Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1896-11-06
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The contract for the erection Of
$4,000 Confederate monument at Aus
tin, Tex, has been awarded.
New Zealand's legislative council has
just voted to exclude the Chinese and
lall other Asiatics from the colony.
A poor North Carolina farmer turned
up gold nugget on his farm and has
since refused fabulous prices for his
lands, which are near Lenoir.
A fire at a farmhouse near Axmin-
ster, England, was recently put out by
pumping on it cider from hogsheads, as
there was no water to be had.
Bronze coinage was introduced into
England in 1860. The bronze used is
composed Of 95 parts, by weight, Of
copper to four of tin and one of zinc.
The growth Of the Argentine Repub-
lie since 1861 has been remarkable. In
that year the population was placed at
100000, while at present it Is said to
be 100000.
During the past summer hundreds of
dollars worth of pearls have been TAX
EN- from a brook in Benton, Me. The
pearls are found in fresh water clans,
but not of an edible variety.
A baby few months old was sold for
shilling in the presence of witnesses
to a dealer in England recently. The
parents were wandering minstrels and
glad to get rid of it.
Tn <>f Hwy oh
maker is Still called a cordwainer,
though he may have quite ceased to
work in cordwain, which is particular
kind Of leather brought from Cordova.
On the Dutch steamer Doelwyk, re-
Gently captured in the Red sea, the Ital-
ians found 10000 Russian and 1876
French rifles, 6,200 Cossack swords,
and 5,5O0OOO cartridges, intended for
Menelek.
The Royal National Lifeboat institu-
ton Of England has now 3OS boats
under its management. The total num-
Der Of lives sayed since the institution
was founded is 3S,32S. The number Of
lives lost has been 1O3.
A new lead for deep-sea sounding
carries a cartridge which explodes on
touching the. bottom. A submerged
microphone receives the sound and the
depth is estimated from the time occu-
pied by the lead in sinking.
Ostend is to have a new system Of
docks, extending couple Of miles in
land and including dry docks, on which
$15,O0O,OGO will be spent. The money is
contributed partly by the town and
partly by the Belgian Government.
One Of the principal occupations of
jewelers. in the cities and towns of
Chill and Peru is making gold crowns
set with precious stones, for the heads
of images in churches and cathedrals.
They usually are adorned by wealthy
women, who thus pay homage to the
saints.
Marble of excellent quality has been
found in several parts of Alaska, par
ticulmly at st. John the Baptist bay,
Whitestone narrows, Rood's bay, Nit
chell's bay and Marble bluffs The diff
ferent localities ARE soon to be thor
oughly prospected by skilled men with
the product.
The Oldest house in Woodbridge,
Conn.,, was burned to the ground the
other night. The house was built in
1907 by Rev. Mr.. Woodbridge, and it
was the intention to celebrate the two
hundredth anniversary next year. 1t
was occupied and owned by John Cur
rie and family and Mrs. Calhoun and
daughter.
A company is now organizing in
China with the object of establishing
a fotilla of powerful tugboats in the
straits of Magellan. When these boats
are established it is believed that most
sailing ships will take advantage of
their service, instead of making the
dangerous and tedious passage around
Cape Horn.
Paris proposes to put an end to the
complaint that policeman can never
be found by establishing seventy police
,kiosks in different parts of the city.
IA policeman will be always on duty
there, who will communicate with the
nearest station by telephone, and at
night will have another policeman with
him to send out at once in case Of need.
Experiments with cyclists and carrier
pigeons for transmitting messages are
being made by the Gymnastic Society
of Rome. in the interest of the Italian
army. The rider carries small cage
attached to his machine in which are
several well-trained pigeons. When
important observations have been tax
en- and jotted down they are placed in
envelopes and affixed to the birds,
which are liberated.
Some medical students travelling on
the train between Seville and Cordova
stuck skull on the head Of a cane and
held 1t up to the window of the next
compartment, accompanying the per-
eormance with groans. A woman op.
sned the door and tried to jump out