Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-08-31

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FRED w. WRIGHT, Publisher.
DE SMET, SOUTH DAKOTA
In the records of ST. Thomas hos.
rital, London, ~ an entry of the year
1870, to the effect hat lin consideration
OF the hote TYNE OF the yefe, the poor
he allowed every one a daye three
pyntts of Bere fore W. months'-a
quart at dinner and a pint at supper
and at the end of two months return
TO there olde ordinary allowance
wyche is one quarte." The food at this
ancient workhouse was TO be dealt with
as literally as the drink. The almoner
and steward were TO bye no byte but
of the best. without bones and In spe-
cial without the marybon, and none
other to be b%owght."
In China and its dependencies, with
a population OF 400, 900, 600, or 70 per
cent. of the total population OF the
world, rice Is the principle food sup
ply. The same may be said also Of
India, with It's population of 275, 600, 600,
and Japan, with it's population OF 49,
600, 900. In addition to these, il Is a
chief article OF diet with other peoples
of Asia and Africa, whose population is
estimated at 100, 900, 900. The total
reaches SIS, 900, 900, or so per cent. of he
total population of the earth.
Many and curious are the legends OF
the kingfisher. One OF these Is to the
effect hat the bird was originally a
plain gray In color, but upon being let
loose from the ark few toward the
setting sun and had its back stained
blue by the sky and its lower plumage
scorched by the sun to gorgeous hues.
The dried body of the kingfisher was
once used as charm against thunder
bolts and months and ii was hung up
so that 1t might point with It's bill to
the winds quarter.
The British empire has sixty-five leg
islative bodies. In 1903 they passed
about 800 acts and ordinances. The
State legislatures Of the United states
in that year enacted more than $4,000
laws and resolutions, OF which more
than 5,400 were general and the re-
mainder were local or private. In
America It is not always the most pop
ulous state hat needs, or seems TO
need, the most legislation. In 1903
North Carolina led with 1,200 enact
ments.
A college professor, who last year
spent his vacation on a farm, wrote
this season to the owner, saying:
"'There are several little matters that l
desire changed should | decide to pass
my holidays at your house. We don't
like the maid Mary; moreover, we do
not think a pigpen so near the nous Is
sanitary" The farmer replied: Mary
is went and we haven't a no hogs
since you went away last August
The German colonial department has
officially announced that emigration 10
Herman Southwest Africa, for settle
ment purposes, can not be encouraged
at present. The efforts of the emigrant,
~however strenuous, would be paralyz-
ed by the fact that the railways and
other means OF communication Will for
some time continue to be m~onopolized
by the military authorities
Albert German, q London bookmaker,
is charged with attempting to obtain
money by a trick from Harry Cava-
nagh, another bookmaker. He hand
ed Cavanagh a paper with instructions
ITO back certain horses for forthcoming
races, and by means of chemical Ink
the original inscription vanished and
another appeared, backing horses for
traces already won.
WI Olu DOI6lQ hldChlJllOol O "a. Nv
minister was with him.. He listened
with patience to the latter's exhorta-
aions, but at length put a question::
A'Will there be whisky In heaven
Certainly not" the minister replied.
81 am surprised that you should ask
such a question. "Weel, sir, It's no that
4 care fort myself, but IL looks weel
on the table"
II is calculated that only a two-thou-
sand-milionth part of the heat emitted
by the sun is caught by the earth,
whose coal supply power is relatively
30 infinitesimal that If every bit of coal
In the world were cast into one great
bonfire and inst~antaneously burnt 1T
would not generate as much heat as the
sun produces each tenth OF a second.
Travelling on the Argentine pampas Is
interesting IL not entirely comfortable.
Men there are scarce, but horses are
plentiful. often sixty horses are driven
in the same team. The driver Is perch
ed thirty feet from the ground. The
wagons are sometimes fifty feet long
and fifteen wide, while the back wheels
are fourteen feet or SO high.
Newspapers are beginning to -four
lsh In Italy. The first In circulation
and enterprise Is the Evening Courier,
of Milan, with 1907 900 circulation and
an equipment OF American Hoe presses.
The Tribuna, of Rome, is next in cir
culation and influence, with an output
of 100, 900 copies daily.
Although Spain is on the gold basis,
gold is never seen there, the silver
peseta, being worth only about 10 cents,
while the gold one is worth nearly 20
The silver and paper currency Is ever
changing, varying from 126 TO l3s for
400 gold pesetas during the last year.
Hundreds OF roach and jack have
been found floating helpless or hfeless
in the River Stort. at Bishops Stort-
ford, England, and II is believed that
the fish have been poisoned by disin-
fectants used In the. street gullies and
the exudations from motor cars,
The death is announced of Lieuten-
ant General Ivan G~eorgivitch Macdon-
old, of the Russian army, at Warsaw.
THE deceased remarks the Novoe
vrernya, belonged to a Scotch famiiy
which may explain his tireless energy.
enterprise and love of work.