The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-03-14
Purely 1(iscellaneous.

TITS said that the French ceyernment
has not to . pass whore II will soon haye to
borrow largely.
THE house Of commons IL now lichted
by electric light for the first time.
AT Johnstown : Hungarian was thrown
headlong from . fast train, and, gathering
himself mp, he started aitor the train to Sc.
cure his dinner-pail.
IT is said that the English authorities
are still In pursuit Of Jack the Ripper. and
that one OF the best known Of their dectect.
i've inspectors devotes his whole time to the
cnse.
In tho villages Of Northamptonehire a
fund has been started from which to nav 4
pence per dozen for the heads of sparrows,
whose damage to the crops has become un-
bearable.
MEDDYBEMPs, Me-, boasts Of q six
year-old boy who spelled over four hun.
dred words on examination day without
missing one. Evidently the spelling book
is not neglected in that school.
Phillip WEST broke into the house of
Antonio Gillepi, at Wilkesbarre, on Satur-
day night and stole $3.50. Gillepi jumped
out of the window in his nightclothes and
captured the thief three niles away.
STEAM surface cars, or dummies, are
used by the street railroad companies Of
Birmingham, and last year they carried
$4,000, 600 passengers with only two fatal
and forty-one minor accidents.
HE theme of the Japanese national an.
them as recently rendered into English is:
ION that the reign of our emperor might
;continne for thousands and thousands Of
years-until oyster shells become rocks"
COMPLAINT is made that the craze for
natural flowers, ferns and rare plants gen-
orally is leading to the destruction of the
british hedge rows, and q Law is proposed
to make 1t O misdemeanor to steal flowers
or t1igs.
ALocoMoTIvE on the Atlantic & Pa
: cific railroad was run q long distance a few
days ago without q smokestack, q barrel
being substituted. The engi1 eer says all
he needs to pull a train is a steam chest, a
pair OF driving wheels and q fireman.
THERE is e new Eifel tower on the
banks Of the Neva, near st. Petersburg,
constructed entirely of 10000 blocks OF
ice, with restaurants, observation plat
forms and other attractions. 1t is $50 feet
high.
A LARGE English railway company has
increased its pay roll between go, 900 and
100000 per year because it believed that
The increased traffic of the line justified
the payment of higher wages to the men.
1T IS alleged that the falsif cation Of
English coins by clipping aud counterfeit
ing has gone to q greater extent during the
last few years than for a long time before,
and that things have come to such a pass
that it isn't safe to accept certain coins
at all.
The theater which the authorities Of the
University of Pennsylvania have decided
to erect will be used for oil public lectures
given under the auspices of the university,
for concerts and for the performances OF
classical music. 1t will cost $75, 600, ant
the organ which will be constructed abou
1926, 5000.
IN Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri you col
bore a hole in a stick of frewood, plug i
up after filling with powder and leave j
where a thief may get it and blow hi
house up. These are the only three states
however. All the others have laws maxim,
such a thing a misdelneanor.