Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-02-14

her and may not remain open on Sun
days or saints days or after 8 o'clock
at night. Intoxication Is punished by
fine for the first offense and by a pris-
OF term for the second. Habitual
drunkards are registered and barkeep-
ers selling them liquor are subject to
heavy fines
TITS a good idea, this naming build
ings for the streets at the intersection
OF which they are built" said the man
from Chicago. Your Broad Exchange
and Broadway-Chambers' and other
hypIienated s~kyscrapers, achieve a GER
tain amount OF distinction through
their names; but why isn't the idea
pushed farther? Harlem might rejoice
in the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
by multiplying Fifth avenue and 125th
street. Then, too. You could get q
Prince Elizabeth and a 'Dutch-John'
and a patriotic 'James-M Madison and
any number of interesting combina-
lions"
There are reported by statistics 49,
975 men who served as colored soldiers
I'm ouf civil war, and the first man
who ever enlisted these was Lieutenant
Colonel Charles T.. Trowbridge, who
has just died at Minneapolis. where
he has acted of late years as custodian
of the state house. He was origin
ally "A sergeant in the civil war in the
regiment of New York volunteer en-
gineers under Colonel Serrell and was
detailed from it, May 8, 1862, to organ
ize the so-calied Hunter Regiment"
the negro soldiers In South Carolina.
Swiss watchmakers are reported TO
be busy filling English and American
orders for finger ring watches. The
ring watch. though little seen, is no
novelty. The manager of an old Lon
.2nE, ttaf.b- IN a Il fnr 6p1ol cayS that hn
saw them more han fourteen years
ago. Queen Victoria had three or four.
The simplest ones-a plain gold ring
with the watch inserted-costs about
800. but with diamonds or other
stones. $4,000 to $4,000 may be paid.
Much money is made out Of the
British pollceman's cast-off uniforms.
Quantities are bought by African
traders and exported to various parts
of the dark continent" where they are
exchanged for palm oil. ivory. skins
and other merchandise. 1t Is by no
means an sight to see a
swarthy savage dressed in the uniform
of q London policeman and wearing the
regulation helmet Of the force,
DIR. William r.. Valentine. of Berlin.
has been selected as curator OF decor
ative arts of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art. New York. DR.. Valentine is
now the private assistant of Wilhelm
Bode. director general of the Royal mu-
seums OF Berlin. He has published
several important works on art. and
has made special studies OF the pot
terry of the Netherlands.
The Paris Museum OF Decorative
Arts has Just received. as a present
from an official of the chamber OF dep
uties. the throne whicn vas made for
AEA - a. ~ sA-A - - A~t - H.
chambers, and which was afterward
changed n little in the time of the
Restoration. and subsequently served
for O XVIII m Charles X on
similar occasions.
In the Italian army all cavalry regi-
ments are supplied with carrier pigeons,
which are used for the transmission OF
information during all their military
maneuyers in ann Young cavalry
officers go through a course OF instruct
Ion or the training OF pigeons for mill
tary purposes at the Pigneral col
lege.
The American electric street railway
at Seoul Korea. carried 1874 passen-
gers daily in 1905: the car mileage was
3as.6i6. the equipment Is 81 passen-
gers and rs freight cars. with ~ miles
of track with overhead trolley. One
injury occurred i'm 1908. Net earning,
v.ss S25.324. AS per cent over 1906.
:
me Nobel prizes were suggested by
the eivhth earl or ~Bridgewater. son of
the bishon OF Durham. He left 1000
TO be paid 70 the author of the best
treatise on '"The Power. Wisdom and
Goodness of God az Manifested in the
Creation The Judge divided the
money amonr eivrt persons.
o. h a. 49,, .~Ast.A1 A.M - -
OF metal may he welded by placing
their edees and following the seam with
n hlowDipe. .tSeamless'' copper AMI
steel vessels RAY he made by torrnirs
tho hn1v and enas separately and
tracine the toints with the hiowpipe.
The area or Perlln in 1905 wa 24M
fquare miles with n ponulafion on
Tune 20 Of that venr of 2.aen.TTT. There
were 81 square miles OF paved streets.
9aS numbered and named srreets l0l
public parks or places. ana 81 5r.dges.
besides those Of railways.
Al combined tender ard floating 9acly
for submarines was leunche1 1T Kial
the other day. n cnpeiSts of two par
anel hulls bound tcg Ather. The tender
has 4 crane capable OF BOOSTING roo tons
from deer watar. rs speed Is II knots.
wr'. NJ. FOX. Win died the other dav
rt Na~nuokpta. Ia. nrr 1903. went
tNrcuvh The Ncvican rns' civil ysars and
was wmsnief several tir1es LntterIv
70 nrdFfe1 5sh aud hHd hundreds of
friends throughout the state
For the preservation OF ST. Peul's
rethedrei in Tordon n 10 proposed 70
5rtect undfr pressure Portland ceraent
frr>tt @hort size consiefepev OF creom
IN ser ell the piers OF the dome ard the
tower
The Chinese nony - said "a be so.~f.
mat Hire y sheep his n.~e roiirHirr
M m ~strrrr'v end not unlike u caTrpi
b1s* m disposition he ~revcrrhlas d pis
M "a masav ways ~ liks n mule.
fs.ser fTeo, eca Il invrstrd III The trim
}rr "~rffcoiS. fosnitafs. hofr eS and ntl'cl
ir'~ffer*ioas of the feefnnnesyss OF Thu
&rssoaist church in tits country.
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