The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-02-07

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sion OF three wagons was quietly wend-
ing It's way from the Care Saint La
zare To bank near the boulevards
The little caravan contained $4,000
900 worth OF American railway secur-
tiles. which had been shipped from
New York on the Provence and have
been deposited In Paris, IL Is needless
TO say that the treasure was carefully
guarded by detectives.
There Is now being built ut Juvisy.
W. the outskirts OF Paris, station
which IL Is believed will when finished
b. the laiI Ia the world. At Juvisy
ali the lines meet OF the Paris-Lyons-
Marseilles and of the Orleans systems.
about thirty pairs OF rails being inter
laced. From this point radinte the
lines which carry traffic TO southern
France. TO Italy. TO Spain and 10 Por-
tugnl. The new station covering all
these rails Is TO be built on the latest
principles.
A new application OF the motor cycle
40 military circles has been invented IN
Austria. In concerns the quick laying
OF telephone and telegraph wires. In
front OF the cycle Is installed a cylin-
drical roll or reel upon which the wire
is wound. and man sitting In the
moving car lays the wire. by means or
long NhRs ph
trees. or, II there are none, I'm bitches
or cutters. with the new apparatus
three miles OF wire may be laid In
twelve minutes.
During the twelve months ending
June 30. 1905. fourteen persons were
killed and forty injured from British
steam plant accidents: In the United
States 3S3 persons were killed and bSJ
injured. The number OF steam boilers
In the United States does not exceed by
more than 80 per cent. those In Great
Britain. 40 that. I'm comparison, the ac-
tual percentage Is ten times as great
In the United States as in England.
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In proof OF the assertion made by
the German authorities that all Is well
I'm Morocco. an officer OF the recent
German expedition 20 Fec tells how I'm
the heart OF Morocco he had met an
English woman touring alone. The
fearless woman Is Mrs. Frances V.
Campbell. She is reported To have trav-
eled all the way across Morocco on
horseback. S;ith no other escort than
a few servants.
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Three notebooks which formerly be-
ionged TO Shelley. the poet, containing
autograph manuscript a considerable
portion OF which has been published.
were sold I'm London not long ago for
$4,000. The purchase In said To have
been made for an American. The man
uscript formed part OF the library OF
the late DIR. Garnett, keeper OF printed
books'of the British museum.
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The statement has been made that
horses average from twenty TO thirty
years OF life and dogs from twelve To
fourteen years. A French encyclopedia
list credits the horse with thirty To
forty years. the dog with twenty TO
twenty-four There is a sufficient range
OF uncertainty In these figures to cause
doubt whether detailed study has been
made OF the subject.
Diseases among childrrn-notnhlv
sore throat and bad cyrs-cuugc,l
through dust raised By motor cars. are
most rife where the schools are sit
uated on roads fr"quentrd by motor
cars. or where the children traverse
these roads. In one school the head
teacher points out that they bav" ten
eases of sore throat where i've years
ago they had one
NO more trading stamps" Is the
slogan OF "A campaign which English
grocerymen are carrying ON. one Of
them, whose shop Is in East London
says: There ~ not Al small grocer
IN England Who earns 10 pcr cent. on
his capital. Ten per cent IN ay.r.fg.
profit, and the cost 1f trading staups
leaves him only 81. per cent.
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The state OF Washington produced
10000. 100000 shingles I'm 1906 fiscal
year, or 5Sis per cent. 81 the total out
put OF the United States. Washington
hns 459 mills. with daily OUTPUT of
4i,gi0.000, or is per cent. more than IN
1905. In no other stat" does the ycurIy
output approximate 1000. 0UU. 600.
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Ramon Pima. the new Spanish minis
ter TO the United States, ~ a. years old
and has been IN the Spanish diplomatic
service since he was - years old IL
Is understood that his appointment 10
Washington is "a reward for his services
20 the government us secretary To the
.Algeciras conference.
Disappearing paper IN n novelty for
use by those whose correspondents FOR.
get 10 burn the letters after their utIl-
ity has ceased IL h stepped ip sui
phuric acid. dried and glazed. the acid
being partly neutraiized by ammonia
vapor. IL falls 10 pieces after a given
time.