Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-03-19
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Possibly it would have had a good effect
If those Charleston naval maneuvers had
taken place ut Key West.-Chicago Post.
Beware of widows, as Mr.. Weller adj
vised. One of them in Chicago has just
bought u $4,000 gown.-Portsmouth
Post.
A Chicago alderman has just beer &C.
quilted of murder. This makes him eligi-
BILE for u higher position.-Florida Times
Union.
If King George is compelled to choose
between an abdication and a licking, he
will doubtless take the licking.-Wash-
ington Post.
Can it be jealousy which has prompted
the Missouri House to pass a bill which
aims n blow at dime museums ?@Kansas
| City Star.
War stories in the magazines. are be-
ing succeeded by dialect yarns. That's
why the people are crying for u war with
Spain.-Tammany Times.
Mr.. Forakcr's telegram of congratula-
ton to Mr.. Hanna was in the nature Of a
third alarm. calling ont the entire depart
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Times.
Is it possible that DIR. Ruiz was u vic
tim of the law of compensation? Hewa
q dentist, and used to torture people him
self.-Chicago Dispatch.
Those who think department stores can
be put down by legislation have but a
| crude idea of what constitutes business
evolution.-Boston Herald.
The medical advice to Mr.. Mckinley to
avoid excitement is IN q par with that
| given the sick letter carrier to take more
exercise.-St. Louis Post Dispatch.
The Oklahoma Legislature has enacted
q law to punish a man who marries his
mother-in-law 1t probably compels him
to live with her.-New York Journal.
The time may come when it will be nee
essary to thank Mr.. Olney for avoiding
war until the justification for going to war
was Enthusiastically apparent.-Chicago
Record.
Not long ago a lady in Japan during ill
ness had 4o3 physicians in attendance. 1t
is, perhaps, unnecessary to add that her
| illness was fatal.-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
China executed two citizens lately be-
cause they were political agitators. just
fancy sending 14,00O,OO people to the
block in this country.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Let us have war. if need be-the Con-
gress has power to declare it; but in tile
name of national decency and American
manhood. let us nave no more buster
New York Press.
Women in theater audiences. as q rule,
show great reluctance about taking off
| their hats, but, on the other hand, women
on the stage seem willing to take off about
everything.-Boston Globe.
The man with a petition is beginning TO
arrive at Washington The individual
who does not happen to know that petit
tions do not count in modern politics is
no longer appointed to oilice.-New York
Journal.
It can be said of the muzzle-loadcrs with
which the civil war was fought that if
their contents hit Il man he did not fight
on for two or three hours without knowing
| that he had been shot.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The deepest hole in the world has been
bored in Silesia. 1t has reached IL depth
of 6.42O feet. This would be II good place
for VIEWER to hide if the Cubans succeed
in their struggle.-New FORK Commercial
Advertiser.
The resignation of MIR. Peak, United
States minister to Switzerland. will not
| seriously affect that ancient republic.
Peaks are so plentiful iii Switzerland that
one more or less is of no consequence
New York Advertiser.
The monster petition from Colorado to
Presilcnt-rlcct Mckinley praying for the
repeal of the civil service law, looks as if
the people out there were likewise in favor
| of the free and unlimited distribution of
pork.-Boston Herald.
The five Greek dentists who ave gone
bnc. to the mother country from the
United States have evidently been impell-
cd tn mako the trip by the announcement
that the Greeks We're ''arming to the
teeth."-Chicaso Tribune.
When Uncle Russell Sage took a mort
gage Oh his brothers. homestead to secure
n loan of $50 he doubtless did so merely
to avert the possibility of the dear old
place passing out of the possession of the
~family.-St. Louis Republic.
The Chicago lady who wore the $4,000
dress to the opera in that city enables
Manager Grau to say that he had more
money in the house that night thar in
any two nights in New York. Cute Chi
cago.-Cleveiand Plain Dealer.
The impressionablc small boy, who
reads fiery fiction and pines for opportuni-
ties to commit deeds of valor. has a new
outlet for his enthusiasm and has tempo
rarily dropped the Indian question to so
and fight in Cubu.-Baltiimorc American.
Grover Cleveland.
We believe that history, as made in the
calmness Of unbiased and dispassionate
RETROSPECT: and in the light of accomplish
cd demonstration, will do Mr.. Cleveland
perfect and abiding Observation-Disclosures
Post.
Such useful qualities MS Mr.. Cleveland
has manifested in the public service may
we'll be initiated by public servants to
come, but those qualities need not neces-
sarily he copied from him as a puttern.-
New York Sun.
He goes out of Office with scarcely one
friend where he had a dozen four years
ago. but he goes out with his " self
respect retained aud with a clear con-
science so far as lie is personally concern-
cd.--Peoria Herald.
In the last four years Mr.. Cleveland has
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