Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-06-17
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Laconia. \. H., merchant deposited
| 1880 pennies in the local bank one
day. ..
There win be 1903 churches within
the boundaries Of the greater New
York. a. a.s.... .....-.. ......
| Springfield. Mass, is building il car
to carry fire engines over the electric
roads
Scandinavian sailors are said to pre-
dominate on vessels of nearly all na
tionalities
| Last year 17,j0OOOO pounds Of hops
| were imported from the United States
by British brewers.
| The London markets have been flood
ed with pearls since the outbreak Of the
plague at Bombay.
Comorn. Va. and vicinity is revealing
In Wild turkeys. which are more plenti-
full than ever before.
The oldest national flag in the world
is that of Denmark, which has been in
use since the year 1910.
| 4 st. Paul judge has awarded citi-
zen s. damages because a motOrman
refused to stop a car for him.
| Vice President Il. C. Chamberlain. OF
the Western Mining Company, is train
ing elks for driving at Portland, Ore.
The Arkansas Senate has repealed
the law which allowed members to
read twenty papers at the States ex-
pense.
| An ''automatic singer has been ex
hihted In Paris. The voice can be heard
220 yards off. The apparatus is said to
be simple.
Nova Scotia has been very slow in
making Dominion Day, July 1. public
holiday. but now. after a lapse Of near
ly thirty years, it has done 1t.
Over 400 diamonds are known to
have been recovered from the ruins Of
Babylon. Many are uncut. but most
are polished on one or two sides.
| From ripened cornstalks are now OBJ
tanned cellulose, celluloid smokeless
| gunpoVder, lacquer, roofing cloth and
a substance equal to PAPER mache.
I
A bright little newspaper. the Indian
Guide, is published at the Shoshone,
Wyo., agency, the editors. printers and
devil all being full-blooded redskins.
| The most dangerous waters in the
world for the passage Of ships lie off
the coast Of England, Cape Ushant, in
| France and Cape Finisterre. in Spain.
The Supreme Court Of Missouri has
decided that women are eligible to hold
| any elective office in that State from
which they are not specifically debar-
red by statute.
| A delicate surgical operation was per-
formed at gainesville Ohio. when Har-
ry Waters was supplied with an alumni.
mum nose. It is the first case Q10tAN
| kind on record. ~
The most valuable fur is that u
sea otter. One thousand doll -
been paid for a single skin Of this i.
NAL not more than two yards lenE, ~
three-Quarters Of yard wide. ~
| London chemist, who analysed a
sample Of chair restorer." sold Mt half
crown for two-ounce bottle. found
! it to contain only common water. with
traces of salt and sage extract.
gentleman recently deceased in
Portland Me-. beGueathed $4,000 for n
fund. the interest of which is to be ex-
pended in caring for neglected graves
In Evergreen cemetery, that city.
The city of Mobile Ala, has just sold
some of its bonds at par for the first
time it is said In it's history. The NOM
nation of business man for Mayor
carried them up 3 per cent. at one
jump.
| If all the cows in Illinois were stand
ing. heads and tails. in single file, the
leader might have her nose stuffed in
feed box in Maine while the last one
thoughtfully switched flies in sunny
California.
A frog makes his home in the
wheel pit Of the engine room at r. W.
Hunts tannery Mt Island Falls. Me-,
and comes up from below only before
a rainstorm. He is honored as proph-
ct In the tanners country.
It is reported that an Eastern CAPT
talist has purchased the Stonewall fur
mace in Cherokee County. Alabama
where some Of the Confederate warri-
ors cast cannon during the war. and
will develop the ore mines there
The Russians are colonizing the
whole of their vast Asian possessions
and carrying with them every where
the mir or self-governing village,
wherein women who are heads Of
households are permitted to vote.
The midnight music of cats so annoy.
ed Jerome Summers. Of Weaverville,
N. Y, that he hurried out barefooted
with his pistol to shoot them. In the
yard ne stepped on rusty nail. which
caused lockjaw and in ten days he died
The cheapening of literature in Eng
land has resulted in the production Of
books creditably printed and sold for a
penny. Dickens, Scott, Goldsmith, Lyt-
ton and other standard authors, bound