Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-10-02

bark that mas JUST dOCked IN new bed
ford. The vessel left New Bedford in
1854 for a voyage around Cape Horn,
and since has been engaged most of
the time in whaling in northern lati-
tudes. The ship brings news that the
whaling ships in the Atlantic are gem
orally making heavy catches this sea-
son. The whaling business seems TO
have experienced a revival. and with
this New Bedford Is developing new
Importance which presents some like
ness 10 it's old time activity as a whal-
ing port.
There was a period in English his
tory whe juvenile smoking was en-
forced officially. The diarist Hearne.
in writing OF the plague of London In
1866, says: Even children were oblig-
ed 10 smoak. And / remember that /
heard formerly Tom Rogers, who was
yeoman beadle, say that when he was a
~schoolboy at Elton that year when the
plague ragged all the boys of the school
were obliged to smoak in the school
every morning and that he was never
whipped so much in his life as he was
one morning for not smoaking."
In recently published reports OF the
fair which TOOK place at the Home of
the Daughters OF Jacob, New York,
mention is made that the chief usher,
a lad" aged 1O5 years. and Of the
girls" who sold candy n lemonade.
although they were only l03 and l07
years old. Some doubt was expressed
as 70 the ages OF these inmates Of the
home. Albert Kruger, the superintend-
ent, said that there was no exaggera-
tion.
According 10 a decision by the states
attorney and the counsel TO the police
board Of Baltimore, the hotel keepers
Of that city, under the liquor law
passed by the last legislature, will have
little use for the keys to their bar
rooms. They can sell liquor at almost
any time. Under the old law hotels
could not sell between midnight n 5
a. m, but under the new law there is
hardly any limitation as TO time.
Vice Consul Harry Suslow. OF Mos
COW, writes that the administration Of
the Russian D~nieprovskiv Metallurgic
company recently signed a contract in
st. Petersburg with the Japanese gov
for the supply of $50. 600 pools
(6,606 tons) OF steel rails. The weight
OF the rails is 10 be "a pounds to the
current foot. The rails are TO be deliv-
cred at Port Dalny for the southern
parts OF the Manehurian railway.
A Paris newspaper has been asking
fts readers to name the IL greatest in
yentions. over 400, Geo were
sent In and the votes were cast in the
following order: The locomotive, the
potato, vaccine. the cure of rabies, SUI
gar, electric telegraph, matches, the
boiler OF a steam engine, the tele-
graph, matches, the boiler of a steam
engine, the telephone. petrol, the sew
ing machine and soap.
The boring of an artesian well is not
~n.. fnalx The uralI ~ GesA oil a
(France) required from December "a,
1893, TO February 26. 1S41, for compile
ton. The one at Passy of the same
depth took only two years 10 make.
The engineers now our upon one year
in which TO complete the well OF Mails
ons-Laffitte. This we'll is already at a
depth OF AGO meters. 1t will go TO a
depth OF $50 meters.
Shortly before 10 o'clock on Saturday
night the old ffour mill at Dedham was
almost totally destroyed by fire. Sit
uated on the river Stour about six
miles from Colchester, Dedham mill
has been immortalized in the paint
ings OF Constable. The mill has been
lately brought up to date, n was
equipped with the most approved ma
chinery, says tho London Daily Mail.
The general opinion among the Jap
anese themselves is that ~nationaliza-
ton OF the railways has been a de-
ciced mistake. 1t has imperiled the ma
tional finances; IL has prevented nee
essary railway improvements that
would otherwise have been conducted
on ordinary commercial lines, and II
has checked the efficiency Of the serv-
ice.
Teheran, the center of the civil war
now raging In Persia, has within the
last 90 wears undergone the most rap
id transformation OF all oriental cities.
Since the old four mile wall was taken
down and the ditch filled up to form
q broad boulevard, gas, tramways and
telegraphs have modernized the ancient
birthplace OF Haroun-al-Faschid.
There are said TO be 1000 Esperanto
societies and schools throughout the
world now, and periodicals for propa-
eating the language now number 55.
IL more than there were last Decem-
Der. Esperanto is gaining official rec
ognition and privileges in Europe and
Asia
Saaen cheese is made in Switzerland
from cows milk. 1t is the custom 10
make a saaen cheese at the birth OF a
child and eat IL at the burial fest or
even at the burial feast of a son OF
the child for whom 1t is made.
A Louisiana lan has invented n ma
chine for measuring and recording the
measurements OF lumber. Planks
parsed through il engage a roller at