Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-07-23

When the stick. burns down TO the
nesh the pain awakens them and they
resume the journey.
Kissing is out Of order In the house,
Of commons. The rule against such an
indecent display of feeling dates back
to 1904, when It was decided that who
soever hisseth or disturbeth any man
In his speech shall answer for 1t at the
bar as q breach Of order and contempt
of the house."
The very peculiar theory has Of late
been propounded that all men who par
take to any extent of malt drinks have
large feet! The women Of Holland,
Germany, and V e England, are quot
ed - examples, while the women OF
the wine countries-France, Spain and
Italy-are, on the other hand, famed
for their small and shapely feet.
The almanacs Of the middle ages
were c~onsecrated almost entirely to
a~strology and alchemy. The oldest
printed almanac Of which we have any
knowledge Is said to have appeared in
Vienna In 146O. Fourteen years later
Regimontanus, a German mathema-
tician living in Hungary, published .
series of almanacs from 1475 to 1906.
The only animal known in the world
which, on the approach Of dissolution,
seeks out the general burying ground OF
its species, and there digs its " grave
and lies down to die, is the guanaco, or
wild llama. 1t is peculiar in other re-
spects, too. These animals, In fact,
have a regular sanitary system, which
they respect like human beings.
A Bangor woman who had read that
camphor sprinkled around the
would drive away flies and mosquitoes,
jumped out Of bed the other night,
seized the bottle of camphor In tho
dark and gave the bed q plentiful
sprinkling. The next morning she
awoke to find the white spread covered
with ink spots and the ink bottle empty.
The Foudroyant, which, 1t will be re-
membered, was saved from being
broken up in the German timber yards,
Is now nearly restored to what she was
when she fought under Nelson, and 10
as near as possible an exact reproduc-
ton of a line Of battle ship Of the
most glorious period Of England's naval
history.
A midget" testament, three-quarters
of an inch long and half an inch wide.
weighing only twenty-six grains. and
a mite Bible. one and th%ree-quarters
of an inch high by one and one-eighth
wide, containing 936pages and Weighing
$50 grains, have just been published by
a Glasgow firm. They are said to be the
smallest Bible and Testament In the
world.
The Dominion Of Canada, consisting
Of the provinces of Ontario, Quebec,
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, came
into existence on July /, 1867. 1t was
subsequently augmented by the prov
ince Of Manitoba and the northwest
territories in 1870, by British Column
bia in 1871, and Prince Edward Island
In 1873, and now includes the whole Of
British North America.
NJ. Henry, a French savant of the
school of higher studies, has revealed
the power Of sulphate of zinc to absorb
sunlight and give 1t back in the dark.
A powder produced from this mineral
gives a soft luminosity to a fair young
face. A cyclist busted all over with the
same material Is in himself a lamp on
a pitch dark night. Damp will not spoil
the effect. Rain Is incapable OF dimin-
ishing Its brightness.
There are more Jersey cows In Amer
lea than there are in Jersey, and yet
there are more cows In Jersey than In
any other similar area. England has
twenty cows to every 100 acres. Jer-
sey has fifty-eight, but then every farm
there has it's cows. and the farms arc
small, ranging from three to afty
acres, the reason being that the old
Norman laws that still prevail In the
island prevent the accumulation Of prop
erty.
Dutch fishermen make astonishing
catches by means Of the following very
simple plan: They put a number OF
live worms and insects in a bottle par
TALLY filed with water and then cork
1t securely. The bottle Is dropped in
to the water, the fisherman sinking his
lines alongside. 1t appears that the
sight Of the wriggling contents OF the
bottle so excites the appetite Of the
finny tribes that they fall easy victims
| to the bated hooks.
There has been great complaint Of
late by foreigners In Paris regarding
the quality Of the coffee served in the
hotels and cafes. Paris has been noted
heretofore for the excellence Of the
coffee dispensed to visitors, but for
some unknown reason the coffee served
recently has been of the very lowest
grade. It has always been difficult to
obtain a cup OF good tea IN the con-
tinent, but no complaint against the
coffee has ever been heard before.
The recent death Of DR.. Richard Sal
mon in England, at the ripe age Of 106.
bears out the truth Of DR.. Saltymann's
statistics regarding the increasing
longevity among medical men From
| the archives of his province DR.. Salty-