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

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bullet. holes. e wa IN he moonshino
neighborhood, and the conclusioa was
formed that the ~huntsman's ind rel
vested the fate Of Z too dfigsnt revenue
odncer.
Another method Of preserving timer
has recently been tried. It consists In
disDolying In naphtha the heavy oils
and wakes left after the dist1lauon ok
petroleum, and forcing the solution into
the seasoned timber in the same man
nef ~ In t~creosoting. The timber -
then heated. Fhsn the naphsha evap-
'otAtes and ~isvrecoveeed in ~aHcoolinS
chamber, while the wakes, etc, remain
behind in the wood, waterprooang it
The biggest rope ever used for haul-
age purposes has just been made for
q district subway in Glasgow, Scot
hand. It is seven miles long, four and
one-half inches in circumference and
weighs nearly sixty tons. It has been
made in n unjointed and unspliced
length Of patent crucible steel. When
In place It will form q complete circle
around Glasgow, crossing the Clyde
In its course, and will run at q speed
Of fifteen miles an hour.
That now almost. obsolete mustcal
instrument the lutl(1 il about to be 70,
vived in Italy, a society being In proc
ess Of formation in Florence for the
purpose Of encouraging an apprecia-
tion Of It This will be known az the
Socleta del Lutte, and its Inauguration
will be celebrated by a grand concert!
In which several leading italian muJ
sicans win take part, including 6ignor
AascaSni, who 10, moreover, compos-
Ing q new piece for the occasion, en-
titled "The ApotheosiAsnf the Lutte"
Egypt is at pss5eds no.t active
and aggressive competitor ia the. %.
lon trade. The trade with Egypt for
onions IL now 90 important that four
lines Of steamers ire engaged In the
trshc, bringing consignments from
Alexandria to Liverpool, Hull and Lon.
don. The Egyptian onion is a hand
some and useful vegetable, and by 60
iecting the best strains Of seed the qua
lily tends, year by year, to improve. So
excellent in quality are these onions
that efforts are, It Is said, being made
In other countries to raise onions from
Egyptian seed
The bishop Of North Dakota's idea
Of . cathedral a IL being adopted in
unexpected quarters. Four such cars
for nuynoses Of evangelization are now
t4seeAy the Baptist denomination in
this country. What Is more amazing
IL that q church generally considered
so unprogessive as the Greek church
has a running In Russia. The trans
Siberian railway, also, which crosses
the most dreary regions of the Cauca-
III for 1900 miles, has i've such carr
on its line. Each car carries two
priests, who celebrate the holy sacra-
ment daily in the villages through
which the road passes.
Persons who think that the humor.
lists do violence to the facts when they
poke fun at the western affection for
whiskers should write for particulars
to Cynthiana, KY. where the fashion
Of going clean shaven has recently
made progress. Parting with the mus
tAche h something the community has
been unable to forgive, and complaints
abound there about the plain lip, the
furrowed lip, the long lip, the short
lip, the broad lip, the narrow lip, the
oleaginous lip and eve the '.harehp.
cowslip tulip and the rosetts"-what-
yer that may be-which obtruds
themselves on an unprotected people.
An epagrammadc correspondent hits
OF some Of the chief watering places
in the following fashion: when you
60 to Newport you take letters Of In
PRODUCTION, when you 60 to Long
Branch you take clothes and when you
come to Saratoga you bring your APP.
petite. For this Is first and last q place,
to eat We disguise the fact BY . thou
sand ingenious circumstances; we pre-
tend to drive in the afternoon, we pre-
tend to play cards in the evening, but
what we really do is to drink digest
i've waters and appetizing cocktails
and when We are not eating we think
Of what We have eaten and what we
are going 70 eat"
ThA .InkA Exocuti,,ner