The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-08-05

the nOuSn comes CnaC the next dis
patch may tell that they have died of
their wounds o, 1 hate war, I hate
it!'
Spelling BY Sign Painters.
Spelling has been defined as an act
Of memory, and many great authors
who could remember all the leading
events of the P~eloponnesion wal could
not be certain whether it was ''prin-
ciple" or principal Outside of a COM.
positor or proofreader, who are sup
posed to be infallible, the next best
speller ought to be a sign painter,
whose work is set in high places. AS
a matter of fact, he isn't, and neither
is a job printer. OF course, this ex>
cepts the high-class men, but the Sec
ond and all the lower classes never
consult a dictionary and depend on
their memory with disastrous results.
Their n there" are ~transposed.
co~nfounded, n occasionally we see
the 8 or n upside down. AS to faults
Of phrasing they are exceedingly com.
mon. Handsome Ladies Suits and
Superb Boys Pants doesn't mean at
all what it says, and who has not
smiled at zone Dollar Womens Cor
sets" and Cheap Gents Vests"
Even h big tradesmen offend. In
a certain confectionery store, which
shall be nameless, as the novelists say.
there is a collection of candy boxes,
and the sign reads: These boxes are
exact facsimiles of the eight-inch pro-
~jectiles used by our navy, and they
are about one-third actual size"
Further along the same street is a
window display of women's underwear.
and the sign reads: Everything in
%lS~ rysrS0u Fo~ OK oorfoNJ Hon, 1,,.
prised the proprietor would be if some
grammarian would proffer him a quar-
ter and demand the whole lot.
But what shall be SAT- of the sign
that reads: National Shoe Repairing
Co.. Look at our prices. Only Is min
utes OF waltz To substitute cot" for
to- looks as if the painter stood on
his head, but there is a serene tribute
to the ignorance of the proprietor and
painter alike.
Kansas claims to have the only regu-
larly organized and equipped company
Of female soldiers in the world. There
are forty Of them. The other day they
marched into the presence Of Governor
Leedy, in charge Of Major Boyd of the
adjutant generals office, and gave a
military salute.
Major Boyd said:
Governor, I have the honor to pre-
sent to you the only company of armed
and equipped girl soldiers in the United
| States. They have sacked the arsenal
and captured the assistant adjutant
| general and if the time ever comes for
them to fight 1 think that you will
find them standing as firm as a rock"
Governor Leedy blushed slightly, but
he rose to his feet Inc faced the lady
soldiers: Il do not know what to call
you, ladies or soldiers, but I will say
that I am greatly pleased at the pa.
triotism 0 have shown by this lender
of your services to your country and I
promise o when you will be required
by the United State government, I shall
take pleasure in presenting o to the
comamnder-in-chief for active service"
Major Boyd hen gave an exhibition
drill for the benefit of the governor. The
young ladies shouldered arms and fired
their muskets just like real soldiers,
and then marched out of the room,
keeping step to the thrum of a base
drum.
A Cossack, ignorant Of the French
language and equally ignorant of fear,
was recently hired at Moscow by the
lion tanner Pezon to clean the cages
of his wild beasts. Their understand
ing, or misunderstanding, was arrang-
ed by means of gestures and dumb
show, and Pezon thought that the man
thoroughly understood what he had to
do. The next morning the Tartar be-
gan his new duties by entering with
bucket, pom and broom, not the
cage of a tame beast, as his master had
done, but of a splendid untamed tiger,
which lay asleep On the floor. The
fierce animal awoke and fixed his eyes
upon the man, who calmly proceeded to
wet his large sponge, and, unterrifed,
to rub down the tiger as if he had
been a horse or a dog; while the tiger,
apparently delighted by the applica-
ton of cold water, rolled over on its
back, stretched out it's paws, and, purr-
ing, offered every part of it's body to
the Cossack, who washed it as COM
placently as a mother bathes her in
FAINT. Then he left the cage, and would
have repeated the hazardous expert
ment upon another savage beast from
the desert. had not Pezon drawn him off
with difficulty.
All the funerals in Paris are con-
Quoted by a single syndicate, which
have a licensed monopoly of the BUSH
ness. There is a regular tariff Of rates,
a frst-class funeral costing $1,000 and
the cheap or ninth class S..
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin an uncle of the grand duke