Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-25
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-Quail-killing will be illegal in Chat.
County, N. Y, for the next
four Wears. under a penalty of twenty
five dollars for each offense .-Bnfao
Express.
The Post-ofRce Department has de-
cided that the mere fact of person
taking from a Post-ofice . newspaper
sent to him without being ordered from
the publisher does not make the re-
cipient liable for payment of the same.
-Washington Star.
"A young woman in Holyoke Mass,
called on the City Clerk, and, after ex-
aiming the marriage license register,
told him to erase her name, as the young
man who had taken out a certificate did
it without her leave, and she did not
propose to marry him. She was &C
commodated.-Boston Post.
Mr.. j. J. Reason, of Columbia, has
thirty chairs which have been in actual
service for fifty-two years. The lot in
cludes a baby'is low chair, and also the
high chair for the table. He does not
know how old they are, but they have
been in the family and in use ffty-two
years to his certain knowledge. He also
has a lot of marble covers for milk pans
which have been in use thirty years
atlanta Constitution.
Near Blakeley, Ga, a yoke of oxen.
ran away while the driver was standing
behind them lighting his pipe. Drop
ping the match be started in pursuit of
the runaways. The pine straw took;
fire and the fire spread, sweeping all
before it. Some farmers lost nearly all
their fencing, and q Mr.. Davis, who was
sick in bed, lost every building on his
place except his dwelling, and that was
saved with much NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
San.
An interesting torpedo experiment
wa made a few days ago in the road
stead of Toulon, in France. The object
was to ascertain whether a torpedo con-
tanning seven hundred Kilograms Of
powder, which had been submerged for
six months, was damaged by its pro-
tracted contact with the water. An ex-
plosion was readily effected by the cleo
trio current, proving that vitality was
maintained, but whether the destructive
power was impaired is not determined.
I was talking some time ago with a
prima donna, who is i II receipt of a very
remarkable salary for a woman, and I
told her Of a young lady who wanted 70
become q singer. The prima donna
said: ''Oh, tell her to take a husband
no matter who he is. This living
alone, detached from love and family
life, rowing from city to city, never will
make happy. A woman must pay
a penalty--a far greater than man-for
not consenting to be loved."-GaM.
Don Miguel White, whom the Los
Angeles Herald calls the first English
speaking settler in California, was born
in Chiselhurst, England, in 1901. He
landed in the Golden State in 1917. His
first venture was in u schooner, in which
he traded with the Sandwich Islands
until the California revolution of 1880
diverted his enterprise to the coast trade,
firing Of the sea, he resumed his trade
OF carpenterirg in Alta, Cal, and later
he settled on a ranch in San Diego
County. Thence he moved, in 1880, to
Los Angeles, where he and his wife are
surrounded by their grandchildren and
great-grandchildren.
"A Napa, (Cal.), father has invented
a punishment which will probably take
all the ''Old Nick" out of his youthful
scions. His thirtcen-year-old son be-
haved so badly at school that he was
summarily dismissed. This called for
paternal punishment. The next day an
elder brother left town for school in q
distant place. The father forced the
young %rcprobatc to don u white night
gown, and, clad in this, marched him
down to the train to bid his brother
good-by. The boy ''murmured'' loudly,
but pater-familias was inexorable, until
the train left. Then he put the culprit
in q hack and sent him home, thoroughly
experimentation Francisco Call.
Bonds worth s7,4oo, stolen from
the Woodbury. Conn.) Bank last June,
have been found in an old stone wall
near Bridgeport. Hadley and Howard,
two OF Of the bank-burglars, We're after
ward lodged in Litchficld Jail. They
retained 4 lawyer to help them out, but
he would not work without pay, and,
having no money, Hadley at last told
him of the bonds, and made a rough
drawing of their hiding-place. The
lawyer undertook to find them, hunting
at night. He failed, and the matter
came to the ears Of a nephew of a man
who owned $4,000 of the bonds, and he
got admission to the Jail and obtained
the drawing and description of the
hiding-place, from which he found a
glass jar with the bonds in it.-Hart.
ford Post.
"A man was recently summoned
before a London magistrate for striking
a boy whose continual whistling an.
noyed him. On which the St. James
Gazette remarks: 1t is a fact that the
observation-disclosures" which displays
itself by whistling is chiefly to be OBJ
served in those whose hearts are over
burdened by woe. 1t is the youth of
"outcast London who whistle most
pertinaciously. The prosperous boy
seldom whistles: whereas the ragged and
dirty boy is never tired of indulsing in
this form OF music. Why, also, IS it
that bad people whistle more frequently
than good ones? The good are inn
aglned to be more l%ight-hearted and
happier in every respect than the bad;
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