Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-03-25
MISSING LINKS.
The lazy man generally wants moth.
ing and gets it.

oAb WouHS 1lOGll
ing and gets it..
IT is told that a carpet-layer of Read.
ing. Pa, was detected sstealing a
bath" and the lady of the house was SC
delighted with his misconduct, when
missed from his work, that she declined
to prosecute him.
The human body is of q curious
compound. The chemist informs you
that the man of an average of l5J
pounds has enough iron in his make.
up to make q p~low-share, and enough
phosphorus to make u half-million
matches.
A Boston correspondent says ex.
Secretary Endicott is SAID to have his
ear glued to the ground anXiously list.
cning for the first rumble of a boom
for a Massachusetts man. He thinks
he would have a cinch on the plym
outh Rock and old family vote.
ALL of the big trees are o in Cali,
fornia. A pine tree in Pennsylvania
recently scaled s.O33 feet of lumber. Ii
made seventeen savings twelve and,
sixteen feet in length, and the top end
of the butt log was tifty-eight inches in.
diameter.
Dir. CYRUS Epson of New York in his
article entitled do We Live Too Fast?!"
publishes figures setting forth that the
wealth of the United States increased
from SIG, 159, GOO. OOOto over $40. COO. OOO,.
900 in the decade in which the civil war
occurred. Do we figure too fast in get
ting up some kinds of statistics?
THERE are giants Ill these days,
though there may not be very many OF
then. Among the weavers employed in
a Biddeford, Me-, cotton mill is a woman
Nuhn Glands civ foot 1nrl ftron ino1,o. -
her stocking feet, and is large and strong
in proportion. She is more than a match
for any man about the mill, either in
boxing or wrestling.
In Washington they tell this story:
William Waldorf Astor, it is said, came
near being rendered the post of Minister
to the Middle Kingdom at the time MIR.
Blair was declared to be persona non,
grata. The matter was preached in
Cabinet meeting but ended in q laugh
when Jerry Rusk remarked, h%orticultu-
rally: excellent! A China Astor, by
all MEANS"
AWAY up in the star North there is
a pretty close censorship of the press.
The Salvation Army is being bOycotted.
in Finland. No mention Of it of any
kind may appear in public print. So
strictly is this law being CARRIED out
that any mention. Of the army. any i'd
vertisement bearing OF the movement,
is sufficient to cause an entire issue of
a newspaperto be Cancelled.
WHEN a woman at a fisc has presence.
of mind enough to do the right thing,
make u note of it. One of the ladies'.
caught in the New York hotel fire had
presence of mind enough to wrap u wet
towel over her head and face to prevent
being sutfocated by the smoke. BY this
means she was able to remain ut u win.
dow till she gained the attention OF
those outside. The wet towel saved
her life.
Why should men care to. conceal their
poverty! 1t is often the most rcal and
best thing about them. SO poor was
DIR. Mackenzie when he started his dis.
pensary in London that after prescrib-.
fng for the patients in one room he,
used to retire to. another. where with
his own hands he dispensed the medi-
cines he had ordered. taking care in
banding ONT the bottles that his face.
should not. be seen.
A SEWING machine has, been invented
which stitches easily and rapidly
Though layers Of leather f%ive-eighths of
an}inch In thick ness, this having beer.
accomplished OH . first exhibitory trial;
IN second trial stitches we're made
evenly and rapidix through a piece Of
birb's-eye afap.e. three-eighths Of an
inch thick; aud in. q third lest the still
more remarkable feat was achieved.
viz, that OF sewing through q layer OF
brass one-eighth Of an inch thick, plsced
between pieces OF !catAer