The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-28

say ono hundred and fifty pounds,
would take for his food as follows:
Breakfast, . dressed beef, ten gal
Ions of tea.
Dinner, twenty dressed sheep, five
barrels Of potatoes.
Supper, fifty loaves of bread, q bar
rel of butter.
Lunch, two hundred pounds Of cake,
o barrel of wine.
And even then would wake at mid.
night feeling as though he had not
eaten a square meal for q week. Hap
PLY, though, men are not spiders.
a Pack Of Playing Cards.
What a history is represented in .
pack of playing cards. They contain
a spot for each day in the year, q card
for each week in the year, q picture for
each month in the year, a suit for each
a of the year, a numerical color
for each minute in an hour, and value.
in whist, for each degree of the circle.
A hand in an ordinary game of whist
would not he repeated in 154,413 years.
The Amount Of Food We Eat.
Every person must eat, sleep, and.
have some sickness. A person at
seventy years, now not considered very
old, has eaten provisions that would
require a train of seventy cars, heavily
laden with food, to transport, has
slept twenty years. and been sick ten
years. Strange. but not less strange
than true. Taken in general, the
foregoing is a trifle below the average.
To Rore a Hole Through Glass.
Very often it is necessary to make .
hole through a plate of glass. This is
very easily done if you only know how.
Make a solution Of
Oil turpentine.
Gum cnmphor.
Moisten the drill. and it will work
in glass like wax.
Cutting Glass.
For many years it was thought by
scientific men that nothing but the
real diamond would cut glass, but steel
can be made sufficiently hard to cut
glass readily, and a substance called
zabasheer, found in the joints of the
bamboo, will, when dry, cut glass read
lily. Ii hardcns into q solidlump when
exposed to the air.
A Budget of Curious Facts.
The child begotten by the matri.
monial alliance of science and religion
is now declared legitimate.
ATHIcK plate of brass may be cut by
making a mark on its surface with o
solution of mercury and nitric acid.
AwAsp's nest contains fifteen thou.
sand cells. How this insect determines
the number 1 will not explain.
In one hundred years ordinary turf
grows thirty inches. By this we may
approximate the age of peat.
ALL have noticed the caterpillar that
infests the willow tree. Each indi-
vidual has over four thousand mus.
cles.
THE drug called capsicum by the
druggist, pepper by the grocer, is OBJ.
tanned from sixty species of the same
tree.
AWAY on the top of some mountain
ranges various temperatures are found.
The Peak of Teneriffe has five zones
of vegetation.
Color blindness affects a create,
proportion of our population than most
people imagine. Five per cent. OF
Americans are color blind.
EAGLES are long-lived birds. Awarty
old chap has been an heirloom ina New
Albany, Indiana, family for nearly a
hundred years.
Cold follows heat at extraordinary
depths. In u silver mine in NORWAY
over three hundred feet deep the bot.
tom is covered with snow.
EGYPTIAN architecture becomes more
marvellous as time passes. Atemple and
an altar have been discovered buried.
fur beneath the surface in front of the
great Sphinx.
In is not generally known, but true
nevertheless, that gas is produced by
striking a piece of iron with a hammer;
and if the blows, however light, are
continued long enough, the iron, how.
ever large and tough, will eventually
crystalline and break.
The rates of transporting heavy
freight, merchandise, and the like, have
changed. Less than a half century
ago the railroads of Great Britain made
q very careful estimate, and it cost lust
a penny q ton per mile for carving
coal. This, with the price of English
labor and mechanics, seems high.
New ALBANY, Ind,
Judge Cooley and the Ticket scalper.
A railroad ticket agent yesterday.
in commenting upon the indiscriminate
cutting by brokers, told this: Judge
Cooley has o way OF rounding up tie
scalpers that puts a stop to their opera.
tions in short order. He does not wait
for the railroads to bring in evidence
against them, but just goes out ON a
still hunt by himself and generally
goes home with his bag full. The last
time he was in Chicago he dropped in
sort Of incidentally upon one Of the
most obnoxious of the brotherhood and
brought him into camp in a manner
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