Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-28
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1t is estimated by good authorities
that there are $3.50 deer on the 1866 l
acres in the Adirondacks. Troy Times
"A British bark, which arrived Al
San Francisco a few days ago from
Glasgow, was 202 days on the passage
Sorghum sugar, reported by ex'
ports to be of good flavor and quality,
has been made this year for the first
time in the neighborhood OF Phoenix,
A. r.
The Solid Muldoon thus relates
how a Colorado conversation occurs:
Here the wretch's fragment of con-
science gets the bulge on his gall, and
he weakens. Chicago Herald.
"A lecturer on the Indians says there
are no swear words in the Indian Ian
guage. They are not necessary. In
dams never wear shirts or collar
buttons. Chicago Inter- Ocean.
1t is asserted that passengers per-
ceive q difference in the case of riding
in cars having the larger or smaller
wheels, and that they prefer those with
the large ones. This, says the National
Car Bladder, is significant, if not con-
elusive.
"A man in New York passed q
Confederate 500 note at par, and the
man who took it did not notice what it
was till some time after, when he
hunted up the passer and had him ar
rested for passing counterfeit money
N. Y. NeUs.
"A Southern paper advises every
body to stay at home this summer be-
cause of great nuisance who will
confront the traveller everywhere-that
irrepressible individual who persists in
canvassing a train to know the prefer
ence of passengers for President.
Everything about ones house, now
a-days, which will bear painting, is hand
painted. The backs of pianos, mirrors,
.picture-framcs, sachets, chairs, wood
boxes, and even the zines beneath
stoves, are ornamented with painting Of
some description.-Micag Journal.
An eccentric old man in New
Hampshire surprised his neighbors and
friends the other day by shouldering his
gun and starting for the woods on the
morning of his wife's funeral. On
being urged to come back he refused,
saying: :She warn't no blood relation
iof mine. "-Bostom Post.
|. yellow Fever is said to be propa-
gated by the sting of the musquito, on
the authority of DIR. Carlos Finlay, of
Havana, who has seen under the mi
croscope spores and tilaments of a par
%.ticular nature on the sting of one of
these insects that had Just bitten a pa
tient suffering from yellow fever.
When a New York girl wants her
fellow to go home she takes down her
back hair. Philadelphia girls take off
their shoes. Boston girls say: '.It's
time for my dearest Charles to unclasp
his circling arms and HE away to his
paternal domicile." Chicago girls are
more practical and less administrative;
they simply say: "sonny, times up:
git.-Bnchange.
The politest man of the age recent
~ died. He was French nobleman who
shot himself in the Hotel de Paris at
Monte Carlo. Before committing the
Trash act" however, he sent to some
twenty ladies a handsome boquet with
his compliments and regrets that una
voidable circumstances prevented him
from further continuing their charming
acquaintance. Such gallantry and con-
sideration are certainly unique.
The Scientific american says that
most of the article sold as BEARS grease
is made in this way: Take of washed
hogs lard II pounds avoirdupois, melt
it by the heat of a water bath, add of
balsom of Peru 2 drains, flowers of ben
zoin and bright palm oil l dram of
each; stir vigorously to promote solution
for a few minutes, then remove the pan
from the bath, and, after repose for a
short time, pour off the clear portion
from the sediment and stir the liquid
mass until it begins to cool.
The red sunsets continue to bother
the minds of the scientists. Professor
Cassamajor, of New York, offers the
latest explanation, which is to the effect
that a ring similar to that of Saturn
is forming around the earth's equator.
The volcanic hypothesis, however. still
seems to be received with most favor,
though the improbabihty Of volcanic
matter being maintained at so great an
elevation for a period of five months, to
say nothing of the difficulty of it's mo-
ton through the atmosphere, remains
to disparage such a theory.-M. z.
Tribune.
"A young lawyer, while making his
maiden speech in the courthouse here,
in defending a little negro boy for some
petty crime, in the midst of an impas-
stoned appeal to the twelve good and
true men exclaimed: "Ah, gentlemen
OF the jury. you see before you this poor
trembling boy-without father, without
mother. and without friends, without
counsel'-. At this point the orator
was interrupted by a general litter
around the bar, and, to add to the con
fusion, the Judge, who was smiling on
che bench, added: proceed, Brother
-, the Court is with YOU"
Two Strange PeOple.