Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-08

izer and making the land much easle
TO work. Improved farming nipple
ments have been introduced, the oil
time single stocks having been discard
ed. No other industry has been ad
vanced more In the last few years
Farming is now n of the best pro
fessions In the country and good judg
ment is exercised by the boy who stick
TO the farm instead Of going out as
one-horse merchant or q jack-leg law
yer.
Wassily Safonoff, the Russian con
ductor, Is prouder Of his eight child
rem than OF all his achievements in thu
realm OF music. He never allows hi
friends to forget the existence of thii
happy family, which Is still In Russia
In order to illustrate his enthusiastic
talk about his children, MI. Safonof
carries about with him a large photo
graph which shows the family lined
up like the pipes OF an organ. 1t Ii
90 divided hat 1t folds into a size
that can be carried in the pocket
Wherever he may be Mr.. Safonofi
nev fails TO take out the frame and
exhibit his family to his companions.
Since 1870 there have been but six
seasons when the Mississippi did not
freeze over these being the years 1873,
1875, 1882, 1891, 1902 and 1906. The
thirty times that IL did close the ice
pember, showing that this Is the
month when the heavy cold usually
sets in. The earliest date recorded is
December 4, 1872 and the latest Feb
ruary "a, 1889. One season, s 95-1S96
the ice froze up tight and hen moved
six times, the variation of the EN-
perature for the winter.
II Paris had it's brigands, as they
IRE found in some southern Isles, they
would nave had a chance for q splendid
exploit the other day when a process
sion of three wagons was quietly wend-
ing its way from the Care Saint La
care TO a bank rear the b~oulevards.
The little caravan contained $50, 000,-
800 worth of American railway secur-
tiles, which had been shipped from
New York on the Provence and have
been deposited in Paris, 1t is needless
to say that the treasure was carefully
guarded by detectives.
There is now being built at Juvisy,
IN the outskirts of Paris, a station
which 1t is believed will when finished
be the lar gest In 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 radiate the
Zines which carry traffic TO southern
France, to Italy, to Spain n to Por-
tugal. The new station covering all
these rails is to be built On the latest
principles.
A new application of the motor cycle
10 military circles has been invented In
Austria. In concerns the quick laying
Of telephone and telegraph wires. In
front OF the cycle Is installed q cylin-
hrical roll or reel pom which the wire
Us wound, n a man sitting in he
moving car lays the wire, by means Of
y long pole, either I'm the tops OF the
trees, or, IL there are none, in bitches
DR. cutters. With the new apparatus
three miles of wire may be laid in
twelve minutes.
During the twelve months ending
june 30, 1906, fourteen persons were
killed and forty injured from British
steam plant accidents; in the United
States 383 persons were killed and $50
Injured. The number of steam boilers
i the United States does not exceed by
more than so per cent, those in Great
Britain, 81 that, in comparison, the ac-
fual percentage Is ten times as great
In the United States as in England.
III PROOF Oh the assertion maze DY
the German authorities hat all is we'll
IN Morocco, an officer of the recent
German expedition TO Fee tells how in
the heart Of Morocco he had met an
English woman touring alone. The
fearless woman is Mrs. Frances ".
Campbell. She is reported to have trav-
tled all the way across Morocco on
horseback. with no other escort than
= few servants.
Three notebooks which formerly be-
nnged to Shelley, the poet, containing
autograph manuscript, a considerable
portion of which has been published.
were sold sn London not long ago for
! $4,000. The purchase is 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.
The statement has beer made that
norses average from twenty to thirty
gears OF life and dogs from twelve TO
fourteen years. A French encyclopedia
lat credits the horse with thirty to
forty years, the dog with twenty to
swenty-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 children--notably
sore throat and bad eyes-caused
through dust raised By motor cars. are
most rife where the schools are sit.
nated on roads frequented by motor
cars, or where the children traverse
these roads. In one school the head
seacher points Out that they have ten
cases of sore throat where FIVE years
ego they had one.
mo more trading stafnps," is the
slogan OF a campaign which English
Eroceryn1en are carrying on. One of
them, whose shop is i'm East London
says: There Is not a small grocer
IN England who earns Is per cent. on
his capital. Ten per cent is average
profit. and the cost OF trading stamps
leaves him only Ga per cent.
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The state OF Washington produced
b00,000,000 shingles fla 1906 fiscal
year, or 6Sh per cent. of the total out-
put of the United States. Washinrton
has 459 mills. with a daily outn1if az
4I,9f0,0O0, or is per cent more than In
1905. In no other state does the yearly
output approximate 1000. 0O0, 900.
Ramon Pima. the new Spanish minis
ter TO the United States, Is AZ years old.
and has been In the Spanish dlplomatle
service since lie was % years old. n
Is understood that his appointment ia
Washington is q rewurd for his services
20 the government as secretary To the
AIgecirae eenfereHcs.