering for export trade. The
vessel will be about $50 feet in length and
sixty-five in width. There will be ten
large saloons, seven feet high, in which the
goods of about one thousand factories
will be on cxI bit These saloons and .
number of other halls will be large enough
to contain immense crowds Of visitors.
There will he an Exhibition Daily
News printed on board the vessel in the
language of tie country where the vessel
may stop. 1t viii draw cnly eighteen
feet OF water, and thus be aole 10 visit
every seaport of importance il the world.
Passengers viii be received, forty first
class paying 5000, and sixty second
class paying !; 800 for the trip. which is
calculated to extend over two years. The
Howaldt ship building yard at Kiel, on
the Baltic Sea, has engaged to build and
finish the vessel within eighteen months.
Cnt glass should be fret thoroughly
washed and dried, then rubbed with