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

Pigskin is now used for gloves and
children's shoes.
Fifty colored men are studying for
the priesthood in Rome.
Florida claims to have supplied CAL
ifornia with 100000 young orange
trees since the 1st of September.
Four million shoe boxes were used by
New England manufacturers last year.
They cost from 25 to so cents each.
Half million dollars worth of
canned goods were shipped from this
country to tropical regions last year.
The so-called antique oak is ordi-
nary American oak sawed in pc
culiar way and stained to look like the
old English oak.
The New York City Board OF cduca-
ton has decided that no married
woman shall be eligible to election as
teacher, except by unanimous vote.
A Detroit paper thinks what this
country needs is maple sugar that
will pass thorough civil service cx-
animation at all seasons of the year.
The usual thickness of veneers for
furniture is from one-eighth to one
fortieth of en- inch, but as a curiosity
they are cut as thin as l6O to an inch.
The Prussian minister gof war at a
recent reception to the emperor SIR
! prised his guest with music furnished
by an orchestra made up of army Of
icers.
The total Indian population of the
United States in 1886 was 247,16l. and
the Indians had 212. .466 square miles
of territory reserved for their use.
There is a great increase in the con-
sumption of African teakwood. on ac~
count of its property OF preserving
from rust iron OF steel that is in con-
tact with it.
A Russian Joint stock company is
building an immense boat theatre to
float up and down the Volga River.
Performances are to be given at every
large town.
The saw is largely used now instead
of the AK in bringing down the giant
redwoods in California. The tree is
sawed partly through, and then is
forced over by wedges,
Seamless boiler tubes are now made
| lIoul SOllu litSopS VI ~ q
process that twists and stretches the
fibers, and is said to make tube much
stronger than the ordinary ones.
The herdic coaches in general use in
many parts of this country, and es-
pccially in Washington, have just been
introduced in London. and are now
proving popular as a substitute for the
hanson.
Carriage manufacturers arc predict
ing that in the not distant future wood
en- wheels will be done away with, and
steel wheels substituted on account of
the increasing scarcity of lumber for
wheels.
Continental swindlers are palmine
off upon British agriculturists great
bargains in clover seed that has been
treated with sulphur fumes to give il
bright and new look, but that's real
ly old and worthless.
A Michigan lumberman has adopted
the use of pine roots as fuel for his
hobby. He has the roots cut up into
cighteen-inch lengths and uses then
in CRATES instead of softcoal. to which
, he declares they are superior.
. French engineers are utlllzlng TIT
poppy to strengthen railroad embank
} ments. The roots of the plants form
| a network that cannot be exterminatet
without great difficulty and are, there
) fore, admirable for the purpose named
,, Woodmen say that three-fourths o
the moss on trees grows on the north
ern side, that the heaviest boughs Of
snruce trees are ALWAYS on the sOut
side, and that the topmost twig O
every hemlock tips naturally to til
east.
A man vino died in Berks county
Pa, recently at tue age of eighty-nin
years had lived all his life in on
house.