Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-12-20

decided that 1t is valid.
In many business Offices fire buckets
are placed, filled with water, in readi-
ness for an emergency. 1t is seldom,
says the Scientific American, that In
structions for use are pinned near the.
supply. The wrong way TO tackle an
incipient fire is (usually) to hurl the
whole contents of a bucket on the spot.
Most of the water Is wasted by this
means. A heavy sprinkling is more
effective. The water may be splashed
on the blaze by hand, but a more use
full sprinkler Is a long-haired white
wash brush. One of these hould hang
beside every nest of fire buckets.
An inquirer into the social life Of
France has been Investigating the
prevalence of civil burial, and comes to
the conclusion that for the last quarter
of a century it has been stationary at
from IS to 20 per cent. of the popula-
ton. An odd fact about the question is
that among the educated classes civil
burial is Amos a negligible quantity.
Ii is practiced almost exclusively by the
very poor. or 1000 such burials an
nually 1000 are of the class which has
TO be buried at the public expense, and
1000 more among he very poorest or
those who buy their own graves.
Since 1906 the variations In he level
OF Lake Chad have been closely
watched, and all available data con-
corning 1t have beey compiled, includ-
ing notes obtained from the natives.
There seems to be q twenty-year per-
iodicity, and at the end of four or five
twenty year periods there seems to
come an almost complete desiccation,
and then a great rise of level. An old
native remembered a drying up which
has been placed between 1928 and 1888,
while in 1851, about twenty years later,
the level was high. In 1906 the lake
appears to have been very low.
There is a dearth of theatrical 'su-
pers" in Paris owing to the extension
Of the cinematograph. There are cine
matograph shows everywhere in Paris
now, and the companies which run
them need numbers of people as actors
and actresses for their living pictures,
Vhe general pay of the Paris super"
In a theater was about 25 cents a day
or eve less, last season. This season
managers are offering 81 tents a day
without success. The cinematograph
companies are paying $50 and $1.75
and they engage their supers by the
month and in large numbers.
The winter months in Minnesota are
noted for their deep now and short,
dark days, and the experience of the
school teachers in some of the remote
districts throughout the long winter
months are not without hardships.
Sometimes they encounter wild ami
mails on their way to school. and in
one instance a teacher lost her way
and searching parties were out two
days before she was found However,
the work goes on cheerfully and it is
not often that any of the plucky teach
ers forsakes her school after having
taken charge.
There has been q disturbance at
Chusan," says the North hin Daily
News. THE mandarin tried to force
the ldief TO take their pay in big
cash The soldiers rebelled and, aided
by their wives, nearly bit the officer
TO death. 1t appears there is no pun
ishment for biting, so they took this
method of inhicting c~astigation on the
mandarin: had they beaten or struck
the officer they would nave been sub
ject to punishment by the govern
ment."
A report of accidents or railroads
RnG street railways in Greater New
York made TO the public service COM
mission shows that during the month
of October forty-seven persons were
KILLED and 1896 injured. The report
states that 500 persons were injured,
while alighting n $40 in boarding
cars. Car collisions with vehicles
caused injuries to 791 persons, while
sos employees We're hurt in the per-
Torrance of their duties.
The cost of municipal government in,
New York was si64. 493.177 in 1905; In
Philadelphia. with three-eighths of New
York's population, the cost was $32,-t
535,074, or less h one-fifth; Chicago.
with half the population of New York,
expended $41, 700, 1852, and Boston $685.
100000. The debt Of New York In 1905
was $647 sos. 295; hat of Boston 500. 1884,
s56: Of Philadelphia, $50, 800, 295; of Chi
cago, $50. $50. $40.
A Shanghai correspondent of q,
German paper, writes: The custom
of arranging matrimonial contracts
through agents or matchmake rs has,
been practiced in China for ages. This
business receives support from all
classes, for although the high caste
men i'm some instances select their
first wives themselves. the additional
wives are all secured through the
agents"
Friendship, boys and girls" said the
school director who was making a few
remarks. 'ts a thing TO be cultivated
and pfacticed by all of us. Read and
ponder the stories OF the great friend
ships OF sacred and profane history.
Take them for your models-Dav id n
Jonathan, Damon and Pythias and
Scylla and C~harybdis.'
Lord Clifton, whose coming OF age
has just been celebrated at Gotham
Hall, Kent. England, is six feet seven
inches high. His father, the Earl of
Darnley. is six feet four inches, While
the earl. Lord Bligh. the Hon.. Arthur
Bligh and the Hon. T.. ". Bligh. aver
six feet W. and one-half inches.
Certain kinds OF noises attract
snakes. The whirr OF the moving ma
chine Is one. and in six months as
many as 40 cobras alone have been
killed on a grass farm In India by the
advancing machine.
The princess OF Wales has sent tn
the church army or England an order
for u large number of shirts. TO be
made by the wives OF prisoners who are
under the care OF the society.
China Is pressing reforms. An i'm
periaI edict orders the board OF revenue
10 Introduce within six months a uni
form system of weights and measures
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