Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-06-23

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FRED w. WRIGHT. Publisher.
De SMET, SOUTH DAKOTA
Aldermen f.. f.. Phillips, Of Bath,
England, formerly mayor OF that city,
says that the other morning he saw
an assembly Of rocks in the trees sur
rounding his home. The birds, about
n hundred In number, appeared to
hold a courtmartial on three wrong
doors. Suddenly they fell upon the
three victims, who soon dropped dead
into the gardens below. One had a
o and iaeerated wing, another a
lacerated wound in the throat and the
third a severe injury TO the head. Mr.
Phillips cannot say what the offense
was, but he suspects that jealousy was
at the bottom OF IL.
A missionary travelling down the Lau
river ia Mongolia says he passed th:r-
ty-one rapids I'm one day. At most OF
them were water mills for the grinding
OF aromatic trees into powder 10 make
incense. The trees were chopped into
small pieces and thrown into a hole in
a heavy milestone, which revolved on a
larger stone as the water PUSHES
through below. In the rainy season,
when the river flows full and fast, a
pair OF mills can grind 200 catties (266
pounds) of incense a day. II is made
up into bundles OF this weight and
sold on the spot for fifty strings OF
cash, labcut So.
In recent years IL has become a mat
ter of increasing difficulty for n living
English artist to find a market for his
wares, says the Academy. The middle
classes appear to have concluded that
original pictures are entirely beyond
the means OF persons with a moderate
income, and content themselves With
photographers. The wealthy, ON the
3ther hand, appear TO consider picture
buying merely IN the light OF an in
vestmenf, and all they want Is a safe
thing like preference stock-the estab-
lished regulations.
When the Rev. George r.. Palmer pre-
scented himself at the meeting OF the
New England Methodist Historical So
aiety the other day he carried with him
two chips from the mast OF Peary's
ship Roosevelt. One Of these he gave
10 Bishop Mallalieu, who said that the
receipts from it's sale would go 10 start
a church in Texas. The sum OF $50
was required 10 furnish the doors and
windows for the little church In ques-
ton and a member present immediate
ty paid the bishop that sum for the SOU
venir.
y Ernest Treeton, a writer OF serial
stories, has lately told Of the young
wofna amateur who CHANGED 10 get an
unfinished story accepted by a weekly
paper for immediate publication.
Months passed and the thing went on.
A desperate editor wrote letter after
letter imploring her TO wind up. The
unhappy girl wrote despairingly That
she couldn't stop IT.; the elongating
thing had wound round her as the sea
serpent wound about LAGOON. Finally
the editor himself ended 1t.
Al smuggling case which Is probably
unique, even I'm the strange annals or
contraband. has just been before the
customs court Of Marseilles. On board
the French teamer Touraine there was
found a large quantity of opium SNUG
gled, not by any individual in particu-
lar, but by the whole ships company,
and the strange spectacle was wit
messed OF the heavy fine of E2,0eQ be-
ing levied on all, every man in he es-
Sci being mulcted In his proportion, as
sessed according TO wages,
IN Brassey's Naval Annual for 1906,
which has just appeared, the figures on
effective fighting ships OF the five great
nations are as follows: Great Britain,
all ships, 17S, battleships So; France all
ships 80. ba~ttleships So; United States,
all ships rs. battleships SO; Germany,
all ships SO. battleships So; Russia, all
ships A, battleshlps rs. AS to hrst-class
battleships the figures are: Great Brit
ain, 80; France. IL; United States, rs;
Germany. %; Russia, Is,
A captive japanese officer, imprisoned
at Omsk, In Siberia, bet the Russian Of
ficer in charge of the prisoners a
kopeck for every minute that Port Ar
thur held out after June /. He owed
the jaiIer on October l nearly $1,000.
The Russian asked for payment on ac-
count and offered TO terminate the bet.
The Japanese said nothing, retired 70
his room and shot himself dead with a
revolver.
r. r.. Benson addressing a meeting
u the Dramatic Debaters In London the
otner day said his company was play
ing Romeo and Juliet" and in the bal
o scene a cannon went of. He sent
for the property man, who explained
that IL was the annon that should have
gone off in the performance of Henry
"" two days before.
HN H. FL 1OliDS u GAIhCfs h1o.s says
his prospect for a big apple crop this
year Is the best ne ever had. He X
poets 70 raise so cars, which represents
$500 barrels. He has never yet sold
u barrel of apples for less than IS, and
II his prospect keeps up and also the
price he will get $262. 500 for his apple
crop.
English doctors had an unexpected
entertainment when they visited DR..
Drugen III the course Of q trip to Paris.
When he had shown them his museum
he ushered them into his operating
room. where he performed eight import
ant operations, including one for APP
pendicitis. In two hours and a half.
Messrs. Beardmore, of Glasgow. N
May is laid the first keel of O new
British battleship 10 be called the Aga
memnon. She Is the most powerful
ship Of the first line vet ordered. she
will have a displacement of 1880 tons.
and be more heavily armored than any
thing afloat.
Marshal Van worley has gone into a
new business. VIZ. the shipping OF cats
ont OF 1ftusville. He has shipped about
twenty to the farm OF Eli Walker. at
Quay. There were all sorts OF cats,
large and small, and all shades or coll
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