Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1893-12-29
E,eHr car. loaded With human hair

EfeHr cars loaded with human hair
arrived in Paris recently. consigned 20
dealers in that merchandise. The hair
came from India and China, whence
thousands Of pounds are annually sent
to England and France. This traffic, a
foreign medical journal says, is the cause
Of the introduction of many diseases to
Europe. The hair is cut from persons
after death in China, and although it is
disinfected upon arrival in France, It
often carries. the germs of disease.
Asiatio hair, owing in part to its coarse
ness. can he purchased cheaply, 1t SELL
ing oftcn as low as franc kilogram.
The hair of Europeans, however, aver
ages about 100 francs for the same
amount.
For some years there has been carried
on an agitation among the trustees Of the
University Of Alabama in favor of accord
ing the privileges of the institution to fe-
male students. Last June the resolution
went through the board admitting young
ladies to the university. It appears, how
ever, that the young ladies Of Alabama
do not appreciate the great favor done
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applied for admission. That does not
show that the Alabrma girls are indiffer.
ent to educational advantages, for ell the
young ladies' seminaries of the State re-
port larger attendance than ever before.
It is thought that many may be deferred
from entering by the fact that the univer-
sity is semi.military institution, and
has discipline almost as rigid as that Of
West Point.
The story of the life of the new Lord
Mayor of London (G. r. Tyler) calls to
mind the story of "Dick" Wilmington,
sometime the incumbent of tho same
Office. He started in life very poor boy,
and when fourteen years old was en-
ployed as messenger in the great paper
making house of William Venables, the
partners in which furnished, it is said, to
Charles Dickens the originals of the
Cheeryble Brothers, the philanthropists,
in "Nicholas Nickleby." The boy ad-
vanced in position slowly, but surely, and
he is now the head of this great manu-.
featuring concern. He is noted for his
extensive charities, and he has given
many boy, poor as he himself once was,
an opportunity to better his condition.
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guilds, and his wealth. despite his large
gifts to charity, is reckoned atupward of
60, 100000.
I IL is reported that the natural gas
wells in the northwestern part of Ohio
are failing fast, and as consequence the
conl dealers and wood choppers are
happy. Upper sandusky, which for q
long time past has been supplied with
natural gas, to the almost entire exclu.
sion of all other sorts of fuel, has been
cut off from the pipe line. and is natu-
raj gas town no more. The people have
been compelled to return to their coal
/ aud wood stoves. The event was antic.
| ipatcd and has taken nobodyssunawares, so
there will be no suffering, as would have
been the case if the cessation of gas had
come suddenly. \ company Las been
organized there to manufacture arti-
fetal gas and furnish it to the commu-
nifty, that people may continue to use
their gas-burning fixtures.
THE cruiser San Francisco has found
out new and very practical use for the
formidable ram with which she is armed.
The other day in her voyage from New
York to Key West she encountered dan
gcrous derelict in the shape of the wreck
of the lumber laden schooner Drisko.
Captain Watson at first undertook to
tow the schooner to Key West, but find.
ing that impracticablc he tried to blow
it up with dynamite. Two attempts were
made without success. and then he de-
termined to ram it. Taking good start,
he went ahead ut full speed and struck
wreck amidships. cutting it entirely in
two. The lumber poured out of the two
halves, and the derclict soon settled be-
meath the waves. This seems to be the
most practicable aud expeditions method
of disposing OF the dangerous floating
wrecks.
| JUDGE STEWART, of the United States
district court of the Indian territory, has
rendered decision, the only logical inter-
probation of which is that the Indian
territory is state of the union. Two
citizens of the Cherokee nation were SEN
fenced to hang for murder and applied to
Judge Stewart for writ of habcas
corpus, claiming that they were not con-
| victed by due course of law" The Judge
decided tnat the constitution Of the
United States were supreme over the five
nations, as elsewhere in the union, and
that Indians could invoke its protection.
He ordered the condemned men to be
discharged from custody ON account of
some informality in the organization of
the grand jury, which indicted them.
Tho Cherokee nation will carry the case
to the supreme court of tho United States,
and the relation Of the Indian nations to
the union is likely to be clearly defined.
Tie white City" is being dismantled,
and will soon be obliterutcd. But the
influence of the great exposition. saws