Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-12-06


planked in vertically, like an omar
water tank. with old oak-hewn plank.
In connection with the work that has
been going on there have been also
some other discoveries. Two pieces of
old LoWestoft china have been found,
one a part of a cup and the other a
part of "a saucer. In some excaVating
in the cellar there was found an old
half-dollar, also a big copper cent of
1874.
West Virginia is to make al expert
ment in a Jim Crow city. This city
has been laid out near Charleston, the
capital of the state, and ii is expected
that within a year it will contain a
population OF several thousand. No
white person will be permitted to re-
side within it's limits or to own prop
erty therein. In the midst of this little
Africa is situate the state colored
high school. Educational facilities will
be ample and there will be electric
lights, sewers and parks. The city will
be governed, of course, by the negro
inhabitants, and the whole state will
the experiment as testing the capacity
of the negro for self government.
The administration of the Prussian
railroads has recently experimental
with wireless Geographic signals on the
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pioying a train of -four cars carrying
~Rntennae and receiving apparatus, the
transmitting apparatus being Installed
between Berlin and Sangerhausen. The
transmitting wire was suspended upon
telegraph poles for a distance OF 200
feet. about a foot beneath the ordinary
telegraph wires. Within a distance OF
about seven and a half miles on each
side of the transmitting station, the
signals were clearly and distinctly re-
ceived on the moving train.
All the principal railway companies
of Great Britain issue railway tickets
mad entirely of gold, which entitle the
holder to travel free by any class of
car and train, on any line and by any
system i'm the British Isles. They are
the size OF a 60-cent piece, but oval
in shape, and engraved with the rail-
way company's coat of arms, with the
holders name beneath, and are intend
ed to be worn on watch chains. These
tickets can not be bought, but are pre-
sented by the directors to persons who
have earned the railway companies
gratitude.
The heaviest stag which has been
killed this season in Scotland was a
royal, which scaled 81 pounds. This
Immense beast was shot i'm Arran deer
forest by one of Lord and Lady Gra-
Ahtiii . BuGSiS. III bIOuICk castle. Inc
stays in Arran are remarkable both for
size and quality, and the forest carries
a heavy stock of red deer, and affords
frst-rate sport. The shooting lodge on
the west side of the island, where the
best stalking is obtained during the
first month of the season, is covered
outside with over 200 pairs of deer
horns.
The Empress Eugene treasures a.
pen made from the quill of a golden
eagles wing and richly mounted with
diamonds and gold, which was used at
her request by the fourteen plenipo-
tentiaries h signed the Treaty of
Paris in 1856. When the Hon. Mr..
Ward. eldest son Of Lord Bangor. was
married some time ago the register
was signed with a quill pen which was
used by the high contracting powers
In signing the Treaty of Vienna. and
which has several times been utilized
at weddings in the Ward family.
The Pennsylvania state nurseries, in
1906, sent out no fewer than 100, 900
white pine seedlings, besides 400 pounds
of seed, to be planted last spring. This
is in addition to the extensive forestry
work under way at the cost Of the
Pennsylvania railroad at Altoona, and
of the Lehigh Coal and aVigati
company in ~Schuylkill and Carbon
counties. and the work upon the states
own reservations. This is a good begin
ming for one of the ten states which
now have reservations.
Thackeray's favorite poets were Gold
smith and the sweet lyric singers"
Prior, whom he thought the easiest, the
richest, the most charmingly humorous
OF English lyrical poets, and Gay. the
force of whose melody and artless ring
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mired Pope, too; but while admitting
Milton's greatness thought him such
a bore thai no one could read him. 1t
is not surprising. therefore, that Thack-
cray never essayed the big bowwow
kind" of poetry.
Five hundred and fifty pounds was
paid by 4 nobleman at the beginning OF
The eighteenth century for a dog collar
OF gold. A collar of silver. with four
small diamonds. costing 200 guineas.
was sold to a society lady for her pct
u dog. 1t is fashionable in France
"a put gold bracelets studded with
jewels ou the foreiegs of poodles. The
plain gold collars with jeweled settings
cost no less than G20. while the jew
eled collars run to G100. The brace
lets cost from Sc 10 $40 each.
Seventeen pounds is q long price Go
pay for "A key, but this sum has been
given by a emb of the RothsChi1d
family Tor what may be said To be the
most valuable key in the world. Ii is
marked with the arms Of the Strozzi
family and Is believed 10 be the wor,,
OF the great Italian artist. Benvenuto
cellini. who fourished in che sixteenth
century. The key Is chisefed out of a
biocK Of steel. presenting two gro
tesque female figures and ornamented
with various scrolls.
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