The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1903-02-06

49, JOLll Wlllllltlb a Lo"Cil "eLNel, 10
a consistent advocate Of physical cul-
ture. He walks twenty-four miles
each day between the factory and his
home in Littleton. Between the daily
journeys on foo Whittier spends ten
hours before a loom in a Lowell sus-
pender factory. He is a small man,
about 40 years old, and is all muscle
and grit.
The Irrigation works recommended
by the geological survey give interest
to the report on the irrigation works
of India. The net revenue to the gov
was 1856 per cent on an out
lay Of 100000 900. The value of the
crops raised on the irrigated area dur
Ing the year is estimated at $135,000,-
900, a sum in excess of the capital out
lay.
The Christian E~ndeavorers of Amer
lea have built twenty-nine churches in
destitute portions of the United States.
Twenty-one of these have been built
by the Christian .Endeavor Missionary
league of the Reformed church in
America. The Christian Endeavor
gifts from this denomination during
The past year have amounted to $10,477.
The Rev. Thomas McGrady of Butte,
Mont, has left the ministry Of the
Catholic church on account Of disagree
ment with his bishop on the question Of
socialisn1s Father McGrady has been
for some time outspoken in advocacy of
socialistic ideas, and refused either to
retract or remain silent at the mandate
Of Bishop Macs.
The managers of the Paris metropol-
ttan underground railway have been
persuaded by lovers of dogs to con-
aid r II q ntYncfinpE ne yNr0rytJinr cna,sa I
ears on their trains in which dogs and
their owners can travel together, in
stead of the dogs being separated from
their masters or mistresses, as at pres
snt Is necessary.
Every animal is said to have its own
kind of flea. sometimes several differ
ent kinds. Many thousand specimens
of these feas have been gathered in
unique museum of Charles Roths-
child, kept by DR.. Jordan at Tring
Park, the giant of this strange collec-
ton being a mole flea a fifth of an inch
long.
B L. S. Elmer, assistant chief clerk of
he postoff1ce department, is known as
an authority IN the postal laws and
regulations of this and other countries.
He compiled the postal manual, which
presents the salient points of the postal
laws In concise form. Mr.. Elmer has
been In the service about twenty years
Ex-Governor j.. Proctor Knott, at the
age of 78. has settled down for the
remainder of his life, as he hopes. in
a new house built by him in Market
street, Lebanon, KY, his native town.
"A fine country home which ne had just
beyond the city limits was burned a
little while ago.
Sport is apparently not considered a
necessary element In q French school
boys education. A fiat has just gone
forth from the director general of the
elementary schools forbidding masters
to allow their pupils to play leap frog.
football, FOUNDERS, tops, hopscotch and
other games.
The French Society of Musical Com
posers is reported to lave agreed to
take action against a number of srocers
who are using gramophones as an adj
v~ertfsement in their shons. The So
ciety maintains it has thS right to au-
thor's fees for the tunes played on the
Instruments.
Admiral Dewey,s pet dog, "Adnairal
Dewey has just landed in San Fran
cisco from the orient. Many pictures
,f the admiral have been printed. show
Ing the little white dog standing by his
side. D..sL. Smith, a business man of
Yokohama, now owns the dog.
The Swiss federal council proposes to
modify the penal code SO as to permit
Of punishment BY Imprisonment of all
persons who In public extol or attempt
to honor any act of criminal intent or
attack uponsthe anarchists.
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Professor Henry A. Ward, collector
of meteorites, Of Chicago, has Just.
added IN interesting specimen that fell
near Bath Furnace, KY, on November
world, and he has one meteor presented
To- him by the shah of Persia.
DR.. Parker used to say that his IL
shrary, or study was In underground
trains. on ornnibuses, In tea shops, at
churches, stations, receptions. meet.
fngs, jiubilees and sick beds. andemany
eothersSplaces where his work called
him.
Since his appointment as jailer Of the
Thomas police court, thirteen years ago,
nearly 100000 prisoners have passed
sfhrough the hands of Sergeant John.
Baker, who ra~tired7recently after ONE
tw~anty-six years police service.
Sir Francis Montefiore is deeply in
terested iii the subject of zionism, and
lie is ALSO an author, having written a
monograph on the life and tragic death
III Nine. de Lamballe, one Of the hero
ines OF the French revolution.
captafn Francis Marion Schell. the
famous scout and plalnsm6h. a Just
died. He tool the first wagonStrain 10
radfornia ina the gold excitement Of
1912 s
SayeraI attempts ave been made;
d,irfng the last year by English and
American ~capttalists to form aslrust
the breweriesl in Mexico.
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