The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-05-16

the poor waiter has to pay for what
our guests steal.
An indication of the progress In man
ufacturing motor vehicles IS 1urnlshed
by the great rush In the automobile
section Of the patent office at Washing
ton, where the number of applications
is said to be so great as to necessitate
the employment Of five special exam
iners. The automobile division has been
subdivided into four sections, handling
respectively electric motors, steam
motors gas and acetylene motors and
compressed air motors.
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Detroit Journal: But it CHANGED that
the dog had a fat head while the OK
was more than wide between the eyes
Don't you know" observed the OK
accordingly, after moments thought
chat IL you spend all your time In
manager you'll get the mange" NOW,
inas1nuch las this comported with what
he had previously heard concerning
the germ alarmed and fled, whereat the
OK lost no time in throwing the hay
into himself.
Chicago Record Herald: Two boys
and a strong man staggered along,
mense package. After they had depos-
tied 1t in the proper place and while
they stood painting and wiping their
brows the great attorney arose and
pointing to the thing they had been
laboring with said: IT now file my
brief
"A Washington letter carrier opened
letter box the other night, stuck his
hand in and then dashed madly down
the street, shouting "A snake! A
snake!" A policeman stopped him and
together they went back to investi-
gate They looked into the box and
saw that the supposed snake coiled on
top Of bunch Of letters was fat
astring of sausages.
Lord Grimthorpe, the pugnactous
ex- chancellor of the archdiocese of
( York, is the oldest kings counsel In
England He is Sc years of age, has
been lawyer sixty-four years, was
made "a queens counsel in 1854 and can
i write a more vigorous polemical letter
on ecclesiastical matters than any other
man in England,
q William Jones, policeman Of Leeds,
Eng, has for years been an art stu
dent, end has just reached the goal of
his ambition. Two OF his landscapes
have been hung at the Royal Cambrian
y academy Another large work was ac-
denny Of London, but was crowded out
of the exhibition.
5ss Pending the general institution Of
wireless telegraph systems, pigeon
post is doing good service between Los
Angeles, Call, and Avalon on santa
Catalina island, In the Pacific, fifty
miles away distance that the pigeons
cover In an hour. Messages by the bird
route. however, cost from so to rs cents
& each.
Detroit Journel: We contemplated the
alcoholic wreck with unmingled pity. ~
1 sinking ship. indeed ~ we exclaimed
But the rats do not leave me, :
shrieked the fellow, gesturing wildly
We extended to him the helping hand
/ OF course, but he shrank away, mistak
ing this for a pink elephant.
s,This Is an idiotic calumny, say
n Felix. the Paris dressmaker Of tn,
1s After working hard for forty year
and aInassing a fortune of 100000
francs / intend to retire to the countr,
sF Tor life. wind up my accounts AM
close the doors Of my esta blishment I"
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The fines collected In New York 20
IS lice courts last year amounted to SIS,
957. In 1899 the total was 81 100, 637 PRO
to the estah lsshments OF the presen
beard of city magistrates the ayesag
annual collect Ions were from $40, 900 t
Isl 900. In 1888 the total collection
from fines amounted to sss7. 1s5.
The new animal that has been discoy
cred In Africa, ha III OF and half g.
raffe, has five horns Sir Henry Johi
son, the b fish comm missioner In Ugar
da, made the discovery. It is calle
slider appropriate II one gets after yc
jg II In the open. is5 \ 81
Bishop Mnnde Creig hton was on
4 asked if he could name d point OF rad
caI al Inference between Oxford ali
Cambridge men. DR. Creighton sal,
8 IL pxfnrd ma III Intiks as liz the Wor
Belonged to him, Cam bridge rns
looks as IL he does not care to whom
sSs belong