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The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

IT is certain that within . short time
some plan must he devised for control,
ling all electric aud other wires by some
systematic plan, said an authority on
the subject the other day. Practical
electricians say placing the wires un.
foreground will no remedy the trouble
that is caused by the haphazard WY in
which wires are now placed on poles.
In my opinion the only solution OF the
matter is the adoption of the overhead
tower system. Tie tower could lie
placed at street intersections, about
GOO feet apart, and would consist of four
iron columns, ixed at their lower ends
in q foundation Of concrete or masonry.
They would end at the top in o square
frame about 8 or 10 feet wide. The
hight of the towers would vary from 80
feet in the suburbs to 1876 feet or higher
in the business part of the city. These
towers could carry all the wires for
lighting. electric cars, or any other
electric service and would cost in the
n~eighborhood of $4,000 o mile.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
enemy.

A RUSTIC bridge just completed a
Beach Haven, Ca, contains f~fty-seven
kinds Of wood and vines, grown on the
fifty acres Of Beach Haven Park. Fol.
lowing is . list Of the woods and vines
Short leaf pine. long leaf pine, post oak,
white oak, Spanish oak, water oak, red
oak, poplar. sweet gum, black gum,
red haw, black haw, red bud, prickly
aah, chinquapin, Wild plum, persimmon,
cedE, wild aloe, wahoo. sumac, red
elm, pig hickory, scalybark hickory,
hook o. sugar berry, willow, china,
black alder, crab apple. wild mulberry.
Wild cherry, dogwood, sourwood. winter
whortleberry, black locust, sassafrss,
cottonwood. buckeye, Cypress, laurel,
beech, holly, ash, ironwood, birch,
magnolia sycamoye, walnut, sweet bay.
evergreen. spruce. Vines-Grape,
'musoadins. bell-aower. rattan, bsm-
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The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
Automatic Art.

Many wonderful things are accom-
plished by machinery, but there is one
field which it has not vet invaded-the
field of art. There are musical ma
chimes, it is true, which produce many
beautiful sounds. Such are music
boxes, and the large and elaborate
"orclestrions" in which the sounds
made by all the musical Instruments
in an orchestra are initiated with stops
constructed on the plan of each in
strument. These orchestrions play
many long and elaborate musical com
positions: but their work is that of o
machine, and does not move or inspire
the hearers.
1t must he so also with q machine
which has lately been invented in
France, and which has been exhibited
at the Worlds Fair in Paris, which
takes Photographic portraits automat-
ically.
The machine requires no operator.
The entire process of taking the picture
is performed by machinery. The per-
o who desires the machine to take
his portrait seats himself in q chair
which is placed upon o platform IN
thing like that of the weighing-ma-
chine now quite common. He slips
into q slot a small coin, and the process
of photographing him begins.
In an instant needle brings out the
words Sect ready" on a slip of paper.
Then this disappears, and the word
"Attention!" comes out, which is fol-
lowed by the word "Pose!"
Then the photographing proper be-
gins. A little bell rings, and continues
to ring during the exposure of the
plate, which lasts from three to six
seconds.
When this is over there is a little
wait, and all at once the completed
portrait falls out at the side of the
machine. The entire process has oc-
cupied only a few minutes, and in this
time the machine has prepared the
sensitive plate and exposed it, and it
has been developed and printed.
But though this automatic process
of photography is interesting, It is
hardly likely that it will take the place
of work in which some intelligence is
used in posing the subject, in manag-
ing the effect Of light and shade and
the length of the exposure, and in the
many little details which go to make
up q skillful photographers art.
1t is to he noted that, in proportion
Us the mechanical processes Of pho
Biography have become more nearly
perfect, photography itself has adj
vanced more and more into the field of
art. Mechanism has made photography
comparatively easy for anyone to learn
and practice. but IL has NOT Inv INV
means diminished the opportunity for
those who practice it to make their
work really deserve the name of art.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
Was Too Polite.

The car was crowded. A slim girl
got on at Illinois street, and severel
slim fellows bounced up and offered
their seats. At Chicago avenue a tat
woman got on, but no fat man bounced
up to give her q seat. There sat, in
the forward corner, a man who had
come either from Egypt or Southern
Indiana, and when lie saw the fat
woman he got up and said:
aHere, mizzes, take this seat"
The woman waddled forward, thanked
him and sat down. He caught hold of
a strap, looked at her for . few mo-
ments, and then, SO loud that every
one could hear, remarked:
II notice that thar amt many polite
fellers in this town."
mot very many" the women u.s.
sented.
Il amt SO very polite myself. he
went on. Down u way they think
I'm putty tolerable rough at times"
II think you are very polite" the
woman replied.
mighty glad to hear you say SO; al
ways like to know that my little efforts
find appreciation. I've done err good
many mean things. l reckon, but there's
one thing I won't do If I can help it,
an I mighty nigh allus q n an that's
this: I never let q great, big, fat
woman stand up" The woman glared
at him. mo I DON'T" he went on, II
jest won't do it. My wife is q awful fat
woman-not as fat as you are, but putty
tolerable fat, I can give you q pointer"
The woman, with more agility than
she had doubtless shown for some time,
sprang to her feet and exclaimed:
won't have your seat, sir!"
Jest as welcome to il as not, / tell
you. I don't want to see you stand
up, for / know that when my wife has
to stand up it mighty nigh kills her an
she amt as fat as You are nuther. Got
shoulders mighty like yourn, but still
she amt so fat"
II want you to shut your mouth, "
the woman screamed.
sWho, me?" he asked in surprise.
@W'y, I'm your friend, mizzes. What,
you going to get Off. I am mighty
sorry that I have disappointed you.
Some times it don't pay to be polite"
he added when the disgusted woman
had left the car, IAN I reckon that is
one ofthe things that q Teller has to
guard against in o town like this."-
ArkansatU Tfaueler.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
SCIENCE.
Origin and History oe April Fesl's Day
The Startling 1mMensity Of space-To
Avoid the Liehtming's strOke-A budget
" Nntss of Popular Interest.
BY PROF. !. +. ELsoM.
Aprn Fool.

april FOOL.
April frst stands marked BY customs rules.
A day OF being aud of making fO0ls.s
The origin Of this day Of practical
Jokes seem q triie obscure. By some
the custom has been traced to the scene
in the life Of Jesus when he was sent
from plate to Herod, then back from
Herod to PLATE, which occurred at this
time. Away back nearly q hundred
years in the ClGpis Calendaria mem
tion is made of the first of April az
"All Fools Day." and Scotland's
poetry and song is replete with anec
dotes and jokes perpetrated on this
day, and among the Hindoos a day of
foo!eries, the !.fatH Fest, is also OBJ
served. Among the Hindoos all kinds
of jokes and like silly species of wit
ticisms are saved for this day.
BY many it is believed that the term
"all" is a corruption of "auld" or 1old."
thus making it "Old Fools Day." in
support of which a very ancient Ro-
man calendar speaks respecting the
first of April, "the feast of old fools il
remained to this day." but the Oldest
almanacs extant all have it sAll Fools
Day" Again, with the Roman Saturn
"AA~ uAA oAAc DfuIOlCul IICeS, Sup0rStl-
tons which the early Christians
found in existence when they
began their labors in England, was the
Festum Fatuorum, or FOOLS Holiday,
which was IL first of April. In q few
Of the German classics frequent mem
ton is made of the Aprilon narr, 80
that even the Germans of the olden
time knew how to practice their cum
ming April arts upon their neighbors
quite as well as We of the present day.
Enough is known to prove the Gus
tom of very ancient origin, but perhaps
the precise origin is unknown, all
positive statements made regarding
the custom being based mostly on con.
lecture. Suffice to say it is very, very
old, and outside of the slight tinge OF
superstition and mustiness surround
ing it, all of this day and age feel free
to confess their dislike and declare it q
nuisance. In short, the custom itself,
however originating. is more honored
in the breach than in the Observance"
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

~ tw~enty.one members on an eau, votc
a the State, und would give the RApub.
ltcans eleven, but the latter would carry
the Tenth District BY only ia votes-n
hQuro 20 small that hard Democratic work
night sweept Il away. But Imposing tho
Republicans did have elcvcn district>2
11sy wonld surely be as much entitled 10
the odd one % the Democrats.
Compare with this the result Of aa
election held this ncxt fail under the
new Democratic apporticnment. Ii tie
Republicans we're to carry the Stats Ly
10000 they would get but six Congress-
mon out Of twenty n IL they were 10
Q .rry 1t BY 30, OOO IL would add but three
more to the number. Forty thous nd
majority would give them but eleven.
This IL what makes the new arportion-
ment such an ntrocious aud infamous
gerrymander. This is why tn. w rAt
Oem.l. after publishing a map Of the
new districts, TO show the outrageous
character of the gerrvmander, says:
The heavy line in the ma marks the trail OF
the Democratic .s~srrymsnder." Can any fair
E e blush for the party to which le hi ngss
Every crook and turn and bend u twist in the
above limo represents the crooked policy of some
local -,ingster" aud mschinist who is cndeav-
1fimg TO steal votes that OH lines of common
honesty and fair play do not belong 10 him.
There Is 9 lob" In every curve. There is a nest
OF fraud In every angle. What honest citizen OF
Cincinnati can tell undar the proposed rssii !.
trtcttng scheme in what district he ielongs.
where ,;S or for whom he should vote?
This is not the way to bold Ohio in the Demo-
cratic line and TO win Democratic Victories ia
that State In the future. 1t il, on the contrary.
this way to lose II.
The former apportionmcnt was fair.
The result on a tie vote proves it. Had
Congressman been elected last fall when
Gov. Campbell was, and hal their votes
kept pace with his, the Democrats would
have elected a maj orityo of the delegation.
This Democratic gerrymander is a stencil
in the nostrils Of every decent and fair.
minded man. Il is an attempt 10 substi-
tute minority for majority rule, to nullify
the principle on which all American Low
eminent is b. sed. and 10 enable the nil
nority of 1883 to override the majority of
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

A GREAT deal is said Of the necessity
Of Certifying the coasts Of the United
States, and estimates of costly forts Of
important points are under considera.
ton. II we have q few million to spend
in coast iefenses. they should he put
into ,first-class artillery, for it has been
settled in modern warfare that sand
batteries are the most invulnerable Of
coast defenses. What is the use Of
squsndering vast sums for forts when,
given the guns, aly position along the
shore can be made secure within y few
days? Sand is superior to masonary.
We want the biggest and best guns to
crack the shells Of the ironclads of the
enemy.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

The Homer (Cal.) Inder is response
BILE for this: IAN enterprising indi-
vidual made a location in Lake Canon
recently and at one end planted o pole
in q now drift fifty feet deep. The
other end he could not get to. but see-
ing q coyote sitting on q shelf of rock
about the right distance off, he took him
for the north lode line monument, which
fact he stated in the notice that he
posted on the pole. The animal will,
Of course. stay there and see that no one
jumps the claim"
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

AN English court has just decided
that a wife married in Japan after the
fashion of that country is o legal wife
in England, on the ground that sJapan
has long been recognized asa civilized
country" A previous decision in q case
where the wife was q Hottentot and was
married after the Hottentot fashion had
upset the union ON the ground that the
Hottentots we're heathens and polygam-
lists, and did not know what marriage,
in the civilized sense, meant.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
Notes of Daily interest.

VOLCANOES rarely, if ever, are more
than five miles deep.
The eye of the beetle has upward Of
twenty-five thousand facets.
SPRINGS Of fresh water rise in most
all the seas known.
THERE are rivers in the ocean as we'll
as ON the land.
RANCID oils convert vegetable blues
into red-a delicate test.
WATER-spours seldom last longer
than thirty or forty minutes.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

HErTY GnEEX, the great millionairesa
of New York, in apology for her pc
n%uriousness in dress and living, says
1--WE need no display to insure recog-
milton of our position" The old Roman
general put it thus: LOAD a jackass
with gold and he will enter q fortified
city after the greatest g%eneralship OF
the age yas completely failed"
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

JOHN d. RoeKEFELLER, the Standard
Oil Cresus, enjoys q salary of $3.50 an
hour. He started with picking potatoes.
1t would not he true to say that he has
ended with picking pockets, but how
much better is it morally?
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

IT is said that four years after the
fight ut Chickamauga the battlefield
shown like bright moonlight, even on
the darkest nights. The light came
from the phosphorescent exhalations of
the decaying bones Of the heaped-up
6aa6
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

THREE childrenin the Sheffield work.
house were done to death o few days
ago by the medical officer, who care
lessy wrote a prescription for twenty
grains of Dover's powders in ten pack
ages, instead Of ten grains in twenty
packages.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

THERE is o curious bit of interesting
information that will be new to many
readers. In Africa the prefix serves
for the purpose that the sufix serves
for in European languages. For ex-
ample: Spain, Spaniard, Spanish-so
in our mother tongue; but in Africa
Uganda is the name of o State, Wa
ganda are the Inhabitants thereof, and
Maganda the language.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

THE sale Of intoxicating liquors has
been forbidden in the restaurants at:
tached to the railroad stations in Vic
toria, Australia: The railroads are
state institutions.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

TnE United States Goyernmens. has
paid out IN round figures 11.0oo,0oO,00o
IN pensions since the beginning Of the
civil VA.
NEw beds Of guano have been discov-
on the coast Of Peru which. Il il
ted, will yield 100000 tons Of
Int quality.
WGerman government has de.
connect Berlin with the Baltic
Of . ship canal. The work
bmmenced in q few months.

W. young Chinese Emperor is
breaking up the gambling establish
ments of Pekin and is trying to. reduce
the expenses Of the administration Of
the government.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

AN advertisement was printed in, a
New York paper calling for q bank
burglar. i~irst-class, must have done
time,' and be well up in nitro-glyce-
rine and other modern explosives" to
call ut Ills Broadway at 3p. H.. One
was found to fill the bill. He was
wantedby o theatrical troupe.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
How Curioslly Is Gratlaed in Russia.

ssSc
The ,ex-editor of o Chicago paper.
who has just returned from Europe,
relates this incident, which he wit
messed in st. Petersburg: One day I
saw a carriage containing.a gendarme
and another person. I asked our guide
who it was and lie said it was a politi-
cal prisoner. 1 asked what would be-
come of him. E
sOh, he'll never he heard of again!
We don't have any bother about jnries
and trials. The papers won't take up
the matter, and his friends won't at
tempt to do anything for him."
3Butif lie ere your brother wouldn't
you try to do something for him ?" I
asked.
eNo, sir. II 1 went to the officers
and said I wanted to know what they
were going to do with him, they would
say: Come right in. You can have
thefc cell next to his and 60 with him to
Siberia to zee what becomes Of him.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
rHE OHIO a.nnyMANnrn.

The Cleveland P~laindealer and the
Detroit Free Pressare brazenly defending
the Ohio Democratic gerrymander, which
is so repugnapt to common political de.
cency that even the New York World
attacks II. The Free Press says that the
new apportionment is no more unjust to
the Republicans than the ola one was to
it's partyl It says that under tho old n
the Republicans elected ut tho Presiden-
tial election sixteen members and the
Democrats only five, and that under the
new ones the figures will simply be re-
versed next fall.
There Isl material difference between
the two apportionments. Supposing that
an election was held under The old one
next fall, and the State went about even,
which would be . loss of 10000 for the
Republicans on the Harrison vote Of
1883. That would be an average loss of
1000 votes per Congressional district.
The Democrats would carry their present
i've districts by increased majorittes, and
they would capture the following FIVE
from the Republicans, the first column
giving the number Of the district, the
second the Republican majority in 1888,
and the third The Democratic majority II
1880. ON the basis of an oven vote In the
State between the two parties:
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ThisaSostdsetstth Dsnecrats - q
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

The crusaders excitement At Farmtns.
ton. Mo-, l. still at fever heat. The two
wrecked saloons will nottbefeopened., The
.omsn destroyed 6itylAvs barrels sd
elstsp cases Of beQs.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

WITH a.women It Is = struggle to pro.
vide something for the inner man,,e and
With : man Il lis IN effort toll M
Iapmethine for the outer woman
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
Comets.

Comets
The ocean, a well as the land, has
it's different botanical regions; and
changes of vegetation are observable
with the depth analogous to the varia-
lions of terrestrial planets with the
height. Marine vegetation seems to
have its vertical extent determined by
the range Of light in the water, which
varies with the power of the sun and
the Transparency of the water.
This marvellous age, this century Of
gigantic intellectual achievement, has
been especially rich in brilliant comets
visible to the naked eye. The large
comet Of 1871 was exceedingly fine;
the head measured one hundred and
twelve millions of miles in diameter.
and the tail was no less than one hun.
dred and twelve millions of miles in
length. The comet of 1843 was yisi-
BILE in full day, and of all comets
known it approached nearest to the
sun. Donati's comet, in 1868, is the
most famous of modern times.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11
The Innncnsity of Space.

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Few people have the faintest con.
ception of the immensely of space.
We stand and look around, but how
far the eye can penetrate no tongue
can tell. We look at a distant star,
we see it night after night, and would
continue to do so if it should be de-
stroyed; it takes SO long for its light
to reach the earth that a person look
ing n hundred years would fail to miss
it. LII the sun we're a ball of fire, as
the anclents supposed it to be, and q
person had an arm sufficiently long to
reach it, he might hold it there and
burn it OH the sun for centuries and
would never feel it, it would take 80
long for the sensitive nerves to convey
the pain to the brain that distance.
nearly q hundred million of miles.
Think of it! The diameter of the
sun. small as it appears to us, is seven
hundred and seventy thousand geo.
graphical miles, the earth but eight
thousand. OF ont hundred and twelve.
times smaller than the sun. The
volume OF the sun is one million
four hundred and seven thousand
II hundred and twenty-four times
greater than the earth, and six hum
dred times greater than that of all the
planets known to astronomers taken
together; its aggregate mass is three
hundred and fifty-nine thousand five
hundred and tifty-one times greater
than the earth, and seven hundred and
thirty-eight times greater than all the
rest OF the planets put together. A
single spot seen upon its surface has
been estimated by astronomers and the
leading mathematicianst to .-.tend over
an area of seventy-seyen thousand
miles in diameter, and a cluster Of
spots have been estimated by the same
authorities to include an Il of three
million seven hundred and eighty
thousand miles. When we bring orr
binary mathematics to bear in measurI
ing these spaces, weighing thes}(
weights, it is almost equivalent to all
attempt to measure the water of a lake
with a chemists graduate, or the depths
and weight of an ocean with q
draughtsman's compass and %protractor.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-04-11

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