Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1896-10-08

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Most of the canal barges In the south
81 England are worked by M
The students In Paris are radical;
the students in London mostly conser.
vative.
The oldest national flag in the world
Is that of Denmark, which has been in
use since the year 1919.
A prominent Texas stockman says
that within twenty years the typical
Texas pony win be q bicycle.
OF the $4,000 women who signed
the woman suffrage petition in the
United Kingdom, 1920 were Scot
fish.
Except In the Ottoman empire, Fer
STA, Arabia, Siam, China and the in
terror Of African countries, slavery Is
now extinct.
The tailors in Paris make clothes "a
EAnglais" lin English fashion) and
the London tailors "a Ia Franchise"
I'm French fashion,.
OF the foreign-born population Of
the United States the Irish are now
about 20 per cent, whereas in 1850
they were over 40 per cent.
Possums are destroying watermel-
ons at White City, Fla, and giving
o trouble than the razor-bacx hog,
since they cannot be fenced u
At a Partisan evening party the
other day a splendid dog appeared,
drawing a cart filed with flowers,
driven by a monkey dressed us a
.coachman.
Representatives Of fifty families from
the Northwest have been prospecting
In the neighborhood Of Tampa, Fla,
with a view to land purchases for
farming.
An order known as Pentecost bands
has founded a home In indianapolis
for convicts just released from the
~penitentiary. The men will be main
tanned until work can be procured for
them.
In Austria they have a law that
makes criticism Of an official, In the
discharge of his duty, an ofensa known
as verbal injury" the punishment for
which is imprisonment for forty-eight
hours on bread and water.
The sultan of Turkey not only has
a rigid censorship of the press, but he
has ordered that no newspapers be
published until the afternoon, so that
the censors will not have to forego
their morning nap in order to super
wise them.
In order to circumvent the socialists
the German government has author
lied police officials to dress up In citi-
zens' clothes and to attend the meet
ings Of this prescribed class. The off,
Gals are provided with money'to spend
for drinks, etc.
The highest-priced watch made in
Geneva costs $500. 1t records frac-
tional parts of a second, strikes the
hours and quarters and plays three
tunes. With gems to ornament the
case, the value can, of course, be In.
creased to two or three times that sum
A steel plate, said to be the longest
ever made, has just been turned oua
by the Stockton, England, iron com
pany. It measures, after shearing, &c
feet s inches by s feet 6-1O inches In
thickness, weighs five and a half tons
and Is without a flaw.
Unscrewing the owe from an old
locked melodeon, that the instrument
might aid the choir at the funeral Of a
childless New England widow who
died last week, the decedent's rela.
tives came upon $4,000 in Cuited
States bonds slowed away inside.
Recently the night freight out OF
Waterville, Maine, conveyed q hearse
on a fiat car to Portland. Near Mon.
mouth, as the brakeman was going
over the train, he discovered the feet
of a tramp protruding from the hearse
and the man himself, sound asleep.
A Washington druggist, whose store
is next door toA street railway transfer
station, has an eye to business. He
advertises: "Your transfer is good fol
ten minutes. Let me cool you or with
q glass Of our delicious soda water
while you wait for the next car"
A Scotland, Ca, girl who was al
Cumberland island taking her nrst sea
bath induced her friends to return
with her to the water after they had
all started for the lighthouses. and she
was taken from the ave q few min
utes later dead, having apparently diet
of heart disease.
By shaking the eggs Of the common
pike double monsters may be produc
ed, and ]. A. Ryder has given goot
reasons for concluding that the doubl,
goldfish Of the japanese, some o.
which have two heads, others two tails
were originally produced IN this wal
and fixed by artificial selection.
That Roentgen rays burn the ski,
like sunlight is.the latest informatiol
from Berlin abodt the phenomenon
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