The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-01-07

DER VI persons VINO prefer the adSt
named method, says the writer, is large
In the German realm, for there the
great lotteries thrive the best. There
are eve OF these under the manage
ment OF the government, AID they dis
tribute $160, 0O0, 900 in prizes. The anx-
iety to secure a part OF this amount
has destroyed the happiness of thon-
sancs OF households: and has diverted
thousands of good men from honest
Industry and thrift to idleness and yoy-
erty.
A service was held at the quaint
church OF Plemstall, near Chester,
England. recently for the dedication of
the well OF st. Plegmund, friend and
tutor OF Alfred the Great. The spring
Is remarkable for the fact that it's wa
ter has been used in baptisms at Plem-
ytall church for fully IL centuries. The
archdeacon OF Chester, who conducted
the service, reminded the congregation
that, while living there as a hermit,
Plegmund acquired such a reputation
Tor learning that King Alfred In $50
appointed him archbishop OF Can
tesbury.
A contagious disease IS one in which
h disease-producing organism goes
1irect from the person having the dis
fase without passing through an inter
mediary medium, as in tuberculosis for
example. Malaria, on the other hand,
IL an infectious disease, because the
organism which produces II is taken
from q person by a mosquito repro
suces itself In the mosquito and is
transmitted by the mosquito which
may never have been In contact with
h person by whom the original or
ganism was given of.
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Chemically pure iron has never been
obtained until very recently; 1t has
the last trace of impurities, espe-
cialiy OF sulphur. But a German chem
Inst, DR.. II, Kreusler, has finally, by a
long series OF ingenious processes,
partly chemical and partly electrical,
succeeded in isolating the pure metal,
the properties OF which he reports to
differ Greatly from those of the impure
Iron that We know. Iron prepared by
.Kreusler's process resembles platinum.
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A missionary who labored in a trop-
tcal island desired TO wean his flock
TO his own ideas of clothing. He APP
pealed to their vanity, and gave to the
fairest OF her tribe several yards OF
cloth wherewith to make a skirt. She
was to appear In the garment at the
next mission meeting. She did so. But
the missionaries pleased expectancy
YVES turned to CONSERVATION when the
untutored savage appeared with the
whole of his gift wound upon her head
In the form of a towering turban
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Edmond Thery. in his Economic
Progress of France" declares that the
total wealth OF the nation Is divided
among its inhabitants more equally
THAI is the case In any other nation.
The reports OF the savings institutions
show that there are nearly 100000
persons In the republic having de-
posits OF $4,000 each. and 4,000.0 900
having $1,000 each. Government postal
banks were established by France in
1881. and have encouraged the habit OF
thrift.
Cattle barons, whose ranches in the
West are gradually being cut up for
agricultural purposes, are investigat-
ing Mexican lands with regard to the
advantages they offer for the raising OF
cattle. The cattle rangers have dis
covered that cattle can be raised at
less expense In Mexico, and also that
there is an advantage to cattle men
In the Inland and water transportation
facilities for shipment to the United
States.
Consul General Richard Guenther, OF
Frankfort, figures that the value OF the
German imports for the first nine
months of 1908, exclusive OF precious
metals. amounted TO $1,145, roo, 900,
against 1 ,552, 400, 900 for the same per-
tod Of 1897. The value OF export was
21,I9 Doc, 900, against $1,207, 800, 900.
The value was mainly arrived at on
the basis of the prices OF 1907; the real
value, however, due to the shrinkage
OF prices. is considerably less.
MaLHEE .
The identification of the italian state
railways has made such rapid strides
that 1t has been decided to establish In
Milan an office to deal exclusively with
all matters relating to the electriE5a-
ton OF the various lines. Resort will
be ha6 as much as possible to water
power, as the Italian government is
averse to the importation OF foreign
coal.
Italian boat builders have been ex-
p~erimenting with boats and barRes
built OF concrete, and for harbor pur-
poses, the results have been so sue
cessful that the builders have at pres
ent more orders on hand than they can
care for, with their limited plant and
facilities.
Stones which are used by the lith-
ographers all over the world in mak-
ing colored pictures are found in a
little district not more thar four or
Ave miles long by two or three broad
near Nuremberg, in Germany. Quar-
rying has gone on there for more than
a century.
A method OF bluing small steel goods
by dipping IL TO melt saltpeter in an
iron pot, then immense the previously
polished and cleaned articles until suf-
iciently blued. The goods should then
be removed and cooled In petroleum
and afterward dried out in sawdust.
Since the construction OF the great
ans-Siberian railroad and the extern
sion OF other means of communication
the commercial Importance Of the great
annual Russian fair at Nizhni-Novgorod
has been injured, while the progress
of MOSCOW a been accelerated.
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In signaling at sea, the flags to be
hoisted at one time never exceed four.
With Is y~ariously colored flags and
never more than four at a time, no
fewer han 1882 signals can be given.
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