Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-09-19

Since 1S45 Arctic explorations
have cost the lives of $50 men.
A bulldog valued at 1000 by his
owner was shot at Gravesend, N. Y,
as he had drawn blood from a boys
finger.
"A restaurant at Coney Island has
o large placard on it's piazza announc-
ing. eighteen carrot vegetable soup.'
n. Y. T17bune.
The marble blocks used in building
the Washington monument weigh three
tons each, and cost forty dollars when
received rough and sixty dollars when
dressed ready for USE ashington
Post.
The new hanging staircase in the
southeast corner pavilion of the Phila-
delphia City Hall is said by architects
to be the finest specimen Of work of
it's kind in America. Its cost. when
completed, will be S1CO, OOO. -Philudel-
phia Press.
A shoemaker of Utica, N. Y, has
completed Il mechanical curiosity, con-
sist ng OF two houses, each six feet
square. Inside of these houses are
different wooden figures, working at
trades. There are nearly two hundred
Of these figures. The motive power is
a small three-horse power engine
Utica Herald.
"A letter from Germany notes that
nearly 5000, 900 acres Of land in that
part of the world have recently been
| diverted to the culture of beet root. The
| refuse, after the extraction of sugar..
forms a fine feed for live stock, and
tends to make the people there less de-
pendent upon America for meat than
thew used to be, but the contrary is the
case with regard to cereal food.
indigestion is the prolific cause of
COLES, diarrhua a, headaches, constipa-
ton and many diseases of the bladder.
Food that is not digestea ferments and
becomes powerfully acid, causing IT.
ritation and inflammation wherever it
touches. Many tevers are caused by it.
Pepsin is the best remedy, if taken i'm
mediately after eating. If pepsin is not
taken the acidity should be controlled
by b%icarbonate of soda Or potash.-Bo*
ton Herald. .
An escaped inmate OF the Concord
| Summer School of Philosophy, tiuding
himself at large, fled West and lectured
in Cheyenne on the exceeding "Bean-
fitness of the Beam "Simple psy-
Geological phenomena" he said. 1.-THE
intellectual activities of mental facul-
ties, as distinguished from inanimate
forces of nature OF the irrational i'm
pulses Of" And here the audience
arose and drove himforth. They were
Q plain, simple folk, they said, but no
man could come down from Boston and
use such language as those in q room
full of ladies.-Broohlyn Eagle.
The Secretary Of the Chinese En-
bassy says there are many articles
made by machinery in America that
would find a good market in China. He
mentions petroleum, cotton goods, car
penters' and other tools, sewing and
tin ma hines and silver-plated ware.
Chorstieks (Chinese knife and fork
are consumed by millions, yet each is
made by hand. Some machine similar
to that which makes matches could be
easily invented and would reap a for
tune for it's inventor. in such in
dustries as those of the potter, the
carver, ..metal worker, glassmaker, forge
and foundry man, and cobbler the
methods of today are those of twenty
centuries ago. The Introduction OF
machinery would revolutionize all this
and increase the productiveness OF
Chinese labor tve-fold-- CMscago Her
aid.