Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-11
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

with his name and address upon it.
A fifteen-year-old Denver girl VINO
eloped to meet her lover, took an elght-
months-old brother with her.-UenV7
Tribune.
-Credulous people in New England
are still searching for the treasure sup
posed to have been buried by captain
| Kidd.-Boston Herald.
-Sixty-four counties in Texas did moi
vote ut the last Presidential election.
| Many of them have since been organ
tied. and will be heard from this year.
Chicago Times.
Resolution by the miners OF Alene'
Idaho; "Not a Chinaman shall ever
enter the diggings unless he climbs a
tree. with n end of a iariat over a
limb Chicago Herald.
The Chinese Court Interpreter at
Victoria, B. c., recently married a
white woman, and a few days after sew
I eral Chinese drove up to his residence
and forcibly abducted his wife.
"A Chinaman with leprosy in its
worst form was recently arrested IN
San Francisco. He had for several
DAYS past been engaged in making Ha-
vana cigars for a prominent tobacco
firm of that Chicago Inter- Ocean.
An English Judge lately refused
the expenses of three tradesmen who
prosecuted men for stealing goods from
| their shop doors on the ground that by
exposing their goods in the way men
toned they held out a temptation to
steal.
"A jury at Rondout, N. Y, being
unable to agree, an aged member sug-
gested that they hold a prayer meeting.
The proposition was agreed to, and at
the conclusion of the services a ballot
was taken resulting in a verdict.-AI-
bang Journal.
"A young nan sends the following
advertisement to the Boston Globe:
''Wanted, by a handsome, virtuous
young man in easy circumstances, of
brilliant talents, refined tastes and low
ing disposition. situation as son-in-law
in a wealthy family.
Rear Admiral Ammen says that the
Panama Canal will cost $500, 600, 900
instead of 500, 900, 900, as estimated;
and that when finished it will constant
ly require the most formidable and ex-
pensive repairs. The earth of the 18TH
mus, it seems, is without the requisite
proderties of firmness and stability.
At the Catholic Church in Troy, N.
Y, an infant which had been found in
an alleyway was recently christened
''Joseph'' by the priest. Soon after
a woman adopted the child, and discov-
cred it to be a female, whereupon she
took the youngster to the mistaken
priest and the syllable "ine'' was affixed
to the little one Times.
John Yeager is probably the most
famous fox hunter in Pennsylvania, and
his daring exploits form the theme of
many a freside tale. He takes the
widest leaps, springs the deepest bitches,
and is unsurpassed in reckless daring.
Three years ago, during a great hunt,
he left e%igbty-five riders behind, swan
the Schuylkill near Pottstown, and
caught the wet and painting fox on the
other side.-Philadelphia Record.
On the arrival in Syracuse of the
fast train on the Central Road a few
days ago a cat was discovered crouched
on the top of the truck over the wheels
of one of the coaches. When taken off
the cat was nearly frightened to death,
almost frozen and it's hair was matted
with cinders. This train makes only
one stop, and that at Albany, between
New York and Syracuse. The cat is
believed to have ridden on the truck
from New York.-Syrucuse Journal.
Mrs. Sleight, of New York, has for
pets a black-and-tan pup and a young
alligator. The two have a great liking
for each other and are together all the
time. The dog has left his soft cushion
to sleep on the hard floor with his
friend. When the dog is called to the
dining-room to be fed the alligator
creeps after it, uttering peculiar gut
tural sounds, showing its ~displeasure at
being left alone. One of these days the
alligator will swallow the dog.-M. z.
Mail.
"A man in Lexington made a wager
that he could name one hundred women
in that town each of whom is pretter
than Mrs. Langtry. He wrote out the
list, and took it to the editor of a news
paper there. The editor said that if he
published it his hide would be literally
riddled with bullet holes. ''Why," said
the other, ''every word Of description
appended to each name is highly re-
spectful and complimentary "You
misunderstood me-" said the editor.
.'It's on account of the names not men,
toned at all that I would be murdered
II l printed your ist."-LowisviMe
Courier Journal
Fanny Scott, the mulatto cook Of
Judge Hinton, of the Virginia Supreme
Court of Appeals, after preparing the
morning meal. told the family to eat
heartily, as she would be dead before
she could prepare dinner. Two hours
afterward she was dead. The body was
laid out, and the woman's husband an
nounced that he would die at the same
hour the next day (last Sunday. The
next morning, when friends went in to
view the body, to their horror they dis
covered a man lying beside the dead
woman. 1t was found that husband and
wife were both dead. Scott held the
~lifeless body of his wife clasped in his
arms. There vas great excitement
among the negroes Of Petersburg over
the strange occurrence Washington
Post.
. .- EYnlainnd. .