The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-02-11

TABOR INDEPENDENT.
}. A. DvoRAk. Publisher.
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Or. Doyen. the French surgeon, II
generally considered to be the wealth.
Test medical man In the world. He Ia
also one Of the busiest, and 1t Is pro-
verbal in Paris that no healthy man
can ever get a talk with him. Patients
come from every part OF the world to
his private hospital In the Rue Duret,
and in recent years he has had all his
more important surgical operations
acknowledgement with the object OF
leaving exact records OF his work for
the aid OF other surgeons.
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In one OF the young ladies' schools in
q suburb OF Berlin the pupils sent
committee to the principal asking her
20 discontinue instructions in French
and English. as 1t would be unpatriotic
Go learn the language Of nations who,
In such an Infamous manner, had
dragged Germany into war" 1t took
the principal considerable time to show
the girls why their request could not be
complied with.
Wonderful changes have been
wrought in the transmountain thor
oughfare in the state of Washington.
in seven months the tortuous, narrow
path across the Cascades has been
highway with a maximum grade OF D
per cent. The state OF Washington
spent approximately $335,OO0 on the
Is miles from North Bend to Lake
Keechelus.
At Christmas tree festival in South
Paris, Me-, the gifts were taken from
the tree by young lady who had re-
GENTLY been married. During the dis
sribution she found one package with
name she didn't recognize, so she laid
the gift aside. AS the packages dis
appeared she began to wonder where
Der own was, and finally relied that
the discarded package bore her new
name.
st. Paufs cathedral. Of London, has
bad q strange association with fire.
The first edifice on the present site was
erected in 610 by Ethelbert, king Of
Kent, but in 1857 this was destroyed
by fire. Finally in 1866, when the great
& L.
Paurs was wrecked, this being it's fifth
Ore. In 1875 the present church was
built by Charles ii at a cost Of more
than $7,50O.0O0.
-Four little girls in Salem, Mass, had
rehearsed for a Sunday school concert
I'm which each was to recite a piece
and then turn a letter to the
audience, the combined letters spelling
IS a A r." signifying the Star OF
Bethlehem. Unfortunately at the con-
cert the girls went onto the stage from
the wrong side, so that when the turn
Ing process was completed the letters
spelled "R A 7 s."
Though she lives in region where
turkeys are plentiful, Mrs. Herbert
Defur, 25 years old, of Newton, N. j.,
ete her first piece of turkey on New
Years day. Her father, a well to do
Farmer, years ago started TO raise tur-
keys. His first brood ran away. In
anger he said he would never let an
other turkey on his place. He kept his
word, but now the daughter is mar
ried. n...#
The wealth of the United kingdom
IN 1914 was computed at about $12,-
500,000.000, while a conservative esti-
mate would place it now at about $685.
000,000,000, an increase of $50 per cent,
while population has grown 100 per
cent The income of the British people
In this period has increased 700 per
cent-from $500, 100000 to $4,000
100000.
After remaining practically unused in
the belfry of the Phoenix hall in Fair
haven for 40 years, the bell which was
placed there in 1902 is to be moved to
schoolhouse i'm North FairhaveII, and
there used for both the school and the
fire alarm system. 1t was the first bell
in tile town, and was made by Paul
Revere.
Two corporations, financed by Jap
Rnese capital and composed of Jap
Hnese subjecte. have been organized in
Davao, Mindanao, under the laws Of
farming, stock raising and local trad
ing. The capital of each is $4,000.
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Upton, near PetersbOro, one of the
smallest parishes in England, possesses
y mysterious tombstone OF black
marble which emits a damp ooze in
patches whenever rain is about to fall
The stone is regarded in the village as
an infallible barometer.
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4 II is reported in the newspapers OF
Transbaikal that new, exceedingly rich
Eolu neidS were recently discovered
on lands belonging to the car in the
region OF Station Zilovo, of the Trans
baikal railroad on the Bolshoi UriuIn
river system.
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An English paper says that provision
shops In the west end of London have
''Anglicized their appearance" by re-
moving the Westphalian hams. Bruins
wick liver sausages, sauerkraut and
"delicatessen" from their windows and
have substituted good old English
yiands." t.. .
A very noted diamond Is the one Of
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