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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-25

Like a touch of nature. which makes
the world akin, the use of Glenn's Sui
phur Soap beauties the complexion of
young ladies in every part of the universe.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-25

There are 700 varieties of snakes
known, of which number Europe has
but thirty.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-25

The famous dragon tree which for.
merly stood on the Canary islands. was
estimated BY Humboldt to be 100
years old.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-25

Buckingham's Dye for the Whiskers Is
the best, handiest, safest, surest, c~leanest,
most economical and satisfactory dye ever
invented. 1t is the gentlcmcn's favorite.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-25

Wells says that the annual dew fall
of Great Britain is equal to %, 1G1, 3337,-
355 tons.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-25

Sharks grow a new row of teeth for
every year of their age until they
reach maturity. The jaws of n 1ulI-
grown specimen can he extended about
eighteen inches.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-25

Some floating soaps turn yellow and rancid. Don
eins' Floatinv.B oraI Soap DOES neither: The Borax in
II CncCs lsc Y w rirsa xse'G FIJI = n YriEtl + Ia ~ ~ Snir Hrocer
Insist on red wrappers.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-25
A Watch Free.

Boys and girls sell one dozen boxes of Alsat,or
S,aive and get Il Watch Free. Perfect time.
we will send salve post paid. also premium list,
Alsation Salvc sells readily ut % cents per box.
An infallib,e remedy for cuts. burns, clllpped
quick,
SEARS & CO., Chemists,
Sioux City, Iowa.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-25

My doctor said I would die, but Piso.s
Cure for Consumption cured me.-Amos
Kelner. Cherry Valley, ILL.,, Nov. %. '95.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-25
A Demand Tor H.n,..

a Demand for Hanna,
Major Mckinley will make one of
the greatest Presidents in the history
It the country, but be must have greet
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-25

Mss. Wlnslow.s SOOTHING sYaup for childres
oeething: 0ofeens the gums, reoNces inn
ellays pain. cures Wind collie. . cents . bostls.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-25

It is the law of heaven that you shall
not be able to Judge what is wise or
easy, unless you are first resolved to
Judge what is just, and to do it.-Rus.
kin.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-12-25

1t costs Great Britain over 100000
a year for military uniforms.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-28
Englishmen Who Travelled.

Where one Englishman Travelled in
the reigns of the first two Georges ten
now go on grand tour. Indeed, "
says contemporary writer. ''to such a
pitch is the spirit of travelling come in
the kingdom that there is scarcely cit
izer of large fortune but takes flying
view of France, Italy and Germany in
u summers excursion" Gibbon wrote
from Lausanne describing the crowd of
English who were already thronging
the beautiful shores of Lake Leman. An
interesting series of hints to persons
travelling from Britain to France" ap.
peared in The Gentleman's Magazine
for the year 1856. From them we gath
er that no such thing was to be had in
France as ready furnished lodgings and
that it was impossible to board in a
''genteel family" and extremely diff
cult to get into ''genteel company. "
The author adds the remark that "this
keeping of good company is attended
with some expense-a man must game,
he must keep carriage, and he must
dress according to the fashion. Corn
hill Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-28
THIS TO PREVENT SEAs.CKNess.
A New York Doctor Prescribes Mixed Pep.
tone, Sherry and Cracked Ice.

A New York Doctor Prescribes Mixed Pep
tone, Sherry and Cracked Ice.
A New York physician has originated
anovel preventive for seasickness, which
has the advantage of being simple and
seemingly sure. At all events, it was
tried with marked success upon young
woman who is always affected by the
comparatively slight motion of sound
steamers and railroad trains. In her
case, after two doses. she was able to
bear without inconvenience the rolling
beyond Sandy Hook and the subsequent
tossings of the voyage.
The remedy is the administration
every half hour of two spoonfuls of pep
tone in sherry, cooled by pouring over
cracked ice. The theory OF this is 10
less interesting than the dose itself The
young doctor argues that the swallow
ing Of frequent small quantities of pre-
digested and slightly stimulating food
produces sedative effect upon the
stomach and counteracts the jouncing
brought about by the incessant and vio-
lent motion of ship at sea.
Other doctors have quite lately in
vented seasickncss cure consisting Of
cocaine or bromides, the latter in large
doses. these being given with the design
Of dulling the stomach, as it were, and
SO preventing nausea. But it cannot be
learned that any actual results ha. e
been attained in this way-New York
Herald
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-28
COUNTRY AIR PROMOTES LONG LIFE
Breathing an Atmosphere of Purity Wards
OF Deadly Disease.

Breathing an Atmosphere of Purity Wards
on Deadly Disease. i
The loss Of pure air, sunshine and
other free" goods and their effect on the
physique of city jewellers are not ade-
quately compensated by hygienic re-
forms of town life itself, while the in
creased number and complexity of SEN
sations impose greater strain upon the
nervous system. The nervous dogenera-
ton which thus accrues may perhaps lie
checked in time by further hygienic i'm
provenent of the town and by a gradual
REIMBURSEMENT between the nervous sys-
tenn and its changed environment. But
! meantime grave physical injuries arise
directly from those very economic
changes which have raised the economic
condition of the great mass of the work
| ers and have probably reduced the
quantity of purely economic poverty.
When we reflect that the physical i'll
1uries of town life, attested by tables of
| mortality and impaired muscular activ-
lty, fall most heavily upon the poor, we
shall See grave reasons Of industrial and
social life are generally favorable to the
! physical vitality of the low paid worker
| or the resitiuum-that is to say, whether
he gets any net vital advantage out Of
the higher rate Of real wages which he
! obtains when he is working.
When we also bear in mind that each
| year higher proportion of the workers
nre living in large towns. where the
duration of life is about 10 per cent less
| than in the country, and that the age of
| enforced retirement from regular wage
earning is, by reason Of the strain of
| competition and the regulations of trade
organizations, considerably earlier than
it was formerly, and that an increased
/ lrregularity OF employment is discerni-
| Bile in many Of most trades, we may
| hold it doubtful whether the average
worker of the lower order makes total
life wage which is any higher than he
made formerly. The conclusion applied
by Charles Booth to the whole body of
workers that lin one way or another
effective working life is ten years longer
i'll the country than i'll town" has All
important Significance when we remem-
Der that each decennial census shows 4
| growing proportion of workers subject
to the conditions Of town life.-Contem-
| porary Review.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-28
Bullets That Wear Out Guns.

There is one thing which users Of the
new high velocity rife of 80 caliber
have to consider, and that is the effect
OF the copper Or nickel jacket ON the
grooves of the rife. A bullet that leaves
the muzzle of a rife at velocity OF
1900 feet a second is SO wearing on the
rifiing, especially near the muzzle, that
the accuracy of even tine hardest bored
rifles IS seriously impaired inside OF H.
600 shots at the most. The lead bullets,
or those but slightly hardened with a
mixture of tin, do not wear the barrels
TO the same extent. and the barrels Last
far longer. New York Sun.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-28

If machine or device has been in
public use or on sale for more than two
years previous to the application this
fact will generally prevent the granting
Of q patent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-28
Made q Difference.

Forrester-You live in quiet par
Of the town, do you not:
Lancaster-Not now.
"Moved:''
"No. Twins. London Answers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-28

John Hunter, the famous anatomist.
once said that the feminine love Of con-
versation was . consequence Of Pc
culiarity in brain tissue.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
strnck BY a Dead Hand.
Said Henry Bil,inps. a retired

Said Henry Billings, retired rail-
road engineer:
II was running night train on the
Santa Fe road back in the seventies
This particular night had boon stormy
and threatening, and the flashes of
lightning were frequent and intense
We were running ahead of our schedule
in order to make a siding in time to al
low an extra to pass us, and were travel
ing. / suppose, at the rate of about 30
or 80 miles an hour.
''I was sitting with my face close 10
the forward window of the cab, gazing
straight ahead, when in brilliant
blazo Of electricity mans arm and
head suddenly burst with great force
through the glass and the open hand
struck me squaroly in the face. was
dnzed for an instant by the blow, and
held blindly TO the side Of the orh Ny
first thought was that somo lp was
trying To hold up my train to rob tho
passengers, and, acting on this idea, /
seized my wrench from its place and
dealt the head of the intruder blow
with all my might.
1.-THE fireman, thinking ! had killed
the man, shut of steam and we slowed
down and took our lanterns to examine
the strange visitor. | could not describe
the feeling that crept over me when l
climbed upon the engine and looked at
tho man whom l believed had attacked
me. His entire body below the arms was
gone. IL was easy to understand what
had happened. He had been struck by
the rapidly moving engine and his body
severed rs with n knife, the lower half
falling to one side and the head and
arms flying straight through the cab
window r-Atlauta .Journal
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
THE MlNUEr DANCER.


30. my enchantress I'm the fowered brocade,
You call an elder fashion 10 your aid,
Step forth from Gainsborough's canvas and
advance,
A powdered Galatca, TO the dance.
About You clings faded, old world nir,
As though the link boys crowded round your
chair,
As though the Macaronis thronged the Mall,
And the French horns were sounding at Vaux
hall.
They tread the stately measure 60 SIS close,
Tho silver buckles and the sillson hose,
Ladies' and cxquisitcs, that bend and sway,
Brilliant os poppics on an August day.
You dance the minuct, and wc admire,
We dullards I'm our black rnd whito attire,
Whose russell idyl sccus mcre burlcsquc,
Set I'm II frame ~ far less picturesque.
Yet take heart; for Love, the contlcss rogue,
Can scarcely heed what r. iucnt be In vogue,
Since IN good sooth hs negligence is known
IA romcthing scanduluua ununt his own.
And 50 ho,whispcrs. Eycs were bright and
brown
Long orc the powder tax digmaycd the town,
And faithful shepherds still Thnll habblo on,
Although the rapicrs and The frills Dc gone.
Alfred Cochrunc In Spectator.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
THE COLISEUM.
Romes Vast Eiiipse and the Many Chang
ing Moods It Has Seen.

IL seems strange that not until tho
middle Of last century did IL occur to
any Of tho successors of Peter to rescue
from tho desecration Of Indifference
spot saturated. cue may say without
hyperbole. with tho blood Of the mar
tyrs. Everybody knows bat earthquake,
fire and inundation competed with
each other for its destruction. Guis-
cards troopers stalled themselves there,
and the Frangipani transformed it into
u fortress. When less turbulent times
supcrvcned, it became by tacit consent
the common quarry of the moro power.
full Roman houses. When for timc
friendly enough with each other, they
held tilt and tourney within it, and
then mystery plays restored for time
its theatrical character. Sixtus V had q
scheme for turning it into n woolen
manufactory, and another prince Of
peace thought IL would serve capitally
as powder magazine. Meanwhile it
remained convenient market place
for the sale of vegetables. But in 1880
an earnest Ligurian monk, Leonardo da
Porto Mauri2io, cnDo to Rome, craved
audience Of Benedict XIV, and obtain
ing papal sanction for the new form of
devotion known as tho Via Crucis, in
duced the sovereign pontiff to consecrate
the Coliseum to celebrate mass there and
to erect large wooden cross in the very
center of the pagan arena.
Ever since the stations of the cross,
commemorating the journey TO Calvary,
have encircl,d the vast ellipse, and the
newcomers whose rising voices disturbed
my reverie are wandering hitber behind
"a tall, barefooted, bareheaded Francis.
can friar, to make the dolorous pilgrim
age. All the fine ladies of Rome are
there, and, needless Of delicate hounce
and furbelow, they kneel ON the UNI
swept ground at every halt made by the
rosary girdled monk and bow their
heads in audible lamentation. Then,
when the long, sad service is completed,
he rebukes them for their transgressions
and invites them to holier life. That
much can make out from where / sit,
in sympathetic contemplation Of the
scene, though no small part of his ex-
hortation reaches me, but in fitful vowel
sounds, musical, but somewhat vague III
meaning Before they have come to a
close blare of trumpets tells me that
body of French zouaves is coming along
the Via San Gregorio, between the Pala-
tine and CBlian hills, on their way
back to barracks from the exercising
ground that lies beyond the tomb Of
Caius Cestus and Shelley's burial place.
The insoloncc of alien drum,
Vexing the bright blue air,
10 smito peoples anguish dumb
Or speed rash despair.
That once had wrung
That prophet tongue
To challenge force and cheer the slave,
Rolls unrebukcd around his grave.
-Fortnightly Review.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
NEW YORK CANDY PEDDlERS.
Clustered In Dingy East Side Rooms They
Sleep on the Floor.

Clustered In Dingy East Side Rooms, They
Sleep on the Floor.
Very nearly all the dark skinned men
who sell that brilliantly colored candy
from push carts are members of a regu-
lar clan and for the most part Greeks.
When the day has ended and their work
is done, they gather together in dozen
or more dens in Roosevelt and Cherry
streets just nt the foot Of the fam GUS
Cherry hill, there to eat, rest and before
sleeping to load up their carts for the
morrow, that they may get an early
start.
One of these rendezvous presents a
unique appearance late at night. It is
generally store on the ground floor,
that the push carts may be trundled out
easily when heavily loaded. From the
sidewalk the 'store" does not show a
single ray of light. 1t looks forbidding
and deserted. But its door opens readi-
ly. The entire front of the long apart
ment is filled up with carts laden with
the sweets and displaying signs. Only
a narrow passageway is left to get to
the back of the room.
Here, around smudgy table, five or
six chattering Greeks are playing cards
and quarreling over the game. On the
boards is spread a quantity of candy,
newly made and cooling, for it is in a
room back of this that the stuff is pre-
pared. The candy maker not only makes
profit selling to the peddlers. but he
gets still more Of their money, lodging
them ON the same floor as their push
carts. Sometimes when a peddler is
"broke' the maker Of sweets sends him
out with a load of candy to sell on
shares, but as q general thing he get.
cash for his product before the carts go
out.
Beds are, for the most part, unknown
luxuries. Only the most prosperous ped
dlers seem to be able to afford them.
Generally the floor is marked out with
chalk lines, divided into narrow squares,
and there ON the hard boards, without
disrobing or changing an article Of their
clothing. the candy peddlers sleep.
New York Herald.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
ODD FACTS ABOUT MADAGASCAR.
Tho Policemen Sleep on Their Beats-The
Curfew Is of Ancient Use.

Tho Policemen Sleep on Their Beats-The
Curfcw Is OF Ancient Use.
Probably the sleepicst policemen in
the world are those Of Madagascar At
Antananarivo, the capital, there is lit
tie evidence of the force by day, for its
members are all peacefully wrapped in
slumber AT night, too, the guardian of
property is seldom TO be seen, and that
he is actually guarding is only to be
told by the half hourly cry that is sent
up to police post No. alongside tho
royal palace.
"Watchman, what Of the night?
1--WE are wide awake, keeping sharp
lookout and all's we'll.
Antananarivo has no lamps and no
streets. 1t is simply great collection
Of houses tumbled together There is a
big force of night police, known as the
"watch." The men gather themselves
together into groups, and choosing snug
corners, wrapping themselves in straw
mats, they drop into long and profound
slumber One member of each group re
mains awake to respond to the half
hourly call from the palace. AS he calls
back, the others, half awake, mechan-
ically shout back the response. 1t makes
little difference, however, that the police
continually sleep, for robbery is rare.
Curfew, though popularity supposed
to be purely an early English and Nor
man-French custom, has been estab-
lished in Madagascar for centuries In
every town and village between and
10 the watchmen go around shouting out
in the Malagasy dialect, Lights out u
and they see that all is in darkness in
every house. After these hours no one
is allowed to travel around without q
special pass.
There is no criminal code of any &C.
count, and when man is caught in the
net Of stealing the populace is apt to
ignore the police and surround him and
stone him to death. The Madagascans
have no "swear words" in their Ian
guage, and when their feelings are over
wrought against man the only thing
they can do is to execute summary
vengeance ON him.--New York World.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29
Leaves That Arc FIFTY Feet Long.

In our temperate climate none Of the
trees has leaves of n size that will even
compare favorably with those Of the sea
island and tropical countries in general.
The maple, the oak and the elm leaves
are but infnitesimal bits of green when
compared with the gigantic sheets of
velvety verdure found on some Of the
trees, shrubs and plants of South and
Central America.
The South American tree which has
the largest leaf IL the Inaja palm, which
grows on the banks of the Amazon. The
leaves of this giant are often 30 feet in
length, but they are very narrow, sell
dom exceeding s to 10 feet With the
Ceylonese oocoanut palm it is different.
In that species the leaves are from 20 to
25 feet in length and from 10 to 1s in
width. The natives of Ceylon arc said
to use these leaves in tentmaking, three
or four being sufficient to make n shelter
for whole family. An extraordinary
specimen of Ceylonese palm leaf now in
the British museum, and which must be
freak-because the average length and
breadth Of the leaves of this variety Of
trees do not exceed the figures given
above-is 36 feet in length and 2S in
width, even though it is admitted that
it must have shrunk one-fifth in dry
ing. st. Louis Republic.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29

The porte is the short name Of the
sublime porte, which is the official way
of speaking of the Turkish government.
In the east judicial business is transact
ed at the city or palace gates. One story
says that the sultan of Bagdad put in
the portal of his palace piece Of sacred
black stone of Mecca, thus making his
gate the porte. Another says that Sultan
Orkhan built gorgeous gate to his
place in Broussa. Both of these stories
are probably untrue so far as they pur-
port to explain the name as applied to
the Turkish government. Just as the
British court is called the court of st.
James and the late French court that
of the Tuileries, because their head
quarters were in the palaces Of st.
James and the Tuileries respectively, so
the Turkish court got the name sublime
porte because its headquarters were in
the palace Of -Humayun, or the
Lofty Gate, in Constantinople.. The
name has been attached to the building
in that city which shelters the four prin-
cipal departments Of the government
New York Sun.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1896-01-29

Wallfiowers are an arctic growth.
They cannot flourish in Christian En-
deavor atmosphere.
Something for every one to do, and
not too much for any one to do, is good
social committee maxim.
All the young peoples societies of
Richmond have united for the purpose
Of distributing good literature to the
city institutions, hospitals. barber shops,
hallway stations, etc.
The young people Of the Lutheran
church In Illinois are sending out their
own missionary to Africa, Mr.. Will NJ.
Beck Of Lancaster. o.
The first Floating society of Christian
Endeavor In Oregon has been organized
in Portland and is now prospering.
Many Of the seamen have returned wear
ing Christian Endeavor pins.
Sectional unions Of Christian Endeav-
or are being agitated for India. Owing
70 the diversity Of languages. national
union is not advisable just now.
Quo It, Louis society ia furnishing
sn<apbooks to hospitals and jails through
~ good liferature committee. These are
pDopared At the homes Of the members
~ aonsiat q helpful elippinss from -
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