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First DueJsI In Italy.

The first dlels were fought in Italy according 10 Millingen, who speaks of { manuscript discovered at Cassel and de scribes duel tetween t father and | son in the reign ef tts Emperor Theod eric. When Chasleluuene forbade wage: of battle among the Lomhards, he er eountered the Gereest opposition fron tie nobies. Early in the ninth cen t,ai;; De Medieis, a kui9at, i33sa$esas'ed in sino1s combat he bandit Mu2el, wholdeyasta,. ed the Flarfntine district now called after him, Mugelio Osho Ill granted the rrayer Of the mobility tdr the re. establishment Of wager of batts in 98S Women and priests were not cmpel]ed to accept it. The Nofmans showed laes gallantry. With them Il womn had to accept Ter could she name a chunnion Her male opponent, however, waburied to his Waist iii tie earth. ArmNwith club. lie Tried to strike her as M cir. cled around hiin, his weapon Hne X ball of ircn at the end Of q cord. If ls failed to touci, her at the third asmpt he was vanqnished. which met ts him death with dishonor.
 Bcccarin says that the reason soAnv duels were foaght in Italy ill tn11r days is hat whore the law does ford protection one must look 10 combat to retain the respect fellow men. Ir the middle ages thu fly of Italian duels passes belief. way Of putting an enemy to cogni modo') is good enough one of their writers. When an spares his vanuuished adversary, Brantome, ''he mains his arm legs and gives him as nemento kindness and generosity hideou across the face. Lampagnano rrs OH n painted model of Galeazzo
 before he stabbed him. DRa1ip called 'la scienza cavMl Cornhill Magazine.
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orst and Wotser.

Lately enc of the Aston constables, who is an Irishman, while ill the wit ness box pesreultad a bull which fairly set the eonlr iu a rear Describ- Ing the coyidret of 1aAn who had been creating ,listulbmce, la said:
 '.I saw inc defcndanr. He made the worst TOW in the aer!d, and then ho went up thu street and made worser. --Iondon .t-nlts
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pRfNcESl
rhe Simple Life of
 Her Chilaks

rhe simple Life Of
 Her ChildhS
 James Cassidy hal ] 2 X & ! Nicholas all article oi # E Days of England's q x < | course of which lie says: E < s E E E
 There was an occppatiS E the wee woman cf seven Y 5! z simple white gown and sz hat, was frequently seen was watering the garden || E of those who saw her said ' sometimes watched her 5 < < E work he wondered which woj & j most water, the plants or her # x feet '3
 The princess was an early rises EssF ting up at :, frequently earlier iIiv summer, and breakfasting at oclods Her breakfast was just such as anx# well cared for little girl who was not princess might be expected to enjoy. bread and milk and fruit, placed on . small table by her mothers side.
 When breakfast was finished, the lit- tie princess went for a walk or drive, while her half sister, Feodore. her d. most constant companion, studied with her goyarness. From 10 to l2 the duch- ess instructed Drina, after which shB was at liberty to wander at will through the rooms or to play with her many costly toys
 Two o'clock was the dinner hour of the princess. though the luncheon hour of the duchess. Plain food, nicely cooked, was placed before the littls girl, and she did it justice, for she was healthy aEd strong and enjoyed her meals Afser dinner ske received assist ance i'll fer studies till o'clock, when she was taken by Ter mother to visit a friend cr perhaps to walk or drive, or she was permitted to ride a donkey in the gardens
 At the dinner hour of the duchess her little girl snpret. seated next to her mother. Then came romp with her nurse, Mrs. Breck. By the time tht romp was finished the house party would be at their dessert. ard then the prt1csss would Le called i'll to join shsm
 Nine o'clock was ke6.ime, and she never prolonged her day beyond that hour. No matter W hesher she was at heme o5 at the hense of friend. s.s o'clock bedtime was rigidly enforced. ]" Her !. tie bed was placed beside hes mothers larger bed, 20 that by day and night mother and daughter were never far apart.
 Regular study, regular exercise. sim. ple food and plenty of time out of doors, plenty cf play and plenty of sleep distinguished tie nrbringing Of Eng lands future queen.
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Wrecked on Boston Shoals.

The young man looked up from ail Sriting.
 "The--ah--4he-girl lives in Bos- ton, he said 10 his chum. Don't you think it would make hit with her if l quoted few lines of poetry"
 tGot the hGok?a
 "No, but know the verses by heart. '
 Don't you take any chances. l tried the same thing once and got shook be. cause I used scmicoion where there should have been u comma. '.- Wash ingtcn Star.
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An Anaiysls.

"What did that young man call thia poem!" asked the editor
 "A satire.
 "And that implies that he IS show ing the uselessness and absurdity ot something"
 T believe So.
 Well, there's only one guess that can make concerning this, and that is shat u is A satire oil poetry. ''-Wash ington Star
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A Delicate comp,sn,snt.

No more elegant compliment was ever paid to Il preacher than that Of King Louis XIV of France to Jean Ba tiste Masillon, bishop Of Clermont Said he: ''I have heard many great preachers, and the effect they produced sn me WAS that I felt thoroughly satis. fed with them. Every time I heard sau 1 was dissatisfea with myself"
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strange Mistake.

Old Mrs. Jones entered the drawin room unexpectedly aud spoiled yez pretty tableau.
 TT was just whispering secret is Cousin Jennie ear, explained Charlie,
 .sl'm sorry. ' said the old lady grave. ly, that your eyesight has .hacoane Sd bad that you mistake Jennie'x mouth for her car London Tit Bits.
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ola Custom Revtye.i.

An ancient castom has been revived in some English rural districts. ,,lerov- men, i'll surplicas ant: attended by a choir. made tour in procession of the cornfelds ana farmyardS. N here 1uayers were offered up for tisAsins on n ths young crops.
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na Yinci.s MneeIharroM.

Leonardo da ViDcl, the painter who painted the famous picture of the Last Supper, j" is said to have invented ths wheslbarrow Boston Budget
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04
HOW MICE MAKE WAR.
They Face Each Other, Standing on Thei,
Hind Legs.

No"
Before we had much observed mice,
the use of their long tails was Il CUES.
ton that had puzzled US. We do not
knoW OF what service they are to tho
females, but to the bucks they are. we
see, of use in their combats; for when
they fight they very often face one an
other standing on their hind legs, the
tails then making, as with kangaroos,
the third feature of a tripod.
Their appearance when they thus
stand facing n another with their
heads Thrown back and their paws in
front of their faces is, on account per-
haps Of the resemblance it bears to the
posture of prize fighters, extremely
comic, Says a writer in the Northwest
Small mice, also, when attacked by
their bigger congeners, raise their
paws before their faces, the attitude
in that case strangely suggesting one
Of depreciation.
What occurs when belligerent bucks
actually engage only instantaneous
photography could record, 50 rapid
are their movements. Presumably
they try to bite, but must consider de-
Tense the better part of valor, for they
never appear to get hurt much, and
between the rounds will nibble away
at the crust, which brought them into
the vicinage, only showing their ex-
element by rafting their tails against
the ground. Occasionally a tail seized
by the teeth leads to one mouse hav-
ing to drag his enemy over the floor
till the latter lets go.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04
A II Sernent.

Professor A. L. Bubach, an attache
of the Imperial museum of Berlin,
who, with nine trusty men, has been
making explorations in Northern and
Western Brazil, sends this eXtraor-
binary information to the directors OF
the institution named above: "Have
had wonderful luck. We already have
9,000'unnamed specimens in natural
history, including a snake sixty-seven
feet long, with long tusks like a boar,
and a horn two feet long on its fore
hooS
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04
Saved by His Pet Dog.

Ansonia, Conn.,, special to New York
Sun: Little Charles Brooks of South
End, Shelton, was playing in the yard
a day or two ago, when up the road
came a NANCY mad dog. 1t frothed at
the mouth and snapped at posts and
trees, and tits eyes were infamed. The
boy saw the dog and called to it. The
cur turned to him. Mr.. Brooks has a
fine watchdog which thinks a good deal
of the boy. 1t was sleeping on the We
randa and was aroused by the call to
the strange dog. 1t sprang up, trotted
to the boy, and just as the mad cur
with a snarl jumped to bite the hand
of the little fellow, stretched out to pet
it, leaped upon the intruder. It caught
the cur by the throat and with one eff
ort shook the life out Of it, never re-
Taxing it's grip until the body lay limp
and ~lifeless on the ground. When two
men ran up to the trio they found the
watchdog on guard over the dead cur,
keeping it's little master away from the
carcass, as if fearing that harm might
still come to him.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04

rollers will not fall out and get lost.
In order to avoid the Mccormick pa
tent the other harvesting machine COM
pany who claims to be the originator OF
roller bearings in harvesters has cut
out the metal in the ring at the ends Of
the rollers. IT the cage is taken out
the rollers slip out and become filled
with grit, or worse, get lost. The
methods of the Mccormick Company
result in an annual saving OF many
thousands of dollars to the farming
public. New devices are not embodied
in their machines until long and Oft
repeated trials have shown them to be
practical. 1t has been the same with
roller bearings as with everything else
Mccormick experimenting is done at
Mccormick expense.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04
Drunk for Twenty Years.

A correspondent writes: II was drunk
on and off for over twenty years. drunk
when l had money. sober when had none
Many dear friends | lost, and numbers gave
me good advice to no rpos but, thank
God, ar angel and came at last in the
form of my poor wife, who administered
your marvellous remedy, "Anti-Jag,' to
me without my knowledge OF consent.
am now saved and completely transformed
from a worthless fellow to a sober and re-
spected citizen"
If "Anti-Jag'' cannot be had at your
druggist. it will be mailed in plain wrapper
with full directions how to give secretly.
on receipt Of One Dollar, by the Renova
Chemical Co.. G6 Broadway, New York, or
they will gladly mail full particulars free
to YOU,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04
killing at African Funerals.

One of the chief reasons for killing
wives, slaves and other persons on the
occasion Of a great mans death among
West Africans is not because they de-
light in shedding blood, but that the
chief may have servants and wealth
and position in the next world. In
the Niger Delta there is a different
reason, but equally ef1icacious in
the destruction of human life. Among
the Tschwi," writes Miss Mary H..
Kingsley, the w~ell-known traveller,
the slaves and women killed are to
form for the dead a retinue, and
riches wherewith to start life in Srah-
mandazi, where there are markets and
towns and all things as on this earth,
and so the Tschwi would have little
difficulty in replacing human beings at
funerals with gold dust, cloth and other
forms of riches,a and this is already done
in districts under white influence. But
in the Delta there is no underworld
to live in, the souls shortly after reach
ing the underworld being forwarded
back to this, in new babies, and the
wealth that is sent down with a man
serves as an indication as to what
class If baby the soul is to be repacked
and sent up in. AS wealth in Delta
consists of women and slaves I do not
believe the underworld gods of the
Niger would understand the status of
a chief who arrived before them, let
us say with ten puncheons of palm oil,
and 400 yards Of crimson figured vel
vet; they would say, ooh, very good so
far as it goes, but where is you real
estate? The chances are you are only
a trade slave boy and have stolen these
things and in consequence of this,
killing at funerals will be a custom ex-
ceedingly difficult to stamp out in these
regions"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04

is, with the heads towards his left
hand; hence, in making the tuck he
showed the ends under the band toward
the heads. Grain is handled by the
shocker by grasping into the heads, as
shown in the illustration, and the tuck
should therefore be toward the heads,
SO that it will not pull out.
The applications of roller bearings to
grain cutting machinery was made by
J. G. Perry in 1869, and his patent, No.
S6,5S4. for an improved reaper, showed
and described various ways of using
roller and ball bearings in harvesters.
Unquestionably the most practical and
satisfactory applications of roller bear
ings to binders and mowers has been
made by the Mccormick Harvesting
Machine Company. The Particular form
used by them was patented in 1882 and
is now to be found in all Mccormick
machines. The especially valuable fea-
ture of the Mccormick roller bearing
is seen in the form-or cage as it is
called-which holds the rollers from
running together, and If for any cause
the cage is taken from the shaft the
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04
S|O0 To Any Man.
WILL PAY 500 FOR ANY CASE
OF Weakness in Men They Treat and
Fall to Cure.

OF in Men They Treat and
Fail to Cure.
An Omaha Company places for the first
time before the public a MAGICAL TREAT
MEST for the cure Of Lost Vitality, Nervous
and Sexual Weakness, and Restoration OF
Life Force in old and young mon. No
WORKOUT French remedy; Contains no
PHOSPHORUS or other harmful drugs. 1t is
a WONDERFUL TREATMENT-magical in its
cffects-positive in it's cure. All readers,
who are suffering from a weakness that
bllghts their life, causing that mental and
physical suffering peculiar to Lost Man
hood, should write to the STATE MEDICAL
COMPANY, Omaha, Neb, and they will
send you absolutely FREE, O valuable
paper on these diseases, and positive proofs
OF their truly MAGICAL TREATMENT. Ihous-
ands of men, who nave lost all hope OF q
cure, are being restored by them to a per-
feet condition.
This MAGICAL TREATMENT NAV be taken
at home under their directions. or they will
pay railroad fare and hotel bills to all who
prefer to 60 there for treatment, if they
fail to cure. They are perfectly reliable;
have no Free Prescriptions, Free Cure,
Free Sample, or c. O.. d. fake. They have
t250,00O capital, and guarantee to cure
every case they treat or refund every dol
lar; or their charges may be deposited in a
bank to be paid to them when a cure is
effected. Write them today.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04

was that unless the foxes had a chance
10 live and run the state would soon
cease to produce enough hard cider for
home consumption, and citizens with
cOnvivial instincts would have to drink
more expensive and dangerous fluids.
The clubs argument reads without a
flaw. Hard cider is made from new CT
der, and new cider is squeezed from
apples. AS apples grow upon apDie
trees, and as apple trees are gnawed
n killed by mice, and, furthermore, as
foxes are about all the mice catchers
that roam in the orchards, the club
reasoned that foxes should be spared
to catch the mice. 1t was a roundabout
way to boom the hard cider industry,
but the club secured the names of about
5000 Orchardists on their petitions,
and were winning new converts every
day when Representative Pope of
Manchester was called to testify as to
what he knew about the demonstrating
habits of foxes. Pope is the largest ap-
pie grower in Maine. He has 1000 bar
rels OF apples in his cellar, which he
could have sold for a dollar a barrel
last fall, but for which he cannot get
an offer now. Consequently Mr.. Pope
believed that if there were more mice
there would be fewer apple trees, fewer
apples, and higher prices. If foxes
killed mice he believed in killing foxes.
But Mr.. Pope said they didn't do any
thing Of the kind. On the contrary, he
knew from personal observation that
skunks were the chief mousers of the
orchards, and that the principal arti-
Gle of diet for foxes in the winter time
was live skunks. Two members of the
Fur Club then offered to bet $1O0 that
the average adult skunk couldn't catch
the average adult mouse. They ad-
mitted that skunks might steal the
young from the nests of mice, but be-
yond this they would not concede a
thing. The bet was accepted by a few
men who believe that foxes should be
killed whenever found, and the pro-
posed law to prohibit the taking of
foxes in traps was referred to the next
legislature. Meanwhile it devolves up
on the Brunswick Fur Club to prove
that skunks cannot catch mice. In Or
der to do this they must secure a lot
of average field mice, such as nav ap-
pie trees, put them into a fenced in
closure and Introduce an average skunk
among them. If the skunk succeeds
in catching half the mice the Fur Club
loses, and the members will o. ask
for the proposed law. In case the
skunk fails the farmers lose and will
consent to have the new law put on
the statute book. The trial will come
off in a hay field neal Augusta late in
July.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04
MOUNTAINS OF COLORADO.
Where Are You Going This M

Where Are You Going This Summer?
Now that summer is here, and warm
weather is near at hand, the great num-
Der of people who have acquired the
habit of spending the "hot spell" in
some cooler place than home, are be-
ginning to plan az to where they will
go 1t has been demonstrated that
people living in high attitudes should
go to the seashore, and people living in
low attitudes should go to the noun
tajns; and "the mountains" has come
to mean Colorado, because there is
found more in the way of recreation
and pleasure than in any other locality.
It would fill much space to name the
many places which possess attractions,
but any of the many points on the
Denver & Rio Grande railway will be
found pleasing to tourists. Trout fish
ing is probably the most enjoyable
sport to be pursued, because it can be
had with less trouble, annoyance and
expense than any other, but the sports
man who is willing tc undertake the
extra hardships Of going after bear,
deer, elk and other wild animals that
AOotllu, A0l1 OaSIo1J LIZ l. " liz
fullest extent. Those who prefer less
laborious amusement for the summer,
as a visit, at the springs, resorts, etc.,
can be equally we'll pleased at the
numerous places Of the kind. For
those who wish to unite business with
pleasure. is open the opportunity Of
prospecting or investing in Colorado
mines. and in this direction no place
promises such flattering returns. The
mining interests, while having already
yielded enormous wealth, are only in
their infancy, and every day shows the
discovery of rich values never before
suspected, and it is becoming proven
bal that the "tenderfoot" "strikes it"
as frequently as the practical miner.
The latter looks only for the particu-
lar rock that he knows bears fruit,
while the former tests everything he
finds and often discovers the mineral
where the "old timer" has run over it.
You will make no mistake in going to
Colorado for your summer outing.
F. P. Baker.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04

But first I would remark, that it is not
a proper plan
For any scientific gent to whale his fell
bowman,
And, if a member don't agree with his
peculiar Whim,
10 lay for that same member for to
put a head on him.
Now, nothing could be finer or more
beautiful to see
Ina the first six mouths proceedings
or that same society,
iii Brown of Calaveras brought. a lot
of fossil bones
mat he found within a tunnel near the
tenement Of Jones.
Ihen Brown he read a paper, and he
reconstructed there,
from those same bones. an animal that
was extremely rare;
ana Jones then asked the Chair for a
suspension Of the rules,
Iii he could prove that those same
bones was one of his lost mules.
Then Brown he smiled a bitter smile,
and said he was at fault.
It seemed he had been t~respassing on
Jones family vault;
he was a most sarcastic man, his
quiet MI. Brown;
And on several occasions he had
cleaned out the town.
Now, I hold it is not decent for a scien-
tific gent
70 say another is an ass,-at least, to
all INTENT:
Nor should the Individual who happens
to be meant
Reply by heaving rocks at him to any
great extent.
Then Abner Dear Of Angels raised a
point of Order-When
A chunk of old red sandstone toe him
in the abdomen;
And he smiled a kind Of sickly smile,
and curled up On the floor,
And the subsequent proceedings inter-
eSted him no more.
member did Engage
In a warfare with the remnants of a
palaeoZOic age;
And the way they heaved those fossils
in their anger was a sin,
TIL the skull Of an old mammoth caVed
the head Of Thompson in.
And this is all 7 have to say of these
improper games;
For I live at Table Mountain, and my
name is Truthful James;
And Nv told in simple language what
I know about the row
That broke up u society upon the
StalisloW.
Bret Harte.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04
Bears That Migrated.
Bret Harte.

Manly Hardy writes to the Forest
and Stream about bears hat migrated:
The first notice of these m%igrations
is to be found in a book by John JOS
selyn entitled New England Rarities
Discovered published in 1873. In this
book he says that great companies Of
bears sometimes travelled across what
is probably the Piscataqua River.
About seventy years ago, early in Sep
TENDER, my father one night witnessed
a bear migration. The night was a
dark one. The bears came to the east
bank of the Penobscot River in the
town of Ovington, about seven miles
below Bangor. The bears could be
heard calling and answering each other
till low water, when they took to the
Water, swan across, and landed on the
Hampden side. In the morning it was
found that a large number had crossed.
My father saw their tracks across a
single plank in a ship yard. Again,
about thirty years ago a friend of mine,
Henry Clapp, who is quoted in Cas-
sino's STANDARD Natural History as an
authority on bears, told me that during
the fall he had gone on a trapping trip
but had found few bears till one morn
ing in November after a snow fall he
found the tracks of nine different bears
all headed up one little valley. For
several days after that more bear
tracks were found, all headed in the
same direction-from east to west.
They denned up when it came time to
10 so, and in the spring headed east
again. 1t is believed among sportsmen
hat bears so back into the woods to
len up, and come to the vicinity of the
,learings every spring; but extensive
nigrations by bears are as little heard
If as those of wild turkeys and prairie
chickens. What %naturalists do not un-
lerstand is how the animals, which
Usually scatter w miles of territory,
know how, when, or where to get to-
gether for their trips"
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-06-04
Literary Women In Paris.

There are now not less than 2,135
literary women in Paris, of whom
1,2l1 write novels or books for chill
dren, 217 pedagogical work and 23O
devote themselves to poetry. The
others do not limit themselves to u
one department of literary work.