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The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
Ind the boxing may be made more or
less costly; but even with these added
it will be seen that the profit on the
higher grade of cigars is immense.

A BURGLAR in Bondy, France, got
into the rooms of two men while thew
We're absent, and. fastening the door
from the inside, prevented them from
getting in when they came back unex-
pectcdly. The police sent for the vii
lage locksmith. hut he. very strangely,
could not he found, so they burst open
the door just as the burglar got upon
the roof of the building. He was seer
and. pursued down to the street and
into a canal. The shock of the cold
bath made him unconscious, and he
died in a short time. When they had
washed from his face the black Will,
which he had disguised himself the
riddle of the village locksmith's where
abouts was solved. He was the bur-
glar himself.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
Change q Reeu..

sYou will have to give me another
room, 1 guess said . Congressman to
the hotel clerk.
Whats the matter? aren't Won
comfortable where you are?"
We'll, not exactly. That German
musician in the next room and I don't
get along well. Last night he footed
away on his clarionet 30 that I thought
: never would get to sleep. After I
had caught few winks Twas awakened
BY q pounding on my door. What's
the matterY I asked. OF You blease,'
said the German, dot You would
schnore Of the same key. You vas 20
from B fat to g, md II schpoils der
moosic.' Poet.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
He Mashed a Hat.

Along about the middle of the coach
was a young lady, not a beautiful girl.
but just ordinary, although she had a
very jaunt.y hat and a sealskin sacque.
A young man got on at CASTLE, who
stood at the door and looked the pas.
sengers over for a minute or two, and
lie then walked deliberately down the
aisle and pumped himself down beside
the girl. AS he did so there was a
crash and n crush, and he sprang up to
discover that lie had sat down upon a
bandboN and mashed it fat.
I'm so sorry-so sorry!" lie STAN
mered as he turned all sorts of colors.
"Mister mani" she replied as she in
spected the ruin. shave You got S12 in
cash about you?"
.W-what! l really beg your pardon.
Fork Overt" she interrupted, hold
ing out her hand.
"Twelve dollars"
Exactly. You have mashed a sl2
bonnet, and l want the money"
But. miss-but-"
MY brother Bill is forward in the
smoking car, and if you don't pay Ill
call him! There's nothing cheap shout
Bill. He'll knock 500 worth of jaw off
Your chin before lie gets through with
You"
"Ill pay, miss"
"That's business. Fifteen dollars,
ell? Twelve from fifteen leaves three,
and here's the change and the hat.
Next. time YOU go to kerplunk down
beside anybody look out for breakers
II beg to apologize, miss" he re-
piled.
ooh, you needn't; yon got off cheap.
If you hadn't smashed the Int I'd have
pulled s25 worth of hair out of your
head anyhow"
Everybody felt sorry for the man.
He got into a seat Mt the end of the
a closed himself up like a iackknife,
and every time the door opened what
We could see of him turned pale 70,
fear it was her brother Bill.-Neu
York sam.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

In 1857. William Parker. a Liver
pool sailor. aged twcnty-six, accom-
panied by his Young wife and two chill
dr.en, took passage on the packet ship
William and Mary. bound for Montreal.
n short time after the steamer left the
Merscy. Parker, who was on the spar
deck leaning ovcr the rail, lost his bal
nee and tumbled into the sea. Par
ker was swept astcrn and given up for
lost. The widow continued her VOYAGE,
finally settling down in the vicinity of
Montreal, and, soon finding an adj
mirer, married again. The second mar
liagc was disturbed the other day by
the sudden appearance OF Parker, who
it seems. had been picked up by u
Portuguese merchantmen bound for
South America, and, arriving in that
country, resolved to seek his fortune
before joining his family.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

are fiat braided. The sleeves are
shapely and are finished to initiate
cuffs closed with two buttons. The
trousers for this and all other half-dress
suits average nineteen inches at knee
and seventeen and one-half to eighteen
at the bottom. They have a slight
spring.
The next illustration shows a low.
roll sack suit the material of which is
q striped cheviot. The collars and
lapels are one and one-half inches wide
and the fronts are cut with quite a
curve from top to lower button. They
are finished soft. The trousers with
this suit average nineteen and one-half
inches at the knee and eighteen at the
bottom, and the side-seams are finished
with q welt.
In the figure represented following
this the overcoat is a soft diagonal
cheviot, the coat and vest o medium
vale worsted, and the %pantaloons q
striped trousering.
The overcoat is an accurate repre-.
~sentation of a lightweight overcoat TO,
the current season, thrown open.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

were not coiled, but were only straight
pieces of steel. Soon afterward the fusee
was invented, connected with a coiled
handspring in o barrel. This was fast
ened to a piece Of catgut, which was
wound around u spiral grooved fusee in
the shape of q cone. The last coils were
around the small end of the cone. thus
presenting in the running of the watch
Che least leverage to the greatest force of
the spring. As the cone was unwound,
the leverage changed in proportion to the
force of the spring. This made it possi-
BILE to attain considerable accuracy in
the running of the watch. A small linked
chain was soon substituted for the cat
manned until comparatively recent times.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

material in the Worlds Fair city, and
out of their wisdom the following
facts were evolved:
In the first place mems clothes, as a
whole, if they are to be really chic,
will show the softest possible finish,
coats will display low openings and
ample sleeves, vests will follow this
;orm, and trousers will sit moderately
close to the leg as to the upper works,
and will exhibit a moderate spring at
the bottom.
In ~overcoats the Chesterfield or fly
front oversack will be much more worn
than any other style. 1t will be made
from worsteds and almost all styles of
soft overcoatings, and will be of me-
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

with enameled colors. There was one
exception to the gr%otesque forms which
went out of fashion in the seventeenth
century, and that was in the case of
watches made i'll the form of a cross and
intended to be hung by a ring to the
gildle.
watches, but for no good reason. One
that in one of the halls at Oxford there
is the figure of n female who is said 10
have been the first wearer of a watch.
No one seems to know what her name
was or when she lived.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

and the compiacent court went into
mourning OH a most g%rievous scale.
Rings were made in the form of skele.
tons, collins of gold contained chased
and enameled figures of death, and
watches were made in the form of skulls.
These were worn as ornaments, and are a
fair sample of the extremes to which
fashion will sometimes go.
Eariy i'll the seventeenth century oil
these strange forms passed out. The
watch-makers succeeded i'll making the
watches more compact and they assumed
substantially their present form, except
that in order to protect tho key-hole they
We're surrounded by a large silver case.
This gave them the shape of the fiat
turnip ind the popular voice irreyerently
case was usually the repository of sundry
yersos and devices-tokens Of love or
friendship-which, although generally
printed OIL satin, or more frequently
worked with the needle, were always
designated watch papers. Sometimes
they wero poetical conceits like the fol-
lowing:
Time is-tlle present moment well employ;
Time wns-is pnst thou canst moi it enjoy;
Time future is not md may never he;
Time PRESENTS The only time for thee.
The French were tho first to introduce
judicious improvements i'll weight and
Charles L., having Leen presented to him
by Louis MIL, was of an oval shape, two
inches by one and a half on the face, and
an inch thick. The back is chased in
high relief with n figure of st. George
conquering the dragon. The motto Of
the Garter, "Honi soft qui NAL Y pense, "
surrounds the case, which is enriched
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

HE question as to
how q maj, shall.
dress himself is east
er asked than an
swered. There are
certain cunons of
taste which override
all fashions, and to
these he must APP
peal who would be
really and truly .
well.dressed man. A
Chicago Times re-
porter recently vis-
tied q number of the
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

~
watch, and if men have lived las some
scientists claim) for 100000 years, then
how singular the fact that for $4,000
years of that time no one ever had Il watch.
OF course the watch grew out of the
precedent use of the clock, aud it was
about GOO years between the first clock
and the first watch. That is as closely as
one can estimate dates when the precise
year of either invention is unknown.
The invention of the clock is generally
ascribed to the monk Gerbelt. who was
afterward raised to the tiara. under the
name of Pope Sylvester III. The first
clocks were cumbrous things, calculated
only to be hung to the wall, and worked
with cords and weights. For a long time
they were only used i'll converts and
monasteries, where they helped to make
miserable the lives of the inmates. 9th
ers say that the invention of the clock
was duo 10 the Saracens. However, it
was invented mud for q long time was
made i'll such n large and cumbrous form
that no one thought of reducing 1t to
pocket size. Some time in the fourteenth
century the escapement was introduced
in what is known as DE Wyck's clock
This allowed of reduction in size, but it
seems to have taken 100 years more for
b idea to have gotten into mems minds
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
What Kept Them I'm.
er-How much be them pants

Farmer-How much be them pants,
anyway?
"Yes, same old price. 'Taters worth
half what they uster be; corn 'wny
down to notlin': oats down, butter
down, eggs down-I'd like to know, by
gol! what keeps pants 'wayup, bub."
4Suspenders, perhaps"
The old man went out, muttering
something about he guessed twas
safety pins. p'r'aps. in some cases.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
Kind.Hearted.

Mrs. simkins has just heard that
her husband has been drawn to serve
on o jury.
jury!" exclaimedM Mrs. Simkins. sWell,
all I can say is that I congratulate the
criminals."
sWhy, Mrs. simkins? h your hus.
band o very merciful MANI
@Merciful? Why, John Simkini
wouldn't hang a pictur'. much less 4
door. unless he was jest made tor
Youths Companion.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

SAYS an English newspaper: alt
would be interesting TO know how
many Waterloo veterans are still i'm the
land of the living. In'the new edition
of Harris Army List there arc some
half dozen names, but of these three
only can he ut once verified as still
living, namely, Lord Alhemarle, Gen.
Wichcotc. and Col. William Hewett."
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

and The form, though IL shapen sng
gested, is fitted loosely. The collar
and lapels are light, tho roll averages
four and . half inches IN length, and
the edges are double-stitched moderate
y wide. The pockets have flaps to 60
In or out, and the sleeves. which are
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

Now for the special and particular de-
tails out Of which these results are to
be achieved. The first cut shows the
covert coat. The material represented
is o covert o~vercoating. The length
for Q man Of average height, Ave feet
eight inches, IL thirty.fonr inches. The
back 10 cut whole. with nearly straight
side-seams that are 6uisbed With VENT,
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

THE peculiar odor of Russia leather
which makes it im%pregnable TO the
ravages of insects. arises from the en-
ploymcnt of an oil obtained by the dry
distillation Of the bark of the birch
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

The story of the discovery of a gold
mineo of astonishing riches in China is
supported by many specifications. The
gold-bearing quartz is reported to be
on a peninsula across the Corean Sea
from the Peninsula of Corca. and Iii
rectly west. The mountains are very
PERCEPTIONS. and the o%utcroppings of
rocks rich in gold have been traced for
sixty miles.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

Russell SAGE, who makes a hearty
meal off a piece OF gingerbread and
an apple, is said to have subscribed
100000 to the funds of a church he
attends.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
HISTORY OF THE WATCH.
IT DATES BACK A FEW HUNDRED
YEARS.

First Clocks We're Cunnrou. Things,
and for . Long Time Were Only Used In
Converts and Misunderstanding Queer
Old Watches.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

TIE costliest cigar smoked in New
York is said to he IL Havana Henry
Clay, which is usually sold wrapped
in gold or silver foil and which costs
sl.25 apiece Mt retail. AS 10 the cost
of manufacture of such a cigara manu-
facturer says that it is wholly impossi-
bile to make a cigar whose actual cost,
with the use of the choicest and most
costly material throughout, a exceed
25 cents. The cigar retailed in the
market for 81 costs the manufacturer
about 10 cents. There is q small
added item of expense in stamping.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

Ar the present time the colorea peo-
pie control about one hundred wee xiv
newspapers. which have an aggregate
average circulation of :'oO, 900 copies.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

UNTIL the recent throwing open to
settlement of the great Sioux reserva-
ton in South Dakota. that vast tract of
"a, 900, 600 acres was inhabited exclu-
sively by 10000 Indians. there then
leing more than LOCO acres for every
man, woman and child in the tribe.
The reservation has long been of little
account as hunting grounds, and the
chief effect of keeping it closed has
been to'give the wilder Indians an OPP
portunity to shut themselves away
from civilizing influences. For the
land relinquished the Indians will re-
ceive $40, 800, OOn, and every Indian
family that chooses to accept it will Inc
entitled to a farm of 800 acres and tools
with which to work it.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

The outburst Of. hitherto patient
boarder: Mrs. 6tervem, / can stand
having hash every dayin the week, bnt
when ON Sunday yon put raisins IN II
and call il mince pie, 1draw line.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

A YOUNG oma who was married in
Stokes County, North Carolina, Il few
days ago, discovered that her husband
had taken a drink of whisky just he
fore marriage. She was an ardent
temperance woman and believed her
lover to be II t~cetotaler. Finding that
she had been deceived she refused to
live with him.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

Or General Shcridan's children a
Washington correspondent writes: All.
three are pupils of the Convent of Nisi-
tation. on Connecticut avenue. They
are day scholars, living in retircmcn.
with their mother in their plain, luici
home on Rhode Island avenue. Mary.
the eldest. is about fourteen. and re-
semlles her father. both in face and
figure. The twins. Louise and Irene.
are twelve wears old, and look very
much like Mrs. Sheridan. They are
dressed i'm plain black frocks and coats
so exactly alike that their hest friends
cannot tell them apart. They wear
their brown hair in Il l%emi-lcmgth that
admits "i neither plait nor curl. They
have the pretty convcnt-bred manner
of paying instant attention when
spoken to. and are as sciious as little
nuns. l'nt there is IL naive originality
about them that is charming.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

the same material as the coat, or of
any fancy vesting, and the trousers
may be of any style of striped. check
ed or plain %tronsering.
Early in the season the double-breast-
ed sack will, perhaps, be more worn
than the other styles. It has quite a
number of good points to recommend
it. It can be worn without an over
coat, it is very dressy when silk faced,
and it is very becoming to a good
figure.
So much for the general effect to
he produced by the new years clothes.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

A GENTLEMAN at Poona Indiao re-
Gently received Il letter that had been
posted ut a station twenty miles away
two a and four months before. ac-
companied by the explanation from the
postal authorities that the delay was
owing to the fact that it had been
posted by the wrong train Instead
of being grateful for the explanation lie
is mean enough to %insinuate that the
train the letter got on must have had
an uncommonly long run.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

something naughty, and, the nursery
door being open, we overheard the fol
lowing:
aLet's swear" proposed John, the
elder.
.Well. 1etll," lisped wee Charlie.
$50 ahead" said John, encourag-
sYou thwear firtht," replied Charlie.
A moments hesitation and John re-
sponded, emphatically:
II swear!n
"Iho do T." asserted Charlie, sol,
emily.
And that evening before saying their
prayers the little sinners penitently
confessed that they @has sweared" in
the morning.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

a LAwyER in Pennsylvania was
hadgering II woman during the cross
examination, when she charged him
with having e N his father TO the poor
house, robbed his mother and deserted
his first wife, and the lawyer grew so
quiet that a pin could have been heard
to drop.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

TIME was when hanged men-men
who had been legally dropped through
traps with ropes about their necks-
walked around in Ireland in consiuera-
BILE numbers, alive and we'll. They
were esteemed by their neighbors as
persons OF distinction, for no Irishman
can help honoring anybody who has
cheated the law under any circnmstan-
ces. says the San Francisco -lygoMaut.
The finger of pride points out these
rescued malefactors to strangers. and
usually they died a happy Irish death
from the offerings of whisky made
them by their multitudes of admirers.
These hanged men escaped justice
through the connivance of the Sheriff,
who for 81 consideration allowed the
friends of the condemned to stand
under the gallows. catch the criminal
as he fell, and hold him up until i'll
due time the slack rope vas cut. The
| hero of the hour was then borne home
in his coffin. and the neighborhood
went upon a rejoicing spree.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

HE use of the watch
has become so COM
mon, and people are
$50 accustomed to
take note of time by
t he pieces which
thcy carry i'll their
pocketsthat they are
apt to forget how re-
cent an invention it
was The first watch
was not W e ant
years old whe IL
America was discov-
cred. The great
mass of the human
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
HOT SPRINGS. 8. D,
BENEDICT & HANroRD. . ruDIrsHrr

Two HUNDRED m in Colby, Kan,
have demanded of the Council that the
paint lie removed from the windows of
billiard halls.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

A NEW YORK shoemaker suggests
that if men would adopt the English
fashion of keeping boots OH trees they
would get ten times the wear of
them. When the shoes are taken off
they should be put on II tree at III
The leather is stretched to it's full cx-
tent then, and all the wrinkles s,mootllcd
away. There is no chance for the
leather to crack, as it does if the
leather is allowed to remain in one
condition long.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
They SwOre.

9FRlEND OF mine
: has two little
sons, aged respec-
lively three and
five years. They
have been most
carefully trained.
q n d especially
W o e d q n d
guarded against
profanity. B u I
one day the little
fellows arose feel
ing irresistibly
impelled t o d Q
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

ONE of the best shooting territories
in this country east of the Rocky
Mountains is found in and near the
Okitinokee Swamp, which covers IL
large area in Charlton. Ware and
Clinch counties. Georgia, and Baker
County, Fla. 1t includes numerous
lakes. the haunt of wild fowl. and
forests of timber. the abode of large
and small game in great %prufusion.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

TENNysoN wrote not long ago in a
letter, sent on the occasion of the sud-
den death of n Methodist minister on
his way to chapel in the Isle of Wight /:
Il cannot but look upon his death as a
happy one sudden. painless. while he
was on his way to his chapel to render
thanks and praise to his Maker. Our
liturgy prays against sudden death
but ! myself could pray for such {:
death as Isaac Porter's."
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

How FEW people are blessed with
presence of mind when danger threat
ems. n lamp eNplodcs: five ont OF six
RIM screaming from the vicinity. leav-
ing it to do it's deadly work unchecked I:
the sixth snatclies up a WOODEN shawl
or blanket and smotllers the flames.
A woman faints in a public place. \.
struggling, suffocating crowd presses
about. Suddenly three OF four in tho
crowd begin to exclaim. Stand
back! Give her air." l,nt not one of
them makes n move to stand back him
self. and the crowd gathers more and
more closely. until some one with the
gift of leadership m to the rescue.
The wheels of a carriage become in
tcrlock with those OF IL heavy wagon.
The horses are terrified and FESTIVE:
an accident seem imminent when Il
man cries. to the one next him. .:Help
me lift the carriage %clear!" In the
flash of an eye it is done and the peril
avcrtcd. Leadership lies in thought
cultivate it. Won who can.