Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-08
Of GENERAL

Not a nail is used in the construc-
+ion of houses in Japan. They are put
together by . method of mortising.
Five hundred geysers and five hum
dred hot springs are reported as in the
Yellowstone National Park by the Gov
crnment surveyors.-Gicago Times.
Henry Story, Of Fayetteville, Tenn,
always carried a whisky flask in his
game-bag. He became SO elated willis
hunting at his unusual good luck that
he drained the flask, lost his way, fell
into a river and was drowned.-N. z.
San.
"A London scientific paper says that
a shoulder of mutton contains one-third
more bone than a leg, and considerably
more fat and connective tissue, and that
consequently a shoulder at twenty cents
q pounds is dcarer than a leg at twenty
five cents.
The Detroit Free Press wants the
Michigan Legislature to enact a law
''making train robbery something more
serious than horse stealing" As they
hang people out West for horse steal
ing, we don't believe it can be done.-
Philadelphia Call.
-Frederika Thommermann, who
came from Germany recently to marry
her lover Frederick Sp;lker, in St.
Louis, and on arrival found him in Jail
for murder, went into his prison with
the necessary officials and married him
thcre.-6. Louis Post.
1t was a dull day in a barber-shop
in Bangor, Me-, and one of the loungers
offered him seventy-tive cents for the
receipts of the day. The offer having
been accepted, the lounger went out and
drummed up his friends andthe receipts
reached about ten dollars Post.
Last July John Brown, of New
York, identified 4 man found dead in
that city as his long-lost brother James,
and buried him with great pomp. The
other day James Brown called on John
and stayed to dinner, denying that he
had ever died or had had any intention
Of SO doing.-M. Y. Times.
The railroad bridge over the St.
Lawrence from Morrisburg to Wadding-
ton is to be two and Il half miles long,
and will cross the St. Lawrence canal
with a swing bridge 1888 feet long. The
city of Ottawa agrees to pay $350,000
of the cost if the railroad company will
make a wagon road on the bridge
Toronto Globe.
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner thinks
he has discovered why the German Gov
eminent is so kindly sending young carp
out of that country. He has tasted the
fish and says of them that ''though in
some respect the carp and stories about
carp differ, nevertheless in one impor-
tant particular they are both alike-it is
very difficult to swallow either"
The oldest tree on the earth as far
as any one knows is the 'Bo" tree in
the sacred city of Amarapoora, in Bur-
nah. According to the Timber Journal
it was planted 228S b. c., and must
therefore be 2,171 years old. Some au-
thorties believe it to be the identical
tree under which Buddha reclined at
Urumclyo when he underwent bis
%apotheosis.
Judge Stcckcr, of New York sent
to the ministers of his district for lists Of
the worthy poor in order that he might
give them a Christmas dinner, and when
the list showed him that five thousand
and odd dinners would be required he.
didn't finch, but went to Washington
market and bought the biggest lot Of
poultry ever sold to a private Citizen
N. Y. Times.
"A medical man in California gives
a curious prescription rs a safeguard
against smallpox when he says: .'Place
one ounce Of cream,of tartar in sixteen
ounces OF water and take Il tablespoon
ful three times Il day, and you may
sleep with a smallpox patient with per-
feet impunity. If every citizen would
do this for fifteen days there would be-
an end OF smallpox in any city.-San
Francisco Call.
The Grand Jury of White Pine
County, New, recently expressed its ap-
proval Of a public official in IL forcible if
unpublished manner, as follows: son
invitation we visited the T%reasurer's Of
flee and feel warranted in the assertion
That nothing short Of a mountain how
itzer Or Gantling gun would be of any
avail! to secure entrance to the premises,
and Treasurer Liddle deserves to be
complimented for the pains taken and
money expended to secure the safety of
the county funds. '-Dcnver Tribune.
AT Schenectady, N. Y, a juvenile
rushed into the presence of his parents
and gleefully exclaimed: 1--WE are go
ing to AYE the tiremen come UP to our
house right away" An explanation was
asked, and the startling answer made
that he and playmate had started a fire
undera bedin an..npstairs room. And su.o
enough, rapidly spreading flames were
discovered. The flames we're subducd.
much to the grief of the youngster.
When the child wa chidcd he innocently
remarked: ''What difference does it
make, pa? Amt you going to build a
new house, anyway ?'-IUannY Journal.
-Blrney. Nj. H., of which j. w. Too
hey was made postmaster, is EIGHTY
miles from any place in which there is 4
notary, and when it became necessary
1or Mr.. Ioohey to take the oath of Of
ice he swore himself in. In due time
MS papers were returned with a letter
instlvlcting him to swear before a no.
tary' as there is no precedent for a man
swearing before himself. He renlied
tlat ne Knew of no prccedentth that would
entltle him to mileage and expenses to 90
one hundred miles and be sworn. and
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