Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-12-07
OF GENERAL INTEREST,".

Russia live thirty-eight different nation
alitics. eachspeaking its own language,
which is foreign to all others.
-Watchmcn in the Cincinnati whole
sale district declare that the ghost of a
New York travelling salesman appears
to them each night.-CncinnaE Times.
-Mineola has the longest wagon road
bridge in Texas, if not in the world. 1t
is across the Sabine River and swamp
u mile and three-quartcrs.-M Chicago
Herald.
-Workmen digging in the bed of
phosphate recently discovered at Cam
bridge, Md. found the petrified skulls
of three children, and the foot, ankle,
and slipper of q woman
"A remarkably beautiful rabbit was
killed hear Eufaula, La, the other day.
1t was of q solid light buff OF dove color
on the back, with snow white hair I'M
derneath and on the legs, and pink-col-
ored eyes.
The big diamond recently found in
South Africa, though weighing nearly
six ounces, is not estimated as worth
more than $1,000, the color being bad.
However, a bath of acid has improved
it.-N. Y. San.
Mrs. Lyle Cheeny, Of Baltic, Conn,
has a goldfish, and by some wayit got
out of the water onto the floor and was
there from six to eight hours. Vixen
they put it back it revived, and is now
all right.-Hartto7d Post.
"A Chinaman was arrested in Reno,
New, a day or two since, for stealing a
bucket of paste from a bill-poster.
When found the Celestial epicuTe was
smacking his lips over a batch Of pan
cakes made Of the paste.
-Buffalos, after an absence of seve-
r%alyears, are returning to the plains
of North Texas, and will likely remain
there if they can engage the sympathy
of the Government in establishing laws
%forbidding their wholesale and wanton
destruction by the mighty Ninrods.-
Chicago Times.
The Georgian's mouth waters while
he talks of 'possum, hedged in with
brown gravy and sweet potatoes with
sugar on them. A Georgia editor, who
attended a hunt and the subsequent
fest, remarks: cit was the first 'possum
we ever ate, but if our legs hold out it
will not be the lastone."-CAi,ago Mews.
The walls of Canton, China, are OF
sandstone, capped with brick. They
are twenty feet thick and from twenty
five to forty feet high. Therr are twelve
outer gates, four in the Partition wall,
and two water gates, through which
boats pass into the moat east and west.
The gates are all shut at night, and a
guard is stationed near them to preserve
order.
"A Pennsylvania desperate got hts
eyes on a deaf and dumb girl, whom he
discovered to be very wealthy. Having a
desire to increase his worldly store he
set about making love to her and won
her heart. Making arrangements for
an uninterrupted ceremony, he went
after q clergyman, whom he induced
by the moral suasion Of a leveled revol-
yer to unite him in marriage to the
young lady. The romance of Turpin is
not quite dead in useful remembrance.
Philadelphia Record.
The construction of a railroad track
leading to the new Michigan Central
Bridge at the Niagara Falls has already
made sad havoc with the beauties of the
romantic looking cliff above Horseshoe
Falls. Huge unsightly piles of red clay,
taken from the excavations, are deposit
!ted on the hitherto grassy flats and
slopes, while a coal yard and freight
station disfigures what would otherwise
be one Of the most desirable portions OF
the proposed Park on the American side
of the river.-Bm6ulo Express.
Nellie B. Baily, t%wenty-one years
old, well educated and good looking,
agreed some time since to go to Texas
with a rich Englishman named Clement
Bothemly, and start a sheep ranch. Re.
Gently, in the Indian Territory, she shot
and killed him, burned his body. and
took possession of his money, jewelry
and outfit, in all worth $1O7, 900. Then
she started South, but was arrested.
and at Wichita, Kan, wa held to the
next term of the United States Circuit
Court on the charge of murder. The
woman formerly moved in good society
in New York and New Jersey.-N. Y.
Herald.
The Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise
gives a description of q Piute feast: ga
favorite dish with them is q stew OF
duck. fish, tule potatoes, and pinenuts.
Sometimes, when two or three families
join in a feast, a camp-kettle holding g
dozen gallons is placed on the fire. Into
this are thrown promiscuously ali
that the men, women, and children
have succeeded in gathering. Ducks,
minnows by the score, ground squirrel:
entire-except that the hair has been
singed off-wild rose berries, erasmus.
pinenuts, and the like all boil and bubble
together in q rich mess-meat, soup,
and bread all in one.
"A woman who should know some.
thingof her subject says that among the
varieties of coquettes the mostdangerous
class, perhaps, ''includes those womer
who fancy themselves in love with each
fresh lover. There are emotional anc
sympathetic women, who, being in.
capable Of strong feeling themselves
are borne along by the force of Il passion
which fascinates them, and which they
would gladly re%ciprocate. In theil
often renewed disappointment at find
ing that the new lover cannot make
them forgetthemsclves, they feel a sense
of injustice, and never dream that they
are not the injured Ones."-In0ln,7n,,oI;:.