The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-03-07

meal of vegetable broth and bread.
PHILADELPHIA ladies are boycotting
merchants who refuse to regard the
comfort and health of their sales
women A very good argument it is,
too.
SOME remarkable caves have been
discovered in West Australia. Two of
them are said to be large enough 10
afford accommodation for 300, 900 men
each.
G. LoNGFELLow, druggist at Ma
chias. Me-, inserted an advertisement
of his business in the first issue of the
local paper forty years ago and has
kept it in ever since.
A CITIZEN of Taunton, Mass. saws
that he knows a. woman who, for several
years. made from 1.O0O to 1000 pies u
year for Il family of three persons, and
one member has eaten more than two
thirds of them.
CHINA. with a population in the
vicinity of 3s0,o00. 0No, has only three
newspapers ut present. Considering
that an editors head is chopped off ON
the slightest provocation the wonder is
that there are even three.
COLONEL N"Hrn's dog-housc. at Lon
don. is Il perfect canine palace, iillc ed
with costly animals. The best dog
cost $3.50. There is Il dr%cssing-room.
anda cloak room filled with dogs coats.
and fresh shoulders of mutton make
the dogs daily dinner.
FIFTEEN years ago Henry Hill. of
Council Bluffs, swore that he would
not shave until Susan Ii. Anthony was
elected President. The other day his
whiskers, which were three feet long.
became %entangled in some machinery
and We're mostly pulled ont by the
roots. and he is probably pretty we'll
cured of his foolishness.
IT is becoming the custom for busy
and wealthy women to have young
ladies' for private secretaries. The
feminine private secretary keeps the
IL of the visiting list, answers notes,
and makes engagements and EXCUSES
Her duties require an excellent cducn-
ton, high bred manners. and the great
est tact and delicacy.
THE hangman in New South Wales
is looked upon with such horror that
he recently found himself completely
boycotted on reaching Wagga-Wagga
to perform an execution. The cabmen
refused unanimously to drive him from
the railway station. the portcls also
declined to carry his luggage. and the
unlucky cNccutioner was obliged to
trudge off on foot, struggling with his
various traps.
HERE is something new in journal
ism. A New York p%apcroffers Il prize
of $3.50 for every person found dead
with Il copy of the latest issue of the
paper on his person, thus guarantee
ing to am,lse and instruct IL man while
he lives and provide for his family when
he is taken away. For novelty and
originality in schemes to build up a
circulation this one seems to deserve
early recognition.
FRED HAHN, a Collinwood (Ohio)
man, was taken prisoner at Kingston,
Ga, in ga, and las stripped of ac-
couterments, among which was Il cap
box with his name stenciled upon it.
He escaped and thought no more of
the cap box until it was found by a
Miss Kerns in a coal shed near Collin
wood last week. How it gravitated to
its owner during twenty-five years
wandering is n mystery.
SAN PEDRO MARTIN. in Lower Cali
fornia, it has been ascertained. is not
as has been generally supposed a chain
Of mountains, but Il single one. 1t is
about 100 miles in length and from ten
to thirty i'll width. containing about
1,O00,O0O acres of land. one-half of
which is covered with fine timber.
Many of the trees are giants. The
scenery in the mountain is grand. Its
average hight is 12,sO0 feet.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS pleasantly
related this one on himself the other
day in an address: II was making a
public speech some little time .go.a and
one of my hearers remarked to his
neiglbor. who happened to be a per-
sonal friend of mine, What n pity
What q pity" Why, what is the pity?'
said my friend. Well, it is Il great
pity that a man with such white wills
kers should wear such a very brown
wig.''
BoswoRTM SMITH. Ill a rcport on the
Kolar gold field i'll Southern India,
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