Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-08-13

why Frenchmen shouldn not make excel
lent hotel Keepers, but hotel keeping mas
10 be learned, and the idea is 70 found
a school at which young Frenchmen
may be trained in everything pertain
ing to the hotel, from languages 70
cooking and hygiene. In Switzerland
a number of these schools exist.
Geneva, Switzerland, which has just
been celebrating in honor OF John Cal
win, has the distinction OF lending It's
name TO the great international society
OF walters known as the Geneva I'm
ION" The headquarters OF the society
are in Dresden, but branches flourish
IN ali the big hotel cities OF the civilized
world. The aim Of the Geneva union
is TO organize all classes OF walters
with a view TO making their lot as
happy as possible. 1t opens up 10
member special facilities for travelling,
for learning languages, for gaining a
knowledge OF their duties, and gem
orally looks after their interests.
Professor Otto Nordenskjold, who has
started on a trip TO North Greenland,
is famous as an arctic and antarctic
explorer. He was born in Smaland.
Sweden. in 1869. He is q nephew Of
the famous Baron N~ordensktold, who
made the northeast passage oun
Europe and Asia In 1879. Professor
Nordenskjold tried to reach the south
pole in 1901-03, and with his crew
suffered extraordinary hardships.
Subsequently he lectured In the Unit
ed States IN his adventures. Until
q short time ago re occupied the
chair OF geography at Upsala uniyers-
ity, where he was educated.
InFrance the consumption OF tobac-
In France the consumption of tobac-
there were consumed 10000. 900 cigars
of foreign make and 577, 900, 600 of
French manufacture. The total amount
expended In smoke Is given at 10000
600 franc ($25, 900, 000). The Anti-To-
bacco society OF France Is having o n
siderable trouble with hackers" who
quote the case Of Nine. Snoy, who cele-
brated her 10th birthday recently.
and maintained that the secret of her
longevity lay in her pipe, which she
had smoked regularly from the time
she was IL years old.
In a letter from Dresden an Ameri-
can speaks of the patriotic efforts OF
the Germans to exclude from their
writing and conversation all foreign
words,' and OF their inability to do SO.
Elm one paper" he says. lin which
an editorial appears on this subject
j found also a list OF guests at a cot
tA6o AAhA Viii ~ Co& iRAAOiA VI q
picture by Ludwig Dettmann entitled
The Picnic and of another painting
by Arthur Kampf. Der Clown and
IN article on the movement against
the Berliner heater with the headline
Das Boykottierte Theater.'"
From experiments made in France in
the employment OF artificial refrigera-
ton In wine making. the following
conclusions have been drawn. Grapes
may be kept at a temperature of 30
degrees Fahrenheit for a year, blu ii
is not advisable to keep them longer
than a few months because or the In
evitable softening OF the seeds. In the
Qualification OF liquors and their prep
aration for expectation 10 cold climates
very good results are obtained by cool
Ing to 20 degrees for ~ hours.
The councillors of the American Geo.
graphical society have accepted Mrs.
Coils p. H~untington's gift of q $780,
600 site for a new building at Broad
way and One Hundred and Fifty-third
ST., New York city, overlooking the
Hudson river. Archer M. Hunting
ton. the president of the society, has
given $780, 900 toward the building fund.
which will be increased by further
subscriptions and the proceeds OF the
sale OF the old building, which should
be about $3.50, 900.
= Norman Waite Harris, the Chicago
banker, has headed the proposed $780,
900 pension endowment for aged and
disabled Methodist ~deaconesses with
a conditional gift of 800, 900. Mr.. Har-
ris was born In Berkshire county,
Massachusetts, on August 10, 1876. He
organized the Union Central Life In
Surance company In Cincinnati in 1887.
and left there In 1880. two years later
starting the Chicago, New York and
Boston banking firm OF n. w. Harris
a. Co.
In the neighborhood of Lake Nyassa
h natives esteem a species of fly as
an excellent article OF diet. II is known
as the Kungu, and appears TO be pecul-
lar TO the lake. At certain seasons OF
the year they appear in enormous
numbers, and are sometimes blown in
myriads over the land. III lis happens
neal a village the natives come out
eagerly TO gather them up. They make
them into what they consider a delic-
icus confectionery.
Compensation for injury in the mid
die ages was in It's infancy. The vol
ume of the OF the lord hiph
treasurer OF Scotland just published
tells incidentally OF ayment made to
sufferers in the siege OF Glasgow in
1914. To q carter who lost his horse
$25 was paid. but $10.56 suficed for a
woman whose husband was killed. a
like sum being given TO the owners OF
two broken drums.
Every saloon license which was In
force In Chicago on April 80 has been
renewed for the first period OF 1909. For
the first time since the $1,000 license
and the ordinance, limiting the number
OF saloons went into effect in 1905. not
a single saloon has allowed it's permit
10 lapse. city officials believe that in
the future Chicago's income from ga
loon Licenses will never fall below
$1,000 600 a ear
Prince Rupert. the proposed western
terminus of the new Canadian trans
continental lines. viii be q made-to-or-
der city almost. 1t faces a fine natural
harb0r. yet a few years ago the land
was held az a nominal price. Since the
decision on the railroad was made
known more than a million dollars
worth OF lots have been sold there at
auction.