The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-12-20
HOT SPRINGS. 9. D.

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BENEDICT g. HANFoRD. : PUBLISHERS.
EIGHT THOUSAND pounds of lead ore
in one chunk was taken from the DE
Graft mine ut Zincite, Mo-, the other
day.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN STEPHEN L. Will
SON, of Wellsboro, Pa, has built for
himself a granite tomb i'll shape of IL
log cabin.
A FRESNO (Cal.) woman threw q
celluloid cuff into the stove. Her hns-
band will have to pay $3.50 to repair
damage to the kitchen and TO get n
new stove.
The chief tlloroughfares and public
places of Rome are to he illuminated
with electric lights, the power for gen
Grating which is to he obtained from
the famous 1ivoli Falls.
KING LUIS of Portugal did not in all
his reign sign a single order for capital
punishment. He had conscientious
scruples against intlicting the death
penalty, and so succeeded in making it
practically obsolete in his dominions.
A WILD hog was shot recently at
Oak Hill, Cal, which weighed 500
pounds. 1t was snow-wlite anu had
tusks six inches long. A pound of
lead was found in his carcass, the result
of efforts of former hunters to kill him.
In certain districts of Washington
the street numbers are badly mixed
mp. 1t is said that when the colored
people move, as they frequently do,
they generally take the door number
with them and put it on their new
house.
A NEw use has been found for the
coal dust formerly gone to waste
around mines. The dust is sminklcd
with pitch and pressed into brickcts
that will burn like coal except that
there. will he no clinkcrs and the
brickets will burn to ashes.
THE attention of landladies is called
to the fact that a whole family in an
ISr,% SAat, 1,-. H.. .L- H.
eating oatmeal and milk for breakfast,
and that people who flemish food that
is poisonous to unsuspecting boaNlers
are liable to he indicted for murder.
PRINCE GEORGE OF WALES COM
manded a torpedo boat during the re-
cent British naval m%ancuvcrs. When
ut last the pennant was hauled down,
he personally thanked and shook hands
with every member of the crew, and
gave to each his photograph and IL SOW
ereign.
In a well-known gambling house in
New York two hands are nailed mp
over the mantels. They are the six.
seven, eight, nine, and ten of din-
monds and the same i'll spades. These
two hands came together. and caused
the division of n small fortune between
the holders.
THAT fierce Apache, Geronimo. who
...-1 - MIA ,
Alabama, has learned to play the ban
10. His guard has less trouble i'm pre-
venting his running away than in keep
ing him from getting drunk. The saw
age vagabond browns his grief in rum
ut every opportunity.
The London %lightermcn helped the
dockmen, when the latter were on the
strike add usted but Il few weeks ago
Now the lightermen propose to strike
and the dockmcn will probably go out
That is the way it goes, and woMel
and children must go hungry because
of this wretched sense of obligation.
FROM the tabulated returns Jus
compiled i'll the Office of the State Su
p~erintendent of Public Instruction j
has been ascertained that the tota
number of trees planted on -Arbor Da,
in the school districts throughout Mas
~sachusetts, outside of the cities, wa,
"a ,166. These were all planted OF
school grounds.
JOHN w. McCLELLANp,of L.inganorc
Frederick County, Md, has succeeded
in carving a wagon out of a walnu
block % inches long and SN 10 square
He cut the running-g ear, tongue
chains, single-trces, doublc-trce, stay
chains, rulpbers and wheels all CON
pletc, and the whole works as any othc
wagon and cannot be taken apart. III
says he values it Mt $1,000.
AN American orator. ut II dinner a
the Grand Hotel in London. recent
made use of the following metaphor i
his speech: Let the Russian bea
put his paw upon the fair land of Ans