Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-12-29
NOTES AND -coMs1ENrA

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The United States has the fastest
cruiser adoat, and the new Columbia will
not depend upon that fact for its safety
but for lessening the safety of its foe.
A MAN in Pennsylvania is the owner of
q peach tree that has borne fruit for the
last seventy years. The Hartford journal
shrewdly observes that there cannot be
many boys in his neiehborhood.
The granite for the mammoth tomb, to
be erected to the memory of General u.
s. Grant, in New York City, is being.
quarried at North Jay, Me. It is white,
fine grained granite that when cut and
worked into the walls of building pre-
duces most beautiful effect. Two hun
dred lsborers will be employed for two
years in preparing the stone.
WrrH the passenger cars reported
owned last year We might make train
that would reach from Boston to within
IS miles of Philadelphia. Placing the
freight oars together in continuous
train the train would be z. 02S miles long,
and would reach from Boston to San
Francisco, from San Francisco back to
Boston, and from Boston again as far
west as Chicago.
The women Of the West ara taking
ample advantage of their new political
privileges. They took an active part in
the school elections in Seattle, Spokane,
and other Washington towns, going to
the polls in companies of from dozen to
hundred. Candidates of their own sex
were nominated in several districts,
which helped greatly to enlist the inter-
est of the women.
A GENTLEMAN who just returned from
Gray's Harbor City, Wssh., states that
there are upward of one hundred build
ings there, but they are all deserted. A
few fishermen dwell near the shore in
their own rude shanties. Some Of the
deserted buildings are handsome struc-
tures, one business block having cost up.
ward of $4,000.
THE Woman's Suffrage Association Of
Belgium shows, by the latest census
held in Europe, that the Continents
population comprises 170.0ls, SCI males
and 174, ,914,1 119 females, the latter's
plurality being 4,005, 5SS. Among si1-
teen European nations the female sex
predominates most strongly in Portugal
and Norway, least in Belgium and
France.
The Federal government has given the
brick and tin battle ship Illinois at the
Worlds Fair to the Illinois naval militia.
Chicago's amateur seamen will now be
able to familiarize themselves with all the
equipments of modern battle ship and
all of the features of Jacks life aaoat
except the qualms of scasickness and the
art Of retaining perpendicularity of per-
son with pitching deck under foot.
SIR EDWARD WALK1N. the great Eng.
lish railway magnate, is actively engaged
in an effort to promote the cutting of
canal across Ireland, from Dublin to
Galway Bay. He thinks that a canal
which would carry the largest ships
could be cut for about $40, 900. 900, and
says, as the principal argument in its
favor, that it would materially shorten
the route FROM England to the United
States.
BARON HANDEN- HICKEY, formerly a
Paris journalist, and now q resident of
New York, and son-in-law of John FL.
Flaglcr, is maturing scheme to colonize
the Island of Trinidad, about seven
hundred miles from the coast of Brazil,
and now entirely uninEabitcd, although
twenty. three miles long and two or
three miles wids, and having abundant
vegetation. The Baron intends to make
the colony separate principality. un-
connected with any other government.
The American Lawyer, legal journal
published in New York City. tells of
lawyer of that city who secured fee OF
S2U0,N00; of another who was paid
$3.50, ,00O for his services on celebrated
case; while other fees are mentioned
running from $s25, 900 to 100000 won
by lawyers. not by conducting, but by
avoiding. litigation. In fact, it is APP
parent that more money is made now
adays by lawyers who settle cases out of
court than by those who put their clients
to the expense OF litigation.
TIE late census states the number of
Americans froin the United States rcsid-
ing in France to be 1924, Of whom up
wards of two thirds are domiciled i'll the
Department Of the Seine. Next in order
follow the Department of the Bnsscs-
Pyrcnees, with $50; Alpes- -Maritimes,
255; Gironde. 210; Seine ct -Oise, 1853;
Bouches-du .Rhone, l57; Seine 1nferieure,
14O. In some of the central departments,
few, if any. Americans are to be found.
The proportion of sexes is 100 women to
25 men.
SOMEBODY has discovered that church
sleepincss is to be explained on scientific
principles. It is, in fact, condition OF
hypnotism, and SO far from indicating in-
attention to the sermon, shows rather
complete absorption by 1t. Fixing ones
mind on the voice of the minister. in the
otherwise complete silence of the audi
ence-room, produces just the conditions
necessary to domination by another's
mind, and the nodding head and droop-
ing heavy eyelids are not eloquent of the
preaeher's dullness. but rather mute testi-
monials of his powerful influence.
SOMETHING much akin to CONSERVATION
has been created throughout Greece by
the issue of warrants for the arrest Of
several members Of the national legisla-
ture on charges of completely in the acts