The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-08-16

W.. E. BENEDICT. PuBLIsHER.
THE Princess Imperial OF Brazil has
organized a corps of negro troops
whose office it is to act as an imperial
guard.
a ScoTcHMAN. who evidently does
not despisc small things, claims TINT
he has detected 100000 dust notes in
the tliousnndth part of a cubic inch of
the air of u room.
JERUSALEM is growing fast in popula-
ton, owing to the large number OF Jews
fiocking thither. They now number
10000 more than the combined Moslem
and Christian population.
The Eastern Press is continually To-
ferring to the newspapers ont this way
as provincial. Yet New York paper
printed Il rcd, white and blue issue ON
the Fourth. So did an Oshkosh
paper.
A WELL of so-called electrical water
has been tapped at Fort Scott. Kan.
To place both hands i'm the water ut the
same time is utterly impossible. The
shock is so forcible that it throws one
aside with vigor.
a RECENT investigation proved that
Ill the course OF twcnty-four hours one
hundred and eleven thousand eight
hundred and sevcntv-threc foot pas
sengers crossed London Bridge. and in
addition forty-tive thousand vehicles,
containing an average of three persons
each.
WHEN the Seminole Indians of Iflori-
da elect Il chief they choose the biggest
fighter and most successful hunter of
the tribe. III there happens TO he q. tie
between two candidates. their method
OF deciding it is to have each candidate
place n live coal on his wrist. The one
who f~iincllcs first loses the Office.
Algeria is suffering from II plague of
~locnsts. and the soldiers are employed
to destroy them. At l.ctif nearly 500
soldiers were lately engaged in this
work. N. Scdrnta II long line of fires
was kept up to prevent an invasion.
but the fuel was exhausted before the
mass of invaders. which had an I'M
broken front of siN miles.
SOME papers do not like The En-
glish habit Of emitting the mrticle THE"
before the names of yachts. especially
III the case of yachts named after wom-
en-. The omission doe. seem unfortun-
ate when it makes such statements as
these possible: Cora proved SLOW in
her STAYS" "Gricic ran her nose i'm
the mud" and Alice carecMca and
staggered under her heavy load"
PETER LANG. 10! wear; OF age. has
gust been admitted To church memhc,,-
ship in Elgin. Scotland. .Apropos to
this incident the Hartford Courant
says: Bishop Asbnrv. in his Jour
mails, speaks of exhorting Il man over a
hundred wears old to give his heart to.
God ON the ground that he had very
little time left. The man answered.
But my father lived to b~ lo9.'"
NiEiiE is i'll the civilized world an
average of one deaf mute la every Leo
of the population: in other words. iher:.
are nj least l.OOU. ono of this afflicted
class. In the United States there are
$4,000: in Great Britain. 100000: in
Germany. y. uoD: i'm France. 30. 900:
IN Sweden. 1000: in Norway, l.l0o: in
Denmark, 1000: i'm Holland. 2.3uO: and
in Switzerland tlle country above all
others where deafness is prcvalcntI
10000.
AMONG the Hindoos there are some
castles near Almedabad. i'm which
widow marriages are allowed. and a
girl can he given i'll second marriage
without the %rninous expense considered
necessary on the occasion of IL first alli-
ance. The parents. therefore. some
times marry Il girl 10 bunch of flowers,
which is afterward thrown down n we'll.
The husband is then said to be dead.
and the girl, as II widow. can he mar
licd Mt moderate cost.
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Miss OLIVE R1sLEY SEWARD, the
adopted daughter of Lincoln's Secre-
tarv of State. lives on PENNSYLVANIA
emu Washington. i'll IL house l,r-
chased for her from the proceeds OF
the sale of Stewards "Travcls Around
the World" which she edited. MIR.
Seward presented her with the copy
right of The book. besides leaving her Il
share of his property. Miss Seward is
writer of cllildrcn's stories, which re-
late chiefly to her travels.
APPLICATION las been made for ii