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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
Are the Ewes Ever Safe.

Beware Of the electric light. This is
a warning sounded by CORE ,pondent,
and a warning that should be needed.
The use Of the i~ncandescent lamp is apt
to be highly injurious to the eyes if
precautions are not taken with regard
to shades or globes. Plainfor cnt glass.
is particularly n~oxious. In all cases
the little illuminator should be shaded
with n green or thick white shade, and
the glass should be frosted. 1t is said
that a number of men in the clubs are
suffering with sore eyes, entirely due to.
the improper shading of the club lights.
London Letter.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
None airy tom,

A few nights ago q policeman halted
q suspicious-looking colored man who
had Q trunk on his shoulder.
Where are you going with that
trunk asked the minion Of the law.
De family ] has been boarding wild
has been axing Tor money, and as dey
was done gone out ter night I tuck adj
vantage of9de opportunity ter git inter
some fami y whas has some considera-
tion for de panicky condition OBJ de
money markell was the reply.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
a skatoh of Horace Grae1ex.

In a little seven-by-nine room, in one
Of the upper stories of the old New
York Tribune building, many years
ago, I frequently saw a man with g
very round bald head and q fringe Of
nearly white hair under his CHI. He
sat at a desk which was almost on a
level with his shoulders. He was some
what careless in his dress, and being
very near-sighted, he leaned down up
on the desk, describing almost the
segment Of a circle in the lines Us he
wrote. This was Horace Greeley, the
founder and chief editor of the 19ib.
aNne,-St, NicLoLas.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
There Is Il Boy 1 Can Trust.

We once visited a public school. At
recess a little fellow came up and
spoke to the teacher: as he turned to
60 down the platform, the master said:
THAT is a boy I can trust. He never
failed me-" We followed him with
our eye, and looked at him when he
took his seat after recess Ho had a
fine, open, manly face. We thought
a good deal about the masters re-
mark. What q character had that
boy earned! He had already got what
would be worth more to him than a for
tune. 1t would be a passport into the
best store in the city, and, what is bet
ter, into the confidence and respect of
the whole community. We wonder if
the boys know how soon they are rated
by other people. Every boy in the
neigLborhood is known, and opinions
are formed Of him: he has a character
either favorable or unfavorable. A
boy of whom the master can say, Il
can trust him; he never failed me-"
will never want employment.-Our
Dumb A71imdls.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
Had Suffered ENoueh,

Had suffered Enough.
st. Peter-"Humph! don't know
about letting you in"
New Arrival-Me? I was q clergy
man."
"Iknow it, But you had charge of
o fashionable church at a fat salary,
which you spent in the luxurious
adornment Of your grand residence;
and You were given a long vacation
and a trip to Europe every summer. "
yes; but whenever I went to Eu-
rope had to spend all my time tray
cling in the Holy Land"
You have suffered enough. Come
in.'-NeW York Weekly.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

EVERY man is his own assessor in
Switzerland. After a mans death the
Government carefully investigates his
estates, and if he has been defrauding
the treasury it collects the back taxes
with interest.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
A HANDSOME MONUMENT.
Something Unique in Design and Worth
,c T,<-

of Imitation.
Unique in design, of the native pink
granite, and standing fifty feet high,
is the soldiers memorial tower at
Winsted, Litchfeld County, Conn.,,
says Frank Leslie's. This striking
and original memorial is the work OF
Robert W. Hill, architect, of Water
bury, Conn. and the sculptor, George
E. Bissell, Of New York. It is twenty
feet square at the base, fifteen feet at
the summit, and is surmounted Ly a
bronze statue eight and one-half feet
high, entitled "The Standard Bearer"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

A st. PETERSBURG paper, replying
to some structures of the German
press, says the Jews in Russia are not
used as badly as Frenchmen in Alsace
and Lorraine, and advises the Ger
man philanthropists to mind their own
I,,sipoee
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

The first gun made for the Confed-
eracy is now in the possession of Mrs.
H. I. Miller, of Chattanooga, whose
father made it at Holly Springs, Miss,
in 1861. 1t originally had a rited
barrel, and is still in good condition.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

In the last five years twenty-seven
American girls have married China
men, and it is reported that in only
five cases have they lived with their
husbands beyond n few months.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

The dirty-faced boy and girl making
mud-pies may rise to the highest sta
lions in the nation, while bright and
intelligent children fall victims to
wrong-doing and fill premature graves.
How comes it?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

very BAD Form.
Daughter (after the theater)-That
play was SO interesting, I couldn't do q
thing but just sit and listen to it.
Fashionable Mother 1t was abomin-
able, the way you watched that play.
People must have thought we were
from the country.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
A Starter for a Sonnet,

Will Help me out, old boy. I'm
inditing a sonnet to the dear, pert lit
tie nez %retrousse. Give me q starter.
Harry-Open up with something APP
propriate from Shakespeare. For in
stance: That which we call q nose,
by any other name would smell as
well:'"-Putsburg Bulletin.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

KATE UPsoN CLARKE writes that
there are NO snakes in Bermuda. It is
presumed, therefore, hat q native case
of delirium tremens consists largely in
fighting centipeds, which may or may
not be an improvement.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

SINCE Boston tipplers are compelled
bylaw to take their teddy sitting down,
instead of standing at bars, the con-
sumption of intoxicants has increased
in that city,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

LAFcAD1o HgARN has succumbed to
the fascination Of life in Japan, and is
about to transport his lares and penates
there. How great a share tho little
Japanese girls, with their graceful fig
ures and dark, lustrous eyes have in
these destinations for Occidental liter
airy men, the public would be much in
terested to know.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

KING ALEXANDER of Servia, who is
now about fifteen years of age, and
who succeeded to the Servian throne
on the abdication of his father, King
Milan, March 6, 1889, Is said to be suf-
fering from a dangerous chronic NAL
ady, which fact the regents, MN.
Ristich, Belimarkovitch. and Protitch,
keep as secret as possible.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

~. .fH" ""HH|g"# .N"#H
Here Comics an Old Woman from Bar.
barry.
We're playing old woman from Barbary,
Anna and Lizzie and Marjorie;
And we're having such fun as you never
did see,
With %granny's old cap for a bonnet.
Lizzie's old woman and I an one child,
And Annals the other, and we are so wild
And saucy, our mother declares ave are
sp'iled,n
But I have my w doubts about it.
Yet, in spite of her seedlings, wherever
wego
She is telling how nicely we bake and we
sew,
To see if she cannot procure us Il beau.
For she's tired of each good for-naught
daughter.
They can sew, they can bake a lily=white
cake,
They can cook a good dinner. Oh! which
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

AN engineer on q Texas railroad
found q big flock of sheep huddled
together in a cut to get ont Of the
storm, and in driving through them
killed seventy-eight. Pieces of NUT
ton were found on the platforms of
the last car.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

the man seven times with it, however,
and the doctor said that five of the
stabs were worse wounds than could
have been inflicted with knife or
bullet.
WISCONSIN is to have a law which
provides that when a husband disap-
pears and is not heard Of for three
years by his wife she is divorced with
out further notice. The Enoch Arden
business in that State will thus receive
a bad black eye, and the man who goes
out to feed the hogs will be quite apt
to return.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
Couldn't Agree with Him.

Parson-Time heals all things, my
dear Mrs. Douter.
Mrs. D.-Reckon not, Parson. I
take notice I halter tackle my boys
socks every week.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

How sad she looks since her engage
ment has been broken! She seems ut
terly. crushed"
And her sister, who has just become
engaged, is as happy as o lark. In fact,
she seems completely mashed."-In
dianapOEs Journal,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

IN
First Bad Spirit ION the way to q
warm climate)-"You don't look very
wicked"
Second Bad Spirit-@I am not. I
am only unfortunate. In life I was a
printer"
81 see. Your mistakes caused a great
deal of profanity
"Yes; but I might have been for
given them all if it had not been for
one thing. On my last day at the case
I set up the 1ine He'll hath no fury
like a woman with corns.' That was
the last straw, and here I am."-STeet
Dc Smiths Good News.
Designating tho Brand.
Mr.. Mossbunker - Well, Honey
moon, they tell me you've been get
ting married.
Mr.. Honeymoon am proud to say,
sir, you have been truthfully informed.
MI. M.-Umph! Well, how do you
like married life?
MI. H.-My dear sir, it is a veritable
dream to me.
MI. M.-Precisely what it's been to
me.
MI. H.-Yes.
MI. M.-Yes; one of that kind Of
dreams that ATE continually breaking
out into nightmares.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

The Emperor of Austria sent the
German Empress a diamond set, which
cost SIS, 600, as a gift in celebration Of
her infants christening.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

A NEW ENGLAND shoe manufacturer
has brought out a ventilated shoe in
hopes to get around the embarrassing
position. It won't do. VentiIate the
sock and bore holes in the feet and
some men would still be known with
out m introduction.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

The Danish Kings crown is worth
$135, 900; the queens crown SIT, 500,
and the sword of state SIG, O0O.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
4 Striking Testimonial.

DR.. Rrown-That was a very inter-
csting case Of Miss Squaller's. For
nearly a year she had lost her voics en-
tirely, but J. succeeded in restoring 1t
perfectly.
Friend--You deserve a testimonial
to your skill.
DR.. Brown-I received one this
morning. The man who lives next
door to Miss Squaller shot at me-
UcSk Shore.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

FARMER DR1sKo, Of Jonesborough,
Me-, has a pillow, it is said, that has
been in constant service for ffty-three
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
A Tight Squeeze,

Bride-elect--Let's see, dear, the we'd
ding takes place at 8 and the train
leaves at -, and I've got to change my
satin wedding dress for n to travel
in. How tan I do it?
Bridegroom-elect-Well, that will
give you three hours, darling.
Bride-elect = True; but just think,
I've got to be kissed by all of my old
admirers.-Cloak ReUjeW.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

In Germany the law makes servants
give a months notice before leaving.
The mistress must give similar notice
before o discharge.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
Friend--You deserve a testimonial
JOks.

Tramp-"You gave ME a counterfeit
s. bill q few moments ago."
Practical Joker-"He! he! he! no!
no! Found it out, Ell!
"les, sir; and on my information,
an officer is 10 looking for you. Gin
me - in good money and I'll throw 'em
off the track. Thanks. Ia, ta!"-
Street d. Smiths Good Ne1Us,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

will you take?
The youngest will brew you a lovely milk
shake,
And flavor it we'll with water.
The other can play the piano and sing
Til the windows all rattle, the rafters all
ring,
And dance the cachuca like everything.
If you want Il real beauty, just take her.
"Here comes an old woman of Barbary,
With daughters all rosy and fair to see.n
And there ne'cr were such daughters, I'm
sure, as We,
For VIC love her too we'll to forsake her.
Free Press.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

The period of "a generation" has
been heightened; it used to be thirty
years, and was later increased to
thirty-four. Now, a scientist says, the
average term Of human life has in
creased in the last fifty years from
thirty-four to forty-two years.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
Profit I'M Loss.

Foreign guest The Indians are
rather expensive, 7 presume.
American citizen-No, not while we
let them live; it's killing them that
counts.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
The Are of Speed.

Friend-Let's go round to Boobies.
Police justice-All right. Be with
you in three minutes. Got only tifty
more cases to dispose of.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

IT is said that there are 300 news.
papers published in Fleet street,
London, eleven of them dailies.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
UnSeltisll.

There are usually at least two ways
OF looking at Il thing, and it is we'll
now and then to change ones point Of
view. Little Hans had just begun his
school life, and his mother was ambi-
, tious to have him keep q high standing
in his class.
"Why, Hans" she said, regretfully,
at the end of his second week, "last
week you gave me so much pleasure
by getting to be at the head of your
class, and now you are only number
four, I see."
"Yes'm, I know" admitted the little
fellow, with great gravity; "but then"
he added, "some other boys mamma
has the pleasure this week, so 1 thought
perhaps you wouldn't mind so very
much" =
you're quite right, Hans" said his
mother, giving him all appreciative
smile, 81 don't mind it at all-now!"
A True Kitten Story.
"Once on q time there were three
little kittens that lived in a basket of
sawdust."
Now that's true, for Willie Hall
found them there with his old black
cat Topsy, when he went home from
school. He told me about them the
next day. One was white, one black like
Topsy, and the other one mouse-color
-"pure maltese" he called it. He
named the white II SNOWFALL, the
black one Smut, and the other Beauty,
because it was the prettiest of all.
The next night, when he went home.
only Beauty was left. He asked his
mamma where the rest were, and she
said perhaps they were dead, for young
kittens died very suddenly sometimes.
Willie said he heard the hired man
laugh when his mother said that. I
think it is horrid to laugh because kit
tens are dead, don't you?
Topsy seemed to feel afraid Beauty
would die, too; perhaps she thought
the basket of sawdust was an
unhealthy place. She spent most of
her time the next day carrying Beauty
around in her mouth looking for a new
home. Mrs. Hall found Beauty in her
mending-basket once, and again among
the fatirons in tie sink-cubbard. Ev-
cry time she put her back in the basket
of sawdust, but Topsy wouldn't let her
stay there.
Just after Willie got home from
school at night his grandma came over
to their house. You know what a
little, feeble old lady she is, and for
all it is such a short way she was SO
tired she could hardly get up the steps,
and sank down in a chair as soon as
she got in. It is a large rocker, with
soft feather cushions, all covered with
gray cloth. Mrs. Hall brought her
some water and famed her, and Willie
tried to find Beauty to show her, but
couldn't find her anywhere. When his
grandma was rested she went back
home. and Mrs. Hall went along and
carried the parasol over her, while
Willie raj ahead to open the gate.
What do you think they found when
they went back home?
There was poor little Beauty among
the soft cushions of that chair, smoth-
cred to death! She was SO near the
color of the cushions that his grandma
didn't notice her, and had been sitting
on her all the while.
Willie said he cried. But he never,
never should tell his grandma, for she
is such a dear grandma, and it would
hurt her feelings SO.
Wasn't it kind in him ?-Household
Magazine.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

KRUPP, the German cannon-maker,
10Y turns out q gun for every ten
minutes of a working day, and there
there are four other big foundries do
ing almost as we'll. Blue birds may
nest in them now, but they are to deal
out death in the future.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
Blach AilIs Mnion.
RAPID CITY. 8. D.
UNION PUBLISHING 90.

In France there is government tax
of 2 per cent. levied on all bets on
races,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
A Matrimonial Ventura.

Blinkers-Hello, Winkers. I hear
you married q woman with an indie
pendent fortune.
Winkers (sadly)-N-o: I married a
fortune with an independent woman.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
GEN. SHERMAN was about th,

GEN. SHERMAN was about the only
II of the more famous Union com
manders who lived to complete his
SEVENTEEN year. Grant, Sheridan,
Thomas, Haacock, Meade, Mcclellan,
Warren, Mcdowell, Halleck, Hooker,
and Burnside all went over to the
great majority before reaching three
| ScOre-anl-ten.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

THERE are thirty-six places in
France where a discharged convict can
find work and q home until securing
some other employment; and EMPLOY
ers, in that country are willing to
give such men a show, but the aver
age of discharged conyicts who re-
turn to prison within two years is "a
per cent. of the whole. "Once in
stay in" is the motto.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

IA GooD deed is never lost. but it is
MED away 20 carefully sometimes that
it is hard to find it again;
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

ssEcTAcLEs were invented just 600
years ago. The use of glass to aid the
sight of defective eyes is, however,
much older. Nero looked through o
nca glass in watching the gladia-
torial games, and many other historical
men OF his day We're dependent on
similar devices for lengthening their
sight. Till the latter part of the thir-
teenth century only the single glass
was in use. In 1890 the double glass
was invented, some say by Salvino
degli Armati; others by the monk,
Alexander of Spina. In the fourteenth
century spectacles were used quite fire.
quently by the very wealthy and high
born, although they were still so scarce
that they were ~bequeathed in wills
with all the elaborate care that marked
the disposition of a feudal estate. The
holy Antonius of Padua, who preached
to the fishes when men refused to hear
him, gave to the poor, according to the
legend, not only his clothes but also
his spectacles.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

SOME of the prominent Italians in
this country are denying the existence
of the Malta Society. Such denials
are simply foolish, as there is abundant
evidence to prove that such societies
exist in several cities in the United
States, with New Orleans as head
nuartars
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

"A QUART of beans 10 tn, rot is worth
a hundred pounds Of corned beef on the
hoof. See?
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

q MAN crazed with drink was going
to kill Q Savannah carpenter named
Taylor, who had only a carpenters oil
can todefend himself with. He stabbed
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

The old legend that an Indian never
forgave an injury or forgot a favor, is
declared to be all bosh by the men
who know best. He hates no worse
than a white man, ana like the general
run of white men, doesn't slop over to
any great extent to return faYors.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

To AID in the capture of train rob-
bers it has been suggested that rockets
be supplied to the trains, so that they
could be sent up, to alarm the people
in the vicinity. Thus a posse could be
promptly summoned to the scene of
the robbery, or vigilant eyes warned
to look out for suspicious characters.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

Rev. ". n. b. MURRAY, better
known, perhaps, as Adirondack Muir
9 has purchased the old farm in
Connecticut which he was compelled
70 dispose of some years since on ac-
count OF financial reyerses, and will
spend the remainder of his days in re-
tlrement,, devoting his time to literary
work.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

A NATIVE New-Zealander was in
duced to wear a shirt, a paper collar,
shoes, and a hat, and he almost con-
cluded to eat with a knife and embrace
Christianity. Then they asked him to
wear suspenders, and he went out and
hanged himself. It was pushing civ
ilization too fast.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29

ACCORDING to the returns published
by the Min ster Of Agriculture, the to-
tai yield OF the Italian vineyards last
year was 621, 5G2, 00o gallons, as against
about SEQ 0o0, 900 the year before, Of
which rather more than a fourth was
made in Sicily, and another fourth in
the provinces constituting the former
kingdom of Naples, Piedmont about
$4,000, 900 ga Ions, and Tuscany about
40, 600, 900 gallons, and the returns
state that the quality was very good
for II per cent. Of the crop, good fo1
II per cent, moderate for 10 per cens.
md bad for | Der cent.