Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-03-03

ri .kpocket with his discngaged hand
takes the others watch. The confederate
inside is ut hand to battle the pursuers in
case the theft is detected.
THE story of singular tragedy comes
from Buchanan County, Virginia.
Charles Carroll, a moonsl,iner, who was
being pursued by deputy marsllals, con-
ccalcd himself in an abandoned cabin,
barred the door, and stood prcping out
through a knot hole. The posse came
along the road, stopped aud began talk
ing ON the edge of the clearing. a bet
was made and taken that one of the
party could not shoot through knot
hole in the door. A Winchester was
lcvcllcd and fired. and something was
heard to fall Inside the cabin. The
officers rushed to the spot and found
writlling in death the man for whom
they were hunting.
A LADY at Ashford, England, has just
received II bclmest of $3.50, 900 from an
old gentleman, an entire stranger, for II
small act of Kindness rcndered to him
five years ago. Icwas in the crowd cut
side Buckingham Palace watching the
arrivals at one OF the Queens drawing
rooms when he became faint and staggered
helplessly. The crowd jccrcd him,
shouting that he was drunk, and com
mcnced to iosllc him ru,lclv. The laly
saw he was ill, and h lped him through
the crowd to II seat in park close by.
He soon recovered, asked her name, and
they parted, and she did not hear OF him
again until two weeks ago, when his
solicitors informed her of his death and
that he had begucathed her the sum
named.
TIE famous smuggling schooner Hall
cyon, which has led the United States
revenue boats and officials SO many in
tcrcsting clnses along and Off the Pacific
coast, and has landed her contmband
goods every trip, has been refittcd and
sail from Victoria soon ;.s IL seal pirate
She will be fitted up in the best style,
with six crack shots and the most cX-
pericnccd hunters, and her owners expect
her to come back the "high liner,' that
is, with more skins than any other vessel
in the sealing fleet, an odious distinction
in the infamous business of slaughScring
of seal mothers and their young.
NERVOUSNESS shows Itself in queer
ways. There is q young New York news
paper man who exhibits commcndablc
sclf-posscssion on most occasions, and
would not be supposed to have such IL
thing as nerve about his person, but
there is one spectacle that he cannot en-
durc. and that is to see mans hat blow
off. LII this calamity occurs in his pres
cncc he catches his breath, shu.ltlcrs,
and reaches about for something to hold
to until the sensation of losing himself
has passed. This is constitutional and
is the only exhibition of nervous weak
ness that he ever makes.
NINE years ago last summer Farmer
Jesse Gibbs of Flcctvillc, Penn, lowered
IL crock of butter into we'll on his place
to let it get cool. The string broke, the
crock sank to the bottom, and MIR. Gibbs
made no effort to reclaim the butter, as
the we'll was very deep. A few daysago
the we'll went dry for the first time, and
Farmer Gibbs got some men to clean it
out. The crock was lifted to the surface,
and when the farmer opened it he found,
much to his surprise, that the ninc-y year
old butter was us sweet and palatablc as
crock.
A TRAVELLER in the Maine backwoods
this season was somewhat surprised on
coming upon lumberman's. camp. full
thirty miles from any settlement, to hear
the music OF an organ and the strains of
an opcratic air. He was met ON entering
the camp by the organist, Il bright. neat
Maine girl, who he found was also the
cook, who had taken along her parlor
organ out to camp to entertain her father
and his crew in the long evenings during
their stay in the wilderness.
To PREVENT the escape of his spirit,
at death, George Francis Dobson, of
Muskegon. Mich, has hit upon IL strange
idea. He has made arrangements for
his friends, just before the spirit leaves
his body, to seal him in huge glass
cylinder, SO that his spirit may he kept
from departing, and at the same time be
enabled, by II series of systematic dis
turbances of the air, within the cylinder,
to communicate with his friends through
n tclcgraphic instrument placed in the
cylinder.
PROFESSOR Morse of Salem, Mass, has
sONcu liic tuooic!u VI mouse Hcatln5 Ill
u curious fashion. He has built Il house
with all its rooms fronting southwark,
aud only passage OH the north. Almost
the whole southern front of the house is
made of glass, and by means of rctlcctors
Professor Morse is enabled on sunny
days to heat his whole house with sun
shine alone. AT night and ON cloudy
days he has hearth fires going. He be-
licvcs that by this contrivancc he has
the most wholesome heat that is attain.
able.
TIE body of Julia Rcc,lcr, young
lady of bonneville, Ind, was prepared
for burial. The sign of apparent Death
had succeeded IL severe attack OF typhoid
fever. Her friends were gathered
around, and just before the final leave
taking, her lover took her hand to kiss
it. The lover was astoundcd to feel his
fingers pressed by the hand of the sup
posed corpse. The joyous discovery was
thus made that the young woman was
alive.
A TAME dove belonging to Andrew
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