Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-30
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The estimated extent of the coal
felds of Texas is 20, 1000 square miles.
A bitter fight in the Methodist
Church at Walhuck Center, N. j., Gull
minated in the Disagreement of the
church organ andthe splitting Of the pull
pit into kindling wood.-Newa1k Req
lister.
james Reagan, of New York, drank
eighteen glasses of beer after supper
and knocked out his twelve ;year-old
girls eye because she was afraid to 90
at midnight for more lager.-M. Y.
San.
"A gang of outlaws has been dis
covered in the woods of Long Island,
from whence they issue at intervals to
commit raids and depredations upon
unsuspectlng travellers or defenseless
farmers.-M Y. Times.
The dresses of an actress are
reckoned as stools of traden by the
New York Custom House officials, and
are passed free of duty. Mrs. Langtry
successfully raised the point On a $4,000
lot Of tools. IN. Y. Tribune.
On the way over Irving's company
hada wine supper and toasted President
Arthur. At the conclusion of the toast
some enthusiastic Briton cried out:
"And Mrs. Arthur" The toast was
drunk. So was the Briton.-Chicaqo
Herald.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Tribune says that the Alfonso Incl
dent was not S % serious as represented.
There was, he says, no violence and
ugllness. The Parisians merely mani
tested, by jeers and chatting, their con-
tempt for royalty.
"A San Francisco paper says that
the fastest time ever made between that
port and Honolulu by a sailing vessel
was made by the American bark Comet
in lS6l-ten days and twenty hours, and
that the quickest steamers time was
made by the Mariposa-six days eight
and one-half hours.
Old Commodore Vanderbilt S advice
to his boys was 'snever sell what YOU
haven't got" This wise saying was
forgotten by the bears who have been
raiding the stock market with reckless
audacity, and they have discovered that
there are enough bulls left to give
them the tightest squeeze they have ex-
perienced in a long time.-Albany
Evening Journal.
The deepest sea-sounding ever
made, says the Scientific american, was
made in the Pacific Ocean near the
entrance to Behring's Sea. Bottom was
struck at 1866 fathoms. The cast was
made from the United States school
ship Tuscarora. The shallowest water
in the middle of the Atlantic, 731
fathoms, shows the subsistence of noun
tains 1856 feet.
Texas takes the cuisine in the mat
ter of stories. There is one of a hunter
stalking deer. He fired at one, and the
shot frightened another grazing some
distance of. The two bucks started on
a wild career directly against each other,
collided with great force, one leaping
twenty feet into the air. and both fell
dead. The hunter captured the meat.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
When in China, in 184S, we were
taken to see tea factories. There we
were shown tie corpse-like workmen
who made green tea by rubbing the
black tea leaves in hot copper pots.
The poor devils were, in a manner, pro-
tccted from the copper fumes by wear
ing a damp cloth over the nose and
tied behind the ears to protect their
mouths and noatrils. We are told that
these workmen rarely survived their
second year at this employment.-Cor.
N. Y. san.
"A lively scene occurred in a dem
lists office at Weatield, Mass. A young
man who had taken ether to have teeth
extracted, after the operation was over
became temporarily crazed from the
effects of the drug, and, under the i'm
preston that he wan a Western hero,
made a hot attack on the dentist and
physician in attendance. One he
jammed up into the corner and shook
him until his teeth ratified, and the otklr
he dragged around the floor in his esort
to throw him out of the window. Other
occupants of the building rushed in, but
were quickly put to flight by the ether
lied man, and one OF them was chased
around the halls and into his w quar-
tiers. The patient was finally secured
by the dentist, and knew nothing of
what had occurred when the effect of
the ether passed off a few minutes later.
Boston Herald.
There is a boy living near War
nock's, in Belmont County, O., who has
a penchant for torturing animals. His
latest bit of sport was grinding a Kittens
head off on a grindstone. Another cat
was found dead, imprisoned in a large
jar in the milk house, which he admit
ted having placed there three OF four
days previously. On another occasion
he secured a cat in a vacant room ON the
second floor of the family residence, and
proceeded to murder it in u heinous
manner. He would catch the poor,
frightened animal by the tail, and Civ
ing it a sling, would land it against an
opposite wall with such force as to make
the blood squirt from it's nose and eyes.
Doing this repeatedly he was at last dis
covered in the act, and in a cool, smil-
ing way, he asked the intruders if il
wasn't lots of fun. One of the bystand-
ers hit him with a fence rail. Cleveland
Leader.
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