The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-30

We're found a camera and number
OF military maps. This caused great
excitement, as 1t was suspected that
German engineers were thus secur-
ing plans and photographs of from
tier defenses.
A sign of the severity of the de-
pressing in England is seen in the ar
rival Of $50 second cabin passengers
on the liner st. Paul from South
Hampton, most of whom were me-
chanics and small tradesmen with
their families, bound for the Canad-
ian northwest. Their departure ana
others of their class, is a matter of
Great regret to the British govern
ment.
The strikes of the button makers
at 'Meru, France, for a continuance
of the previous wage scale against
reduction has been accompanied
with serious riots in that and the
neighboring towns of Crepin and
Lormaison. A large number of SOL
diers were sent to the scene of the
disturbance. The troops were stoned
by mobs Of strikers, the latter shout
ing, Down with the Republic!"
For excellence in track mainten-
ance the coming year the Pennsyl-
vania railroad company is to offer
nearly $1,000 in prizes to track en-
ployees. To make the record accu-
rate glasses of water will be placed
on the stills of the inspectors car
attached to the fast trains, and every
spill of water from the glasses win
be counted against the section of
track where it occurs. In addition
to this an instrument has been de-
vised which will register every vi
bration of the car vertically or hor-
izontally.
A radio-telephonic apparatus in
vented by Lieutenants Colin and
Jeance of the French navy has Just
been tested with success between
Paris and Melun, distance of thir-
ty miles. One party which included
high state officials, was stationed at
Eiffel Tower. The receiving instru-
ment includes head-piece complete
ly covering the head in a way to
shut out all ordinary noises. With
this headpiece one could hear the
conversation carried on between the
inventors thirty miles apart. In 1907
a German inventor named Poulson
was said to have transmitted wire
less telephone messages a distance
Of $50 miles.
DR.. John Marshall, professor of
chemistry at the University of Penn
sylvania, in talk before group of
physicians at Philadelphia, Tuesday,
gave the reult of five years research
the object of which was to identify
the activie toxic principle in the rat
tlesnake's venom. While he re-
CARDS the discovery as almost made,
he says frankly that he has not yet
succeeded. He did know, however
that most of the ancient myths re-
garding the rattlesnake have no bas-
is in science. He says for instance,
that there is no antidote for tie rat
tiers poison. and that the popular
methods for treatment are al wrong
and do no good. He says that whis-
ky is not an antidote aud the only
good it can do is in some cases to
prevent the patient from dying Of
fright; that the snake can not in
ject enough of the poison TO kill an
ordinary adult and that deaths very
seldom occur from snake bites The
best known treatment he says is to
suck the wound, removing as much
of the venom as possible. Cutting
out the fangs does no good as new
one grows Immediately.
DR.. William e. Cell, the noted en-
plorer, who arrived at New York On
Monday, from an extended journey
into the northern mountains CT Chi
ma, and returned to his home in
Doylestown, Pa, tells of hasjn:, map
ped 200 miles of the great wall Of
China never before explored and
says he confirmed the tradition OF
a race Of hairy pygmies in those re-
gions. Since 1901 DR.. Cell has teen
travelling to study the various prim-
alive races now accessible, penctrat-
ing the pygmy forests Of Central If
RIGA as well as the remote section Of
China. His party Of twenty-five men
and pack mules started in May, 1908
along the eastern section of the
great wall, and by September got
to the northern end Of the wall at
Khan Ku Yian, north Of the Nan
Shan mountains, a distance of 1900
miles. This took the explorers into
Thibet. The legion interpreted
from the inscription on the wall is
to the effect that the pygmies came
from group Of people who rebelled
from the horror Of being buried alive
for mistakes on the work of con-
struction. thatbeing the penalty im-
posed. The descendants were locat-
ed by Cell far in the interior and he
left a man to. study them. He says
they live like animals.
At the German hospital in New
York last week, DR.. Willy Meyer
performed for the first time in. this
country an operation upon q human
being In which the cavity of the
thorax was opened while the lungs
were kept inflated from an air cham