Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-07-07

my door--two friends. neither OF whom
was bodily present. They are alive and
we'll"
The Florida phosphate beds We're first
discovered by the government geolo-
gists about 1854. but nothing was
thought of or done about them until
1889 or 1890. The phosphate rock is
found in pockets, not veins, and these
pockets parallel the gulf coast about
thirty miles inland. The mining is all
open work. We do an export business
entirely. We ship principally TO Ger
many, but also to the United Kingdom,
10 Norway, Sweden and Denmark, Aus
trta and a little TO Russia. We did ship
TO France, but since deposits have been
found In Algiers and the French COM
panies have entered that field we have
shipped very little.
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Here is "a description of a country
scene In Thihet, taken from Colonel l..
A. WacdelTs note book, "Lhassa and
It's Mysteries" From every hamlet
the cottagers had swarmed out into
their fields, and were busily plowing
and sowing IN the glorious sunshine,
forming pleasing bits OF bright color.
The men were blowing with oxen gaud-
lily bedecked with pIumes OF wool dyed
glowing scarlet n blue, with long
throat tasseIs OF dyed yak's tails and
harness OF juggling bells, while close
behind the blowers came the gayly
dressed wonen as the sewers, scatter
Ing broadcast theseed from their bas-
kets.''
Some extraordinary bets have been
made on the Japanese-Russian war. A
number OF Japanese officers have bet
that they would be killed I'm battle. The
.at.u A. tsyga 10 .a q - fkA1s FtAnnyG INan
officer. on starting for the trent, made
the following wager: III he were killed
within a month his heirs were to re-
ceive $500. After that date he was to
pay his opponent 10 yen ($5) a day un-
I'll he had survived 100 days, after
which the bet was TO ease. He un-
dertook to Expos himself TO danger
only when military conditions de.
manded II; In other words, he would
not wilfully let himself be killed.
or Cettinje, the capital city OF the
prince OF Montenegro, father-in-law OF
King Victor Emmanuel of italy, Sir
John Furley, who has recently pub
lished a book on his public career, has
a poor opinion. He writes: Il have Of
ten since been unused when reading In
the papers of the fetes, receptions and
banquets held I'm this capital. but from
- hA1 Va AAN y . 80 ~
ways felt somewhat skeptical as to their
style and grandeur. The palace Is called
Bigliardo and we have In England
many farm houses with which 1t could
not compete In size or comfort"
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In exports. as well as In imports, Ja-
pans foreign trade In the war year
1904 was larger h a In the peace years
1901, 1902 and 1908. The figures are:
1861, s2b4, GOO. 900. 1902, $685.. 000, 900: 1903,
s30s, coo, 900, and 1904, 1896. GOO, 600. The
S42, 600. 600 Increase In the war year 1904
over peace yea 1908 was made up OF
exports, sis. 000. 900, and imports. $27 COO,
900. The customs receipts In those years
were: 1901. 100000; 1902. 1850, 900;
1908, s 900, 900. and 1904, $10.6 coo, 600.
There is 81, 100, 600 gain in the war year
yaluIng the yen at 80 cents.
A British officer says that n day he
saw q volunteer soldier out for drill
who had an extraordinary number OF
medals pinned on his coat. He evil
IDENTIFY felt tiattered at my notice de-
clares the officer, land / sale 10 him,
You seem to hay seen considerable
service. In what wars have you been
engaged? He replied: Bless you, ]
have never been in a war. My father
and / were awarded those medals an
agricultural shows for a special breed
oil pigs for which we are famous.
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A coal black rat was caught in a
trap at the police station III
ing. The rat was unusually large
in size and It's skin was very soft, like
velvet. The animal was drowned along
with sryerai other rats which were
caught in the same trap. Many people
saw the animal, and they all said that
never before had they seen a black rat
IL attracted a great deal OF attention
even among the prisoners in whose
apartments II was caught.
In d recent hearing before a commit
tee or the London county council one
OF the participants quoted Shakespeare
against his opponent, who, he said
reared as gently as a sucking dove
The clerk OF the committee, who may
have prided himself on his knowledge
of natural history, entered the remark
on the minutes in this fashion: MIR
BalfoNr Browne remarked that his
learned friend had roared as gently a.
a sucking pig"
The valley lying between the Verdi
girls and Grand rivers In Indian terri.
tory. embracing a tract of land from
AsS . twenty miles wide ard sesent,
miles long. Is one or the Oldest inhab.
tied portions OF Indian territory. thu
Creeks having settled there seventy.
five years ago. This valley has beer
entered lately by q railroad, h Mis-,
souri, Kansas and Oklahoma.
A portion OF the wall which wa
built around old London by the Ro'
mans is now being destroyed by build
ers. The part which has beenrlait
bare Is z feet ia height n has 1
thickness OF Si1 feet. and about so fee
q Of it's length mas been exposed. II b
founded on gravel and at the bottom
fs a course OF flints and ebay
Fl. b. Blackwell, the venerable re
former nj publIcist. has just celebrat
az his .S0th birthday in Boston. III
was d potent factor in the free sol
movement and married Lucy Stone.
Iearer In the woman suffrage
ment, in 1856. lie has been a persist
ent advocate Of suffrage for
An English traveller writes "Befor
the war began In Manchuria cam
down the Lao river with a RUSSIA
exncdition. We fought the c~hunchuse
fChineSe robbers1 every afternoo'
about tea time. hut rarely inflicted an
farrage on them. they hid 1
the crops"
Not the least popularity Of Mms
Sarah Bcrnhardt's many fadS rs tina
OF brenkfasting the moment she wake