The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-02-17
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Inc 000y OF q dead squirrel WNS40und
In AL pound pickcrcI recently caught
near Worcester. Mass.
Afactory-owner In Brooklyn. claims
to have sold six million pounds Of
licortce last year to . tobacco firm. =
A large number Of pctrified trees
have recently beon discovered on the
line Of tho Rideau canal in Canada.
A preacher at Jamestown, Mass. has
married since he began his ministerial
career over fifteen hundred couples.
Peanut-raising has been commenced
on the james river lowlands ncar
S~cottsvillc, Va. by an enterprising
firm.
There n moro students from farm
crs' families in the Ann Arbor uni
vcrsity than from those of any other
occupation.
AGeorgia debating society discussed
tho question: s'Did Zekc SHADES to-
bacco barn burn up or DOWN." It was
decided that it did.
Francis Grammar of BROOKLYN wants
a divorce from his wife, who has de-
serted him. He claims that she is q
specimen of bad Grammar.
Several prominent Muskegon lum-
bcrmen state that they do not consider
feasible tho proposed plan of rafting
logs across Lake Michigan.
Columbus Delano, ecu. Grants Sec.
retary OF tho Interior, is still living on
his farm near Mount Vernon, Ohio,
and has preserved his vigor wonderful
~.
Prof. W. H. Payne resigns from the
chair of science of teaching at Ann Ar
Dor university to take the chancellor.
ship of the Nashville (Tcnn.) univer-
sity.
Tho Rev. Henry W. Kuhn owns
some property in Omaha which he tried
to sell a few years ago for 81, 900. and
for which he has since refused $780,
Co.,. Lucky Kuhn!
Queen Emma of Holland is a brunei
whose eyes would be pretty did she
not continually wink when speaking.
thus giving you the impression of pre-
pairing for a good burst of tears.
The board of regent of the OREGON
state university has increased the sal
airy of the president from $500 to
$500. and the salaries of tho other
professors from $1,760 to $4,000.
The oldest volunteer fireman in tho
United States is said to be John do
Mier of Allentown, NO., who Joined
Relief company No. 2 of Cincinnati i'm
1928. He is more than so years of
age.
A Boston man who was accused of
selling cigars on the Lords day plead
cd that he had the right to sell thcm
because tobacco is q drug. He was
fined $40, and appealed to the Supcr-
iOr court.
The Taltan water-works tunnel for
supplying Hong Kong with fresh wa
ter was completed the 10Th of August.
Tho tunnel is 1890 feet long, 6 wide.
and 2 in hcighth, and is bored through
80! .cnL.
Thomas Brown of White county, Ca,
has just rounded q century of life. He
cultivates flowers and gourds. Hc
once raised u gourd that was four feet
in circumference and which held q
bushcl of shcllcd corn.
Several days ngo a cougar caught
and killed Duff Grecnc's fine pointer
dog on Salmon river, l. r., and only
released its hold when the CANNES
owner showed the muzzle of his gun
into his hide and blew him to pieces.
Tho Albany Evening Journal has i'm
troduced a fypesett;ng machine into
its Office by which fully onc-half of
the matter on the paper is set. 1t is
said that the machine will do even bet
ter upon book type than newspaper
type.
Maj. Campbell Wallace, Railroad
Commissioned of Georgia, is over so
years old, but there are no flies on him.
He has lately become immensely
wealthy by buying stock in a land
company at IL cents aud holding it at
81 q share.
Public improvements now being
made along tho 1iber will presently
reach the ancient church of st. Bon
osa, in Rome, and it will then proba-
bly, DO asccrtaincd if. as tradition has
it, the remains of Cola di Ricnzi arc
really buried there.
On account of the stencil arising
from the millions of dead salmon liz
the McClOud river, says the Yrcka
(Cal.) Union, trout-fishing along that
stream is robbed of its charms. The
smell of the dccaying fish is attracting
bears by the wholesale.
Mrs. Clarissa Cox of Wakefield,
Mass, who recently rounded out 100
years of life in this vale of tears, was
asked the secret of her longevity.
..tlard work." said she; s.hard work
has always been good for me, and I've
always had plenty Of it to do"
It is not generally known that the
co-education of tho sexes is carried on
without limitations in the University
of Texas. The young men and young
women arc admitted to the same
classes in every department., and are
eligible to degrees aud honors without
exception.
One day recently Col. E. S. N. Briant
of Loganville, G., went to his we'll for
q bucket of water, and when he drew
it up he was surprised to SEQ an im-
mcnse spreading-adder snake as thick
as his arm. covering tho whole inside
of the bucket, with his head erect,
ready for business.
A Hartford man has invented an APP
paratus for timeing horses. A clock
with three hands-minute. second and
quarter seconds started by the Of
fetal timer. When the winning horse
touches the wire tho clock is stopped
by electricity. At the same instant
the current opens a camera, which
photographs the horse and clock face.
Phoebe Couzins, who is now United
States Marshal at ST. Louis. said to
President Hayes just after his inaugu-
ration that it was a pity that some
woman lawyer like herself was not the
Chief Justice who administered the