Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-07-08
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owns a bUlls-cye watch made 10y Jona-
than Wadleigh, of London, England,
in 1910.
A one-armcd man jumped into the
river at New Orleans the other day and,
after hard struggle, saved child
from drowning.
DR.. Golokow, a Russian physician.
we are told by Modern Medicine, an
nounces that he has found the cholera
germ in the interior Of eggs.
There are nearly 1000 building So
cieties in the United Kingdom, with an
aggregate membership of nearly three
quarters Of million.
In Ireland belt Of woman's hair
Is placed about n child to keep harm
away, and garlic. salt, bread and steak
are put into the cradle of Il newborn
baby in Holland.
Portland, Ore. has formed Citizens
Protective Association. The city has
been steadily losing population and
wealth and the object of the association
Is to encourage home trade and indus
tries.
In 1894 Costa Rica exported 1,576,65O
lunches of bananas, a 1irst-rate bunch
being shipped at a cost of about p
cents. n single acre of this incredibly
rich soil may yield 200 excellent bunch
es. One Costa Ricl banana plantation
covers 2,i11 acres.
In Brooklyn there is shaving pal
ace which holds out the following in
ducementS to customers: "PhySiOg-
nomical HairdreSsers, Facial Opera
tors, Uranium Manipulators and Capil-
larry Hair Cutting. Shaving with Am
bideNtrous Abridged Facility
The attempt to export corn via Gal
weston Is said to have proved a losing
business. This grain will not stand the
Southern route. The elevator compa-
MES at Galveston have expended large
amounts in trying to keep it in condi-
ton, but it will spoil in spite of their
best efforts.
A Chelsea (Me.) COW found wire to be
extremely indigestible, especially para
sol wire. One and one-eighth inches OF
1t was recently taken from the COW :
fore shoulder, where it had been ap-
parently for some time. 4 swelling
formed and the discovery of the para
sol steel resulted.
John G. Marshall, of Baltimore, has a
farm in Talbot County, Maryland,
which he has made a refuge for birds.
They seem to know that they will be
safe on it and large numbers of them
have made it their home, some of them
having become so tame that they feed
with the chickens.
Convict labor in road building is be-
ing employed in Duval County, Flor
ida, and in North Carolina In the lat
ter case 211a cents per day per head is
said to cover the cost of food, clothes,
medical attendance and guards, com
pared with % cents per day for main
tanning the same prisoners in Jail.
The American system Of checking
baggage has been adopted for the ben
eft of travellers from the United States
by several European railway compa-
MES. A London road was the first to
accept the innovation, and hereafter
all luggage passing through New York
may be checked to almost any point in
Europe
French society people have started
the fad known to American sophie
mores of appearing as supernumeraries
on the stage. a crowded society scene
in one of the latest plays brought out
by Sarah Bernhard gives them the
opportunity, the names of those seen
being printed in the newspapers next
day.
The De Beers Company. which was
formed under Cecil Rhodes to work
the Kimberly diamond mines, has a
capital OF 100000. which is held at par.
Last year it paid dividends Of 40 per
cent, besides undertaking the Mata-
belle war and the expense Of the Jane
son raid and the fines of Cecil Rhodes
IN connection Herewith.
Britain has just beaten back a Ger
man invasion. The Alster, n German
trawler, not only caught fish within
the forbidden waters of Moray Firth
but undertook to land It's catch at
Aberdeen. Fifteen bluejackets from
a British man-of-war had to use force
in pushing back the German fishermen
and throwing their fish back into their
boat.
A novel use of the n rays has trans.
pired in Massachusetts. A lady last
week, while baking some cakes, lost hel
ring in the paste, but did not discove,
the loss until the cakes We're out OF
the oven. Afraid Of choking some
member Of her family, she was struck
with the happy expedient Of taking the
cakes to photographer. who placed
them under the X rays, with the result,
that the ring was Immediately discov.
cred.
DIR. Bueb, chemist of the Continental
Gas Company Of Dessau, Germany
has found a plan for preventing the
freezing Of water in gas pipes. 1t con.
sists in the introduction Of alcohol
fumes into gas mains where they leave
the gasometers. Only enthusiastically