Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-15

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Great Britain's trade in ten ID being
rapidly transferred from China to In
dia and Ceylon.
Smokers Of Kansas City have taken
UP the stogie habit, and cigar dealers
are complaining Of a reduction Of their
profits.
Cartridges tested by ,the- RosnAgsn,
rays to show that they have been care
fully, loaded are offered for sale BY
q London gunsmith.
ITO Be Let or Sold'. e melan-
choly legend that disfigures the ap-
proaches to Somersby Old Hall, Lam
colnshire, where Tennyson was born.
Viennese society women have taken
to swimming in public in the Danube
to the great delight Of the p~opulace,
which watches them from the Quaya
Algiers IL becoming an important
coaling station, many English, Ger
man and Belgian steamers preferring
It to Gibraltar and Malta, as more cen-.
trail.
Mombasa island, on the African east
coast has just been connected with
the mainland by a railroad bridge LOO
feet long, built in three months and
a half.
1t is proposed to substitute bamboo
for ashwood for the lAnces Of English
cavalry regiments, az the ash 10 said
to be brittle and not to be trusted in
actual warfare.
Only two minutes are required for
the blood to course through the heart,
thence to the lungs, back to the heart
and then through the entire body and
return to the heart
Having a motherly disposition, a At
teen months old Jersey heller, owned
by Frank Casterline Of Bazetta, O.,
adopted a pig, and continues 10 be-
stow best attentions upon It
Opium persistently makes is way
into the city prison Of Oakland, Gal,
and all the efforts Of the authorities
have failed to prevent the "nendS~.
among the inmates from getting 1t.
; Date vinegar. which has been made
and used by Arabs for years, has ~
Gently been put on the English market
Englishmen who have used 1t say that
It u far superior to any other vinegar.
! All the street railways Of Monterey,
Mexico, have been bought up by a local
capitalist, who will equip them with
electricity and give the city what. It
IL said, will be the first electric roads
in Mexico.
Boy housemaids have been lately pro-
posed in England as substitutes for the
incompetent British servant girls. It
IL argued that what Cinnamon and
Hindoos can do Englishmen can do
equally wei.
In front Of the First National bank
Of Seattle a man got into q row with
his wife's divorced husband. The lat
ter was proving himself an able fight
er when the twice-wedded woman took
. hand and came OF best
A French antitcbacco society has Pc
ttioned the chamber Of deputies to
enact a law forbidding schoolboys and
postomce clerks to smoke cigarettes
and punishing t~obacconists who sell
smoking materials to children.
: Italian soldiers continue to desert
into France in order to avoid service
In Africa Since the beginning Of July
sixty deserters have arrived at Nice.
Among them was . doctor Of laws, who
was also q corporal in q regiment Of
bersaglieri
/, In the public schools OF Japan the
English language is required By law
to be taught The brightest and most
ambitious Of the young men In the
open ports are all eager to learn En-
.g1ish as q passport to wealth, position
and employment
! An old man, M Of nine persons In
Peter Peterson's house near Grafton,
N. D.. when a cyclone came down on
It. tried to hold the door from blowing
in, and the next minute found himself,
stiil clinging to the door, forty feet
away in the 1eld.
: This years performances Of 1.-THE
Nibelungen Trtlogy" at Bayreuth has
resulted IN q considerable deficit,
which It Is hoped will Be made up by
the "Parsifal" performances next year.
The membership Of the Richard Wag-
ner society has fallen from 5000 to
5000.
Ivy IL to be planted ct the root Of
Bob Toombs' oak on the campus Of the
University Of Georgia. The tree il
associated with an escapade Of General
Toombs In his college days A gran
lite coping IL to be built around the
base Of the trunk to preserve the tree
las long a possible.
In the hast three months there have
been over 500 burglaries In New York
City. This Is an increase Of nearly
200 over the same period last year.
The police seem to have been more
active this year than last, making 221
arrests In the three months, a. CON-
pared with 151 last year.
A ring owned by a lady in Wellneet
Mass, and lost by her twenty years
ago, when she was q little girl, was