Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1896-08-27

Let us all put on our Sunday clothes
and endeavor to make it pleasant tor
III Hung Chang when he calls cn us.
Eiec,ric motors are now being used
quite extensively in the East for
switching purposes, and electricians
predict that the time is near when tie
steam locomotive will be out of date.
An insectsflhs made its appearance
IN the east whose mission seems to be
the destruction of the watermelon.
Great loss is reported from the depre~
dations of this insect.
The steamer st. Paul now holds the
record for the trip between couthamp-
ton and New York 1t took lust six
days and thirty-one minutes to make
the run
The recent sunfest visited all parts
of the country with equal vigor. There
is reason to believe that it is now at
an end for the present year. At least
the meterologists justify us in hopin;
this much.
If we could only bear our own dis
appointments with a small fraction of
the equanimity with which we bear
the disappointment of others, what
sweet and delightful world this would
be to live in!
Mexico ought TO make up her mind
to one thing. So long as those bandits
run things along the border to suit
themselves the number of tourists who
visitthe land of the Montezumas won't
be too large to be accommodated.
Golf players are to have special priv
ileges on some of the English railway
lines. They will receive certificates
emitting them to return ticket for
single fare when the distance is over
thirty miles, and for a fare and quar-.
ter when it is less.
A Frenchman has discovered n new
treatment for sea-sickness, which lie
says is preventive, curative aud hy-
gienic. IT this treatment proves to lie
n specific against sickness this
Frenchman will be mighty popular
man among ocean yoyagers.
Thomas a. Edison believes that In
the next three or four years there will
be radical and immense changes in the
manner of heating and lighting. He
says there will be {. decrease i'll the
cost of electric lighting Electricity
will be made so chcaply that gas will
be entirely out of the race. Gas will
tnen be put through cheapcning pro
cess and used entirely for hea ting.
Ysaye. the violinist. who plays like
MI angel and looks like a butcher. is
,iimple in his tastes. "All | ask" said
he, 'is IL iishlinc and some water The
less fish The better. con sit for hours
with Il line in the water in perfect hap
piness. When niEble comes my
dream is over. also confess IA weak
ness for the bicycle, but care nothing
for politics.
Miss Antoinctte Saumowski and Mr.
AIotpnuc1.i
clans, the former Il pupil of Mr.. lgnace
Paderewislli, are engaged to be mar
rieG. The happy event is delayed only
by the inability of the high contract
ing parties to find minister willing to
risk q dislocation of his inferior max
Hilary in tying their names into knot
A safe composed largely of cement,
having wire netting imbedded in it,
was tested recently in Germany, in or
der TO ascertain whether it is feasible
to build safety vaults of such material.
The safe was placed on blazing logs,
which had been soaked in kerosene,
and kept exposed for half an hour to
a temperature of 1,SGO degrees Fahren-
heit. When the safe was opened the
contents We're entirely uninjured.
All the coloroed people in South
Africa are treated alike by the whites
as divided from themselves by wide
and impossible gulf. A native, what
ever his rank, would seldom be permit
ted, except as a domestic servant, to
enter private house. When lShama
was in England last autumn, and was
entertained at. lunch by the duke of
Westminster, the news excited general
annoyance and disgust among the
whites in South Africa.
Two West Point cadets who We're
convicted by court-martial of brutally
tormenting and harrassing ''plebe,"
have been denied executive clemency
by the president, who took occasion to
denou1lce the brutal practice in the fol