Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-10-29
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The engine of an express train con-
sumes twelve gallons of water for each
mile travelled.
1t is estimated that the universal adj
d:ction to bicycling cost English piano
manufacturers and dealers IL loss of
$15.Co0.GO0 last year.
n yellow dog derailed Il hand car near
Reno, Kan, and the car vent ver Il
t~wenty-foot embanklnent, injuring
three men. The dog. after the accident,
just got up and barked.
DIR. C. +. Carver, of st. Augustine,
Fla, is experimenting for the cXtrac-
ton of the sweet matter from water
melons, and it is said that lie derives
from the NEON pulp a sirup equal to
the maple tree.
EN-Mayor Frank L. O.ney. of Provi-
dencc. Il. L., president of the American
Philatelic Association. has Il collection
Of stamps valued at 100000. Mr.. o.
ney is Il WOODEN manufacturer, and is
enthusiastic over his hobby.
Statistics show that in Antwerp alone
nsarly 1000 horses We're slaughtered
last year for human consumption, and
tile number of shops dealing exclusive
ly in ~horsehesh in the Belgian ports eX-
ceeds thirty.
France is the country of monuments.
1t has set up about 3UO monuments to
more or less distinguished Frenrhmcn
during the last twenty-five years. and
there are now 121 committees collect
ing money for more.
At Il wedding in Langley. y. Y, the
bride, bridegroom, best man and brides
maid We're all deaf and dumb. The
bridal pair nodded their II will' and
pledged their troth by pointing to tie
words III their prayer-books.
Many of the convicts in French pris-
II are paid for their labor, and earn
about 30 cents IL day. Half of this they
are allowed to spend for extra food,
postage, ETC., and the rest is saved, to
be given to them on their discharge.
The New York owner of a long-haired
French poodle has from time to time
clipped from its coat twenty pounds of
soft white wool. which will shortly
be woven into cloth, from which he will
have Il suit of clothes made.
England has three guinea pig farms,
II of which exports 100000 yearly to
France. where they are used mt res
tauiants as rabbits, the flavor of the
flesh being identical in the two animals.
The industry is said to be very profit
able.
Until Il few years ago the wholesale
price of ivory vas SO IL pound. In o IL
sequence of the opening up of new dis
tricts in Africa to colonization the price
has fallen to 50. An ordinary elephant
yields about 12O pounds of merchant
able ivory.
The Passmore Edwards settlement.
being established in London, will
be under Unitarian influences, and an
attempt will probably be made in it to
carry out some of the humanitarian
ideas advanced by Mrs. Humphrey
Ward in Robert Elsmcrc."
Maine has a statute which requires
residents who marry ont of the State
TO file on their return II certificate with
the clerk of the town in which they live.
The law has been neglected of late,
and its sudden enforcement is emlDar-
RAISING to the culIrits.
\ new method of testing the hardness
of steel bullets has been devised in Ger
Manu.. FEl,n hollis n,.n ,l,so,,,,n1 f,,nr, IN
fixed height on a glass plate set at an
angle. If properly tempered they re-
bound into one receptacle. and il they
are too soft they drop into another.
The Berkshire County Historical So
ciety is endeayoring to purchase MISS
Susan Il. Anthony's birthplace. i'll
Adams, Mass. The house was built by
her grandfather. The society's wish is
to make a small park of the land and Il
library and museum of the house.
The .Abyssinian church. the oldest or
ganized national church in existence, is
said to be about to abandon it's policy
of isolation and to enter into friendly
relations with Western Christianity. 1t
is likely to seek some form Of union
with the Orthodox church of Russia.
Larrakin, q famous Australian stee-
plcchaser, fell in the grand national
hurdle race near Melbourne, breaking
his neck. AS O as the race was over
the crowd broke in and began to cut up
the dead horse for relies. One man
took his tail, another the ears, and 9th
ers the teeth and hoofs.
The London Lancet prints a long arti.
Gle on 1.-THE therapeutical aspects of
talking, shouting, singing, laughing
crying, signing and yawning." All are
said t have their hygienic uses. Talk
ing is pronounced Il healthful occupa.
ton, good for heart disease. and TIC
some extent n substitute for bodily ex.
ercisc.
1t was only a few years ago tina,
aluminium was not obtainable for less
than 81 Il pound, but the methods have
been so simplitied and the plants fol
its production so increased that inside
90 II 1.no,. ;f, ,,,,inn g., 1;l.n1,, H., o,~