The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-02-28
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AIsSl - CA1I1RRItE Smiley, q Salt
~ tovnship. MuskinRum county, Ohio,
6ahaae md hsartysG. Ne age Of one hund-
sm wn;IrAx GULL the eminent
40. had little faith in drugs, ana didn't
hesitate 70 say 90.
Two centenarians living In the Heighbor-
hood'of Alton, England, have been great
smoker and moderate drinkers all their
Hives.
AuNr MARY F1AREIrY, Of Jonesboro,
Me-, aged n~inety.one, has solved the
servant girl problem. She refuses to have
help aud does her own work.
TwENTY.oNE tramps met In Decatur,
Neb., and ordered meals at o restaurant.
After they had eaten they compelled the
proprietor to accept 10 cents as payment
In full.
ALoSDoN confectionery store gives to
every purchaser Of o shillinp's worth q
ticket emitting the purchaser to have one
photograph OF herself taken ct an estab.
lishment Upstairs.
A QUANTITY Of fish shipped to Reading
from Maryland we're found to be alive
when unpacked, and when thrown into q
tank Of water darted around as lively as
ever.
TIE chain gang OF Bibb county, Ca, is
eighty three strong. Tue convicts are di.
vided into two squads, and the public roads
OF that county are classed among the best
In Georgia.
The largest shaft in Africa has Just been
opened in the Kimberly diamond fields. It
measures twenty three feet three inches by
seven nine inches and Is to be- 1000 feet
deep.
AN Anglo-Roman company has UNDER
taken o contract to light Rome by electric.
ity. The plant is to be set up at Tivoli, 1t
is said, aud power supplied by water there,
the current then being transmitted by over.
head wires to the city itself, and through
: out the city by overhead wires for public
lighting, and by subways for lighting Of
public houses.
MANY o clergyman who can preach q
capital sermon is very unhappy es o speaker
out Of the pulpit. The Philadelphia Times
has heard Of q clergyman whose duty il
was to introduce to an audience a missions
airy from Ceylon aud did SO as follows;
"This faithful missionary of the cross
comes from Ceylon, o land where, as you
all know, every prospect plelses and only
man Is vile.'"
In a court at Drogheda, Ireland, a Mr..
Kenny, being sued for rent due on a house
that he had leased. pleaded that his wife
had been frightened by q ghost that ap-
peared at their bed and threw something
upon them during the night, and that the
place was on that account uninhabitable.
The court held that the fact that a house
was haunted was no defense in such a suit,
and gave u verdict for the plaintiff.
NEW YORK receives more than o~ne-third
OF the merchandise exported from Bahia,
Brazil, but in return it furnishes only a
million and o half out Of a total importa-
ton of thirteen and a half millions. Eng
land, France and Germany supply the rest.
From this country -four, kerosene, lard,
rope everything else is shipped, even to
Christmas trees.
JAMES COLLINS, who lives near Gales
burg, ILL.,, while seatching for hogs in the
woods Tuesday, noticed bees flying around
alarge sycamore tree. Securing help, he
chopped the tree down. As surmised, it
turned out to be q bee tree Of the richest
kind. 1t was q mere shell. and when il
struck the frozen ground split open, show
ing a section of honey thirty feet long. In
all he secured l,1O0 pounds. Mr.. Collins
thought the bees would have filled q large
barrel, but he had no way of hiving them.
Anoy in the employ of the Lincoln Dis
trict Telegraph company, at Lincoln, Neb.,
stands out somewhat conspicuously. Hav.
ing been sent to the depot with a message
for q gentleman about to leave on Q
train, he arrived just as the train was pull.
ing out. He did not propose, however, to
lose his man, so jumping on the rear cal
he pulled the bell rope, stopped the train,
found his man and got off the train while
the brakeman was looking for the cause
Of the alarm.