The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-07-09

Dout IS HOW al ilSIl gray ISL CoioLcu
stone, Il perfect man in form, size and
shape.
Professor Carl Barus recently com
municated to the National Academy of
Sciences a plan for the measurement
Of the velocity Of wind by computation
from the pitch Of the note caused by
the wind passing yer a wire Of given
size at u given temperature. BY plac-
ing several wires at angles TO n an
other the direction may be approXi'
mately determined.
Outside the walls of Jerusalem is Il
lepers' hospital tended by deaconesses
from the German religious houses.
Year after year these heroic women,
without pretentiousness, without any
trumpeting of their work. almost I'M
known to the world, have waited upon
lepers. while themselves literally dying
by inches. Their courage has only
come to light by the chance notice of
travellers.
against a London bank which delivered
up her jewels worth $4,000, on IA
forged order last summer, is somewhat
out Of the usual order Of decisions.
She gets $4,000 from the bank and the
continued ownership of the jewels on
condition that when they are found
they must be sold and that any sum
over $125,OOO realized from the sale
shall go to the bank.
1t is now proposed that instead OF
v~accinating persons bitten, as in the
Pasteur method, dogs should be inocu-
lated with the virus of rabies, in the
hope that they may thereby be made
proof against the usual effects of the
bite Of a mad dOg-just as human sub
jects are vaccinated to make them
proof against the ravages Of small
pOX. The result Of researches on this
matter undertaken by an eminent
Frenchman will be awaited with ill.,
tereSt.
When the Siberian Railway is cOfu-
pleted the journey round the world will
occupy not more than forty days and
the cost of transportation will not eX-
ceed $500. \ traveller leaving London
reaches ST. Petersburg in forty-tive
hours. Thence by rail the time will be
eleven days to Port Arthur and seven
more by steamer to San Francisco.
The tourist might lose several days by
delay and still reach London again
within the forty days.
4. New York man has received .
patent for a ~magnetiZing box for hair
pins. He does not clearly state the OBJ
ject of his invention in magnptiZing
the pins. but it is presumed that the
charged pins are less liable to come out
of the hair and be lost. as they are all
attracted toward each other when in
position. To remOve one of them it
must be done against the magnetic
force which tends to keep it in place by
attracting it to the remaining pins.
In all the civilized countries of the
world thirteen is referred to as being
somebody's dozen" In America, Aus
tralia. Great Britain present day.. and
several other lands that number is
said to be a bakers Dozen" In Italy
it is referred to as the "cobbler'S
Dozen" there being a tradition that
there was formerly a law which COM
PEELED cobblers to put twelve tacks or
nails round the edge of a boot heel.
Finally. when nails became cheap, a
centex nail vas driven for luck"
a practical young nan in Brooklyn,
by the lame Of LOmbarS, had Il chance
to take a good business position, only
he could not fulfill the one require:
ment which demanded a married man
for the place. Not entirely discour-
aged by this, he thought he would ad-
vertise for a wife and see what would
| come of it. He received letters from
women Of all sorts and conditions, until
he had a total of $40 replies. In fact,
many of these came in long after ne
had made his selection. and now he is
married to a nice girl and has secured
the job in addition.
The Yuma Indians are an ~ungallanu
lot. When a boy is born the papa is
very happy, but if the babe is of the
female persuasion the papa is sad and
! CONGRATULATIONS dIt tlOt III OTiltT. I)dDtS
are not named until they begin TO talk.
Then if the infant says something
strange or comical it is given that ut
terance as Il name. The IumaS are
very cruel to their aged relatives. 1t
is not uncommon for children to drive
away their feeble and aged parents and
let the old people starve. simply be-
cause the young ones do not want 10
be bothered with them.
\ most remarkable pair of deer
~antlers is reported from B"ll"fonIe,
Pa. \ local paper GOT itself into dis
rrpute because it said IA deer with
twenty-three prongs" had been killed
in Center County. 1t had a photo
graph Of the head taken. and was no
I,n,yn, ,ollnl 'sfokn" Thn nntI,,s nrn