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 n cold country,
it is not wholly umproductiTc: it's estirnat
ed that 120,G0O,GO0 Holsters viii be Matched
in that island this season.
A pelican was shot near LIKE City Min
nesota, the other day. 1t measured
| eight feet two inches frou tip to tip of its
wiags. Ii has made Il fine addition to the
collection OF a local taxidermi5t.
A heavy gale visited The Atlantic coast
last Friday, and much damage Yves done
to shipping Many places reported 1t the
the s~everest gale OF the season: even New
York bay, and the East and North rivers.
were as fierce and choppy es any stormy sea.
Mrs. Emely Kempin, LID. of the
university Of Zurich, will deliver the first
lecture III the course toc women which i,"s
been endowed by the women's Legal Edu
cational sociery, at tho University of the
City of New York.
In San Francisco a company has been
formed for evaporating all 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 setting, and continues to lay even
after the eggs are matched. Ths 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 a
immense sale, in both England al.'
America. The first English edition nun
bered 10000 copies. There are ten foreig1
editions. 1t is estimated that 26S print
ing presses have been in use to print tn
book.
, The democrative state committee 0
Texas has arranged that all the candidate
: on the state ticket should take the fielt
; except the II on.lnee for state superintendent
, of public instruction; because they thin
that office should be as far removed frop
politics, as judicial positions are.
A good exercise for the memory la
has been introduced, Us a game, by til
ladies of Omaha; heterogeneous mass Q
, articles is placed GU a large tray, the play
ers are allowed one minute for observation
aud then write a list of the articles; Th
keenest observer is awarded a prize.
The directors of the Cherokee live stoc
| association nave called a meeting of til
!, stockholders to take action regarding
dissolution of the association, as tn
pasture lands are to be taken from then
About half of the members will probabl
go out of the cattle business; many of th
: remainder will move their herds to MOI
tana.
Mrs. Mary Cleary Duncreuz is a practi
, cal example of the ability of women i
business. She is not only president o
the New York screw manufactory, 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 machin
screws. She maintains, as the result o
! her own experience. that girls have a
!, much ingenuity aud manual dexterity a
boys, ane training only is necessary t
make them good mechanics.
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