The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-08-02
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
CLAUS ~SPREcKLEs, the sugar king
smokes cigars that cost 81 apiece.
ODDLY enough, it is the man of
loose habits who is the most likely to
get tight.
A YOUTH will never have his ways
mended by patronizing the sherry cob
bier too aften.
IT matters little how scientifically
the pitcher throws the ball. The UNI
pire is the power behind the thrown.
Mr.. PHuNNYMAN-If d word is q We
hicle Of thought what would be a vehi-
Gle Of love? Mrs. Phunnyman-I give
it up. MI. PA bus.
MAN is not the only victim of the
combination craze. Even ducks as
soon as they hatch their eggs start at
once to pool their issues.
A sTRoLL1NG italian musician in
Philadelphia has an improvement on
the monkey. Itisaparrot which sings
operate music in a soprano voice that
is heard for squares and then collects
coins from high windows. The bird
can fly where the monkey would fail to
reach.
The people of San Francisco expect
to find themselves ere long at the end
of an ocean cable, the other end of
which will be fastened at Hawaii. To
lay the wire, which must be 1850 miles
long, will cost, as estimated, 81, 500, 600,
and of this sum the Hawaiian govern
ment and people will furnish a third.
ONLY one city in the world has ever
undertaken by legal supervision to put
every house under positive and also
lutte sanitary control, and that is Bue-
nos Ayres, which is said to be growing
in population, if not in territorial area,
nearly as rapidly as Chicago. The
purpose is to have the sanitary arrange
ments completed within three years.
The consumption Of paper is enor-
NOUS in this country. There are 1000
paper and pulp mills at work the year
round. The newspapers and maya
zines consume vast quantities of it.
The Century company takes nearly
200 tons a month for its publications,
and its paper bill amounts to $500, 900
yearly. Harper & Bros. take $4,000
reams, Robert Bonner 10, 900
reams at a time. Two cheap literature
firms buy $500, 900 worth of paper q
year. One patent medicine firm buys
100000 worth of paper every year.
HE Scientific american tells us
that sugar, for centuries after it's intro
duction, was used only incidentally.
Even in the tenth century it seems to
have been unknown as an article of
diet. But the same was true of ardent
spirits. Alcohol in no form was used
as q drink in the middle ages. Our
foods and drinks Of today are almost
altogether recent inventions and dis
coveries. Our Sruits are new, or so
greatly improved as to be u~nrecogniz-
able; end the same is true of our
vegetables. Potatoes. and tomatoes
came into general use at a very recent
date. The probabilities are that an.
other ceSttry will place on our tables
Il a great Neal Of food produced directly
in the laboratory, as sugar is. and moi
a product Of natural growth.
CoSNECTIcUT has evolved a schem,
for the taxation of securities. It is es
tlmated that of about 800, 900, 900 o
; mortgages, bonds, notes and the like
in that state, only about Sl1, 900. OOi
are listed for taxation. The tax col
lectors have been wrestling with thu
question how to coax or drive these
evidences of wealth to. light. 4 new
idea has been hit upon. Tile state
proposes that any person bringing a
note or bond to the treasury and pay
ing 2 mills per year or more shall have
1t stamped free from taxation for the
Ftime paid for. The tax on such prop
eEty IN the regular way is from u t.
~ mills. state and municipal. 1t j
+. thought this scheme will unearth man
millions, as the risks of evading taxf
ton are great. 1t is believed, also, tina
many wealthy persons Will move int
CONNECTICUT to enjoy this comparative
" small rate of taxation.