Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-01-28

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A radish eighteen inches in length has
been grown near Widan. Germany,
which Is said to be in the exact form
Of baby, even to the fingers and toes.
The East London Water Company
has issued q notice forbidding the use
of garden sprinklers and all similar
apparatus. A drouth in London is i'm
minent.
In some parts of England when yon
haul drowning man out of the water
you get nothing. but if you let him
drown and then haul him out you get
shillings.
More than 10000 persons are engaged
in the manufacture of explosives in
England. Last year forty persons in
the business were killed and 167 in
jured by accidents.
Lifeboats are now being made in
some quarters out Of pumice-stone. This
Is a material of great lightness and
strength, and boat made thereof will
support considerable load, even when
full of water.
Madrid schools are so bad that Ger
man residents Of the city have united
to establish a school where their chill
dren may obtain as good an education
as in more civilized parts Of Europe for
reasonable outlay Of money.
A feather bed on which they were
sleeping, saved the lives Of two women
at Bonne Terre, Md. Lightning struck
the house. hit the bed, set the shuck
mattress in blaze, but the feathers
diverted the electricity from the
women.
According to q Swiss contemporary
an engineer named Tauxe has just in
vented new process Of tempering steel
by electricity which not only makes the
steel much harder but at the same time
gives it the proper elasticity; that is,
it is not brittle like steel made very
hard by the usual process.
Librarians are at work cataloguing
the Indian library of the British India
Office, and when finished the library
will be the most complete for oriental
scholars probably in the world. There
are now seven miles of book shelves,
and when the new floor Is complete
there will be nearly fifteen miles of
shelving.
A non poisonous match has been de-
vised by French chemist, potassium
permanganate and amyl acetate being
among the inoffensive ingredients. The
matches are made easily and without
danger, ignite readily, and are not
liable to explosion when stored in guam
tty, and have an odor said to be posi-
lively agreeable.
There are many authenticated ex-
amples Of increased power Of mind dur
ing sleep. One Of the best known Is
that in which the great naturalist Agas-
siz successfully reconstructed from Ger
tain remains the skeleton Of fossil
fish, at which he had been working un-
successfully in his waking moments for
several hours.
A recent issue of L'Energfe Electrique
gives the following mixture for clean
ing the parts Of machinery, which It
states attacks the hardest crust of
hardened oil: Boil the parts for three
minutes in a solution Of $50 parts of
sodium carbonate and Is parts of caus-
tic in soda in 1000 Of water, after
which rinse and dry the metal.
A statistician who has been interest
ing himself in the population of the
earth says that s2,214,OOO annually;
that Is, an average Of Sc. $40 . day, 4,O1O
an hour and 81 minute. The annual
number Of births, on the other hand, is
estimated at 36.792, 600, an average of
100000 a day, 400 an hour and 20 a
minute, so that the population is in
creasing at the rate Of three to the
minute.
A sensational discovery has been
made by the appeals and transfers CON-
mittee Of the city council Of Cumber-
land. Md, which involves the taxation
Of over $4,000 worth Of property in
South Cumberland. 1t appears that a
boundary stone had been moved in, and
for some years property owners have
been evading taxation. The. city en-
gineer has ascertained the true line and
the property above named has been In
cluded in the city limits.
A druggist Of Winamac, Ind, re-
ceived another order the other day from
President Cleveland for three boxes Of
fish-hooks for bass fishing in the sea.
With the order is letter from the
president stating that ''the last ordered
had been received and used by himself
and Secretary Thurber with good re-
SUITS" This is the third order for fish,
ing tackle that the druggist has re-
ceived from the president, and he -
proud of his ability to please.
A curious instance of the red-tapeism
of the English postoffice comes from
Norfolk. A letter carrier, with long
country round. recently purchased 8
tricycle., which enabled him to get
over his district with greater case to
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