Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-07-03

the appearance of such d~isreputable
heresies In so respectable a magazine
that ~Thackeray was constrained TO stop
iRuskin's papers.
Frank B. Raynor, a life saver at one
OF the New York stations, can have any
office in the gift Of President Roosevelt
that he can fill, and without bothering
his head with civil service, either. He
has a letter from President Roosevelt
TO that effect, which he would not
change for the best Job in Washington.
He values II almost as highly as the
gold medal awarded to him by congress-
for bravery. Raynor won his medal
and the presidents admiration by hay-
ing two lives from the schooner Crom-
well, which was wrecked off Bellport
in 1904.
Secretary b. v. Swenson, of the
American Street and Interurban Rail-
way association, gives some interesting
hgures In a pamphlet recently issued
IN the interests of the association. In
the year 1907, approximately 1900 street
and ~interurban railway companies.
operating in the United States, carried
nearly 5000, 600, 600 passengers. These
companies operate an aggregate of 90.
600 cars over an aggregate of 40, 900
miles of track. The total capital in
vested In these electric railways
amounts to approximately "a, 200, 900, 900.
A man from Atlanta was showing to
some friends what looked like a big
cigar wrapped in tinfoil. He took IL out
OF a breast pocket, and ii looked fer all
the world like one of these expensive
smokes. II got his down in Atlanta -
ne said. 1t must nave been a good
cigar to bring it up all this way" re-
marked one of the group. 1T isn't a.
cigar said the traveller He peeled off
The tinfoil and displayed a cigar-shaped
bottle filed with whisky. lyon know
Georgia's prohibition now" he said
More than half of our drugs are
compounded from coal tar: nearly
everything we wear in the way Of
aress goods is dyed by coal tar; artiJ
nciai perfumes, sa%ccharine. which Is
hve hundred times sweeter than sugar.
explosives, medicines, food preseTya
tives and Photographic developers are
All provided by o tar. Chemists
nave evolved from coal tar no less than
seven hitherto unknown acids. four
teen alkaline substances and ten neu-
tral bodies.
The coal of Alaska are to
be made the subject of a special in
V~estigation during the summer season
Dy the United States geological survey.
DIR. Wallace A. Atwood, of the Chicago
university, viii spend the entire season
IN that country conducting the work.
Ihe special fields of work will be in the
n~eighborhood OF Unga, Herendeen bay
m chignik. OH the Alaskan peninsula.
n In the Matanuska valley. at the
head of the Cook inlet.
Inc club women of Massachusetts, are
nghting against the movement to lower
the mix standard In that state. This
nght Is said to be winning more re-
cruits to the cause OF woman suffrage
tnan anything that has come up In the
last 10 years. Mothers have come To
agree with Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gill
man In asserting that politics which
AFFECTS the purity OF milk and water "a
mot outside the home, but inside the
baby '"o
A hard substance ON which ma vor,s
secretary Alfred Roger broke a gold
tooth While eating "a raw clam intro
auction 20 the Press club dinner az
P~hlsadeiphia last Saturday night. has
proved 10 be a handsome brown pearl
perIect In form and coloring. Expert
.emsisIs rave offered TO pay for the
restoration of the tooth and give M
Royer $500 TO boot for possession OF the
pearl. 'He
AN unusual record Is that of the Rev
Fehx n. Bon. OF the Roman Catholic
diocese OF Cleveland. Recently unon
nua usa.h oI blsnop Horstmann, Father
Bon became for the sixth time adno;nl
nslrator OF the diocese. He is n vaars
'piu- zach time that he has Ia on
ms shoulders the affairs Of ~ ~
e~lesiastlcai jurisdiction ii has been he
cause OF the death Of the bishop.
In order IN have a.
sawed timber must be waIl IVY
anu iaiu III the open air one wear ~ ,he
snch 70 season. The averare arta,ea
Dhe spoke requires a two-fnch nice -
slinDer' that means two wears ~ ta1a
aunoer, sitter working our and 6ne
sslllns the spokes ready for the wheel
Shey should lie from two To sjx u,aaLs
before using. 20 weeks
Lanlehnais is being claimed ne a
lorerunner Of Modernism; ~ -
sarsngtn Or some recently publish.l
isetsIs oi ms. In one, dated April 1874
ne says: Catholicism has srown 800,
= vast Professionalism. / haven,t ~
Two catholic Who believe the sama
thlng. This seems to me . strisinu
b future ''u ~
fully equipped daily newsnaner
-., N4' TPVttd ltlSSFaDn Service
and IN charge of a competent newsnas
per man, IS the plan of the board of
~curators OF the Missouri State univ.r.
SHY at Columbia. Mo-, for the new aa-
partment or journalism. The daily ~,
per VIII be known as the UNIVERSITY
M~isscurian.
The deposit OF kerosene shale aho,,t
slzU miles west OF sydney, is said Ia he
the largest in the world. There il .
stream called the Wolgan river. IN the
valley OF which and adjoining which
most OF these deposits are found. They
are estimated 70 cover Al square miles
derth Of seam from a few inches 10 Six
feet.
A Paris paper complains that no four
naiist has yet been buried "a the pan
theon, and mentions as representative
OF the craft who ought to he there
Ehateaubriand, BENJAMIN Constant.
Paul Louis Courier, Armand Care.
Entli~ de Cirardsa ana Louis yeuillot.