Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1907-10-03

| production is rapidly increasing In
| Formosa under Japanese manage
| ment.
Since Plus X was elevated to the
pontihcal throne less than four years
ago. no fewer than fifteen cardinals
have died.
| In house near Deal, England, re-
Gently lightning imprinted a perfect
photograph of vase containing fow-
Sers on the mirror before which 1t
tEtood.
Daniel Gould bet cents he could
climb to the top Of a derrick In New
| York and slide down the cable and lost
| his bet by falling from the top dead OF
heart disease.
The highest elevator service In the
world Is that at Burgenstock, noun
| tain near the lake of Lucerne, where
| tourists are raised 500 feet to the top
OF vertical rock.
Charles p. Stewart, chemist or
Los Angeles, Cal, claims to have in
vented a process Of manufacturing
sugar from charcoal and water at q
| cost of less than j cent pound.
A speaker at a recent meeting of the
United Irish League of Great Britain.
In Dublin, urged his hearers to con
| tinue the~campaign in England in the
past as they had done In the future"
There are now eight women who are
colonies in the German army. They
do not draw their swords often, but
they never fail to get their pay regu-
larly. All of them belong to the va
rious royal families.
Each village priest In Russia is called
pope" There are no celibates among
them, as every priest Is obliged to
marry, but only once. Ii his wife dies
he must obey the rules Of the church
by retiring to some monastery for the
rest of his life
The longest single span concrete
| arch In the world is now being con-
structed In bridge at Germantown,
Pa. The main span is 233 feet be-
tween springing points and sixty feet
wide. The bridgeway will be 12O feet
above the creek.
A strip of territory through Read
vile, Mount Vernon, Belgrade and Sid
ney Is said TO suffer more severely from
thunderstorms than any other part of
Maine. The claim is made that the
showers follow the system of lakes
In these towns, moving from west to
east to river.
An undertaken at Walthamstow,
England, some time ago buried at his
own expense the bodies of friendless
| woman and child rather than see them
laid in a pauper's grave He has just
received $4,000 bequeathed him by al
old gentleman who had admired his
! act at the time.
Emperor William is going to make
| "A crusade against the introduction In
to the German language of SO many
words from other languages He
| wants the Germans to call a cigar a
''rauchrolle," and wants many other
| things called by their German name,
| thus purifying the language.
An Egyptian sun temple and city
that has been lost for $500 years have
been located by Professor James II.
| Breasted of the University Of Chicago.
| It is the temple of Sesebi, founded by
| Amenhotep Nv. The city Is situated
| In the heart Of the almost inaccessible
district Of Nubia, near the foot Of the
| third cataract Of the Nile.
| Rev Smith Baker of Portland, Ne,
/ who is rounding out half century in
the ministry has compiled some fig
| ures covering his service During his
| ministry he has preached 1925 ser
mons. He has spoken in twenty three
| states, has delivered twenty three bac-
calaureate sermons and has married
1,4s4 couples and conducted l,1Os
| funerals.
story comes from Paris that Rob
ert Van Wyck Of New York and
Charles W. Morse have been consid
ering the purchase Of the famous resi-
dence on the Avenue du Bois ds
Boulogne which the Castellanes occu
divorce, The idea was to convert the
place into hotel.
Il There has just been erected in Fair
mount cemetery, Newark, N. j., 1
pretty tombstone over the grave OF
Thomas Dunn English. DR.. English
who was congressman from New
Jersey, was also a well known author
a physician and lawyer. Though b,
wrote much of worth, he will best b,
remembered by his poem Ben Bolt
The valuable collections relating tt
gypsy life and manners formed by tn,
late Charles Godfrey Leland hay,
been given by Mrs. Pennell, his niece
to the British museum. But note ii
the ipdex to the manuscripts state
that they are reserved for twenty
Ave years from the public use. The.
contai in, among others, Romany vo
cabGlary and a book, "Romany Wi
and Wisdom" which was never pub
! lished.
fl Better or Merely Waiting.
"A Stockbroker had fallen upon ev