The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-04-23

appearing. He inquired among all ms
friends for a 1907 silver dollar and 1t
was not until he had been on the vain
search for nearly a week that some one
ltold him to call at the mint, and there
DE received official information that
under advices from Washington they
had not coined any silver dollars since
1906, and therefore there q never been
NOR would be any silver dollars for the
present year.
Major G. @. Buxton, who Is travelling
lin British East Africa, says that one
morning he heard a lion grunting near
his camp. After a pursuit OF three
miles he saw the beast 60 yards off, be-
hind a bush, and fired at him with a
rifle. The lion dropped and then stood
bolt upright. A shot from a Mauser
Knocked him over. Suddenly another
great head and name peered over the
bush. Al steady shot with the rifle
dropped the second lion. whereupon a
lioness Immediately sprang out of the
bush, allowing a clear shot. Major
Buxton hit her with a shot from the
lMauser.
The Standard Oil company has insti-
ituted barge service across the Atlantic
ocean for the transportation Of Oil in
bulk. Two large steel barges will be
flowed back and forth by oil-carrying
steamers. The fact that the steel
lhawser OF one Of the barges has a
length of 5000 feet is cited as evidence
lOf the danger of the new service. A
gap Of three-iifths of a mile between
steamer and tow is wide enough to let
in trouble during dark and stormy
nights, especially where barges are a
rarity. .
For centuries Europe has enjoyed a
monopoly on cathedrals, the highest ex-
lponents OF Christian architecture. Dur
ling the last few years, however, near
lly a dozen beautiful structures have
been in urse of erection or have been
completed in the United States, and
the time may come when the whole
land will be dotted with these master
pieces of art. One of these, now build
ling at st. Paul, under the direction Of
Archbishop Ireland, will be one of the
finest in this country.
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Aerial letter boxes have been placed
In all large tenement houses and apart
lment buildings in Budapest, Hungary.
When the postman enters the hall on
the first floor Of the building he places
1.-THE letters In the boxes allotted to the
jdifferent families. A spring Is then
pressed and electricity does the rest.
THE boxes are shot up to the fioor re-
,quired, where they remain until emp
tiled or until the postman comes again
and brings them down by touching an
Eother spring.
Mrs. Boorman Wells. the "suffra-
lgette," said at a women's luncheon In
New York: you may ridicule as you
please, but when we get the suffrage in
London we shan't abuse ii as some
of your Colorado women do. I heard
- -. -oA, Aa1ls.n ne sNaa Yha
other night. Hello said the first,
Where's a Philadelphia genius has in
vented b~uttonless underwear oh,
that's nothing said the second, I've
worn 1t ever since my wife got q
VOTE
Father Ehrle, the director of the vat.
lean library, has been appointed q
member of the Academic des Inscrip.
tions, which is one of the five academies
that make up the famous Institut de
France, and the one that presides over
history, archaeology n ancient
oriental languages. Father Ehrle is g
herman and a Jesuit. He is said to be
the living authority on the care Of
books and on the preservation and res.
i~toration Of old manuscripts.
The "Priory" al Bicester, near OK
ford, England, which, as its name indi
Gates, occupies the site Of a formel
religious house, has quite lately beer
purchased by the community of Olive
a Benedictine nuns who, having beer
expelled from their house in Normandy
sought refuge in Bicester some five
years ago. They had the happiness re
Gently OF celebrating a religious pro
dessicn therein-the first that has takeI
place since the reformation.
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from the practice of reading In bed
particularly by persons recovering
from a severe illness. 1t strains tn,
muscles OF the eye to such an exten
that they alter the curvature Of tn,
cornea-the abnormality t which tn,
term astigmatism is applied.
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In the course of a paper before tn,
French Academy Of Medicine professor
iGrimbert recently stated that the cen
trial pharmacy, which dispenses supplie
ITO the public institutions in Paris an
the department Of the Seine, annual.
furnishes 10000 leeches for use in tn,
Hospitals.
Five women have been appointed t,
the staff Of the Rockefeller institut
for Medical Research-Miss Nelli
lGoldthwaft as chemistry assistant, Mis-
Maud l.. Menten, Miss Mabel p. Fftz
igerld n Miss wollstein as fellows
and Miss Bertha L. Barker as schola
of the institute.
The Luxembourg government is treat
ing incorrigible vagabonds to breay
and water for the first foul days @
their Imprisonment, and to the loves
scale of ordinary diet twice a wee
!afterward. The prisons are said to b
emptying fast.
Argentine is sale to be the onl
country in the world whose congress
ia~ppropriates $4,000 a year to aid tn
work Of the National Council OF WON
len.
Not less than 80, 900, 900 yen ($15. 900
i000) is yearly spent by foreign visitor
in Japan. Some estimates put tn
amount at 10000, 900 yen.
Mukden, Manchuria, has 40 t~annerie
and a large fur trade, both local an
export. Prices are Is to 20 per Ger
lower than a year ago.