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

with q chain, which II picks M a n
goes along, according to a practice en-.
ployed elsewhere In France, and the
motive power Is a Fulmen accumulator
battery.
The British Byron society has issued
nm address calling ON '.every true-heart-
ed man" to do all in his power to assist
the revolutionists In Crete. "Byron's
blood would have boiled" the address
says, with ungovernable rage at the
1ishonoring spectacle" Of the outrage
and pillage Of the sultan's troops.
A unique law il still In force at Strait
ford, in Prussian Pommerania. A par
agraph Of the police regulation Of 1870,
which Is still being enacted, reads:
Smoking in the streets and prone
nades Of this town il positively pro-
hibited, v~ioletors Of this law being
punished by q fine, or eventually by .
number Of marks the fine amounts
to-"
Balloon racing IL the latest form Of
petty gambling in Paris. A number Of
toy balloons are set of at the same
time, each bearing a post card having
on it the umpire's address and q re-
quest to the finder to note the time
and place Of the balloons arrival. Bets
are paid and the stakes awarded on
the results Of the replies received with.
in q week.
In May a Guyandotte, w. Va, WON.
an bought q rustic stand OF willow
limbs from a country cabinet maker
by the river side, and a fortnight ago
buds and leaves appeared, eprouting
from parts of the table legs where
small branches or tw1gs had been cut
on in fitting the legs and cross pieces
together. Some of the sprouts are
now two or three inches long.
Three hundred bicycle riders recent
ly attended an Anglican church In the
diocese Of Toronto, Canada, the rector
preaching a special sermon to them. A
silver-plated bicycle covered with
flowers wac one of the special decora-
tons of the chancel, which q church
paper denounces "a most monstrous,
irreverent and d%istracting intrusion In
to the house Of Gods presence"
The peculiar flavor, resembling cher
~ phosphate, which characterized the
milk of n Of his COWS n morning,
was explained by Amos Grim Of Wa.
bash County, Indiana, as being due
to the cows having eaten wild char
ries. She was a freak cow, with six
teat3. One day the milk TASTED Of Der.
ries, and Grim found that she had got
into the garden and eaten his rasp-
berry bushes.
tuberculosis is affected by the
Roentgen rays, according to MN. 10.
ret and Genoud's report to the Acade-
mie des Sciences. They inoculated
eight guinea pigs with tuberculosis
virus, then exposed three Of them for
an hour daily to the rays during eight
weeks. The five who were kept from
the rays developed Assesses and their
health was deranged. The three kept
In good health and grew fat on the
rays.
A young tiger In the New York zoo
recently refused to eat. At the end of
the third day the willy keeper intro
duced a large tiger cub into the same
cage and Immediately fed it with a
large piece of meat, and made no show
of giving the other tiger any. The
next morning he did the same thing,
when the tiger who had before refused
to eat rushed forward. seized the meat
from the other animal and devoured 1t.
An aeronautical convention and ex-
hibition. the first eve held upon the
American continent, will assemble in
Boston in September. This conven-
ton is not to be an exhibition of air
ships in stationary positions, but an
exhibition Of action to bring out flying
machines and every kind of device to
develop locomotion in the air. The
Aeronautical society has Professor
Pickering of Harvard at it's head.
Professor j. f. Todd. State geoAogist
of South Dakota, who is in charge of a
geological surveying expedition party
In the Black Hills, discovered an old
volcano on Sand Greek, in the bad
lands, near Formosa. Near the juno
ton Of Sand Greek and White River
is a hill eighty feet high This hill vi
brates and groans almost constantly.
Its tremblings have upset wagons and
the Indians are much In fear Of 1t.
English temperance drinks have q
large proportion of alcohol, according
to ecent testimony before the liquor
commission. OF 63S samples Of hert
beer examined in 1894 by the inland
revenue department 318 contained
more than 2 per cent. Parsnip beef
vas found to contain over Is per cent.
which is much stronger than ordinary
beer. "Teetotal sherry" containing NJ
grape Juice, but compounded of sugar
and bisulphide Of lime, is declared te
be 4 most Objectionable drink" A
startling declaration was that old
whisky, though more grateful to the
taste, II no more wholesome than new
In pressing wooden fabrica In order