The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-05-27

Therefore the word meant burnt
wine.!' Taking II as an English word,
brandy might be defined as a spirit de-
rived by ~distillation OF the fermented
auice OF any fruit.
Lieutenant Shackleton reached New
Zealand with his party In time to get
out OF two days accumulation OF pack
Ice, which would have frozen the polar
expedition In for another season. The
feature OF the results Of the expedition
10 the microscopic animals found in the
lakes, one peculiar thing being that
the rotifers, instead OF laying eggs as
IN temperature climates, produce their
young alive. They are found to exist
in the very lowest temperatures, ven
in ice and yet water of 200 degrees
does not kill them.
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Pennsylvania has no state flower.
Alabama, Nebraska and Texas have
h ~golden-rod; California, the poppy;
Colorado, the purple columbine; Della
ware, the peach blossom; Idaho, the
gyringa; Iowa and North Dakota, the
wild rose; Louisiana and Mississippi
the magnolia; Maine. the pine cone;
Michigan, he apple blossom; Mime
sofa the lady's slipper; Montana, the
bitter root; Oklahoma, the mistletoe;
Oregon, the Oregon grape; Rhode Is
land, h violet; Utah, h sego lily;
Vermont, the red clover; Washington,
the rhododendron, and Kansas the
~sunfiower.
fAmericans,' says a writer in the
London Chronicle, have a way Of
serving boiled eggs which is apt to
~disconcert the English visitor. 1t is
told OF Thackeray that at his first
American breakfast in Boston he or
dered this dish. Among the array OF
things placed before him was a goblet
Allied with something that he failed
eggs. In answer to his inquiry the
walter said: That's them in the glass;
We'll, but where are the shells?" asked
Thackeray. You didn't ask for the
shells was the prompt reply"
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DIR. John Inglis remembers a CONVEX
station with an old gentleman who
claimed to have been the first to pay
passage money on board the first pas
senger steamer In Europe-the historic
Comet. The voyage undertaken was
from the Broomielaw to Dalmuir-
pence now by tramway Garland the
fare was 4 shillingsl IL was taken by
Henry Bell himself, the Comet was
stopped and waited for half an hour
till Bell and his passenger adjourned
to an inn, where the first fare wet the
toast OF prosperity to the pioneer pas
senger steamer.
B. s. Straus, M. p, has elected from
the home secretary he statement that
An 1908 as many as 1925 taxicabs were
licensed to play for hire in the streets
of London, an increase Of 2,202 upon
1907. In the anne IL months the num-
Der of hanson cabs licensed decreased
by 1.205. Hansoms have in q few years
declined by 1852, while In h same time
motor cabs have increased by 2,924.
More striking still, nearly the whole OF
the change has been accomplished in
the last three years.
Persia's Shah is in financial straits
and has made an offer to the Russian
Academy OF Sciences to sell the entire
royal collection Of manuscripts, paint
ings n miniatures at a comparatively
low figure. This collection has been in
the possession OF the Shahs OF Persia
for several centuries, and some of the
paintings date to the 10th century.
The academy has recommended that
the government purchase the collec-
aitn, but this Is doubtful, on account
OF political considerations.
Wagner's little admonition to the mu-
Hicians vas most characteristic and
worthy TO be noted by many an orches-
ira OF this day. Gentlemen" he said,
II beg OF o not to take my fcrtis-
EimO too seriously! Where you see II
make q 'fp' OF 1t, and for piano play
pianissirno. Remember how many Of
you there are down there against the
one poor single human throat up here
alone on the stage
Servia is a country that produces
only pigs. They can not be exported
20 Turkey. The followers OF Moham-
med do not east pork. She can only
sell to Austria Dissatisfied Austria
Servia wishes to get TO the sea to sell
her pigs to France and England. Aus
tria will not permit her to do this. And
there is the trouble in a nutshell
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Giving a dinner to those who attend
p funeral Is a custom that shows little
sign Of early disuse in Lancaster
county, says the Philadelphia Press
After the funeral OF the late Abraham
Forney, president OF the Elizabethtown
Exchange bank, on Monday, 172 rela-
tives n friends took dinner at the
Greenwalt House, served by the family
OF the deceased. 8,.
Attorney General Wickersham is the
Spanish scholar Of President Taft'a
cabinet. He reads in the original, the
works of Cervantes, Lope de Vega,
Calderon, Valera and Galdos, having
found time TO master Spanish before
he passed his law examinations. And
he talks huently Spanish, as well as
French and Italian.
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In New York city last year the fire
loss amounted to $7,250,00O, while the
maintenance Of the fire department
cost $1,000 900. In st. Louis these fig-
ures were respectively, 1925, 900 and
$l.018,000. In the case OF Rome, Italy,
where the fire losses last year were
$56, 900, the cost OF the IRE department
was $4,000.
Vessels OF the German navy have
been equipped with a novel life-sav-
ing apparatus resembling a huge bas-
ket with its sides made OF rope lad
ders. Lowered over the side, several
can climb II at the same time.
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