Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-06-03

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and the Danish Literary association,
in Joint session, recently discussed the
Excessive use Of capital letters ana
passed a resolution urging the minister
of education TO issue orders TO teach
ers in public schools through the king
dom ITO restrict the use OF capital let
tiers to the beginning Of sentences and
proper names" In explanation II
vas urged that I'm writing our native
language the average person halts and
is uncertain as TO the big letters, and
only good could result from using
them only as we have Indicated
1--WE are used to all kinds of recep-
lions and audiences" said a member OF
q theatrical company Just returned
from a tour over the country, but we
were hardly prepared for the kind of
house that greeted us in a western
town. large one, too--this winter.
When the curtain rose row upon row
OF children confronted us. Many of
them had their dolls along n the ex-
pectant look of the little mothers was
really disconcerting. The play was
''The Dolls House"
John Wesley's mother believed in
whipping children with switches at the
earliest possible age. Each one of her
family was compelled TO celebrate his
9th birthday anniversary by learning
the alphabet by heart. In order that
this task might be accomplished. Mrs.
Wesley, after issuing strict orders that
no one should disturb her, shut herself
up for six hours with the child and
drove the letters into his brain with
the aid of a rod.
The fishing fleets of Canada's mari-
time provinces consist of 26,3l5 boats
and 1852 vessels. Within the next few
years this entire fleet will be supplied
with gasoline motors, the use OF which
Is growing On the farms also in these
provinces the gasoline motor has COM
menced 10 displace the windmill, ami
NAL power and the steam engine.
The superiority of American makes is
generally conceded.
In a California town a drummer
brought the hotel porter up to his
room with his angry storming. Wan
your room changed, mister?" politely
queried the porter. Room changed!
MOI" fumed the drummer. It's the
fieas / object TO, that's all" Mrs.
Leary," shouted the porter to the house
keeper down below, the gent in No.
II is satisfied with his ROOM, but he
wants the fieas changed"
Engineers and scientists are making
exhaustive studies OF the recent floods
in Paris, to devise a system which will
prevent q repetition of the disaster, II
is planned to keep the Seine within its
channel either by constructing higher
S~mbankments or by carrying the sur
plus waters around the city In a by
pass channel,
In Mayor Gaynor $ early days on the
bench a prisoners counsel said, in the
course OF his speech: Medical witness
es will testify that my unfortunate cli-
ent is suffering from kleptomania, and
our honor, you know what that is"
YES said Judge Gaynor, II do. 1t is
q disease the people pay me TO cure"
There is a case on record In which a
great fall of earth at Dover, In Eng
land, buried a whole family. A hog
shared the fate of the family, so far as
10 be buried by the same landslide.
Five months and nine days passed and
then the hog was discovered-alive.
Presumably Ii had had Mother food no..
drink In the interval.
The coal and iron mines and the salt
works owned and operated by the king
dom Of Prussia employed last year 49,
723 men and turned out products worth
$751; III, $50, or about 4 per cent greater
than In 1908. Coal formed $53,411,960
of the output.
Mrs. Charles G.. Ames was elected
president of the School Voters league,
which has just been organized in Bos-
ton. The object OF the league is TO
study school matters and school con-
ditions and TO help 70 better them,
For the first six months OF last year
800, 900 bibles were printed and circu-
lated in China, while during the whole
OF the previous year the number was
only 500, 900. Nearly every bible was
paid for. In Turkey there is also a
great increase.
For t~elephoning from a moving train
an Iowa mar has patented q device
consisting OF a metal bar to be sus-
pended from q locomotive or car low
enough 70 come in contact with stand
ards set in the ties.
The smallest book in the world is
only half the size of a postage stamp.
1t is in the possession OF the Earl OF
Dufferin. and is an edition of the sac
red book OF the sikhs.
IL was hoped that the new CAM
Mantle IN Venice would be finished in
time for Easter this year, but unex-
Decten delays make II unlikely that IL
will be completed till next spring,
IN total number OF patents issued i'm
all countries which thus protect their
from the earliest time to De-
cember 1. 1909. was 2,s9Ss43S.
IL an the oceans were suddenly dried
mn and the rivers could maintain their
r,rfsscnf rate OF flow. il would take $500
years 70 refill the basin,
prussian statistics show that the
ntstch content OF potatoes is highest
where the system of culture II NEST