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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
Whore He Got the Information.

A friend of Sir Lubbock's who was
travelling around the world sent him
specimens of marine animals, which
he studied carefully and of which he
published a description. One of these
was new to the naturalist, and, to
his disappointment, his friend said
nothing in his notes of its hab.
itat. He wished very much
to add this information to his
account. At last he thought that he
had found the important statement,
for the label on the bottle in which
the animal had been preserved and
sent home read, 90 Is. } W." "Evi-
IDENTIFY" thought Sir John Lubbock.
ssthis means that the animal was
captured in a spot half a degree west
longitude and halt a degree south
latitude" -.
He published this conclusion, and
rested content until his friend came
home and demanded, "My dear fell
low, what on earth made you say that
l found that animal in the latitude
and longitude you mentioned? 1 was
never within 500 miles of the place."
Sir John produced the bottle, and
pointed to the label. 81 took the in
formation from this" he said. s:What
else can . S. ] W. mean?:"
"Mean?" was the reply. "Why, it
means that the animal is preserved
in Il mixture half spiriJs and half wa.
teri"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
Gold.

Gold is so very tenacious that a
piece Of it drawn into wire one TWEEN
tieth of an inch in diameter will us
tain a weight of 500 pounds without
breaking. Its malleability is SO great
thata single gram may be dividedinto
1900, 900 parts and a cubic inch into
1923, 800, 513 parts, each of whichmay
be distinctly seen with the naked eye.
A grain and a half of gold may be
beaten into leaves of one inch square,
which if intersected by parallel lines
drawn at right angles to each other,
and distant only the one-hundredth
part of an inch, will produce 25, 600,
900 little squares each of which may
be distinctly seen without the aid Of
q glass. The surface of any giyer
quantity of gold, according to the
best authorities, may be extended by
the hammer BIOS times. The
thickness of the metal thus extended
appears to be no more than the $685.
O2Oth part of an inch. Eight ounces
of this wonderful metal would gild q
silver wire of sufficient length to eA.
tend entirely around the globe.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
r.rl. b Den.

"A most extraordinary discovery has
just been made by the police on the
Boulevard Ornano. Two policemen
on night duty followed several sus-
picious looking individuals who were
carrying large parcels and were as
tonished to see them disappear as if
by magic into the glacis of the tortiti-
cations. They went up to the spot
and saw a ray of light coming through
Il crack and heard sounds of laughter.
One of them went off at once for
rc-cnforcements and as soon as other
officers had arrived they raised Il
heavy trap door and went down a
staircase cut into the earth into a
largechamber, thickly carpetcd, where
five men and three women we're
carouslng. The gas company were
captured and taken before the COM
missary of police, who soon learned
that they were professional thieves
and that they had lived quietly for six
months in the cave. which they had
dug in the fertilization. An immense
quantityof stolen property was found.
-Galignani's Messenger.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08

A story is told of a member of Con.
gress, Mr.. Taulbee, which contaiEa
considerable humor.
An old colored man called Uncle
Eph had lived in the Taulbee family
many years, and was considered an
honest and faithful servant. Aftes
his election to Congress, Mr.. Taulbee
was tainted by some of his opponents
with the statement that Uncle Eph
had voted against him.
Loath to believe it, he called old
Eph INTO the room and said
"Uncle Eph, is it true that you
voted against me at the election?"
eyes, Massa William" replied Eph;
81 voted de Publican ticket"
"Well," said Taulbee, 81 like
frankness, and here's a dollar for your
candor."
The old colored man stood scratch
ing his head, when Taulbee asked
"Well, Eph, what is it?:"
"Well, Massa Taulbee," said Eph,
tff you is buying candor you owe me
TO- dollars no. kase I voted agin yel
five times"
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
Kan.a. ut. Ca"

The "History of the University Of
Kansas" whispers in the public ear
an account of certain practical Jokes,
which from time to time enlivened
gray scholastic days. AT one period
a secret society suddenly broke into
being. The boys composing it wore a
badge consisting of the letters s'T.
C.." at least two inches long, wrought
out, of new tin. No one could guess
what the object of the society might
be, until it became evident that tur-
Keys were misteriously disappearing
from various localities.
Thus the matter ran on until, in
an unlucky hour, the boys raided the
poultry-yard of Judge Nelson Ste
phcns. Now the Judge was not Il
nan to be triflcd with; he soon de-
tected the rogucS and resolved forth
with to punish them in his own pc
culiar way.
Without mentioning his discovery
outside his own family, he politely in
vited all the .'T. C.'s" to supper.
They were delighted with the invita-
tion and accepted it forthwith. The
Judge received them most cordially,
and kept them in a roar with funny
stories until supper was announced.
Still shaking with laughter, the guests
were shown into the dining-room and
assigned their places.
On the plate of each "T. c." was a
huge turkey! The Judge begged them
to help themselves, and went on with
his funny stories, as if he were ac-
customed to serve guests with whole
turkeys every day in thc'ycar.
The boys were in torture; they could
neither cat nor listen. The Judge,
however, too polite to notice their
embarrassment, simply urged them to
eat, and kept on with his stories.
Thus did he ''roast" the boys as
thoroughly as they had ever roasted
his turkeys.
That very night the disconsolate
'Turkcy-Catchers" disbanded, and
their badges were seen no more.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
:rer,,ou. Feat. Unchecked.

I'VE terrible parachute accident at
iaolhHay resembles the disaster at
Leeds by which Higgins lost his life,
and points its W moral. In the
Leeds case, it may be remembered, a
majority of the coroncr's jury wished
to add a rider to their verdict dis
%couraging parachute dcscents as a
means of public amusement, but they
were %outvoted, and everyone knows
that Mr.. Matthews refused to inter.
fcre with Baldwin at the Alexandra
Palace. So long, then. as the public
crowds to see such feats, SO long, we
suppose, will adventurous spirits be
found willing to crafty that public;
but they know the peril attached,
and if for a fame which is question
able they choose to run the risk of
dashing their brainsout, that is their
affair. All the same, we fail to see
why the police, as in Dublin recently,
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
Win. Drinking I'D plnners.

1t is an undoubted fact that the
serving of many and heavy wines at
large dinners is gradually becoming 8
thing of the past, writes George w.
Childs in the Ladies' Home Journal.
OF course, I do not mean that wines
are no longer served, for they are and
will continue to be, so long as civil.
lied men consider them a feature OF
dinners. But / do mean that of the
varieties of wine there are fewer, Of
the quantities less, and of the quail.
tY lighter, than was the custom ten
years ago Were I preparing for a
large dinner for mcn-which is always
from the nature of things more heavi.
ly wined than an ordinary "mixcd"
dinner-I should not think it in the
least degree necessary to order any
thing like the same amount or assort-
ment of wines that would have been
imperative a few years ago. And in
extenuation of the statement that
the qualities of the wines served are
becoming lighter, the simple fact that
at the average English dinncr-table
port wine has been almost entirely
superseded by claret, may be cited.
1t is also becoming a very ordinary
thing at English dinners to meet
prominent men who do not drink
wines of any kind, and in our coun-
try this is also becoming more and
more a fact. OF course, a dinner
must have fluids; the best of solids
require some liquids with which to
relish them, and a dinner would be
but wasted energy and material with
out them. But l think it is no long
er imperative to serve wines, OF at
least we can serve with them some
other beverage which will be of equal
pleasure to the constantly increasing
set Of people who find that winning
and dining together is rather too
heavy a combination for their COM
fort.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
TO FIGHT THE SMOKE.
Invention Of an Apparatus for the Pro.
lection of E1remen.

Invention of an Apparatus for In Pro.
lection OF Flremen.
This might be some sort Of ele.
phantine freak or a new style of div.
ing apparatus, but it is neither. 1t
is q safeguard for firemen, and was
invented by w. +. Merryman, a vet
eran member of the Denver depart
ment.
MI. Merryman has long been inter-
ested in the problem of providing
some device which would enable q
fireman to penetrate the densest
smoke without danger Of inhaling it.
The invention which he has just per-
fected will, it is said, accomplish this
result, and is based upon the discov-
cry that a column of water four inches
in diameter or less will, when sud-
denly reduced to about one-third that
size at the nozzle, gather with it at
that point large quantities Of air.
Two pipes lead from the air accumu-
lator fastened on the end Of the noz-
zle to the rubber mask, completely
e%nveloping the face. Through the
pipe nearest the end of the nozzle
passes the fresh air gathered from the
water, while from the other passes,
by eason Of a vacuum, the exhausted
air from the lungs.
The apparatus is equally we'll
adapted for use in mines in case Of
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
Thumb ~Ident,Hcntion.

At a recent meeting of the Anthro-
polCgical Institute MI. Francis CAL
ton, +. r. S., exhibited a large num-
Der of impressions of the bulbs of
the thumb and fingers of human
hands, showing the curves of the
capillary ridges on the skin. These
impressions are an unfailing mark of
the identity of a person, since they do
not vary from youth to age, and are
different in different individuals.
There is a statement that the Chinese
who seems to be credited with every
new discovery-had used thumb inn
prcssions as proofs of identity for a
long time, but Mr.. Gallon pronounced
1T to be an e%ggregious error. I'M
pressions Of the thumb formed, in
deed. a kind of oath or signature
among the Chinese, but nothing more.
Sir W. J. Herschell, however,
when in the Civil Service of
India, introduced the practice of inn
printing finger marks as a check on
pcrsonation. Mr.. neutrality-suspicious.
were taken from over two thousand
persons by spreading a thin film Of
printers ink ON a plate of glass, then
pressing the thumb or finger carefully
ON the plate to ink the capillary
ridges, and afterwards printing the
latter on a sheet of white paper.
Typical forms can be discerned and
traced, Of which the individual forms
are mere varieties. Wide departures
from the typical forms are very rare.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
Myths.

No people in the world, civilized or
savage, believe in the existence of so
many mythical, half-supernatural
creatures as do the Japanese. For
instance, they think there is IL Won
drous tiger of more than half-human
intelligence that lives to be 1000
years old and turns as white us IL po-
lar bear. They also believe i'm Il species
of fox, if it lives to be fifty years old
without having been chased by adog,
transforms himself into IL beautiful
woman. This same fox. if he lives to
the age of 100 years, gains some new
powers, among which is that of be-
coming Il wonderful wizard. When
he reaches the age of 1000 years he
becomes a celestial fox with nine
goldcn-colored tails and has the pow
or of going to Heaven whenever he
chooses. They also believe i'm Il null
titudc of animals distinguished main
ly by their monstrous size or by the
multiplication of their members.
Among these are scrpcnts 500 feet
long and big enough to swallow an
elephant: foxes with eight legs;
monkeys with four ears; fishes with
ten heads attached to n body, the
flesh of which is Il cure for boils.
They also believe in the existence of
a crane which after it has reached
the age of 600 years has no need of
any su%stenance except water. Their
mythical dragon has the head of IL
camel, the horns of adecr, the eyes of
a demon, the ears of an ON, the body
of IL serpent, the scales of Il fish, and
the claws and wings of an eagle.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
Ear Western Gallsntry.

Miss Lizzie Green met with a sc
~ousyaccident one Sunday afternoon
while out sleigh-riding. The sleigh.
overturned and the lady was thrown
to the ground with great violence
and there Is a confusion on her ala
.bastrian brow as long as a clothes
line. Miss Green has our sympathy
In her misfortune and accident. and
II it would do any good we would butt
the Rocky Mountain range of mount.
aims ont or Observation-Disclosures
Picket.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
The 1,arbarous Esuulmaux,

Both sexes among the Esquimaux
are tattooed. Labrets are favorite
ornaments. In early youth a,cut is
made in the lower lip and a small
wooden ring is introduced to keep it
from closing. Gradually it is en-
larged and the adult is decorated
with a labret of jade, ivory, bone or
glass, shaped like a silk hat in minia-
ture, the rim being inside the mouth
to hold it.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
Giants of the Forest,

In big trees the new state of WASH
ington is quite rich. A Seattle paper
mentions a fir in Sumas which is
eight and one-half feet in diameter.
Near Stanwood there is a cedar sew
enteen feet in diameter thirty-three
feet from the roots, and twelve feet
in diameter 112 feet from the roots.
Nooksack reports a fir twelve feet in
diameter.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
The war Was Over.

I was told a good story about Gen.
Grant to-day that never sawi in print,
says a writer in the Louisville Courier
Journal. It will be recalled that
early in the war the New York Fire
Zuaves were a crack regiment, COM
manded by Col. Ellsworth. Every
man in the ranks had been a fireman
md it was confidently believed that
Ellsworth's command was able to put
down the rebellion without assistance.
The Colonel was a young man, hand
some, gallant, burning with military
nrdor and thirsting for military fame.
He was as much the idolof the North
as Ashby was a few months later the
idol of the South. The Fire Zouaves
were the first troops to march into
Alexandria, Va. Their Colonel was
at their head and after the town had
surrendered Ellsworth saw a rebel
flag flying from a hotel.
Instead of ordering a squad to re-
move it he bolted into the house, as
cended the stairway, went out on the
roof and captured the flag; descend
ing he "a confronted by the landlord
-one Jacksonville shot him dead.
Jackson himself was then shot to
death, and the affair created more
sensation than considerable battles a
few years later. After the war a
daughter of Jackson secured an-ap-
pointment in n of the Government
departments. She was a modest, dill
gent and capable young woman, and
discharged her official duties accepta-
bly,. In the course of time a super.
loyal gentleman was put in charge Of
the bureau in which she worked.
Nosing around, he soon discovered
the antecedents of the young clerk and
discharged her. She was friendless
and penniless, and as a last resort
went to the White House and called
for Gen. Grant. He received her and
she related her story to the silent
man. Without saying a word he took
a piece Of paper and wrote: "The
wal against men is ended and my adj
mfnistration shall not begin one
against women, Restore Miss jack
sos to her clerkship instantly" This
was addressed to the loyal bureau
official and the young lady is yet in
the public service. That was an ex-
hibition of chivalry that Duriois or
Francis /. might have envied. /.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
Human Magnets.

The human frame is an excellent
magnet. A man will carry a watch
or years and be proud of its accuracy;
chen he will fall sick, the watch will
.ie on the mantel or on the dresser,
saa will develop great i~naccuracy and
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08

unreliability. No explanation i.
forthcoming except the one that the
absence Of magnetism upsets the tima
announcer, and the.best proof Of this
is that when the man gets around
again and carries his watch it soon
gets all right. No two men appea,
to have the same magnetism in their
frames, and it is seldom that two
individuals can use the same watch
satisfactorily.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
Neya,s Delightful Climate,

In May, June and July the weather
on the Neya is as hot as it is in sum-
mer time in Queensland, and the
chief delights of the people whose
official duties dctain them in the
capital is to be rowed about the Neva
in the soft and mellow cleaning, and
to experience the plcasurable sense
tion of being able to read the news
paper without the aid of artificial
light at II p. m.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08

a citizen of Chicago has invented
a simple device for delivering mail
matter to the upper floors of build
ings by means of movable boxes at
tached to wires on the exterior. The
effect is to save an endless amount of
stair climbing matter which stead
lily assumes increased importance as
buildings grow in height.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
Standard of the Turks.

The sacred standard at Constanti-
nople is believed to be formed of the
neither garment of Mohammed, and a
pair of his pyjamas, which are rever-
entially preserved at Lahore, are held
by the faithful to have miraculously
extinguished a fire at that place no
longer ago than lS49.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
Our Arnao,al Gr,nder..

The number of artificial teeth made
in America is increasing very rapidly.
Last year the trade turned out nearly
forty million teeth. The houses which
do the most extensive export trade
are obliged to prepare teeth of differ
ent colors for different countries.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
FIJI NAN Il o y


Excitement
About seven miles from the Arkan-
VAS River we met a man on the high
way with q gun on his shoulder. Has
looked as If he had been having q te1
round go with break-bonefevcr, al
that after he had been knocked Out
somebody had run his suit of clothes
through a corn-sheller. He stopped
and we stopped, and he asked:
"Goin' down asfur as Cark's Bend?"
"Yes."
"Do mt a favor?:"
eyes"
"Jest after you cross Goose Creek
you'll see a shacklety cabin on the
left. Thar'll be an ole woman sittin'
on a log dippin' or smokin' a pipe"
eyes"
"And seven tow-headed and ragged
young'uns rollin' around in the dit"
eyes"
"Waal, that's my place and family,
or was up to an hour ago. l want We
to stop and tell the old woman that
I've quit. My names Hiram, and il
she doubts you, which she won't, you
Sin describe me-"
edo you mean youhavel left home?"
"Sartin. I've got clean sickened
out, and I'm headed fur a healthier
climate. Might jist stop and tell the
old woman, SO she won't think I've
mired or d%rownded."
"But didn't you tell her you were
going?:"
"No. I was out shootin' squirrels
and made up my mind all of a sud.
len. It's right on your road and
won't stop you more'n a minuit.
Good-by."
We found the place without diff.
Guilty. There was.the shacklety cabin,
and there sat the old woman calmly
smoking a clay pipe with a stem only
two inches long. Scattered around
among the stumps were half a dozen
children, each one seemingly moro
dirty and ragged than the other. I
was deputized to break the news to
the woman.
"Howdy, stranger!" she saluted as I
approached.
"Madam, have you gotta husband
named Hiram" / asked.
"I reckon"
"Tall. sickly-looking man, with
ragged clothes on?"
ssThat's Hi"
"Well, we met him up the road
about three miles, and he asked us to
stop and tell you he'd quit"
"Dun left us?:"
eyes"
"Gwine off by hisself?
eyes"
"And he won't cum back no mo?"
"That's the way I understood him."
She locked around at the half
cleared .spatch" of ground grown
to weeds-at the old cabin and tbs
ragged children, and then she re-
moved the pipe and blew a cloud of
smoke into the air, and replied:
"Wall hang me if l blame him ono
least bit! I've been .wonderin' why
he din't go fur the last fifteen years."
And as we drove away she sat there
smoking and trotting her foot, evil.
IDENTIFY as calm and content as any
woman in the State.-Free Press.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
In Past Ares.

A copper rod projecting from the
face of a cliff in Saline County, Mo-,
indicates that at some date in the
far West, beyond the ken of man,
copper mining was carried on in that
vicinity.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08

WHEN some sad eyed women laugh,
we are reminded Of the noise made BY
trying to playa dance piece on fiddle
when half Of the strings are broken.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
A Rhode Island quarry.

~ 0u0t1y
On a farm in the suburbs of Provi-
dence, r. l., there has been located
what is claimed to be one Of the
largest and richest veins of granite I'M
the entire country.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08

Statues and Fountains In Paris.
In twelve years the city Of Paris
has expended 1910, 900 on statues and
$S5, 900 on ornamental fountains.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
What q Beastly Climate.

In the Sahara Desert the day nav
be boiling hot, but not unfrequently
the temperature at night falls below
freezing point.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08

It takes 1,OOO,O 600 pounds Of ink
every year to print Uncle Sans paper
money and revenue stamps.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08

A CRANK in Washington the other
day demanded the arrest or the
Weather Bureau staff for dealing in
futures.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
To the Point.

Frederick Bond, the actor, has a
son who is a marvel of prccocity, says
the New York Commercial Adver-
tiser. Like all proud parents he has
a choice collection of anecdotes in
which his offspring is the central
figure, and the talented Lewis during
the eight years of his earthly career
has supplied his father with material
for a large number of pretty good
stories. His latest flash of juvenile
brilliancy is in the shape of a letter
written to his father while upon the
read. 1t is one of the most absolutely
direct epistles we pcnncd, and if all
lctter-writers followed the principle
enunciated by the astute Lewis the
saving in ink and paper per an
mum would pay off a large part Of the
national debt. Here it is:
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08

tire-damp, or under any other circum-
stances where the atmosphere is SC
impure as to make work in it danger.
OILS.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08

should prevent a daring swlmmer's
diving from a bridge and refuse TO in.
tcrfere with the far more dangerous
pastimc of the parachutist. Pail Mall
Gazette.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-08
IN. Y, Dec. 1, 81.

"PA:-I write you as I have nothing to do.
I close because I have nothing to say.
LEW"