Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

The people of this country consume
800, 009, 900 worth of patent medicines
. year.
"A good looking, we'll dressed man
was recently caught on Broadway. New
York, squirting oil on peoples clothes
from a small q concealed in his hand.
IN. 7. San.
While her arms were in the suds,
the other day, a Rockland (Me.) wash
erwoman received the welcome news
that she had inheriteda fortune OF abou
s15, 000.-Bostom Post ,
The Governor of the State of Colima,
Mexico, has commissioned Emilio
Mahlo to map the lake of San Pedrito
with a view of draining it. 1t is sup
posed that this lake is the IL OF the
annual yellow fever epidemic.
The professionals of the various
baseball clubs now organized in the
| United States receive in salaries for the
season upward of 800, 000. About
| $40, 600 of this goes for arnica and stick
ing plaster.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
"A philosophers idea of happiness:
Happy is the man who eats only for
hunger, drinks only for thirst; who
stands on his legs, and lives according
to reason, and not according to fashion,
who provides for whatever is necessary
and useful and expends nothing for
ostentation and pomp.
William II. Winaus, ex-City Treas
/ urer of Newark, N. j., was fined five
hundred dollars and costs for allowing
false entries to be made in his books
through his neglect. Judge Depew said
officials must not only be honest, but
must see official duties carefully and
intelligently discharged. - Nevork
Register.
Theodore Wores, IN painting q
San Francisco picture with Cinnamon
in it, had to battle with a superstitious
objection to being drawn. 1t was the
work of months to get models. If a
Chinaman was bribed to come for one
Or two days he wa sure to desert o. the
third, leaving the artist with a half
finished sketch.
"A romantic New Yorker and his
bride will make their bridal trip this
summer in a canoe. The canoe is to
be made on purpose for the trip and
will be nickle-plated in its appoint
ments, with hand-painted paddle and .
sail of silk. They will go up the Hud-
son to Lake Champlain and down the
Connecticut.-N. Y. Times.
The London Times says: 1.-THE
friends of technical education in Eng
land will read with unmitigated envy
the accounts of the development of in
dustrial education in America. The
Americans are far ahead OF us in in
situations for giving their sons and
daughters that practical training which
fits them for industrial pursuits"
We mentioned recently the death
of MI. Wyatt Hare. Mr.. Hare had
some peculiarities, among them this
one. He never bought a match. A
fire. either open or banked, was kept
up continually on the hearth. In this
he trod in the footsteps of his father,
and the fire upon that n hearth was
n continuous fire for more than one
hundred years.-Nelson, (Va.} Eaam-
ineT.
Mrs. S. NJ. Barker has for twenty
six years sold lamb, mutton and veal in
Washington Market. She has seen
many changes in the old rookery and in
the people who market there. years
ago." she says, ''people depended up.
on the butcher to select their meat; they
had it rolled in a paper and carried it
away. Now women have been SO edu-
cared by the market articles in the
papers that they know every part of the
'%critter, and the price current."-N. Y.
Evening Post. \
Fred Hartman, a seventeea-year.
old prisoner at the Schenectady, IN. W
Jail, where he was awaiting trial on a
charge of theft, managed to escape, and
after leading the Sheriffa lively chase,
crawled under building only twenty
inches from the ground. The Sheriff
suspecting his presence there, and not
having a weapon, drew a m~eerschaum
case from his pocket and pointing it
where he supposed his bird was threat
ened to shoot if he did not come out.
Thinking the black article was a veri-
table revolver the prisoner surrendered
and was taken back to jail.-M Y.
Times.
"A contemporary thus refers to the
tanning of the gay young bachelor:
Feminine influence is first noticeable i n
the gradual forsaking Of his old haunts
and associates; he is seen with the
boys less and less frequently, until
finally the places that once knew him as
a haditue know him no more. His
opinions on the subject of womanly
virtue have taken a more elevated plane;
he no longer boasts Of his c~onquests,
and he is always ready to give sage ad.
vice to his friends who speak Of the
pleasures of bachelorhood as compared
with the joys of welded domesticitv.
Once married, he is a model in his
way
There was to be a butting match in
Colorado between q robust SWede and a
negro: They were to start ten feet
back from a scratch, with their heads
lowered, and rush at each other like
rams, the collision to be repeated until
one was disabled. At the last moment
somebody whispered to the Swede what
he bad never heard before-that the
African skull is generally deemed in
vulnerable under conclusion that would
smash a white mans. This DESTROYED
his courage. and he lodged the woolly
head that came plunging ~viciously at
him. The negro, missing the expected
resistance, was by momentum carried a