Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1909-03-19

little expense, but III / did the rab-
bit would soon put me out of bus
lness. ] have experimental along these
lines and know what I'm talking about,
and declare. here and now, that IN
my opinion, the c~arniyorous wild ami
mails of Texas save the farmers and
stock raisers hundreds OF millions OF
dollars by keeping the rabbits Ia
check
This New York Diet Kitchen associa-
tion, according TO the report read by
Mrs. Henry Willard, it's president, at
the recent annual meeting, far sur
passed last year the work done in any
~ months of its previous history. Ae-
cording to Mrs. Wizards report there
were three reasons for THIS Increase
the Industrial depression, another
the cooperation of the association with
the New York milk commission. and
the third the infant mortality work OF
the board ef health. During the last
year the expenses OF the association
were more than $28, 000.
Chicago children infected with tn
~berculosis will go to school in the open
air If a request to be made by the Chi
cago Tuberculosis institute is granted
ny the board Of education. The sug-
gestlon was made in a report OF Frank
70. Wing, superintendent OF the instt-
tute, and unanimously adopted by the
members. The plan is to have open air
camps In various parts OF the CITY
where children with consumption can
attend. In the stermiest weather the
~chldren will wear heavy ulsters TO pro-
tect them from the cold.
Marcsni produced in 1896 the first
wireless telegraph capable OF sending
and recording electric waves across
lohg In that year he could
send lnteiligibie messages 200 feet. By
1900 ne had perfected the process SO
as 10 be able to transmit messages 200
miles. In 1892 his ship, the Carlo AL
Derto, kept In touch by wireless with a
station on the coast OF England at dis
tances up to 2,3eo miles. In December
or that year wireless messages were
exchanges between England and Can
ada. In 1907 a regular transatlantic
wireless service was inaugurated.
We do these things better. we
provide steady Jobs for men like King
WARE Sir John Macdonald and Sir
Wilrrid Laurier' So a Canadian paper
remarks In reference TO the coming
ending of Presidents Roosevelt's career
al the White House. The
are certainly fond OF giving their
chosen chiefs a long inning. Sir .John
Macdonald ruled the dominion for near
Ay 20 years without a break and the
present prime minister. Sir wilfrid
Laurler, Is In his 18th year OF contin-
uous Office,
according to a cabinet ordinance ra-
GENTLY Issued In Toxic, the onerous re-
striction on the use of western ink n
Japanese official documents has been
removed after 80 years. In 1876 the
Japanese government ordered that in
any official document, save In the case
OF writing on foreign made paper In
one or the western languages Western
INK should not be used from that time
onward. That obsolete order In o,les-
tlon survived unmolested until this
year. The abolition is welcomed by
the Japanese press in general.
Or. George L. Spinning, In a recent
lecture, said: THE climate of CALI
fornia is not all like the beautiful
chrome OF the postal card. II IL be true
that IN h Imperial valley 1T is SO hot
that they have TO feed their hens ON
cracked Ice to keep them from laying
Doiied eggs, 1t Is also true that in some
parts or the Sierras Ii is so cold that liz
they had any hens they would have 10
feed them on red pepper and SPANS
famales TO keep them from laying hall
stones"
Charles Dickens was christened
Eharles John Huf1am. or Huffman. as
~ - enormously entered In the parish
register. But when he became famous
ne dropped the last two Christian
names, as he desired to be known as
plain Charles Dickens, q wish respected
on his tombstone Ia Westminster An
hey. by hts b~iographer and friend. John
Forster. and by the ~scrupulously ac-
curate Dictionary OF National Biog-
raphy."
There Is a story told OF a famous
singer, Gabrielle, who demanded O fee
OF 1000 ducats for singing before the
Empress Catherine IL OF Russia. Far
TOO much" said the empress, amazed.
Why, IL Is more than I pay my field
marshals'" Then let vour field mar
ahais sinr for you replied Gabrielle.
Mrs Russell Sage is said TO pay the
heaviest tax OF any person I'm the city
~ New York. The tax books shows
that 20 New York women are assessed
TOT upward of SIT, 600. 600, and more
than q score OF others are required to
pay from s25o,ooo to 100000
Figures issued by Manchester Uni
versity point to the fact that women
graduates rarely marry. Out OF $40
women who have taken degrees, only
81 nave married. Twelve OF these mar
ried graduates OF the same university.
w. T. Hornaday. the naturalist. and
o director OF the New York Zoo.
tried 10 be q real estate man In BufYalo
once, but could not resist the call OF the
(caged) wild.
Mrs, Keith Snalaines OF Chicago. has
Just given $f8,0Gn and so AGREE Of lana
10 be used in establishing a tubercu-
losfs sanatorium al Napierville III.