The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-12-18
HUMAN NATCG4A.

bis wooden leg gets Q New YofsL 2atsis +
into trouble. He always uses il as q
weapon, SO handy is ii, and the practices
has caused him to spend several terms IN
Jail. He is now serving out C. six montls'
sentence, given HIM for using the limo on
his wife. (
Here is the prayer of tho minister Of thu
Cuinbrays, two miserable islands in the
mouth of the Clyde; 'Oh, Lord, bless audk
pc gracious the greater and the lesser;
Gunorays,A IND IN thy mercy do not forget !
me adgace2 islands Of Great Britain and
nehi9A8Ilard. Il business man OF Chat. 7
'anneooo1l(Sssaa, died suddenly of heart failure.
According to the story told by his relatives
he had always been a hard drinkcr, and !
about ten days since sworc of. He could
not be induced to taper OF, and when told !
That his life depended upon taking an al Z
coholic stimulant, he refused to yield apdH
died firm. z
An advocate, seoing that there was no i
longer any use of denying certain charges {
against his client, suddenly changed his 3
plan of battle in order to arrive at successE
In another way. "Well, he it so,n he L
said; 'ny client is a %scoundrel and theE
worst liar in the world" Here he was in {
terrupted by the judge, who remarked: f
brother B, you are forgetting your. E
self" 3
A Kentucky engineer named Hughes hash
discovered that it does not always paw, 81
financially. to save human life. One day r
ne saw a man named Stevenson lyingME {.
across the track, ahead of his train. The &
engine was stopped within a few feet of
Stevenson. He appeared drunk. Hughes 4
pulled him off and kicked him two or three y
times. Stevenson was not drunk, but in a i
Mt He had Hughes arrested and fined q
S9.0l, costs and fine, although he had saved Z,
his life. g
The Kaiser's Childhood. q
1nnumerable have been the anec- 8
dotes given OF the German Emperor in e
his latter life, but Of his earlier days 4
less is known. The following details ii
from a reliable source, which appearE
in the G~entlewoman. may not be out OF 8
place at the present moment. ..Chil- q
dren! shouted old Field Marshal q
Wrangel to a c:owd Of eager Berlin b
era waiting near the palace windows e
for tidings of their new born Prince, q
.'all goes well; it is as fine and sturdy 81
q recruit as we could wish Thus we "a
see, from the first hour of the vounr III
monarch's life, the military element, u
since inseparable with his name, was H
even then to predominant. Although a
9 very hi%gh-spirited and somewhatss 81
naughty child. the Prince won the love g
OF those intimately connected with "a
him. His English nurse, Mrs. Hobbs. or III
"Hobbsy. +" as she was called, was the s
first to initiate him in the mysteries Il
OF the language he now speaks SO adj
mirably. h
Later on On English tutor was en-
gagged for the two little princes, and
recalls with much amusement a cer- b
tain history lesson, when the Emperor. 4
with knitted brow. and in good nery- a
ve%rhaoular, declared, well, Mr.. r,
A, II yeu want to know what / think d
II is, that Oliver Cromwell was a per-
feet beast!n The books chosen by the n
Empress Frederick for her boys read 81
were Millions Paradise LOST and D.
Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress Les W
sons were made to alternate with goods
hearty amusement. and to this day q
there exists, 1 believe, a. playground n
at friedrichskron, where the English b
princess used to watch the gambols of y
her children, and rejoice to see them
fully imbued with love for rompinaE
any OF the village boys and girls in
all the country round.