Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-07-26

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visited by Jesuit missionaries. Today,
laccording to Alfred K. Glover, writing
jim the Overland Monthly for May, the
Ehinese Jews are almost extinct. out
their records and historical tablets are
carefully preserved.
A Calcutta journal calls attention TO
the demand for crocodile skins In
America. and from time to time a
urged the natives living contiguous 10
crocodile haunts to engage extensively
I'm the business of killing this creature
for his skin, guaranteeing that they
will be able to sell to American buyers
at remunerative prices all the kin
they can take. There are thousands OF
~lcrocodiles In the lagoons and tidewater
streams OF India, easily accessible, and
there are Indians in plenty to hunt
them and take their skins.
DIR. John A. L. Waddell almost has
jrevolutionized the science of American
bridge building in the asst quarter Of
q century. He is known everywhere
as q great authority on bridges and
his word as a consulting engineer Is
conclusive. There is a long list OF i'm
iportant bridges that his brain has de-
,vised. Now he is working on the plans
for the trans-Alaska- Siberian railway.
He is far from the type of the dry
tBGlGTllEI, however. ~ ne Is a. CdplIdl
fisherman and shot and one of the best
whist players in the west.
A national university to be located
in the City Of Mexico Is part OF a
scheme put forward by Justo Sierra,
Mexican minister of public instruction,
at the recent closing session OF the
Mexican congress-. This national uni
iversity is intended to be modelled after
the French plan n to unite and CO.
Iordinate the educational institutions of
the republic as a whole with somewhat
the same relations that the University
of Paris has to the framework of
Trench education.
The remarkable heat insulating effect
of a is strikingly brought out
lin the claims made for a new sports
mans bottle. The vessel has double
walls, being really n bottle within
another, with a sealed up intervening
space from which the air has been
withdrawn. II is asserted that liquids
in this bottle can be kept hot forty
eight hours in the coolest weather, and
that iced beverages will retain their
delicious GOODNESS for weeks in the hot
test summer.
The blue grass region Of Kentucky
land Tennessee was the first national
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America. 1t vas so set apart before
the white man had come with pro-
flaming foot n ~conquering firearms by
the great ~Iroquois tribe of Indians
the Six Nations. They forbade any
settlement or agriculture in all that
great region, and II became known as
the hunting grounds
"Is IL our severe, disagreeable clt-
mate which remodels the buxom Ger
man or Scandinavian maid of one gen.
GRAFTON into a tall, slender American
girl Of the following me? Whatever
the cause may be-" writes Sadakichi
Hartman, in the May Cosmopolitan.
lit is q fact that the American-born
children Of immigrants show certain
traits of refinement that one would
seek in vain in their parents"
Curious scenes occurred at the VII
lage of st. Keverne. Cornwall, on the
arrival OF a new peal OF bells for the
parish church. A large procession OF
villagers, headed by the local band
marched out to meet the bells, which
were drawn by horses on four wagons.
Men, women and children carried flags
and wreaths and wild flowers were laid
on the bells.
midas sacred fires have not all been
~extinguished. The most ancient which
still lexists was consecrated twelve CEN
turtles & In commemorative OF the
voyage made by the Parsees when they
emigrated from Persia to India. The
fire is fed five times every two hours
with sandalwood and other fragrant
materials, combined with very dry fuel.
Lessons in pronunciation are needed
by a number of members OF h house.
The majority of those who tackle the
word "victuallers' insist on pronounc-
Ing 1t Theoretically instead Of as IL
spelled ''vittlers,' and the word mu-
nicipai is another great stumbling
block, members almost invariably put
ting n accent on the wrong syllable.
Evidence of a mind in all animals,
even the lowest, is found by f. w.
HeaGley. The amoeba exercises the
power of choice when it eats, and the
tree-like colony of one-celled infu-
sorians, called z-oothamnium, after a
time ceases TO be agitated by Jars re-
peated at intervals, showing that IL
must remember that a Jar Is harmless.
An old brick laboratory in Middle
town, Conn, which was torn down Sat-
urday, has been put to many uses
since its erection in 1925. Originally
At was q clubhouse. but ii has since
lbeen used as a hospital. an eating
house, q carpenter shop, an ice house
and an electrical laboratory.
The parliament building in yelling