Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-04-27

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FRED w. WRIGHT, Publisher.
De sMET. SOUTH DAKoTI
Clerk Dowell OF the house OF repre-
sentatives has issued a pocket direc
tory Of the house, giving the name o
n members, their residences and thei
committee rooms. What's this, Aleck?
asked a ~disgruntled member who CAM
into the clerks office after he had ha'
ting recognized TO call up a bill
That's a pocket directory OF tn,
house" Clerk Mcdowell replied. Th'
member examined IL carefully. Seems
to me like a great waste of money h'
said finally; you could have made !
a heap smaller and more accurate 4
you had printed Speaker Cannon'i
name in it and let II go at that"
why did General Trepof resign his
high command at st. Petersburg? Here
is one explanation: General Trepof
went TO the theater one night when 4
cinematcgraph supplied part OF the en-.
;-crtainment. Revolutionists had tam.
pered with the film, however, and the
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which led up dramatically from a
meeting of conspirators to the murder
of General Trepom himself after the
n OF the taking of OF the late M
Won PhleYe. The whole thing was SO
realistically lone that Trepoff was ter
Tiied and at once resigned.
London pawnbrokers are frequently
asked 10 take strange things in pawn
The nfhpV 1aW "a Hnlhnrn
lent 500 on "A fine horse, which one of
his daughters rode until IL was re-
deemed. The same pawnbroker once
took in pledge q medical chest OF
poisons that were strong enough 70
kin 10000 men, 1t was, however, .
valuable deposit, as some OF the poisons
were very rare. A Kensingfon eng.
lsnd) pawnbroker about three weeks
ago lent a sum Of money on a mum
Der of autographs OF e celebrities.
According to the Yokohama Mail q
very recent development In Japan is a
beer trust, formed largely upon the adj
vice of the minister OF state for agri-
culture and commerce.. The manufac.
ture OF beer in JAPAN amounted to g.
500, 000 gallons in 1904. being almost
double the production for 1902. How.
ever, the production Of 1901. before the
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gallons. The exports OF beer in 1904
were valued at 1915, 900, while for the
first ten months of 1905 the exports
reached $3.50, 900. Z
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Instead of sending a cold and more
or less formal written letter 10 a dis
tant loved one. says the Technical
World, IL is now possible to send by
mail "a verbal message, which may be
as warm and thrilling as the sender
desires. This has been made possible
by the invention OF three Frenchmen.
who have perfected a photograph rec
ord OF sufficient hardness TO go through
the mails and be ready TO voice the
message il contains pom delivery at
It's destination.
Indian education may not have done
much In general 10 lift poor Lo out
Of his primitive estate and AT him for
competition with the whites, but II has
brought marked changes in individual
cases. An Oklahoma paper remarks
Is a most matter of fact way that Lone
Wolf, one of the chiefs of the Kiowas,
lis also very religious and is a preach
sr Of considerable reputation. He is a
highly educated Indian, and reads his
Greek Testament every day"
Industrial" insurance is very pop
ular in Great Britain. The number of
policies outstanding is immense, name
~, 24,66S,5o2. insuring $1.2lG, Oo0. 600, at
an annual premium expense of SIS, OO0,-
600. Expenses fell from AS TO 43.5 per
cent. of premiums. All. or practically
all. these policies are British. After al
lowing for overlapping. more than half
OF the working classea in Great Britain,
men. women and children, are insured
with industrial life offices.
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Not very many people viii see the
next total eclipse OF the sun. Ii will
take place January 3. 1908, arid IL with
be visible only from two islands In the
Pacific ocean-Hull island and Flint
stand. Both are uninhabited islands in
closed by coral reefs and landing is said
TO be extremely difficult. The duration
of totality will be three minutes on
Huh island and four minutes on Flint
island.
Karachi. a port in northern India, has
a most unpleasant climate. The parch-
ed desert country behind Karachi has
a terrific heat. J~ocobabad, thirty miles
often records 125 degrees Fahren-
heit. The one mail train q day carries
a coffin in the hot weather season, ''for
the use of passengers IL need be, and
in one ear long ago twenty-three Eu-
IopSdu Sllklic uTlNCTS Qltu Wnlle WORK
ing their trains.
''All along the coast OF Norway sea-
weed is being gathered and burned -
writes the Christiania correspondent of
the Chicago Daily News. This sea-
weed grows in veritable forests and is
not OF the common grass variety. There
are actual trees OF 1t, Ave or six feet
high, with stems like ropes and leaves
tough as leather. They begin 70 sprout
early I'm the year and cover the ocean
bed with a dense. impenetrable brush"
In Mexico a gold mine has just been
sold for $3.50, 900. for the discovery OF
which chickens are entitled to full cred
IL, A few months age the value OF the
property was unsupported, but one day
the employees OF Albert Palos, a mer-
chant, of Tapalpa, found grains of gold
In the crops OF his fowls and immedi-
ately took steps TO acquire the land
where the birds roamed.
Fiber from the plantain tree is COM
ing into use In India for cloth making.
Yarn a from IL is found stronger
than that from cotton or jute, and has
a glazed appearance. A native techni-
cal institute at Nagpore has taken up