Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-20
OF GENERAL

Inter Ocean.
George Hackett, of Taunton, Mass,
while driving, struck a slack telegraph
wire and lost several of his front teeth.
Boston Transcript.
A steam fire engine company went
from Mltt1intown, Pa, to Lewistown by
rail at their WI expense to extinguish q
1lre' and We're compelled to pay toll on
crossing the bridges PHILADELPHIA
Press.
Because a juror in New York sue-
gested to his brethren that they flip a
cent to see whether they would convict
or acquit the defendant, the Judge dis
missed the jury and ordered a new trial.
N. Y. San.
The most useless article in the way
OF a weapon ever invented is the pistol.
In III cases in ten when it goes off
1T Kills the wrong man.. Having n
handy has been the cause of many a
murder. Chicago Inter Ocean.
10 settle a quarrel relative to the
presidency of an association, Henry
Gutter and John Murphy, of Flushing.
l.. l., fought six rounds, under the Mar
quls of Queensberry rules. Both men
were badly punished, and the fight was
declared a drawn. Y. Times.
While two boys were rolling a
barrel of shellac along a factory floor
in Lynn, Mass, recently, il STRANGELY
exploded, hurting the bows. blowing
out the windows and burning the hair
and clothing of a man who was passing
on the street.-Boston Herald.
Great Britain is the only country
IN Europe which has no forestry schools.
On the Continent there are numerous
excellent and well-established schools
of that character, where everything
that appertains to trees is taught by ac-
complished teachers.-N Y. Tribune.
The Dakota Constitutional Con-
vention at Sioux Falls recently
settled the woman-sufrage ques-
ton by adopting a provision allow
solely, and granting them the right to
hold office pertaining to school govern
Chicago MeWs.
The English sparrows, which are
eaten in Philadelphia for r%eed-birds, are
considered as being a great delicacy.
The flesh of the sparrow is darker than
that of the reed-bird, but the Philadel-
phia cooks say that only those who have
never eaten anything but reed-birds can
tell the Observation-Disclosures Record.
"A blooming young widow of Wayne
County, n. Y, was to have been married
a few days ago. The feast was spread
and the guests were on hand, but the
bridegroom failed to come to time.
Three days afterward the young man ex-
planned that his father, who objected to
the match, had hidden his wedding
clothes, even to his underclothing.-
Buffalo Express.
Louisiana boys take young hooking
birds just before they can fly and sell
them to New Orleans creoles for ten or
fifteen cents a piece. The creoles sell
them to German or italian retail deal
ers for fifty cents and the dealers, MAIN
lypedlers, receive three and four dollars
for them in the North. The pedlers say
that rich people do not buy birds; they
prefer dogs.-N. o. Picayune.
The engineer of an express train on
the Hudson River Railroad had a pecu-
liar experience with lightning recently.
At New Hamburg he encountered a
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head into the cab lightning struck the
track, and for several seconds the fluid
revolved on the driving wheels on both
sides of the engine. At every revolu-
ton the fluid would burst with q crack,
sending out a shower of sparks. For
over half an hour he felt a singing,
burning sensation on the cheek.-Irov
IN. W TSaaes.
Sir Thomas Wade, after a residence
of upward of twenty years in Picking,
believes its population to be less than
half a million; and a French physician,
who has made systematic observations,
estimates it at 400, 900. Yet the O
raphy books give it at 5000, 900. At
the junction Of the Han River with the
Yangtsze are two cities, Han-yang-fu
and Wu-chang-fu, and an enormous
perpetual fair, Hankow. The popula-
ton of these has been set down at 81
DOC, 900, but from a visit to the spot Sir
T. Wade estimates it at about half .
million.-Chtcago Herald.
"A big walnut log from an out-of-
the-way part of France arrived in New
York a few days ago. 1t was twelve
feet long and nine feet in diameter, and
it is said to weigh nearly twenty-five
tons. 1t cost the owners 800 to bring
it across the ocean, and $40 more to
have it trucked some little distance to a
veneer mill, a task which kept six
horses busy for thirty hours. There
wa only one derrick lighter in the
harbor with which the monster log
could be handled. The log is said to
be worth, as it stands, 49, ZOO, or $4,000
when cut into veneers.-M. Y. Neus.
Among the curious things exhibited
at the Louisville Southern Exhibition
were thirteen medallions or castings Of
iron representing Christ and the Twelve
Apostles. These were cast from native
ores nearly one hundred years ago at
the old Bellewood Furnace, upon the
Cumberland River, in Eastern Ten.
nessee, inmolds made of green sandstone.
Considering the rudeness of methods
and the infancy of art in that section
and time, they have a finish, smoothness,
and polish that is remarkable. The
delineation of features, the eyes, brow,
chin, etc., are nearly if not quite equal
to the very best grade of chisel work
| Louisville COuTser-JOurnGI.