Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-12-16

Is that of Denmark, which has been in
use since the year 1918.
The consumption Of soap in India
ounce per head annually.
Remember that clear water is not
necessarily pure water any more than
cold air is always pure air.
The Shah of Persia has ordered that
Jews hereafter shall have religious lib
erty. Mohammedan persecution of
them must cease.
A naval writer says that neither
Casabianca nor his father persisted ON
a burning ship. They were drowned
while swimming for the boats.
Tall persons are said to live longer
than short ones, and those bormS IN the
spring to have sounder constitutions
than those born at other times.
1t Is said that some shepherds can
foretell the weather from the condition
of the wool on the backs of their sheep.
An increase in curliness indicates bet
ter weather.
In Venice many ladies have been seen
shopping in bonnets made of glass.
The has reached Paris, and 1t is
said that glass bonnets will soon be
sold in London.
With a piece Of string and a little
sand and grease some Hindoo convicts
recently sawed through an iron bar
two inches In diameter In five hours
and escaped from Jail.
So-Mayou, who has just received his
diploma from Cobb University School
African throne who ever graduated
from an American college.
Mrs. Ollie Handy, Of Cobb County,
Ia, is the twenty-sixth child born to
aer parents. Mrs. Handy had seven
brothers who were Baptist preachers,
ind has six nephews engaged in the
tame calling. Her descendants now
aumber seventy-seven.
The latest form of ~ultra-refined hospi-
!alty consists in perfume warming
PANS being used for the beds Of guests.
The favorite scent OF each having been
livined, the sheets are thus impregnat-
ed with lily, rose, heliotrope, or new
mown hay.
Many members Of the Russian nObil-
ty profess that they al trace their de-
scent direct from the Line Of King
David. -Four princely houses in partic-
ular, with whom nearly all the aristo-
cratic Russian families are connected
by marriage, claim this honor.
Servants seem to have the upper
hand in Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil.
They refuse to cook dinner later than
4 o'clock. and insist on going home be-
fore dark, 50 that not a house has a
servant in 1t after eight, and mothers
have to stay at home to look after their
babies.
In the sixteenth century the average
length Of q doctors Life was thirty-six
years five months, in the seventeenth
century it was forty-fve years and
eight months, and In the nineteenth
century f~fty-eight years and seven
months.
A journal in Madrid tries to increase
Its circulation by printing It's news not
on paper but on linen. Instead of ink,
a composition Is used which readily
dissolves in a liberal water bath. After
absorbing the news, the reader merely
places the sheet under a public foun-
tain, and there Is a snowy handker-
chief.
An inmate OF the Soldiers Home at
Augusta, Me-, has been smuggling In
bottles OF whisky in q hole he carved in
his wooden leg. The last time he disap-
peared they searched for him until they
:ound him lying dead drunk in a grave
yard. with bis wooden leg u~nstrapped
md the empty flask in the hole in the
eg.
Partisan street musicians have q bet
:er check on the member of the party
hat takes up the collection than is fur
nished by way-slips or bell-punches.
The cashier goes around with a plate
N one hand and Ave live flies in the
other; when his accounts are audited
ae has to let the flies escape one by one
In the presence Of his associates.
AucAc Dire AsOOO pCOpAc UpOu Tie Jer-
maj Emperor's List OF employees, includ-
ing $50 female servants, who are en-
gagged in looking after the twenty-five
royal palaces and castles that belong
to the crown. Their wages are small.
The women receive not more than So
q month, and the men servants, who
number owe 900, from SIS to $25 q
month.
The ten best short poems" discus
sion resulted in six hundred lists being
brought out. The following was made
the prize list: "Elegy In a Country
Churchyard." Gray; "Thanatopsis,'
Bryant; "A Psalm OF Life" Longfel-
low; 1.-The Raven" Poe; Charge Of the
Light Brigade" Tennyson; ''The Sky
lark" Shelley; 1.-THE Chambered Nau-
titus" Holmes; MAUD Muller" Whit
tier; 1.-The Bridge Of Sighs," Hood;
Burial Of Sir John Moore,H Wolfe.
Census Dimculties.
A census-paper may look like a very