Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-06-21

had been counting Mrs. Brown
Raasay island, in the Inner Hebrides
which lies between the mainland o.
Scotland and the Isle of Skye, has
failed TO find a purchaser at the upse'
price Of $225,000 placed upon ii. 1t:
name is the scandinavian for "the place
of the roe deer" and the shootlngs, will
the mansion house and grounds at the
southern end, constitute the chief value
of tho island. Near the northern END
are the ruins Of Brochel castle, the resi-.
denCe of it's ancient lairds, the McLeods
In celtic lore Raasay has a place and IN
English literature it is mentioned In
Samuel Johnson's Journey TO the Yves.
tern Island Of Scotland"
The board of education has under
consideration a scheme OF compulsory
education of children, by which loo
primary schools Will be established In
each provincial capital, forty in each
project, department and district and
one in each village. The same board
IS of opinion that al children reaching
Il certain age should be forced to enter
the schools, otherwise their parents are
to be punished. 1t Is also proposed that
the provincial director of education
shall attend the school once in every
two years and hold examinations says
the Shanghai Mercury.
I'VE fisherman" said Havelock Nor
ton, California's famous fly caster, "are
continually being accused Of intemper.
ance. The accusation is false. No in.
temperate man could ever cast a fly
Yet a friend of mine had the ~effrontery
to declare that while out walking in
the country he had met an angler be.
sid a brook and had said to the man;
How can you tell the good places from
the bad when o come to a stream
by the bottles, the man answered
Wherever the most empty bottles are
scattered is the best place."
Or. Mary Stone, VIC is tho head OF
an American hospital in Kluklang, cen.
tral China, lately returned to this coun.
try to be operated upon for appended
tbs. She has recovered, is now in New
York and will return to China in the
fall. She graduated from Ann ArboI
ten years & and Is said to be the only
educated physician in a province con-
tanning 100000 people. Last year she
personally treated more than $4,000
patients,
The late Malrile Grau, after the
work he did, should have retired with
a half million-but he didn't. 1t is the
Same old story. Gailhard, VINO, after
twenty-one years service, will retire
from the grand opera at Paris in De-
cember, is also not In the list of Paris
millionaires and m~illionaires in Paris
u their millions in francs only
There Is more money, the Musica.
Courier thinks, in running a vaudeville
theater.
: The Oldest living human being OF
authentic record is Mrs. Mary Wood, ot
Hilisboro, Ore, a few miles west OF
Portland. Mrs. Wood is 120 years old
She was born in Knoxville, Tenn. May
90, 1887, which the records at Knox.
Vile still show. When she was sixty
five years old she rode the entire dis.
lance across the continent from her ole
home in Tennessee TO her present home
In Oregon.
J On recommendation of the commits
ssary-general of the army, the field ra-
7tions of the troops serving in Alasks
will be 16 ounces of bacon, or, wher
desired, 16 ounces of sat pork or %
ounces of salt beef; "a ounces of FRESH
vegetables, instead of Is ounces; 2-s
ounces of desiccated vegetables, instead
of 2 2-5 ounces, and S-25 ounce of can
dies, instead of 6-25 Inc
Staten island dwellers who have their
o1OtlACoo IA 2 "a Il ~ AZ pa
of their days work in the time they
spend daily on the ferry. and to this
END the Richmond Borough Realty as.
ISOLATION has been considering the plar
of having girl stenographers on the
Staten island ferryboats.
Potato growers in North Wales are
warned by the board Of agriculture and
fisheries 10 destroy at once any plani
infected with the disease known as
black scab." 1t is a disease of re.
cent introduction and passes in the
spring to the highly dangerous sum.
mel stage. \
Nine. Modjeska for twenty-five year,
was a household name among theater.
goers, yet now that she is writing he
memoirs she says she finds 1t neces'
sary TO go back to her native Polist
and rely upon the services of a trans
lator to remake her book into English
The other day a Korean gendarm,
went TO the office where subscription
toward the public deb are being re
ceived and having paid in his MONEY
cat his finger and with the blood wrot
an oath to support the movement I,
the best OF his ability.
The device at the head of the Demo,
III - " ~ ANAAA lily WV
ton Is an old hen, and the Citizens
ticket headed by a pair of shears. In
dicatirg that democratic and indepen
dent voters should scratch and cut tn
republican ticket.
NJ. Faroux, a French statistican, esti
mates that about $685. 900 motor car
have been manufactured in the min
years since the experiments of self
propelled road vehicles first succeeded
and these have sold for more thai
G20e. 900. 900.
A Georgia professor wrote an arith
Tnttic that contained such tough pro
blsms that nobody could solve then
One teacher wrote, asking for a KEY
This professor replied on a postal card
Dear Sir; 1t has no key. It's a stem
w.7der."
T.npbi j. Leonard Terry, of the Re
Gclp Shalom congregation, of the Pitts
burg Peace society. will go to German
u,rxt month to ask this toymakers [
ceese manufacturing toys which insti
thoughts Of var in the minds Of Chi
GreE.
there ire forty-eight differena kind
81 material entering into the constru,
a. OK a piano n they are gathere
4rasxf ~ixteea countries.
aitei States has s 5000 sche