Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-06-30
FROM THE BIG CITIES.
Chicago.

Chicago.
The city is soon to have q woman's.
hotel.
Marriage licenses to the number Of 100.
were issued in one day recently.
Physicians and citizens are about to Or
ganize q society for the prevention Of con.
sumption.
The Postof1ce Department at Washing
ton has allowed appropriations of $24,3OON
and $4,000 to be used in improvements.
of the city postal service.
G. A. r. men are waging a lively battle
for the location Of the thirty-iourth ma
tional encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic in the city in 1900.
The Pullman company has received an
order from the Government Of the King
dom Of Bavaria for six compartment pas
senger cars for the railroads of that coun-.
try.
President Mckinley and his cabinet
have been invited to be present at the.
ceremonies of laying the corner stone of
the new Federal building, Chicago Day,
Oct. 9.
Skilled workmen in the building line are.
at q premium, and the scarcity Of men is.
giving trouble to the Representatives Of
the organizations that are affiliated with.
the Building Trades Council.
London.
Scorching is forbidden cyclers, and the.
police enforce the order with strictness.
Aged worlmen are said to dye their
gray hair 80 as to be- able to obtain en-
ployment.
A 17-year-oh London vegetarian bicy-
clist has made 81 miles in q twenty-four-
road trial over billy country, unpaced.
The latest addition to London clubs is,
q Poodle Club, which has been formed by
q number of ladies and gentlemen inter-
ested in the breed.
The public entrance doors of the great
building of the Bank of England are SC
finely balanced that a clerk, by pressing
a knob under his desk can close them in-
stantly.
Sandwich men are 10 permitted to pa.
rade on the sidewalks. They must keep
close to the curb, however, and not nearer
than thirty feet from the next MAJ bear.
ing a placard.
Complaint is made of slow delivery of
letters. \ letter posted at AIS on a Sat
urday afternoon did not reach its destina-
ton, half a mile away, until the second
delivery on Monday.
The new floating hospital will soon be.
ready.
Three pensioners OF the war of 1912 live
in Boston.
Forty free fountains furnish ice water
to the thirsty.
Complaint is made Of the increase of The
municipal debt.
The new municipal gymnasium is practi-
cally completed.
Salesgirls in the department stores nc
longer wear aprons.
The United States Hotel is to follow the
old fremont House into oblivion.
Hand organ renters have formed a trust
and increased the rental paid by the grind
ers.
Citizens are to be given a chance to pat
ronize home peddlers. Their licenses are
to bear even numbers, while non-resiacnts
will bear tags with odd numbers.
New York.
Horse cars will soon he n thing of +he
past.
Cucumber punch is the newest summer
drink.
Controller Coler says New York is the
Mecca Of besgars.
Tea bars are to be established in order
to combat the liquor evil"
1t is suggested that Coney Islands nane-
be changed to dewey Park" :
Increasing numbers Of baseball cranksa
cross the river to see the Brooklvns plnv
ball.
Among the women Of the fashionable
set there is a mania for handsome bed
steads.
The Sun notes that the number of wo1n--
en- who patronize bootblacks is increasing
steadily.
Baltimore.
Golf is the fad Of the moment.
A wave of suicide seems to be sweeping.
over the city.
A new reform City Council promises to.
make a record for economical a%dministra-
ton of municipal affairs.
The old High Street Methodist Church.
a landmark of Metbodism, has been sold.
and will be converted into a synagogue.
A correspondent writes to one of the
papers saying that Baltimore girls are,
losing the beauty for which they were
famous.
Berlin.
Cabmen are forbidden to use certain.
streets unless they have a passenger.
Berlin's population is increasing With
such great rapidity that it is predicted it
will pass Paris within twenty years.
Automatic telephones are to be estab-
lished in convenient places, such as cigar
stores and restaurants, by the postal au-
thorities.
A new military establishment for the
manufacture of explosives is being erected
tn. the Jungerfernhalde, a vast plain near
the city.
Paris.
Glass is being used as street payement.-
Anglomania is rife among the g~hnesse-
dore.
Work upon the buildings of the exposi-
ton is progressing rapidly.
Omnibuses are to be run all night and q.