Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-04-05
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One OF the youngest assistants eyel
appointed b. Nassar college Is Mis-.
Corliss Babson, who has the distinction
of being the champion Woman h1gi
Jumper. Miss Balssun was recently ap
pointed assistant to President Taylor
A graduate of the class of 1905, Mis-
Babson made her wonderful jumping
record in the class games Of 1904, VINE.
she cleared the bar at tour feet two allc
one~half inches. u full nch above the
best pre-. ious record by 4 woman. lex.
cellence In athletics. however, is no,
Miss isabson's only forte. for she o5.
talned the prize for the best class poem
two years IN succession.
James =. pahiman, the mayor OF ON
aha, was talking about bores. ID usec
to he pestered to death with a n0re," he
said. MY doorkseper Was a good ma
tured, obliging chap and he coulG neve
FIND It in his heart To turn tho bor>
away. One day, after an hours mar
tyrdom at the mans hands, / deter
mined 90 end that persecution. So
called ~ doorkeeper and said 10 hin.
mysteriously: Jim. do YOU know Wha
keeps Smith coming mere 50 regularly
No. said Jim. We'll, Jim said /, 'he'A
after your job From that day" Mayot
Dahlman concluded, II saw no mori
of the bore" :
When the French government is laud,
ed for having inaugurated q campaign
against gambling houses IL must be re
membered that it is taking action only
against clandestine ones. Uhe rnunicl
iipal gaming houses which flourish III
most OF the resorts affected by foreign,
ers still exist in order to provide mu
nicipal funds. At such places the ca ,
slno, with It's gambling privileges, is lei
out to some sp%eculator, and between II
and the Monte Carlo esta blishment thd,
only distinction is that whereas there isl
no cheating at the latter, this can hard
iy be said Of the former.
Signor Bruno, al Italian inveutorl
whose name is associated with wirelessI
telephones, has perfected another Del
parture in swift electric communication,
His new invention is II for sendingl
telephonic II ~telegraphic mesagesi
simultaneously along the same wire byl
means of an arrangement setting I'M
motion electric waves OF varying en-,
ergy which neither overlap nor mingle.
The control Is so complete that mes,
ptfSNP 90 NC RASiiiliSCu DCi NGGil any
two points, Notwithstanding that other
stations intervene.
Fewer marriages. fewer births and
Fewer deaths are the rule in England
ana Wales, as compared with former
times. In these countries there are
1880. 900 males and II. GOO, 900 females.
In thirty-fve years the marriage ratel
has decreased % per cent, and there
mas been a steady rise in the ages at
which marriages have taken place. For
merly T.S bridegrooms and 217 bridesl
per LOCO were minors; in 1905 these fig
ures were respectively 4S.S and 1863. J
Educational papers credit the report
mat Andrew Carnegie and his colossal
fortune arc behind the in
corporation of the Andrew Carnegie
university at Chicago, which is TO be
he site OF the new institution. The
articles state the object to be to estab-'
fish a university for the teaching of
medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, science.
nd arts, law, theology and all kin
ured branches of learning, and that it
shall not be conducted for profit.
The latest novelty in bazaar attrac-
lions is that introduced by the Spring
side Wesleyan chapel, Rawtenstal.
England. A wedding cake was cut
up and in one portion was concealed
g marriage certificate. II was an
ounced that the bachelor or spinister
securing the chunk containing tho
document had the opportunity offered
20 be married free of cost within thd
next twelve months by the Rev.
J. BENEFITS.
n most curious story told OF old
!ohn B%unyan's life in Bedford Jail ID
nus; TO pass away his gloomy hours.
ne took a leg u of his stool and Will
his knife fashioned 1t into a flute. Thg
Keepers repeatedly searched his cell to-
hnd the cause of the music. but when
ne hard them coming he would always
replace the leg In the stool, and they
never discovered how the music had
been produced.
eCelebes, an island in the Malay arch.
tpeiago, has the distinction OF being
the home OF the smallest living rep-
resentative of the wild cattle. An idea
81 the extremely diminutive proportions
or the sanoa, as the animal i'm question.
which has some OF the CHARACTERISTICS
OF the buffalo, is called, may be gained
when IT is stated that its height ar
the shoulder is only three feet and
four inches. III
70 p top OF the dome OF London's
new Criminal courts building Is 195
feet. which Is lofty for London. The
new condemned cell will be mo. 81
over the main entrance is n figure of
he Recording Angel The Judges in
the several courts will nave telephone
connection from the bench with the
engineer so that he can regulate the
temperature OF the room to suit each
A remarkable court decision ia n
5igamy ease has been handed down at
Perugta, Italy. where Charles Ral-
hori. a tailor, was acquitted OF a charge
OF having two wives on the round that
ne has two hearts. Four physicians
tesfifaed that Bailiori had two hearts
n the court at once decided that this
was ample reason for him to marry
w women.
AT the present time the greatest de-
mand is for autographs OF the English
literary celebrities, some of which bring
thousands OF dollars. Keats and Shell
ley command such high prices that thev
sell best abroad, where there are more
collections. In London. Berlin and
Paris there are continual ~autograph
sales during the season.
The Hon. Mrs. Bercsford, better l-aavn