Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-22

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business and Uncle Sam provides II
for me-" said a Brooklyn business man
of irregular hours. Two or three days
of Zach week ! W. TO rise early. Dur
postman has a remarkably piercing
whistle and also always rings the door
bell when he leaves any mail. But al
though he comes regularly as Clock
work at z a. m, he does not always
leave mail for me and consequently
his whistle does not always blow ana
the doorbell ring. So i just u a post
card the afternoon before and mail IL
&c myself. II has never failed TO ar
rive In the early mail, accompanied py
the whistle and bell"
The Swiss military musketry experts
are conducting experiments 10 solve d
problem that has proved a dif1culty
for all armies. The object Is to find a
cartridge which will be Of equal efh-
cheney at short and long range. Now,
In France and Germany this end is not
yet attained. The German bullet mark
50 is light and is good at short ranges,
while not so precise at the long ones.
The French bullet MARK d. has the
opposite defect-it is weak at ranges
shorter than 400 yards The swiss
army authorities believe they have q
bullet which will solve the problem.
Congressman J.. Adam Bede, OF
Duluth, one OF the wits or the mousse,
was a newspaper reporter In Washing
ton for years. Mr.. Bede was nrst q
democrat, and, desiring appointment as
marshal, made application TO Presioent
Cleveland on a piece or birch park
which he sent through he mails. Mr..
Cleveland was so struck with the orig
inality OF the applicant that after IN
yestigating his character appointed
him. Mr.. Bede resigned the marshall
ship In 1896, when he left the demo-
cratic party to support Mckinley.
Honeybees are generally credited
with instructive skill IN making they
cells OF the comb hexagonal In shape
but IL Is probable that this construction,
81 merely the ordinary result or me-I
chanical laws. Solitary bees always,
make circular cells, and the bees in a,
hive no doubt make them circular aiso,I
but mechanical pressure forces them
into a ~hexagonal form. A we'll KNOWN
naturalist, I'm speaking OF the matter.
says hat ell cylinders made of soft,
pliable substances become hexagonal|
under such circumstances.
According to Professor Beekmanl
felt was invented before weaving. The
middle and northern regions Of Asia
ere occupied by Tartars ard other
populous nations, whose manner and
customs appear to have continued un-,
changed frsm the most remote antiq-,
uity, and to whose simple and uni
formed existence this article seems to,
be as necessary as food Felt Is the,
principle substance both OF their
clothing and of their habitations. /,
In six years with an increase in the
population of about 2,400. 600. or some,
thing more than 10 per cent, the south
has increased the value Of It's farm pro-
ducts by s72S, 000, 900, or 81 per cent.
and the value of Its manufactures $761,-i
600, 900, or So per cent. IT has added
s,493, 900 spindles TO it's cotton mill out
at, an increase OF 55 per cent. Its mills
used in 1906 about 2.376.000 bales of
american cotton, or As per cent. more
than In 1900.
A machine which automatically
ghufhes q pack of cards in an Instant
with the cards concealed from the sight
and which changes the position Of ninel
out OF every ten cards Is the latesti
mechanical device for ear players. It,
not only protects the cards from in
Jury, but gives an absolute square deal
shuttle. The machine, say Popular
Mechanics. weighs four pounds n at-l
taches In a moment to any table. 1t is
about twelve inches high.
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senator from Nebraska, is both a young
and a Dol man. He succeeds Joseph
h. Willard, who was the opposite, both,
elderly and rich. MIR. Browns father
was a farmer and his boyhood wasI
largely devoted to the farm. For sew
eral years he rode eight miles to school
on n OF the farm horses. In 1879 he'
entered the state university Of Iowa.
n was graduated four years later.
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A Carl Schurz memorial professor
ship" is to be established at the Uni
yersity of Wisconsin as a result Of the
movement recently started in Milwau-,
kee by a number of prominent German,
Americans. The plan is to raise an
endowment of $4,000, the income of
which will be used for the establish
ment of an annual course of lectures
10 be given by prominent professors of
German universities.
The state medical board OF California,
n forty-six mandamus suits against
Ii. The allegations are that certain,
physicians who control IL are maintain,
Ing a doctors trust and are keeping
physicians from other states from Sc
curing licenses In California. Among
those barred, II Is alleged, is DIR. Charles
English, of Washington, ID. c., who was
the family physician Of President Ben
tamin Harrison.
Japan Is the largest copper produ-
ing country of the far east, but as
yet her output (1905) is only one-ff-
teenth OF the total production of the
world. The output rose from 23,S99
tons In 1889 TO $4,000 tons in 1906.
Copper mining Is at present one OF
Japan's weak points, the operations be-
ing conducted without method Her
home consumption is about 1000 a.
year.
William p. Letchworth, who's gift
Of 1000 acres at Portage Falls, on the
Genesee river, for a public park has
been accepted by the state Of New
York, Is an adopted member of the
Seneca tribe of Indians, and bears the
tribe name, Haiwa-te-is-tah, 1.-THE man
who always does the right thing
With the exception of nesting birds.
few wild animals perish In a forest
dre. They nave instructive knowledge
OF 1t long before II reaches them and
ny to swamps and large rivers. They
can generally outrun the flames. HUI
man lives have been saved by horses
instinctively taking to water.
A judgeship at Sacramento. Cal. was
vacan There were three candidates.
Two OF them. who believed their
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