The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-09
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~ hitStcIIOIS ringing Oh elcclTlcdl
bells in Il house in Switzerland was
traced to Il spider whose web had con-
nected two wires.
Fashions in dogs change as often as
any other fad. This year dacshunds
and poodlcs seem to have the call, and
pugs are relcgatcd to obscurity.
Light acts upon the brain, and those
who sleep with their blinds up will
find that. in summer time, when so few
hours are really dark. their sleep is not
refreshing.
The county clerk of Fresno, Cal, is
In a %quandary. y will written in
Chinese has been filed with him for rec
ord and he doesn't know how to copy
it into his book.
1t is estimated that the average life
insurance in Cape Colony is about S12o
per head, a very remarkable showing,
and indicative Of activity among in
surance men.
The railroads of Mexico are, with
one exception, of American make. and
the engineers. train and station officials
are nearly all Americans. The roads
are all we'll managed.
The Russian Government is expected
to introduce the Gregorian calendar in
1900. This may be done suddenly or
by emitting the 10Th of February in
the first twelve leap years.
The Mexican police attend closely to
their duties and are very polite. AT
night each policeman carries a lantern
and his lantern is set out on the side
walk opposite wherever he may be.
a city ordinance in New York limits
the number of hand organs to 100.
The result has been to crowd Brook
Ign full Of perambulating music boxes.
to the great annoyance of the people.
The quantity of bananas shipped
from West Indian and adjacent ports
into the United States now amounts to
13,OOO,O0O or 10000 900 lunches an
nually. valued at considerably owe
10000. 600.
\ cafe chantant and May day revel,
at which Princess Edward of Sake
Weimar opened the proceedings" was
the method by which money WIS raised
for a children's hospital in London
lately.
About 1000 miles of railway are I'M
der construction in Japan. and the on
don Times say there are signs that
American engineering and material will
be preferred to English hereafter by
the Japanese.
1t is understood that the government
of New Zealand will introduce a meas
ure for the exclusion of cOnsumptive
persons on the same lines as that deal
ing with smallpox, making masters
Of ships liable.
Mr.. GladstOne's political life, as rep
resented in the pages of Punch, is soon
to be published in London. He had
been nine years in Parliament before
Punch appeared. The first picture of
him are by Richard Doyle and John
Leech.
There has been il great falling OH in
the use Of shoe buttons. The manu-
facture was formerly very profitable,
but owing to cutting Of prices, the dis
use of the button shoe by men, and. to
have been lessened.
Buttons are the jewelry of China.
The manufacture was originally intro
duced into Canton by foreigners, but it
has been allowed to pass almost en-
tirely into native hands, and last year
--. zoo nnA ,,a,l, nf hpn 50 hvrftnnc
were actually exported by the Can
tOnese.
The value of some preServatlve pro-
cess for the protection Of telegraph
poles imbedded in the ground is best
appreciated when it is known that the
telegraph poles of Europe alone are
estimated to have cost $50.0OO.0OO and
that the sun of 81 900, 900 a year is eX-
pended for renewals.
4 German naval captain has invent
ed a new lifebuOy. 1t consists of a
large cork ring. capable of floating
three persons. and provided with u
kind of net. which affords Il support to
the feet. Its principal feature. how
ever. is that it is fitted with IN electric
light and IA small supply OF provisions.
The new Uganda postage stamp
ought to fetch" the philateli>ts. One
of the assistant commissioners has eS-
tablished Il sort of native post ana pre-
pared IA series of typewriter postage
stamps. When used they are crossed
with "A pen and ink mark instead of
cling dcfaced in the ordinary manner.
The Canadian press is enthusiastic
in it's support OF the petition to ii. X. III.
the Prince Of Wales for the restoration
of the one Hundrelth Royal Canadians
70 Canada. All over the country the
oupstion is being taken up with the
greatest keenness, and the petition