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

Ght 1m Springs Star.
HOT SPRINGS. s. D.
BENEDICT g. HANTORD. : PUBLISHERS.
The French army officers are now
all armed with revolvers; during the
wal Of 1870 they had none.
JOHN j. ZuILLE, a noted anti-sla-
very man, who helped 119 slaves to
gain their liberty, is still living in New
York City.
ROBERT J. BrRpETTE, the humorist,
has been acting as pastor of the Lower
Merton Baptist Church, neal Philadel-
phia, during the summer.
The country having the largest pro
portion of cultivated land is Denmark,
Russia having the smallest. The
United Kingdom has % per cent. of
land titled, against II untitled.
RICE BOYD, OF Un;ontown, Pa. has
been p%asturing his cattle on n $50, 0o0
coal field, never %snspecting its value.
He sold it to a sharp neighbor IL few
days ago for 5000, and the purchaser
disposed of it at once for 800, 600.
~1HE fact is noted that OF the LOGO
men in the Eastern Penitentiary OF
Pennsylvania, only nineteen were
bred mechanics. Industry and crime
are not natural allies, and the best
safeguard of youth is a good trade.
SAN Francisco, with a population
of about 400. 600, has only 100 church.
es, with q seating capacity of 100000
and an average attendance of $4,000.
The climate of San Francisco does not
seem to be conducive to ch%urchgoing.
Ex-QuEEN NATALIE, of Servia, in
tends to build IL mansion in Belgrade
and establish Il court Independent oi
the n already existing. a lively time
may be expected when the two fac
tions get to work plotting against each
other.
CHINESE railway building has come
to an end, because the French govern
ment insists upon the fultillment OF
the Tientsin treaty, by which France.
it was agreed, was to supply the per
sonnet and material of all Chinese
railroads.
PRoTHoNoTAEY CoL1NEK. of Clarion
County, Pa, has Il priced war relic in
the shape of IL sergcant's rcport-book
which saved his life. A mimic ball
struck the book and spent it's force.
though the blow was heavy enough to
knock the soldier down.
A SENSIBLE suggestion is made that
the movement to restore the monument
to the memory of Mary Washington.
the mother of the first President. shall
Include the purchase of ihc old house
in which she lived and died. 1t is Il
small house at Fredericksburg.
Mrs. SHERIDAN is living quietly will
her children in Washington in tho
beautiful home presented by Chicago
citizens to the General at the time Ii,
went to Washington to take commai,
of the army. She is dcvoting her lif,
to the rearing and educating of he
children.
The prize offered by the New Soutl
Wales Government for the cxtcrmina
ton of the rabbit pest has been with
drawn. No new modes of extermina
ton had been suggested. The rabbit
are also n terrible nuisance in Nov
Zealand, but are there kept under h,
the hawks.
A YOUNG lady from Caldwell. Ohio
created Il little scene in the tickle. Office
at GAINESVILLE the other day. She lai,
a late-improved siN-shooter on th'
counterand proceeded to search for he
pocket, then bought a ticket for Seat
tie, Wash, showed her gun in her pis
tol-pocket and departed.
The importation of American gam
into Austria has proved a big success
On the Danubian meadow forests o
Count Bremen 100 wild turkeys ant
thirty wapiki are marked for destruc
ton at the next big battue. On Prime,
Huniady's estates the American gam'
has increased so per cent.
The old saying that the man vii,
minds his own h%usincss will max,