The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-04

RAPID CITY. SOUTH DAKOTA
Keep OF treacherous thin ice!
10 the real big stick sugar stick.
It is time to call in the openworh
shirt waits.
It is also chilly for those who lack
shelter. food and fire.
Would the use OF stovaine make one
Indifferent to the cold weather?
In making its students study the
University Of Chicago is setting no
BILE precedent.
In running school or In curing dis
ease the fresh air is immeasurably
better than hot air.
Washington should have pure milk
not that 1t makes much difference
to the congressman.
The trustworthy goosebone indl-
u.
all our winters erratic?
Brazil and Sweden have signed an
arbitration treaty. Now all they need
Is something to arbitrate.
It is pity that the white plague
continues to stalk abroad when there
Is 80 much fresh air at large.
The world certainly is growing bet
ter. The number of people who write
It Xmas" Is gradually decreasing.
Having led the world in tour
around the globe. our navy is now
proposing to lead in development at
home.
AS the new Chinese minister to this
country cannot speak word of Eng
lish how in the world is he going to
ask questions?
The idea of putting in meters to
measure telephone talk is good. but
will 1t be possible to devise meters
that will stand the strain?
Twice nothing is nothing, but that
rule does not apply when it comes to
figuring on the temperature that is
twice as cold as zero.
Cornell university says there are to
be no more babies after 2O59 A. D..
and dealers in baby goods will have to
mike hay while the stork flies.
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Philadelphia scientists say that the
missing link has been discovered in
the cultured chimpanzee. AS an alter.
native we suggest the giver OF monkey
dinners.
Kermit Roosevelt recently killed
two bongoes. We don't know just what
hongo is. but the probabilities are
that It is just as fierce man-eater as
the yamyam.
An Ohio authority says that drunk.
enness Is an evidence of insanity. 1t
Is quite generally agreed now that 1t Is
disease, but we still continue tc
treat It legally as a crime.
The Yale alumnus, who offers a re.
ward OF 100000 to the person who
discovers an adequate remedy for tn.
berculosis. evidently. does not accept
the theory that fresh air is a sure
cure.
There is no doubt that when King
:GnStave lays down the shipwright's
knife or the shoemaker's awl and re.
sumes the regal scepter. he will do so
with an intimate knowledge of indus.
trial conditions which he could not
have obtained In any other way.
- - - ~.
And now they're claiming in the
east that II 10 impossible to raise tur.
keys on account of disease called
and that the disease ia
spread by the English sparrow. Funny.
II the sparrow spreads 1t, that It is
not common in the west-the spar.
row II.
"A Yale graduate has offered prize
Of 100000 for q cure OF consumption.
The reward may stimulate effort. but
IN Justice to those who make It their
life profession to Investigate disease
Il must be said that the ultimate good
to humanity has proved the greatest
spur to scientific discoveries. I
The king Of Sweden Is getting prac.
tical lessons in hard work by going
about In disguise doing odd stunts in
the way Of coal heaving and other la
Dor. Like the good Haroun-ai- Raschid.
tho king wants to know, SO he goes
about to- get information at first hand
And there 10 no doubt that he will
accumulatc q stock Of knowledge ra.
ther unusual In the experience Of q
reigning sovereign.
Mexico stands squarely by the Unit.
a States In that zelaya business. says
Troy Times. Our sister republic is
satirely aware of the trouble.making
character Of the man who Is trying
u run Nicaragua ON the dictator
pIan and has q full share Of annoy.
NEE from the conditions In that neigh.
boring country. Mexico has learned
what peace. order and material devel.
pcinent mean and has NO sympathy
si9h the xelayan style Of cantanker.
~ enthusiast who proposes an au,
f0c1nbIIe boulevard all the way from
~ Afianffct Ia the Pacific coasts. with i