Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-04-01

until he sees 1t tried on u case OF rhc!lm-
atism.
THERE is o homemade man living at
Calhoun, Ga. He Is 20 years old and
boasts that he never wore u pair of
boots. bought q suit of clothes. white
shirt. O y any store clothes in his life, nor
wore a collar or necktie.
THERE are books and hooks, and
American colleges are every year add
ing largely to their libraries. Harvard
nov has 365, 900 volumes: Yale. 200. 600;
Cornell, $50, 900; Columbia. 10000: Syr-
acuse, 10000: Dartmouth, 6s, 500;
Princeton, 6s, ZOO.
IT is the present status that counts.
AS has been remarked, Daniel Dough-
crty objects to the size of the Chicago
wigwam. Let Daniel rest his soul in
patience. Whatever the size of the
hall, the convention will be favorable
to silver-tongued o%rntcrs.
PEARLS may come down in price if q
man can make them. by simply boring
holes in pearl oysters and dropping in
minute glass beads and Theoretically
sealing the holes, Nj. Bouchon Brande-
ley. a distinguished Frenchman, has
succeeded in making pearls artiticially.
COMFORTS have been multiplying and
AluGIl W IN GONttiIldSC VI VIC pCOI1lts
1t is interesting to learn that in the
ninth century European kings wore
wooden shoes. In those days, in fact.
a monarch did not possess one-half OF
the creature comforts and luXuries that
the humblest peasant can o obtain.
TIE horn OF the rhinoccros is nothing
moro than a protuberance composed of
agglutinated hair. Cut it in two, and.
| oyuinininr ifs Str1INfnra unIn, fl,n mi
croscope, it will be found that it is made
up entirely of little tubes, resembling
hair tubes. OF course these are not
themselves hair, but the structure is
the same. Tie horns of the African
rhinOceros sometimes grow to the length
of four feet. FROM them the Dutch
beers make ramrods and other articles
A TRAVELLING theatrical a re-
Gently wrote to the owner of IL hall in
q small town in the State of Washing
ton for u booking. He received the fol-
lowing answer: "lours to hand. l
won't play on shairs no more. Your
cumpany will l,av to send me ten DOL
lars for one night and supply THAR own
k%erroscan and lamps. They will also
hav to build THAR own staige, becaus
the last cumpauy broke it Gown. THAR
amt no money in plaing on shairs in
this town. and 1 wont u shure thing"
SMEI.r are running up some of the
rivers of Washington in extraordinary
numbers, and the IL is much the same
as the phenomenal run of salmon last
fall. Thousands of pounds of smclt
have been caught. and in many places
where the fish are q fisherman can
stand on the bank and with a small
scoop net dip IL more fish in u, few
minutes than he car carry away. 1t
is said that the rivers in some parts of
their course are cllokcd. Great quanti-
ties of fish have been cured in different
ways, but fresh fish is a drug on the
market.
CONTRA COSTA County. Cali ornia, has
originated u system of numbering coun-
try houses which deserves attention.
Like every other Western devise of the
:ort it is simple and practicable. All
the country roads are divided into
blocks, ten to u mile. by imaginary cir
cles radiating from the county seat. and
each block is given two numbers, the
odd number for the let OF the road and
the even for the right. OF course in
the West, where the counties NJ. nearly
all square blocks, the CHOICE Of . ccn-
trail point is much easier than in the
East. The POSTMASTER General has the
plan under consideration In connection
with the ..ree c!.vcry system for general
abortion.