Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-05-05

People and Events.
The New York health department
is to have po able steam disinfec-
tive machine. This cholera germ
killer is bought in Germany for $500,
and looks like a steam thrashing ma
chine.
That curious and costly example of
ecclesiastical Horticulture, the Golden
Rose, will this year be conferred upon
the Observation-Disclosures Margaret Of
Austria, niece of the Emperor. The
Abbess who is to be honored with
this crown of virtue is only o.
Two half-million-dollar dormitorics
promised in one n year makes the
talk of the hour at Yale, and more
and moreit is felt that the old college
is truly broadening to a great univer-
sity. The latest benefactor, DIR.
Andrew j. White, is a New York
man, who once practiced in Connec-
ticut. Yale graduated MIN in medi-
cine in 1916. One Uf the popular
members of the present sophomore
class is his son.
Professor Hans Virchow, son Of the
famous bacteriologist of Berlin. has
been at New Haven a few days as the
guest of DIR. William III. Carmalt.
Professor Virchow is here under the
auspices of the German Government,
and is making a tour of the leading
educational institutions of the coun-
try. He is now in Boston, and will
later 20 to Chicago to assist in the In
stallation of the German exhibit.
Another new daily paper is soon to
be launched in New York. 1t isto be
a venture of some Importance, as Rich
ard Croker and the Dwyer brothers
are its hackers. The paper is to be
devoted to politics-Tammany, of
course-sports, of which racing will
take the lead, and theatrical news.
A well-known political writer, who is
on intimate terms with Mr.. Croker,
will have charge of the Tammany,
political and turf departments. This
novel journalistic combination is said
to be amply backed by Croker and the
Dryers.
The report that the Broad Church
party, in conference at Boston, unan.
imously agreed upon DIR. William n.
McVickar, Of Philadelphia, as a can.
didate for the succession to Phillips
Brooks bishopric, is received in
Philadelphia with mingled regret and
pleasure. In the eighteen years OF
his service inthe Holy Trinity pulpit
where Phillips Brooks was one of his
predecessors, he has been distin.
guished by the power Of his oratory,
by practical judgment, by a whole.
some participation in many good
works for the betterment of the
whole community, and by his sympa.
thy with the growing impulses which
are broadening the aims and purposes
of the Episcopal church Throughout
the country.
"The most splendid men now here
from a military pointo of view, are the
Germans" says a Hampton Roads cor.
respondent. The officers Of the Ka
iserin Augusta and the Seeadler (Ses
Eagle) r half a dozen times more
dandiaed than the majority Of the
Britons. They are the most erect
handsomest, best dressed and. in all
ways the showiest naval men now ii
the Roads. They and the English
and our Americans are all brainy
well-infcrmed, polished men, and il
: will not be fair to put any one SCI
J above the other, but certainly tn,
German officers bear off the palm 70,
dress and bearing. They are nearl,
I all blondes, and are tall and broad
chested. They wear frock coats O
blue cloth, with brass buttons, ant
all have belts and epaulets of silver
! They also wear long swords, and thei
queer caps, with tiny flat-leathe
peaks, are the only parts of thei
dress that the Americans will not re
gard as pretty"
! To persons of artistic tastes n o
> the rarest displays at the World