The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1899-04-21

SCRAPS.

Irish stew is 4 dish never seen 81
ireland.
Mexico is spending about 100000
fear for United States furniture.
Brazil is now the principal coffee
producing country the world. In
1885 the crcp Wss estimated at 1000.
300 bags.
Horses, CRATES and ostrichep have
the largest eyes OF all terrestrial AMI
mails, but among marine animals there
are cephalopods or ink-fshes which
have eyes as large; as q plate.
Yes, he's got q great scheme on
foot. He expects to bring the aga
zine editors to terms in short order"
What's the scheme? dialect
trust. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Professor Ito his wife, provoked)-IS
never know how to take you, Amelia.
Two years ago you were crazy for that
hat, and now I've bought 1t forsyou.
and you don't like It at all,-Fliegende
Batter.
In Great Britain there are said 70 be
nearly three hundred religious sects.
The adherents OF the Church OF Eng
land are officially put down at 13.000.-
900. but, according to other authorities.
this is an exaggeration.
Mrs. Ella Knowles Haskell Of Hele4
ma, Mont, who has just retired from
the assistant misunderstanding Of
that state, was the first and only wom-
an to hold that place. She was elected
by the Populists, is q native Of New
Hampshire and a graduate Of Bates
College.
Plants protect themselves by terribly.
ing attitudes, Just as do Insects. One
of the uses OF the movements L thu
sensitive plant is to brighten animals,
A venturesome browsing creature com.
ing ear 1t is afraid to touch d plant
which so evidently is occupied BY spir-
Its.
Scores OF things children do In play
are relics Of savage superstition. Pun
ing a dandelion flower Is one Of these
and the crossing Of the fingers III thu
game of tag to secure immunity come1a
from the use OF the Christian symbol.
to ward OF evil spirits-Chicaso:
News.
In servia there still survives q won.
derful old institution known az Il
Zadruga. It is the living together al y
whole tribe, numbering sometimes III
many as 100 persons, all underzthe abys
solute authority OF one chief. HI
keeps all the money. makes III th1II
purchases and decides the minutest /
tails Of family life. sssSS
New Orleans is SO unused To INIT
that when the heavy storm struck
recently It found itself unable tosc11E
pei citizens to shovel on their si6SfK
walks, for want Of a local ordinangSj4sSea
that effect. The desired ordinance
now expected In short order, alt6a32 I
1t may not be necessary to enf0feSSH3
for half a century. Ss s%EM&5
In the dry South African. ~ "
where every green thing gets h11xE
down In the rainless season., E&EF{SSfs'
Ice plants and milkweeds hayS
trick Of forming tubers Or stai{fz3s ~ i
actly like the pebbles among#@k 54S
they grow, SO that when the le91GGS1
down In the dry weather the V6lklSSi3I
are not to be seen apart fspm
stones. These tubers carry ID y
over till the next rainy seasons.
Turkey has been engaged ins1lss
thirty-eight years OF the present censss
tury, considerably q than one-thirds
Of the time; Spain IN next WITH
thirty-one years OF war: France haas
had twenty-seven years; Russia, TWEEN.
ty-four; Italy, twenty-three; England
twenty-one; Austria, seventeen; Hol
land, fourteen; Germany, thirteen:
Sweden. ten; Portugal, ten; Denmark
nine. Much Of this Is forreckoning q
the first Napoleon.