Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-02-02

& dAIflNiaOA0tO tAAoN ~ 49,
have two neat little rooms each down
the sides of the main church, WITH
%WfndoW looking out on the garoeh
They have each q coal supply, a kllch-
EN- range water n gas. Al one emo
of the church is the chapel, where
daily services are held. The choir stalls
are beautifully carved Old oak, the oLIB-
inal seats that the monks used. The
church stands in a quiet little square.
The late Georges Ch~arpentier was the
publisher of Zola's works, as well as
of those of Daudet, Goncourt and other
eminent French men of letters. Iola
had q modest contract with Charpeh-
tier, but when his novel. "Lasson-
moir." made him famous, the publisher
tore up the contract and made an
other, more favorable 10 lola. Char-
pentier's o was headquarters LOT
the impressionists as well as the reSo-
lutionaries and "inteilectuals. The
eminent publisher walked he streets
of Paris, at the age of 50. looking young
and In the best of health, only two days
before his death.
Robert Marlborough Sherard, author
of Twenty Years in Prison tells that
Guy de Maupassant despised literature
as a profession, and gave TO Utmost
any other topic OF conversation the
preference over books. There are SO
many other things oG so much greater
interest TO talk about the novelist
would say. or yachts the sea he
could talk delightfully."-, and he was
rather proud of the fact that some time
previously he had rescued from the
waves ut Etretat the English poet
S%winburne, who, Byron-like, a magnifl-
cent swimmer, had for once outswum
his strength.
There is something like a sense of the
tragic in the fall Of majestic trees one
has Just been cut down near Burgdorf,
In Switzerland, which really deserves TO
be described as a monarch OF the Tor
est. 1t was an oak. At a height OF
sixteen feet from the ground the trunk
measured not less han four n one
half feet in diameter, which gave a
circumference of sixteen feet three
Inches. The concentric rings showed
the tree to have been planted about the
year 1000. OF these rings 81 could be
counted.
A French botanical explorer has dis
covered In Central America a new cof-
fee plant, with fruit Of superior quality,
TO which he has given the name OF cof-
fee excelsa. The tree grows wild and
attains a great height. At five years
specimens are twenty-five feet high and
older trees have been discovered that
were sixty feet high. The coffee seeds
are small. rounded. and according TO
analysis and expert opinion are among
the best sorts known.
Wireless telegraphy broke it's W
record again when the operators at CO.
ION overheard" the conversation that
took place evening last month be-
tween the stations at Manhattan Beach
and Pensacola, the total distance COW
cred i'm the circuit being more than p
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remarkable when Ii is remembered that
the distance covered by the first trans
atlantic able was only 1850 miles.
Al Japanese scientist named Matsura
has been studying the effects of dis
eases and the varying physical state of
the body upon the growth and thick
ness of the hair. He finds that hair
especially In the case of persons whose
hair Us OF course structure, is SO sem
sitive TO bodily condition that it con-
tains a veritable history OF the state
Of the individual to whom IL belongs,
for the period covered by it's growth,
Lord Roberts opened at Woolwich ON
December 81 q theater, toward the
erection of which the war office has
contributed. IL is TO be called the Roy
al Artillery theater, and Is in connec-
ton with the barracks. 1t is possible
tAttAk N +AAeAI Nv GANAAAsANA&R ~ 49,
performances. but the main efforts of
IFS promoters is to cater for the mill
tary, and by providing amusements
keep them more in barracks.
Lieutenant General Fock, who recent
~ left Nagoya for Russia, presented a
pair OF Kid boots to the priest resi-
dent of the West Honganii temple of.
Nagoya. where he had been quartered,
l. 600 eigarsts to the getiGstrffes and sol
diers on duty at h temple, 100 rubles
10 the poor in Nagoya, and the furni-
ture of his room he gave TO Mr.. Takata,
an interpreter in the French Language,
says the Japan Mail. 4
Senator Clark has bought for $f.750,-
900 the famous Union mine, Ell Dorado
county, California, for which the
Standard Oil company offered $780,
000 last spring. Former owners of the
mine lost the vein after taking out
$i,500,000 In bullion and sold the mine
Tor $1,000. The new owners found the
vein again, and up 70 date X has yield
cd $~12.O00.0e0.
1t IS a curious fact. says the London
Book Monthly, shat manuscripts by
women are rarely as clean and tidy as
those prepared by men, Most editors
will admit-iE candid if ungallant mo-
ments-that they would rather tackle
two manuscripts by men han one in
d hand that should be fairer."
Al correspondent says that IL he eats
eggs III any form he has all the symp-
toms, more or less pronounced, of ir-
ritant poisoning Many persons are ar
fected I'm like manner by articles OF
food. Some persons cannot eat straw
berries. TO Others mutton lis poison. and
many persons dare not eat crab.
~Irelandss department OF agriculture
-appropriates a sum OF money To each
county annually for poultry improve
ment. There are now employed thirty
women instructors In poultry keeping,
Meetings are held for the instruction
81 poultry Keepers and the department
has special centers for distributing
eggs OF the best breed.
Tn Calvary church, In Forrrla avenue
avenue, New York. a Christmas eve
service was lighted entirely 10y can
dies. $500 OF fbem outlining the arches
and running aiogpg the aisles, The low
"a. lights were o. unusual size. the to-
fal ~candlep0we3~ as am eiecfriciaT
wet.ld reckon Il. being probably COM
siderahly above 5,Vou.
$500
wha rnilitary budget Ok the French
r9p9blic footS up 10 q total or $4,000
officers. Whose pay stone amounts te
nearly G4.000,C00. Italy. under the
s1fSe head. has 1900 officers. draUins