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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
improved Methods Of warfare.

Recent experiments at the naval
proving ground with q Calling our at
tached to an electric motor have deter
mined q new method for firing this class
Of ordnance on shipboard. The results
were satisfactory, and hereafter guns
mounted on deck or 4aloft will be oper-
ated by q motor. Landing parties on
shore will continue to fire the gun by the
usual method. The motor attachment is
an improvement instituted by DIR. r. j.
Calling, and the plans Of the arrange
ment were made by the Crocker-Whecler
Motor company Of New York City,
who also furnished the electrical appli.
ance. The adoption of the motor will
result in an economy of men and In CT
fort, and will increase the efficiency OF
the fire. Where before two men were
required to operate the gatiing guns,
only mi will be necessary hereafter.
Heretofore n man, the gunner, trained
the gun and dropped the shot where
they would produce the greatest effect,
and another operated the crank which
sets in motion the mechanism of the
piece. By the new system the gunner
alone trains and operates the gun BY
touching q button.
The motor is attached to the breech Of
the gun and moves with it in all direc
.tions. 1t a be detached instantly, the
connection being a specially devised one
and injury to the motor alone will no
impair the usefulness of the gun The
greater stcadiness of application by tn.
electricity renders the Calling gun more
effective as a piece Of ordnance thar
when operated by hand. The serving il
as certain and there is increased regular
fly. These elements have entered int
the new arrangement and given to thu
service another use for the electric cur
. rent.-NeW York Tribune.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
~ uTsst ~ coIy.rt,o.

low uslss0faht Nas Convsrteds
Dr.. Newman preached q memorial ser
mon, which he particularly addressed to
: delegation, 100 strong, from the u. 81.
Grant post, g. A. B., OF Brooklyn. He
spoke from his knowledge Of Gen.
Grants character and life, and portions
Of his address were thrillingly interest
ing. There were many fearful eyes as
he told the story Of Grants conversion
and baptism.
zone evening, . said DR.. Newman, ten
tering the room where the General and
Mrs. Grant were seated, Isaid: General,
300 Methodist preachers In New Jersey
stood up to-day and prayed for you.'
eyes said the General, land I have
heard that q number OF men and women
in Boston have banded themselves to-
gether to pray for me, and little children
have sent me notes saying they have
added my name to the names OF their
papas and mammasin their prayers and
then / Jaw the big gray eyes fill with
tears.
".What do you say, General said I,
shall we not join in the universal petit
tion?'"
It was while they prayed. DR.. New
man said, that the general became a con-
verified man, and in deep, solemn voice
uttered repeated 'samens" to the petit
ton that was offered in his behalf. The
baptism took place, DIR. Newman said,
at q time when in the opinion of the at
tending physicians the general had but
five minutes more to live, although as a
matter of fact death was at the time sc
remote that the general lived to go or
and almost complete the story of hi:
life.-NelC York Times,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
An Epl,oopaltan Horse.

Rev. DR.. Broadus, an old Baptist par
son, famous in Virginia, once visited o
plantation where the darby who met
him at the gate asked him which barn
he would have his horse put in,
aHave you two harns?' asked the
doctor.
@Yes, sah." replied the darkey; adar's
de ole barn, and Mas'r Wales has ies
build a new one"
where do you usually put the horses
Of clergymen who come to see your
master?7
aWell, sab. if dey's Methodis's or
Baptists's, we gen'ally put 'em in lie ole
barn, but if dey's 'Piscopals VIC puts
'em in de new one"
well, Bob, you a put my horse in
the new harm; I'm q Baptist, hut my
horse is an Episcopalisn,"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
A Straight Verdict.
To Husbands.

You require a great deal from your
wife in the way of patience and tender
ness. Don't forget that she has equal
claims on you. Don't be gruf and rude
at home. Had you been that sort of
fellow before marriage the probabilities
are that you would be sewing OF your
own buttons still. Don't make your
wife feel that she is an incumbrance on
you by giving %grudgingly. What she
needs, give c%heerfully, as if it were a
pleasure to do so. She will feel bet
ter, and SO will you. Don't NEEDLE in
the affairs OF the house under her
charge. You have no more right to
be poking your nose into the kitchen
than she has to walk into your place of
business and give direction to your en-
ployers.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
Gluttons.

#Hr
Among the accounts of enormous
eaters there are perhaps none more ex-
traordinary than that related in Full
ler's Worthless" concerning Nicholas
Wood, of Harrison, Kent, Eng. The
account says: He ate at n meal a
whole sheep, and at another time thirty
dozen of pigeons. At the residence of
Sir William Sidney he ate as much as
would have suficed for thirty
At Lord Watten's, in Kent, he de-
voured eighty-four rabbits at n sit
ting, which. at the rate of half q rabbit
for each man, would have served 1853
men. At breakfast he ate eighteen
yards of black pudding and during the
day ate a whole hog. When accommo-
dated with fruit he ate three pecks of
damsons.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
Nemesis.

r. What is Mrs. O'Shea like? What man
ner of woman is this 'smodern Helen?'
Are her charms so overpowering that
even the casual observer is impressed?
Inasmuch as no adequate portrait of
Mrs. O'Shea has been published in this
country, at least since her name became
o part of history and her beatty a mount
ain in the path Of liberty, the following
description of her from the lips of a fam
Gus traveller will satisfy some curiosities:
''She is not a brilliant woman intellectu.
ally, any more than was Delilah OF
Helen of troy. Cleopatra was, but there
has never been but one Cleopatra. Mrs.
O'Shea is a sort of IN Amazon; she has
the thick lips and bullying brow we see
in the Cleopatra medals, and she is as
c~od-blooded ordinarily as Cleopatra was
known to be; while she is not a very tall
or big-boned woman, she is rudy and
fuil-blooded; her hair is blonde and pro.
fuse and her complexion is fair. Hel
brother, Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood, is the
soul of honor, and the mystery of the
sisters conduct is apparently inexplica'
ble."-NeW York World.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
Bow Hungry Elephants Feed.

One favorlte food of the African ele
plant is the tender JUICY roots of the
mimosa tree, which grows in scattered
groups through most of the meadows
aud lowlands of central Africa.
When an elephant finds a young tree
of this sort, it is not difficult as a rule,
for him to get at the roots especially il
the surrounding soil is moist and loose,
as is often the case after it has been
soaked by the heavy rainfalls of the
tropics.
If the tree is loose, the elephant,
knowing his. strength. winds his trunk
firmly round the tree, and plucks it
from the earth, a feat which is n harder
for him than the pulling up of a flower
is for a child.
But the elephant does not stop here;
experience has taught him the most
comfortable way of enjoying his prize,
so without relaxing his hold, he turns
the tree completely over, and stands it
with its upper branches thrust down
into The place where the roots were.
Then the earthly roots, now replacing
the branches, remain within easy reach
of thu, strong and deft trunk.
African travellers tell us of great
tracts of country almost covered with
these inverted trees. Seeing the dry
trees turned upside down one would be
more likely to'think q wood had been
reversed by mischievous fairies, than to
suppose hungry elephants had been
feeding there.
Sometimes an elephant will find a
tree which defes his greatest efforts,
and absolutely refuses to be uprooted.
But the elephant does not give it up.
Not at all: He either brings another
elephant to help him-a thing they
often do when the work is too much for
one-or, if he cannot find a friend, he
sets his own wits to work. He makes
use of his tusks as levers, thrusting
them, as if they we're crowbars, deep
under the roots, and prizes away slowly
and steadily until the tree is loosened
and then with a great wrench he com,
pletely uproots it and it goes toppline
! over, leaving the clever elephant vic.
torious.-Caryl D. Haskins, in st.
| Nicholas.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
Physicians Have Found Out

That q contamination and foreign element in
the blood, developed by indigestion, is the cause
Of rheumatism. This settles upon the sensi-
tive sub-cutsneous covering OF the muscles and
ngaments Of the joints, causing constant and
shifting pain, and a~ggregating as a calcareous.
chalky deposit which produces stiffness and
distortion Of the joints. No fact which expert
ence has demonstrates in regard to Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters has stronger evidence to sup.
port than this. namely, that this medicine OF
comprehensive uses checks the formidable and
atrocious disease, nor is 1t less positively es'
tablished that it is preferable to the poisonf
often used to arrest 1t, since the medicine con
tains only salutary Ingredients. It is also &
signal remedy for malarial fevers, constipation
dyspepsia, kidney and bladder ailments, debil
ity and other disorders. See that you get thu
GAMMA
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
The staee and the church.

Mrs. Lyne-Stephens has just betrayed
the entire expense, no less than $780,
600, of building q magnificent Roman
Catholic Church in Cambridge, Eng
land. Forty years ago Mrs. Lyme
Stephens was one of the most celebrated
dancers in Europe. She was then
known as Yolands Marie Louise DIVER
nay. In 1916 she married the
late Mr. Lyne-Stephens, of Lyn-
ford Hall. The new church stands
in grounds given principally by
the Duke Of Norfolk, and is called" Tie
Church Of Our Land and the English
Martyrs
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
queer Idea of Cleanliness.

The energetic and critical New York
Sun has to say of the present republican
administration that emo public scandal
blurs its record. 1t is declared to be the
%cleanest since James Buchanan and
Abraham Lincoln" But, speaking of
the Buchanan administration, was not
the stealing Of the United States navy
for use against the government some
thing in the nature of a public scandal?
AS Chief Executive Buchanan was a
humbug, and his cabinet vas corrupt
enough to do it's best to sell out the
country.-Ctncinnatt Gazette.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
The Prairie Chicken.

The pinnated grouse or. a. it is com
monty called, the prairie chicken, is q
queer bird. Shy, and often difficult to
approach, it still loves to be in the
vicinity of human habitation, writes
Walter NJ. Wolfe, in Outing. 1t has
followed the farmer from the Western
Reserve to the prairies of Illinois, across
the Mississippi, and it is o begin
ming to be abundant in the western
counties of Kansas and Nebraska and in
Eastern Colorado.
Before it has fed the prairie sharp
tailed grouse, that formerly was found
in the uplands of Iowa, Nebraska, and
Dakota. Following tits the quail or
Bob White-the bird of the underbrush
and timber, as the prairie chicken is of
| cornields and stubble. It has come
with the homesteader and with the
meadow lark, and welcomes the robins,
bluebirds, and warblers that arrive only
when orchards are set out and timber
claims are we'll under away.
In some respects the game bird OF
the plains changes his habits with his
habitat. Especially is this noticeable
during the breeding season. The
pIukIl0 Cu1Chcu III 44lAO1 WALL 10y AVS
eggs and rear its young in the same
field where it will be hunted after in
the season. But in the Platte Valley,
in Nebraska, it makes its nest on the
islands. These islands are low, fringed
with brush and covered with luxuriant
grasses that are not cut until late in the
autumn. Here there is absolutely no
danger of molestation from man, and
prairie fires are comparatively unknown.
Late fires cook probably one-third OF
the eggs that are laid on the uplands.
The blooming" by the river has
stopped. The male birds are already
on the uplands. Amid the carex and
wild grass, under plum brush and be-
side the osiers the young birds are get
ting fat. Their mothers teach them to
exercise their wings, and their eyes are
sufficiently bright to detect a grass
hopper or a butterfly many yards away.
But this kind of life cannot last forever.
It is early in July. The click of the
mower floats down from the rolling
p~rairies above the river. Oats are
ripening, and the wheat will soon be
ready for the reaper. The river grass
is drying. 1t is time for flight. 1t
seems as though this migration is pre-
concerted. Early in July the females
bring their broods together, and for a
couple Of days there is an incessant
flight to the north aud south. Then
the islands are deserted until next
spring.
The hunting season should not begin
before the middle of August, and
farmers as a rule comply with the regu-
~lations Of the game law, But every
town has a few self,styled sportsmen.
who commence to destroy chickens and
quail before the young birds have their
power of fight fully developed. This
makes harder work and longer trips for
those who shoot only in open season.
Still such a state Of affairs cannot be
helped until the West makes provisions
for the rigid enforcement of the game
laws already enacted, but which are
practically q dead letter. Were sports
mems clubs an institution west as well
as east of the Mississippi the matter
would 500 rectify itself.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
Deafness Can't Be Cured

By local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure Deafness, and that is by c~onstitu.
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in.
famed condition OF the mucous lining OF the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets infamed
you have q rumbling socnd or imperfect hear
ing, and when 1t is entirely closed Deafness is
taken out and this tube restored to its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever
nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh
which is nothing but an inhamed condition Of
tho mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness :(caused by Catarrh) that we
cannot cure by taking Halls Catarrh Cure. Send
Tor circulars, free.
FL. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo, Ohio.
HcEO1d nv Drnppists. TIC.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
WONDERS FROM THE ORIENT,
strange Thines That VIII b Seer at tn,
Coming worlds Fair.


strange Things That VIII b seen q ths
Ccmins worlds Fair.
II received my credentials on Satuf-
day Is commissioner for the worlds fair
to Turkey, Egypt, Syria and Persis,
saidD Dr.. Cyrus Adler to q representa-
tive Of q Washington paper the other
morning. II sail ten days hence. to be
absent one year. The object Of my trip
is. in the first place, to arouse interest
on the partiof the governments Of those
countries il the coming exposition, to
obtain contributions in the shape OF ex-
hibits and to make observations OF life
and affairs in the orient. An important
feature of the great show in Chicago is
to represent the East, its people, its
manners and its products. Instead of
getting together a lot Of orr
entail goods and putting them in glass
cases for the ediication of the multi
tude, there will be q boulevard with
cross streets, each Of which will be
made to represent with rs much accu-
racy and vividness as possible IN actual
street in an Eastern city. It is largely
for the purpose of making such opera
tions as will enable me to properly con-
struct these glimpses Of Eastern cities
that I am about to make this journey.
The streets will be actual copies of real
ones that are most typical in Cairo,
Damascus. Bagdad, Bayreuth, Jerus-
lem, Alexandria, Constantinople, and
elsewhere. I shall visit each of these
towns and shall obtain the necessary
data on the spot. With such surround
ings visitors to the fair will be made to
feel as ii they were journeying through
the Orient. Turning around a corner
from a street in Bagdad, they will find
themselves in Damascus, whence
another turn will take them into Jeru-
salem, and 80 on throughout al imagi-
nary journey in Eastern lands. They
will have presented to them in this way,
q picture OF life as it is lived in those
PARKWAY countries. In the shops along
the way they will gaze upon the people
engaged in their native occupations and
incidentally they will behold the actual
production of the manufactures placed on
view. For example, the glass-workers
of Hebron will be seen making their
famous ware after the same methods
they have practiced for thousands Of
years. Damascus, naturally, will be
represented by its manufacture of cut
lery, for which through so many cen.
turtles it has been famed. From Syria
will come the makers of silk and carpet
woods, while the Egyptians will show
what they can do i'll the way of making
furniture aud tanning skins. An Orien'
tai tannery will probably be a point Q:
interest in the exposition; likewise
an Eastern theater and eating house
The curing of fruit, the manufacture o
preserves and the preparation of prime;
for market will be among the things
worth seeing. But these are ouly
few of the ideas which are likely to bt
carried out. I can tell you better wher
I come back about the wonders of tina
part of the world which the Columbian
fair may be expected to display"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15

NORMALLY a car load continues to be
20. 900 pounds. It is also 70 barrels Of
salt, 70 of lime, 80 of -four, 6 cords Of
soft wood, 10 or 40 head Of cattle, 80 to
60 head Of hogs, 30 or 100 head Of
sheep, 5000 feet Of solid boards. $4,000
feet Of siding. 10000 feet of Touring,
10000 shingles, one-half less Of hard
lumber, one-tenth less Of joist, scantling
and other large timbers, $40 bushels Of
wheat. 400 Of barley, 400 Of corn, $50
Of oats, 800 Of flax seed, 800 Of apples.
$40 of Irish potatoes, $50 of sweet
potatoes, 1000 ofbran. II is generally
as much more as the shipper can gel
sneaked in without extra charge.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
Hoods %SarsapariUa
SHILoH's
C0NSU MPTI0N
CURE.

The success Of this Great Cough Cure is
without a parallel in the history Of medicine.
All druggists are authorized to sell it on a pos.
five guarantee, q test that no other cure can sue
eessfully stand. That it may become known,
the Proprietors, at an enormous expense, are
placing i Sample Bottle Free into every home
In the United States and Canada. If you have
aCouqh, Sore Throat, or Bronchitis, use il, for
It will cure You. If your child has the Group.
or Whooping Cough, use it promptly, and relief
Is sure. If you dread that insidious disease
Consumption, use it. Ask your Druggist for
SHILOH'S CURE, Price 10 cts, 50 cts. and
$500. If your Lungs are sore or Back lame,
pse Shiloh's Porous Plaster, Price IS ctA
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
The waste Of Animal Food.

The flesh OF domestic animals fit for
food is almost a waste substance in many
countries, since it cannot be locally con-
sumed nor profitably% preserved. In the
River Platte republics alone there are
3d. 900, 900 sheep and 25, 600, 900 cattle
to a population of 2, 500, 600. For years
sheep were only valued there for their
wool, and when fayed, were
left to rot, or when dried in the sun,
piled up in stacks for fuel, while latter
on, they were boiled down for their
tallow. Sheep get very fat in the
province of Buenos Ayres, and those OF
three and four years will give frequently
from eighteen to twenty-five pounds Of
tallow. Countless numbers of sheep
are boiled down every year in the So
called graserias only for the tallow.
which forms n of the staple articles
of export. The mutton is thrown
away, Of used in a dry state as fuel.
In the five years ending with 1856,
more than 100000 sheep, and 2OO,-
900 horned cattle were bold down SIM
ply for their tallow, in the colonies OF
| New South Wales and Victoria,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15

A CHICAGO company has been incor-
porated for the purpose of building
elevated roads on = new plan. It may
be hoped that it is . simpler plan than
the n adopted by . large number Of
the elevated-road projects that We have
been hearing Of the last year.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15

The present rate for telegraphic mes
sages from London to Australia is about
50 q word. It is thought that it can be
reduced to 81 a word. Frequent mes
sages are sent costing 91,OOO, and one
wa sent o short time ago by o Lon
doner that cost SIG, 900.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15

The number of hairs on the human
scalp varies from $4,000 to 100000; .
single hair will support q weight Of two
ounces, and is so elastic that it may be
stretched to one-third of its entire
length and then regain its former size
and condition.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15

THERE are 100000 women in the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union,
135, 900 in the Kings Daughters, 1O0,-
600 in the Woman's Relief Corps, and
IS, 900 in the Eastern Star. An aggre-
gate of nearly 500, 900 banded together
under various names for loyal service to
all manner of human need.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15

The railroad casualties of the year
1890 have been worse than epidemic.
There is a fatality implied in the EN-.
ployment Of this latter word. The
constant repetition of them which one
encounters leads to the conclusion that
they are the result of defective manage.
ment of our railroad systems. This
loss Of life this year upon railroads is
absolutely appalling, and the amount
of horror and of suffering that are at
tendant cannot be estimated. The sub
ject needs attention of all railroad men,
and a common movement is necessary
toward %remedying the evil.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
Many Royal widows in Europe.

Almost every country in Europe pos
sesses an illustrious widow, from Vic
toriai in England to the young Duchess
of Aosta in Italy; the Empress Freder-
ick in Germany, Christina in Spain,
Charlotte, wife of Macmillan, Emperor
of M. leo, who is melancholy mad in
the Chateau of Conchont; Princess
Stephanie, Archduchess of Austria, and
Natalie, worse than widowed ex-Queen
Of Servia, and the unhappy, heart
broken Eugenia, ex-Empress of the
French.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15

IT has been found that the Kede-
mann. Tilford steel process, which con-
sists of treating the metal in a bath into
which glycerine enters largely, causes
an increase in ductility and tensile
strength far beyond any record in that
respect that has yet been established
BY either Government or private tests.
The very finest and strongest grade of
steel, superior in these properties to
any other now in use, a be produced
by this process at only a little more
than the cost of the crude Bessemer
article,