Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1905-07-20

tered the harbor OF San Jose &c asssssaata-
mala the other day she fired salute.
Al burning wad from one OF her guns
dropped on the roof of the government
building and set fire to It, The crew
was ordered ashore and assisted In a
hard fight, which resulted in saving
most OF the buildings
China has recentiy issued an edict
prohibiting. except IN the treaty ports,
the sale Of metal rimmed spectacies.
Tan shoes are also tabooed, and any
one dealing iii them renders himself H.
able to decapitation. This latter dras-
tic regulation is due to the fact that
yellow is there the imperial color. to be
worn by nope save members Of the
royal family.
AT the Austrian court articles are
never permitted to appear q second
time at the royal table. but become the
perQuisites of the servants. The un-
corked bottles of probably the choicest
| OF wines go to one, the joints to anOth-
er, the liquors left In the glasses 70
another. and so on, sale OF the dain-
ties being held In the lower regions Of
the palace every morning.
The gold production OF Australasia
in 1904 was 4, 1914. .S22 fine ounces. val
ued at $50. .760. 600. against 4,29e, PSI
! fine ounces, of value Of 1851 300,
/ in 1903. There Is thus a decrease Of
101,415 fine ounces in quantity and $2,
1 O97 500 In value In 1904. The falling
4 of has been principally In Western
4 Australia, where a decrease OF 8i,671
ounces occurred, and In Queensland.
where the decrease was 48.629 ounces.
Japan has named her big battleships
4 after great mountains and the small
war vessels from some well known
natural features OF the country. 1t
i may also be mentioned that at the end
OF the name OF every Japanese ship Ii
either the termination kan" or ina.
ru" "Kan" means war vessels and II
applied, OF course. only to the emper-
or's fleet. ..Maru,'' which means round.
J Is applied to merchant vessels. why II
J Is difficult to say.
DIR. John H Girdner of New York
, says of that city: AT the present time
New York is not reproducing itself.
We are all living swiftly. dying swift
! ly. Were 1t not for the influx from
out OF town the decrease In population
would soon be noted But az 1t Is, for
! one New Yorker that dies two stran-
gers take up their abode In the city,
} and thus the loss is not noticed New
Workers. are driving themselves and
i are being dyiven like beasts of burden
I They are working like dynamos all
i day, playing like Idiots all night
Wonderful Marble BibIe.
Great as has been the amount d
labor expended on the various Bibles
of the world, the palm for execution
must be given to the Kutho-daw
u which is a Buddhist monument nea
E Mandalay In Burma. 1t consists D
about hundred temples, each con
tanning slab OF white marble ol
! which the whole of the Buddhists
Bible, consisting of more than 5000
: 600 syIlables, has been engraved Th
Burmese alphabet it used, but the Ian
}, guage is Pail. This wonderful Bibl
Is absolutely unique. The Kutho-day
! was erected iii 1857 by Mindon-Mir
the last king but one Of Burma Tn
i vast collection of temples togethe
e form a square, with doIninatin
E temple In the center. Each Of tn
y marble slabs on which the sacre
texts are inscribed Is surmounted b
4 an ornamental canopy In Pagoda foru