Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-01-04
OF GENERAL INTEREST,".

Virginia has nine colored men in
her Legislature.
The record of our alphabet has been
traced back nearly four thousand years.
1t is the fashion to use one perfume
only. Thus n girl always uses violet.
another rose, etc.-M. Y. Graphic.
Lord Brougham once facetiously de.
fined a lawyer thus "a learned gem
tleman who rescues your estate from
your enemies, and keeps it himself"
A member of a Kentucky church
offered the Ladies' Aid Society five
dollars If its members would meet and
make aquilt without saying a word.
Two dozen of the ladies met at the par
sonage. and in two hours the quilt was
finished, but they all say that they would
not DO such athing again for fifty dollars.
Louisville Courier Journal.
The ladies of Olympia, w. T., held
a jubilee meeting when the Woman Suf-
frage act was passed, and afterward in.
dulged in a street parade. A great
many ladies marched in the ranks bear.
ing transparencies, notices, etc. The
most attractive feature of the procession
was a large transparency borne by a
buxom woman, displaying the words:
''Is 1t He, OF She, Which?"
What a place France would be for
hard-cider campaign. There are nov
o. than four million apple trees cul-
tivated for the purposeof cider-making.
An idea of how large a number that is
may be gained from the fact that were
the trees placed side by side they would
line a boulevard fifteen thousand miles
along. A great deal of this cider, chem
ically prepared, gets upon the Amer
lean market a. camampagne. Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Fish culturists will be interested in
an enormous eel pond-the largest in
A~merica-on farm in the town of Riv-
erhead, Mass. 1t covers five acres
About two thousand dozen cells were put
into the pond five years ago, and their
number has now increased to millions.
They are fed regularly every third day
on "horse-feet," a peculiar shell-fish,
and at meal-tine a crack from their!
owners whip will bring thousands Of
them to the surface.
Speaking of the origin of some
names in Oregon, the Oregomian says of
Grants Pass: .'When Grant was a Lieu
tenant he was camped there with a par.
ty of soldiers, and they got to playing
euchre for one dollar on the orner.
The game stood three to three. Grant
picked up his cards and had the right
bower, ace and king. He concluded to
pass, thinking he could euchre his OPP
ponent, a burly miner. The result was
that he lost his dollar. and the place was
eo11o1 ts(Nr MTG pocSn
AT a fancy ball at Sidney, New
South Wales, Mrs. j. NJ. Sweet, the
wife of the editor Of the Morning Herald,
appeared as the Press" in several
pages of the paper named, printed in
colors on q beautiful white satin.
Every column was in a different color,
and each was brought out as distinctly
as though printed on paper in the or
binary issue. The body was represented
with flags OF the various colonies-all
in their proper color. The head-dress
was that of Minerva, with the words.
1.-The Press in bold relief, printed in
thirteen different colors. The costume
wa much admired.
A chief cause of dogs 'sbaying the
moon and barking at nothing is dis
comfort. Many unfortunate animals
are from pure carelessness consigned to
cold and comfortless kennels. 1t was
found on investigating the kennel of IL
dog. which had nightly rendered life Il
burden to a n%eighborhood, that the
kennel was too small and the Door
creature could only lie partly in it. was
kept awake by cold and misery. and
not u%nnaturally howled. Many dogs,
too, suffer in health by being tied up
without exercise, and thus arc rem
dered restless, and consequently howl
at night. A dog properly cared for
will rarely give Chicago
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