Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-29
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few years rapidly Increased.
This seasons crop Of corn in Jewell
County. Kansas. will weigh out over
100000 bushels, or $50 bushels for
every man, woman and child In the
county.
The people OF st. Johns, Apache
County. Ari., r to build a sandstone
dam fifty feet high on the Little Color
ado River. 1t Is designed to water
10000 acres.
In an artesian well being sunk at San
~Bernardino, CAL, a cedar log was found
ut $50 feet and a layer of charcoal at
fifty feet depth, showing that the valley
has been filed In by erosion.
A California burglar recently cut the
screen door Of a room on a porch, took
out a pair Of trousers and cleared of
with $16.45, while the nan and wife
were arguing as to whether the cat
was making the noise.
A Chinaman was arrested in Virginia
City. New, a few days ago for selling
liquor to an Indian. The Indian was
arrested for drinking liquor. The white
mar who sold the whisky to the heather
was not molested.
There were 11,2OS Spaniards who emil
grated from Spain to the Argentine
Republic last year. This great increase
was In consequence Of the large num-
Der OF young men who leave Spain In
order to avoid military services.
Two young men of Lynn, Mass, are
trayersing New England on bicycles
on a $500 wager that, although they
started penniless, they can complete a
tour Of the six States on their earnings
along the route and return with $25
each.
Just coming to fruition in the horti-
cultural gardens Of Toronto Is a 30
year-old palm, keutia balmoreane,
which Is asserted to be the finest palm
specimen in either Canada or the Uni
ted States. It has sent out two fruit
stems nearly five feet long.
Floating beds of seaweed, which are
often met with in midocean, have been
observed to reduce the height Of waves,
like oil thrown upon the water. TAX
ing advantage Of this fact, a French
man has invented a thin cotton or silk
en- net to answer the same purpose.
Argentina near to get ahead Of the
European powers in taking possession
of the South Shetland islands on the
edge of the Antarctic continent. An
expedition will be sent out for the pur-
pose In December next. The islands
may possibly be of some use Is a seal
and whaling station.
Paper tiles, which are now made, are
supposed to have numerous advan-
tages over those Of the ordinary type.
They are Aghter, harder and also i'm
pervious to damp. Added to this, they
r non-conducting Of heat and sound,
while the new material Is said to be
exceedingly good to look upon.
For two months a Lewiston, Me-,
mother has been suffering from serious
trouble with her eyes, the result OF
what was supposed to be the harmless
slap Of her baby, who last June poked
a fist into one Of them. Inflammation
set in in the eye struck and the other
became alphabetically affected.
The Wagner museum, Mt Eisenach,
which will o o open to the public, con
tains a complete collection Of all Wag-
merriam literature, amounting to an nor
nous number OF works OF all sorts, and
all the masters work In score-among
them some precious autographs-the
arrangements for the plano and his
writings on music.
A Belgian inventor has devised an
Immense lamp, such as has probably
never been seen before. The lamp is
composed OF 5000 pieces. 1t Is six feet
high and measures three feet ten inches
in diameter. It IL fed with lard Oil and
the consumption is very small, its light
being 90 powerful that d may read
by It ut . distance Of 600 feet.
When Paris dedicated a short time
ago the Ecole Etienne as a training
school for printers, naming 1t after the
great French printers Of the early SIX
teenth century, Henri and Robert
Etienne, there was present at the cere-
mony q Henri Etienne, thirteenth In
lineal descent from Robert. He Ii
q working printer, like every one OF his
ancestors.
Germany Is fast turning out Its older
generals, thirty-two having been forced
to retire within a year, which beats the
record. The average age Of d brigade
commander is 50 years, to 81 In the
French army, where the average age
OF all ranks Is higher than In the Ger
man. No German br2adier Ii more
than So, while thirty French brigadiers
are over 81.
There ar signs- OF educational activ-
ity In Russia, among which may be
noted increased appropriations for pub
lie education. The minister Of public
instruction, to whose province belongs
the greater part Of the pubic institu-
lions, received Tor 1865 the sum of SIG.
GS1,S40. an increase or t728,844 above
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