The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-14
GENERAL AND PERSONAL.

BEAR and wolf shooting has been first
GLASS all winter in Austria aud Hungary.
A s1x-YEAR-oLD OK that weighed 2, 1855
pounds was sold in Parkersburg the other
day.
MICHIGAN has seventy. eight furniture
factories, half of which are in Grand Rap
ids. N"p'
A FLOCK of wild swans was seen In a
flckaway county, O., swamp the other day.
HEREAFTER Australia is to make the
ammunition for her army. which hitherto
has all come from England.
THERE are twenty miles of good solid
ICE between Stuyvesant and a point two
miles south of Albany on the Hudson.
IT is reported at Savannah that the
dreaded biack-head bug or worm is Great
Ing great havoc in the turpentine forests,
and the crop of naval stores will be consid-
erably reduced.
The London authorities have put a stop
to the holding of lotteries for the benefit
OF charitable institutions, VIII .ch have here.
tofore been winked at when quietly con-
Quoted.
SIR ARTHUR B1AcKwooD, secretary of
the British postofice department. al n re-
cent public dinner made q speech. in which
ne regretted that, whereas England was
once 1oremos in the efficiency of its postal
arrangements, it had now been left in the
rear by several other countries.
Two years ago it cost the Boston &
Maine railroad 500, 600 to keep it's tracks
Clear. This winter the snow pillow has not
made o single trip.
IT cost the state of Massachusetts $685.
5uS.S1to be represented in New York at
the centennial celebration of the inauoura.
ton Of George Washington.
4 NOVEL flower has been found II inc
lthmus Of Tehuantepeo. This floral
chameleon has a faculty of changing tia
eo!ofs during the day. In the morninp
II Is white, when the sun is at it's zenith L
Is red and at night it is blue. The red.
white and blue flower grows on a tree
ABOUT the size OF the guava tree and only at
noon does 1t give out any perfume.
a POLICE inspector named Meune has
just been tried in Paris for obtaining
money under false pretenses. His princie
pal victims were people seeking divorces.
10 the husbands he said that he was
Watching their wives, while he invariably
warned the women Of the proceedings
which were about to be instituted against
tnem and thus cleyerly worked for awhile
both sides.
R and Vienna dress makers an.
nounce that they will no longer follow the
rarls fashions. They intend hencePorth
TO exercise their own originality, which,
N view OF the well-known lack Of taste Of
German danes, will be something fearful
and wonderful to look upon.
denunciation of the Fion,,o
Interview" causes much amusement in
faris TO all except the Figaro. The whole
article was an impudent invention.
MY thirty Yale men are training for
positions on the university eight. Exciud-
ing those training for other branches Of
athletics, about one thousand men are left
who have nothing to do but study.
AN English scientific man claims to have
discovered q. substance so nearly like ooid
that even acid will pot.arnish il. and whicI.
can be manufactured very cheaply, He Il
going to put it on the market.
pn. EDWARD EaaIrsros aaarns that
M y ~ spanion there is not 9 single Ameri-
ont Of hiy books.