The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-05-26

curious case. In the first edition of
st. Matthew in Micmac the Translator
found, when he came to revise it, that
in chapter XVI, Z, instead of Nation
shallAise against nation" he had writ
ten, "A pair of snowshoes shall: rise up
against a pair of snowshoes." And
yet there was only one letter misprint-
ed-naooktukumiksijik Ga n@ation), hav-
ing been displaced by naooktakumik-
silk Ca snowshoe).
Taking into consideration its wealth
and the high standing of many of its
members, the French Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to nimal gets
small results In proportion TO its ex-
penditures. 1t accomplishes little In d.
minishinS cruelty in Paris. The So
ciety seems to consider that its main
purpose is to reward people who do
good to animals, instead of devoting all
its energies to Furnishing those who are
cruel. Every year thousands of francs
are expended in gold, silver and bronze
medals to concierges who adopt stray
cats or to Journalists who write an oc-
asion article preaching humanity.
Swallows and house martins build by
sticking together pellets of prepared
road mud. Most of the material is OBJ
tanned from the drying puddles on the
high roads. If not mixed with anything
else the tendency of these pellets would
be to crumble when dry. But the
tcOns secretion which enables it to gum
the particles together. The swallows
nests, from Which the Chinese birds
nest soup is made, are constructed of
this mucous matter only, An Indian
swallowswhich builds little boat-shaped
nests against the trunks of lofty trees
practically makes them of dried saliva.
ya Reports from Iowa say that ey-
Speaker Henderson Is a much broken
man. although only 60 years old. He
has been in. California during the win
ter with his wife and daughter and has
passed much of the time in a wheel
chair tyHhis interest in the public
questions over which his position was
once so controlling is slight. Il guess
the boys'down there will do about what
is right" was his remark last winter
TO reporter who tried to get from him
some opinion as to the policies which
should prevail.
f-J Chicago Post: Mrs. Mary Il. Lee. Of
Glen Lee farm, New Plymouth, o., is
chairman of the committee under whose
direction a largesnumber of people in
OHIO are. studying agriculture and do
mestic science. The other members of
the committee are President Thomp-
son, OF the Ohio state university, and
'fTpfessor iHomer..C C. Price. dean of the
college Of agriculture.
Captain John B.. Aulin was employed
as q pilot at Port Arthur. when the war
broke out and the Russians detained
IT. Ills wife, in Oakland. Call. who
did not hear, from him for a year. be-
lieved he had deserted her and got a
iNorcs. The other day he returned
with VS., 600 that he had earned plotting
curing the siege, and now there will
,tbe. q remarriage.
unnatural theater, that is to say, a
ttheater in the open air, will be estab-
Isned al, Ghampigny, near Paris. 1t
.amphtthveaters at Aries, Beziers and
MINES nave been reopened, and the
plays are attended by large crowds.
In former years there We're hundreds
or such open air theaters scattered all
over France.
y Since Zola's death, says a French
contemporary, Anatele France seems
TO pc the most prominent and most
read author OF some of his novels no
less than from s~eventy-five & eightyG
SIN edluons have already appeared, and
the demand for some of his stories, is
growing to such an extent that new
constantly being printed.
A complete and most up TO date
erematory will be exhibited at thel
Iorthcoming art exposition at Dresden,
Germany. This model crematory Will
pe equipped with the latest ~scientific
appliances, and is toscost about s25.-
GEO. t3T number of crematories isl
steadil n largely increasingly
Throughout Germany.
Statistics published in Spain state
Thai during 1904 nearly $4,000 bulls
We're killed In bull fights. The hIllsi
killed about 10000 horses. The best
n most valuable bulls for the arena
are raised on the vest estates of the
duke Of Veragua. in Andalusia, who
has made a fortune out of this bust
ness.A+Eondon Globe.
SO fond wa he of fast driving that
Joseph Byrne, ambulance driver for the
Ierfnan hospital, San Francisco, used
70 send In false calls from the stab)
t-Mhish-the ambulance was kept. He
q already killed two horses by his
arlying when he was caught telephone
instsaHd confessed.
Wood County "a to have i erst
seediesS--appla--nursery-in the state
M Spencer Seedless Apple mpa
recently with a capitsi.
stock OF $1lQ0 600 has purchased a tract
OF land at Perrysburg, which, will he
Planted with 125, 900. seedlings.-Cin-
ctnnati Enquirer a.' ftf
~2st5i
Sir Robert Douglas has opened a
magnihcent exhibition, of rare manu-
scrfRtsin the Kings Iiifbdta-y Of, the grit-
~ishtfnuseufa, atRLondon. il includes
many, precious volumes. bound III god
silver and ivory, a bible of the YEA
i4s5, many manuscripts on palm
leaves ~
4 is said that the Thibetans spossess
tnesrnost Perfect teeth in&the world al
though. there issnot a single
In the whole country. and no form Of
eansi the teeth is ever praeticed.
Lake Biwa is the only large sheet I,
fresh wafer IN Japan worthy of man.
ton. It is thtrty-six miles long. tweIva
milesFwfde, and Its greatest depth about
~. Bell. Of MUMMY, Louth. Irelandil
after experimenting sforsfve years. has
produced tomatoes and potatoes. grown
on me same plant from the same tuber /,