The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-08-22

pFoIebSlOIal career ana study law, out
he gives himself two more years or
chess, in the course of which he will
no doubt play a match with Emanuel
Lasker for the worlds championships
Pi1lsburys career has been in many re-
spects like Paul Morphy's, and Morphy
likewise took to the law, but too late
to recover in its lighter labors the over
wrought tension of his mind. Until
Pillsbury he held the record for blind
fold chess, but nothing equal to twenty
games at once, without sight of boards
or men. Pillsbury is said to intend to
handle thirty games of chess in this
way before he retires.
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AS the steamer pitched and rolled in
the waves the traveller heard through
the thin partition wailing voice in the
next stateroom eXclain: oh mamma,
It's coming on again worse than ever"
Then he heard sleepy voice in reply:
Marie. why don't you follow the tlirec-
tions you told me about before we came
on board z" Because I've forgotten
whether I ought to breathe in as the
vessel rises and let the breath go out
as 1t moves downward, or whether it
ought to be the other way, and, oh!
oh! oh! wish was dead"
{ Noah Baby, said to be the oldest man
In America, is dying OF measles, after a
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poorhouse. New Jersey He was 129
years Old on April l, and until recently
had not been only healthy but spright-
ly as we'll. He was recovering from the
disease, but has had relapse and is
reported to be sinking rapidly. Every
effort is being made by the keepers and
physicians 1T the poorhouse to save his
life A special diet is prepared for him,
and his vitality Is being carefully nour-
tShed and stimulated
A cow, while being escorted from
Lydney to Blakeney, in England, the
other day, entered house, walked
doWn long passage, and up twenty
Two steps, into a bedroom, where it
prepared itself for an afternoon siesta.
The manner of restoring it to the street
was ingenious. Another COW was
brought to the bottom Of the stairs,
and the intelligent bovine at once de-
Scended the twenty-five stairs to in
vite the new arrival to share it's slum-
bers. Then they were both showed into
the street.
At the United States minis 66,838, 700
bronze cents were coined last year-a
larger number than was produced dur
Ing any previous twelve-month. The
mintage OF these coins, however, has
been very large indeed, in other years,
z
million in 1898. Few are presented for
redemption and an answer to the ques-
ton, What becomes of the cents? would
BE as difficult as that to the inquiry as
TO the ultimate fate Of pins.
sss John d. Rockefeller is not going to
settle In the south of England. The
Manchester Guardian was responsible
for the canard, which has been
positively denied. The Guardian is
quoted as having said: John d.
Rockefeller, the Standard OIL mag
nate, while touring England, visited
4 Biddeford, Glovelly, 1lfracombe and
country he intends to make his home
there
The London Mail tells of young
farmer In the neiEhborhood Of Spalding
q who. having become possessed Of a mo-
tor car, on which he rides UP to mar
ket, has put his machine to a novel
use. When not engaged in carrying its
{ owner the new Benz carriage, suitably
scotched, is mace to perform the
4 monotonous task OF turning the wheel
/ Of the char machine that daily cuts
the food for the horses on the farm.
The sentimental bride on the park
i bench at st. Joe watched the sun set
4 In Lake Michigan. And she MUIR
INJURED See, darling, how phosphores-
cent!' It's no wonder responded the
4 matt er-of-fact bridegroom, when you
Il think how many matches are made
4 here. Then, as the sun sank to rest
her head sank likewise-on Georges
3 should and all was still.
Roster & Bial's big music hall on
Herald square, one OF the best known
Z places OF amusement In New York city