The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-08-24
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A Glasgow firm has Just finished .
brass wire for the Glasgow Exhibition
saxty-five miles long and u copper wire
Ill miles long.
An enterprising physician in Aus.
tralta advertiscs: II will pay half the
FUNERAL expenses in cases where I am
not successful"
The National Telephone Company,
OF Scotland, has several submarine
cables of seven, eight and nine miles
IN length which give perfect satisfac-
Before he discovered the cholera mi-
crobe Robert Koch WA known simply
as Doctor Koch. Now he is Herr Gehei-
mer Mcdonald uth Professor Doctor
Robert Koch.
In China there are over 400 species
OF plants used for food. and in the
world probably ten times that number.
Sawdust In Sweden is usedin bread aud
found digestiblc.
The soup served in dining cars b
made In a mandatory, which fills cans
at the rate of 5000 q day with mock
turtle, chicken, tomato and all other
kinds of palatable soup.
The Earl of Buckingham, chief Of
the Hobart-Hampden family. has mar
tied Miss Mercer Henderson, an heiress
with $4,000 DOC. This will raise the
Earl from great poverty.
A bale Of Egyptian cotton weighing
6S8 pounds and one of East Indian
growth weighing 400 pounds have
attracted attention at the doorway Of
the New York Cotton Exchange.
Gen. B%oulanger's mother, who is a
Welsh woman, is 81 a Of age. She
lives quietly at Vile d'Avary. Her
famous son is very kind to her and
has always shown her II great deal of
attention.
On opening an icc-ladcn car at Gin.
cfnnati q tramp emerged and hurried
~ made off. As the car had been
locked three days before it is supposed
that he endurcdt the wintry temperature
all that time.
A farmer near Buffalo, Pa, while
blowing n few days ago, came upon a
pot containing nearly $1,000 in gold
coin. 1t is supposed to have been hid
den by u Miser who lived neal the spot
many years ago.
Rev. Peter Hauermans. of Troy, N.
", is the sole survivor Of the 200 Ro.
man Catholic priests who were on the
mission in this country when he came
over in 1888. He has been a priest fif-
ty-eight years.
A little girl in Lewiston, Me-. who
was ill the other evening, called her
mother to her bedside and said piteous-
ly: ..Mamma, / am awful sick; I Just
swallowed upward" and her mamma
sympathizcd with her deeply.
In 1880 there were only 5000 Jews
in Jerusalem; 10Y there are said to be
10000. The recent prosecutions i'm
Russia are said to have caused the
greater part of this increase, and many
are said to have conc from Germany.
A fish dealer says it is easy enough
TO tell whether Il fish is fresh or not.
IL his eyes are bright and clear and
pullucid lie is fresh as a fish need lie,
but if dark, cloudy and sickly looking
he is an antiquity and by no means to
be desired.
A Providence, II. i. foundry is en-.
gagged in casting the largest mining
pump in the woril for the Calumet and
Hecla, of Michigan. A single section
of it has been completed and weighs
twenty tons. The unwatcring of the
mine will he done sooner than was ex-
pected.
A New York %coroncr's physician re-
marks that in his experience he has
found that more people die in the
fourth floor of a building than any of
the others. In the cases of sudden
deaths he says that there are more
which take place on the fourth floor in
one year in New York Than in III! other
parts of the house combined.
Mrs. w. G.. Stro,im, of Beatrice
Neb., has painted and sent To Mrs.
John A Logan, - picture of the first
homestead taken in the United States.
The land is five miles west of Beatrice
and was taken by Daniel freeman, who
still lived OF it, january l, 1868. The
picture will be placed by Mrs. Logan
i'll the Corcoran Art Gallery.
Mr.. T. NJ Wells has completed q
clay model of the bronze statue of
James w. Marshall, to he erected on
the spot where gold was first discover
ell i'll California. 1t is of colossal. size
and represents Marshall clad in a mi-
ner's dress, holding u nugget in his
right hand, and with his left pointing
to the spot whence il was taken.
Americans have the good habit Of
going to college. 1t is said, as to the
learned nations, that in this country
II man in every 200. takes a college
education; in Germany one in every
2l3; in Eng land II in every 500, and
in Scotland one in every 600. The
grade of general intelligence is higher
in the United States than in N other
country on the globe.
Some years ago Franklin Miller. Of
Sugar Greek Township, in Pcnnsylva-
mia, agreed To take care of an old.
couple, his %ncighbors. with the under
standing that at their death he should
inherit u farm of cighty-six acres
owned by them. After their death,
which occurred five years later, Miller
discovered oil on the farm and has
already received $4,000 in royalties
from ii.
Twenty-Five years ago Sol Smith Rus.
sell was singing comic songs atn varie-
ty house in st. Louis for 81 q night. A
negro comedian ut the same place got
$l.5Oa night, but Russell didn't envy
him, because he had u profound dislike
for burnt cork. The negro comedian
is to-day William Harris, manager of
two theaters and Il variety troupe, and
owner of about $500. 200. Russell, too,
has a fortune to fall ba. K upon.
A novel instrument was filed the
other day at Springfield. Mo-, by