Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-08-12
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In the first five months of 1898 more
rain fell in Kansas than during the
whole of last year.
Berlin has a service of dinner carts
which call ut the homes of the working
mel and collect lunches to convey to
the men ut the factories.
In a recent test of speed ut Gibralta,
the British channel squadron succeeded
in putting in 5000 tons of coal and get.
ting ready for sea in forty-eight hours.
An Italian doctor has discovered that
there is in the common pineapple a sub.
stance similar to pepsln, and that one
pineapple is sufficient TO digest ten
pounds of beef.
A servant girl on a farm near Cam.
brai, in Northern France, has lived sew.
enty-twO years with the same family.
She is now ST years of age and still
does her work.
The cylindrical bales of cotton now
shipped from the United States t. Liv.
erpool are pronounced Il great improve.
e upon the first specimens and also
upon the old bale.
The discovery has been made that
metal filings of any kind can he com
pressed into bars which will stand as
severe tests as the original bars which
supplied the filings.
The British army rifle has eighty
two f.Ovinnynnf 1NOt.fS I'm thu n,,ol,,cffnn
of which 952 machines are employed,
as we'll as various processes which do
not require machinery.
The lack of cheap coal is a serious
impeachment to Mexican progress, as
with the extension of railroads and tho
development of manufactures the de.
mand is increasing rapidly.
A substitute for honey has been In
troduced in Germany under the name
of sugar honey, and consists of sugar,
water, minute amounts of mineral sub.
stances and free acid.
A Roumanian manufacturer has nm.
nounced his intention of sending to the
Paris exposition in 1900 a pianoforte Of
such exceptional sorority that its tones
will be heard at a distance of six miles.
While boring for water a T%ennessean
struck what he thought must be a lake,
his drilling apparatus sinking rapidly q
score of feet, but when the liquid spout
ed he found that it was very pure oil.
For preventing a railroad disaster by
the timely discovery Of a broken rail
and the stopping of an approaching
train a locomotive engineer at Halle, on
the Saale, received q reward of so cents
from the railroad company.
The largest wild beast bounty pay
ment yer made in any State is now
being made at Helena, Mont. It
amounts to $5O,O96 and represents the
balance due on the States payment on
the skins of 16,69S wolves and coyotes
killed in 1897.
Anti-Semitism has broken out in Lon
don. At an inquest on a Spitalfelds
Christian boy, killed by the throwing
Of a stone, 1t zane out that fights be-
tween Jews and Christians have been
going on in that district for some time
past.
Mr.. Dusen, q German traveller who
recently explored the west coast of Pat
agonia, says that MOSES of all species
are developed there t an extraordinary
degree. They grow in immense heaps,
the explorer sinking to his armpits in
some Of them.
In parts Of Delaware a very much
greater acreage is devoted to tomato
raising this year than in former sea-
sons, some farmers having signed large
contracts with canning factories and
others having determined that the
open market offers good inducement.
Incidental information concerning
municipal street cleaning methods in
st. Petersburg, Russia, is found in a big
petition being circulated there asking
for the abolition of rubber-tired vehi-
cles, because rubber tires splash up
more mud than the old kind.
Coats milk is the milk of Spain, what
little pasturage there is being devoted
to bulls instead of COWS. This milk is
so unwholesome in warm weather that
1t gave birth to this proverb: March
milk is good for yourself; April milk is
good for your brother, and May milk is
good for your mother-in-law.
An ordinance adopted by the Louis.
lana constitutional convention forbids
the acceptance by any public official Of
free transportation, franking privilege
or discrimination in passenger, tele.
graph or telephone rates. The drawer
Of the ordinance acknowledged in the
debate that he had a pass in his pocket.
Missouri has more chickens than any
other State in the Union. In 1890, when
the latest United States census was
taken, the chicken population amounted
to 23,OOO.O0O fowls Of other varieties,
The product in eggs for that year was
100000 dozen, valued at about S..
100000.
There is q real estate dealer in Wash.
ington named William Mckinley. There
used to be q real estate dealer there