The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-11-06
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England receives yearly 100000
carcasses OF frozen meat, from New
Zealand.
Though Newfoundland be a cold country,
it is not wholly an productive: tits estirnut
ed that 1~20,G0O,G00 Holsters Will be Matched
in that island this season.
A pelican was shot near Like City Mini
nesota, the other day. 1t measured
eight feet two inches from tip to tip of its
wiags. 1t has made /; fine addition to the
collection OF a local taxidernlist.
A heavy gale visited the Atlantic coast
last Friday, and much damage YVES done
to shipping Many places reported it the
the severest gale OF the season: even Now
York bay, ard the East and North rivers.
were as fierce and choppy as any stormy sea.
Mrs. Tmely Kempin, LID. of The
university of Zurich, Will deliver The first
lecture III the course 70: women which has
been endowed by the woimen's Legal Edu
%cational sociery, at tho University of the
City of New York.
In San Francisco a company has been
formed for evaporating ali kinds Of veg
tables. Potatoes, carrots, turnips, onions.
tomatoes etc, will be dried and packed the
same as fruit. This will give a new ont
let for the products of the Vegetable garden.
An ostrich egg is eqnAl in quantity &c
two dozen hens eggs, it weighs between
two and three pounds. The female
o4trich lays from ton to fifteen eggs be-
fore acting, and continues to lay even
after the eggs are matched. The extra
Young hunters need to haYe stead
nerves: At Bessemer, Wyoming, a young
man, lately from the east; went out hunt
ing antelope; becoming excited at the frs
sight of the game, he accidentally dis
charged his gun, %wounding himself serious
ly in the leg.
HIM SANKEY'S now book is having al
immense sale, in both England ait
America. The first English edition nun
bered 10000 copies. There are ten foreigl
editions. 1t is estimated that 26S print
ing presses have been in use to print til
book.
The democrative state committee o
Texas has arranged that all the candidate
: on the state ticket should take the fielC
: except the nonlnee for state superintendent
, of public instruction.; because they thin
that office should be as far removed from
, politics, as judicial positions are.
A good exercise for the memory la
has been introduced, as a game, by til
ladies of Omaha; Heterogeneous mass o
, articles is placed on a large tray, the play
ers are allowed one minute for observation
aud then write a list of the articles; I'll
keenest observer is awarded q prize.
The directors of the Cherokee live stoc.
l association nave called O meeting of tn
, stockholders to take action regarding,
dissolution of the association, as tn
pasture lands are to be taken from them
About half of the members will probabl.
: go out of the cattle business; many of tn
7 remainder will move their herds to Mon
tana.
/ Mrs. Mary Cleary Duncreuz is a practi
cal example of the ability of women il
business. She is not only president o
the New York screw mandatory, but
practical working mechanic; she has ha,
seventeen years experience in the business
and can turn out first class cabinet screws
gun screws, watch screws, and machine
screws. She maintains, as the result o
/ her own experience. that girls have al
!, much ingenuity and manual dexierity a
boys, ane training only is necessary tt
make them good mechanics.