Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-05-20

to be labeled as such in the State of
Wisconsin.
st. Louis has a public library Of 49,
600 volumes and no place to put it ex
cept in rented rooms
c. A. Barber of Salem, Ohio, claims
to have a violin that was made in 1414,
and believes it to be the oldest in the
world.
An East Andover, N. H., young girl
was badly burned about the head and
face through celluloid comb taking
fire.
Germany imported cotton last year
to the value Of PIT 900 marks. The to-
tai value of the wool imports reached
$4,000 marks.
The cinnamon tree has recently been
introduced into the Biscayne bay re-
gion Of Florida, and is now being cul
tivated extensively.
The city Of Liverpool is about t.
copy Glasgow and take over the whole
of the street railroads. The price to
be paid is $2,S03,5OO.
The Canadian Government has ar,
ranged system Of cold storage on
railways, at ports and on steamers for
the preservation of perishable goods.
Forty-six counties bear the names
Of soldiers of the late war. Only two
of them, however, bear the names Of
privates, Osborne and Rocks.
A new species of rabbit has been
found in Mexico at an altitude of 1900
feet, on the volcano Popocateptl. 1t is
very small, has short ears and no tail.
One of the oldest protests on record
Is that of the ladies residing upon a
street in Cleveland, who petition
against naming the thoroughfare Kis
sam street.
In North Dakota the killing Of quail
and English and Chinese pheasants is
prohibited until 1906, and beaver and
otter cannot be trapped and killed un
til 1903.
In Zululand, when the moon is at the
full. objects are distinctly visible at as
great a distance as seven miles. BY
ease.
Pension payments during the last ten
years were 1856, 63O,74S. This colos-
sal amount was $719,64S, 167 in excess
of the payments for the preceding ten
years, 1877 to 1886.
The scientific academies of several
German universities are planning the
issue OF comprehensive Latin die
tionary Of twelve quarto volumes of
about 1000 pages each.
1t is stated that the lighting of GER
tain Of the London prisons by electricf-
ty is under consideration, and it is pro
posed to erect a special description Of
treadmill to supply the motive power.
Waterproof materials are likely to be
superseded by a fabric of pleasing ap-
pearance, the surface of which has a
dressing of powdered glass. The re-
suit is to produce a surface Of soft,
silky and luminous description.
At independence, Mo-, the other day
young lady recited ''Curfew Shall
Not Ring Tonight" Ever since she
has been sad because in the climax she
reversed a couple Of words and said:
"'Go, your liver loves said Crom-
we'll"
Rev. DR.. Mayo, of Massa chusetts, de.
clares that the sixteen Southern States
are paying as much for public schools
every year-$2O, OOO.O 900 or $50. 600. 600
as the British Parliament votes for the
public school system of the British ISL
ands.
A Londoner is now able to drop pen
ny in the slot for six hours supply
of an eight-candle power incandescent
light, and he can take the whole amount
at once or divide it into small daily in
stallments. This is cheap enough, bu
a good penny newspaper provides far
more for the money.
Governor Rogers of Washington has
vetoed bill providing for the erection
of State capitol. The bill contem.
plated cost of $500 900, and the Gov
ernor intimated that building erected
for that sum by modifying the original
plans, which were for $1,OOO,OOO out
lay, would be an eyesore and a dis.
grace.
A French philosopher has raised a
great disturbance by proposing to send
all portionless girls to the colonies
where there are better opportunities
for their marriage. The girls remind
him that this would be a sentence of
exile, and they think he should be Wis.
tied with civil death and banished from
Paris.
Pennsylvania is considering the ad.
visibility of extending it's system of
taxation from collateral to direct in
heritances, and revenue Of 100000
is expected from this source II the bill
before the House of Representatives
becomes a law. Pennsylvania. how.
ever has not yet come to the idea o,
taxing such inheritances on the pro.
gressive principle.
A member Of the Massachusetts
House of Representatives has made q
mild sensation by offering an order