The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-04-11
Things Here and There.

aHHI.. AuluSS l1CtC anu 1lNCICs
The London county counsel have cut out
from their theatrical license bill the pro-
vision requiring each actor to take out a
license.
THE Ventura county, California, papers
are urging their readers to plant camphor
trees. They are said to grow as rapidly as
the eucalyptus.
ONLY II per cent. of the population of
Russia can read and write. The number
of primary schools is $4,000 for the popu-
lation Of 100, 900, 900.
Mrs. WOOD, of Kennebunk, Me-, had !
been lam all her life. but she fell down
stairs in a barn the other day, and since
then has walked as we'll as anybody.
THE French army authorities are con-
sidering the adoption of a helmet Of one
design for the entire army except the cav
airy, and models have been invited from
the leading hatmakers.
Mis-. ELIZA PORTER, a young lady of
West Virginia, owns a saw and grist mill
Oh Camp Creek, Boone county, which she
onducts herself, and she is laying the
foundations Of a fortune.
Boston is soon to receive a handsome
addition to her art treasures in seven
sculptural blocks of red syenite granite,
which have been sent by Rev. William C..
Williams, Of the Egyptian exploration
fund. ..
HUGE squash that has been exhibited
in an Auburn, Me-, store window for sew
eral months, being cut open, it was found
that the seeds had commenced to sprout,
and there we're q number of well-formed
leaves.
ARABELLA GODDARD, once a famous
pianist, has been discovered recently in ex-
IRENE poverty in London, aud a benefit
concert for her has realized So, 500, which.
with other contributions, makes a total of
$4,000.
SINCE the eldest woman of Vienna died
a short TIM ago q most animated COMPETE
ton has been In progress for recognition
as her successor, This competition shows
that the Austrian capital has several
women over 100.
CALHOUN, in Illinois, is the banner
county of the union. There is not within
it a railroad, telegraph, bank or express
Office. The county Jail has not had an in
mate for five years and the courts rarely
have any lawsuits to settle.
The news comes from Teheran that the
shah has affianced to his youngest daugh-
ter, the little page who was his constant
companion during his recent European
trip, and the nature of whose relations to
his master was something of a mystery.
THE problem of whether kaugaroos can
be aec!imatized seems to have been settled
at Tring park, London, where they are
being successfully raised. The secret was
in letting them run wild, instead Of keep
ing them in pens, as had heretofore been
dene. ~
ONE farmer, of Big Bend, Wash, lost
all his stock except One COW. He, keeps
her alive by feeding her on flour. A mail
carrier from that country reached Walla
Walla recently and said he did not believe
there were 100 head left in the whole coun-
try.
CHARLES MCRoBERTs and wife, who
lived two miles south of Worthwhile, Pa,
we're born Saturday. married on Saturday,
ce' ebiated their golden wedding on Satur-
day. took their last sickness on Saturday,
and died last Saturday. Sunday they we're
buried in one grave.
OK February 12James Barton, of Spring.
port, Jackson county, Pa, died, leaving a
widow and seven children. Saturday the
administrator, while looking through Bar
tons safe. found $4,000 III moidy bills,
which had been secreted years ago. The
bills are good and will go.
DETROIT is to hold its second annual
floral and musical charity festival April
| GS-ED. lWeDlS -tuIec CuhIltltS Will Ee
represented, each by n booth built in the
architecture of the country it has chosen,
and 800 ladies of the highest social stand
ing in Detroit will take charge of these
booths.
". H. SMITH, the leader of the British
house of commons, has recently built a
new church at Pcrtsea at a cost of more
than $40, 900. He has no interest in the
ulace whatever, but happening to visit it
for a day on government business he no.
ticed that it greatly needed a new church.
DUDLEY FOSTER, of Billerica. Mass,
hale, hearty and in his S1st year, was
elected for his thirty sixth year as clerk
and forty-ifth year as treasurer at the
town meeting in that place a few days ago.
He declined to be a candidate, but was
elected to both offices by a handsome ma
jority.
The military defenses of the Thames,
which have been in such a poor condition
that there was not a single gun in the Med
way capable of preventing the passage Of
a large ironclad. are to be strengthened i'm
mediately by the creation of new forts and
tee ornaments of those existing,
The Latin Union, o French European
league, is constituted of France, Belgium,
Greece, Italy and Switzerland, and their
coins are alike in weight aud f~neness,
though different in name. Spain, Servia,
Russia, Bulgaria and Roumania have
adopted in part the same system, but they
have net joined the Union"
SLIGHT COLD if neglected. often attacks
the lungs. Browns BRONCHIAL THocHEs
give sure and immediate relief. sod onIy
in bofes. Price rs cents.
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