Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01
OF GENERAL

Zach" Chandlcr's old house in
Washington is now occupied by the
Chinese Embassy.
Over three million acres of forests
in the Adirondacks are now owned by
private individuals and corporations.
while the State owns but one hundred
thousand.-1roy IN. ~ Times.
"A Cleveland woman having secured
divorces from two husbands, with
alimony ~aggregating 100000, has
married a young man and is supporting
him in good tyle.-Gevelamd Leader.
1t is said that the Emperor of Bra
iii has given Professor Lacerda $780,
600 for his discovery of p~ermangante
of potassium, hypodermically injected,
as an antidote for the bite of the corba.
The fashionable New York girl is
now accompanied on her ~promenades
by a big New Foundland or st. Bernard
dog, which is a great improvement on
the dude, and the pug puppy.-M. Y.
Herald.
The nobility of England are all
torn up in mind. The Marquis of
Londonderry has gone into the retail
coal business, and Lord Sudley has be-
come u manufacturer of marmalades.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
A New Haven Comm jeweler has
received an order for a watch for King
Kalakaua, of the Sandwich Islands. 1t
is to be q massive gold chronograph
timepiece of elaborate design and finish,
with stop attachment and three dials,
and recording the fractions of the Sec
onds.
Refractory youngsters who are
brought into Judge Thompson's court,
at Louisville, KY, are sentenced to q
whipping by the Judge, the father or
mother, Whoever it might be that makes
the complaint, being the one who admin
listers the charlottesville Couricr-Jour-
nal.
Old bachelors a now get married.
The Commercial Gazette says: ga Gin
cinnati genius claims to be getting up
an electric arrangement by which a man,
by simply touching a little knob set in
the head of his bed, can kindle all the
morning fires in the house Simultaneous
ly."
President Grevy, if a Paris story is
W W polAoNCu, P"iu u 1Cluol NdplS poiAt.
blank compliment to the Grand Duke
Alexis. ''Why do you look at me in
that way?" asked his Imperial Highncss,
after they had shaken hands. "Be-
cause" replied the President, ..you are
the tinest-looking man I ever came
across"
"A Chinaman at Virginia, New, to
whom was described the hanging of
one of his fellow-countrymcn at Orville,
CAL, was much disguised. .'What
for chokce lopez" cried he. "No good.
Chinaman he likec get him head cut off.
Takee n slord-z-z-w-hip?-you bet.
Belly good that way; lope too much
chokee. - Chicago Herald.
"A couple Of boys arrested for steal
ing an overcoat from in front of q cloth
ing store at Delphos, Ohio, we're taken
from the Jail by q masked mob Satur-
day night and hung to a tree until near
ly dead, when they We're rescued and
with difficulty restored to conscious.
Monday they We're arraigned for theft
and proved themselves not guilty.
Detroit Post.
In 1881 Mr.. Frank Berry, of Easley,
S. c., picked and packed a bale of cot
ton at his gin, and placed a note inside
the bale, requesting the man who man
ufactured the cotton to inform him
what he made of it, etc. Last week MIR.
Berry received u note from France, in
which he was informed that his note had
been found and that his cotton had been
made into twist.-Chicago Tribune.
Kate, Louise, Emma and Josephine,
the four daughters of Joseph W.. Drexel,
ofNew York, were honored in the naming
of the German Colony in Worcester
County, Md. The new town is called
Klej Grange, the 'Klej'' beginning the
initial letters of the four daughters. A
gentleman whose daughters were named
Sylvia, Nanette, Olivia and Beatrice can
call his establishment ''Snob Terrace"
according to the new style of nomen-
clature.-N Y. Tribune.
Nothing ismore d~isceuraglne than
the inability of people to discriminate
between sound stocks and worthless
ones" says a fanciful writer. 1t may
be discouraging, but it is not surprising.
Suppose a man does not know a worth
less stock, how can he fail to know at
the same time that a sound stock is
worth less-much less-than when he
bought it? As one is worthless and the
other is worth less, the inability of the
people to discriminate should be ex-
cused.- Chicago Times.
Last spring w. C. Eveleth, of West
Batavia, N. Y, refused or neglected to
pay his school tax, which amounted to
forty-six cents: The collector thereupon
levied on and sold a pair Of MIR.
Eveleth's boots, which brought eighty
eight cents. The collector did not nav
MIR. Eveleth the forty-two cents differ
ence, and the latter accordingly brought
suit for the amount The matter came up
for trial a few days ago. but was settled
by the defendant paying the plaintiff the
sum demanded. -Bufalo Enpress.
In olden times, before matches were
| n existence, it was common for neigh
bors to borrow fire of each other. A
learned philosopher was visited by a lit
tie girl who asked him for some fire.
But" says the Doctor, .'you have
nothing to take it in" The little girl
stopped down to the fireplace, and tax
ing some cold ashes in one hand, she
put live embers on them with the other.
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