Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-03-07
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"A Denison (Tex.) man pawned >
cork leg with apawnbroker for an adj
vance Of twenty-five cents.
Deer in Florida are being slaugh-
tered SO rapidly that it is believed they
will become extinct in a few years.
1t is said to be q habit in rural
Germany to-day for men to comb their
hair the first thing after they have sat
down to table.
The name of Tussekiah Post-ofhca.
Lunenburg County, Va, has been
changed to "Nutbrush," with Lucy +.
Hart as postmistress.
The mail rider who carries letters
to and from the Cour d'Alene mines
charges fifty cents each, and often has
from forty to fifty. He takes the risk
of being either scalpea or frozen.-C'-
cago Herald.
After a physician had tried in vain
to dislodge two false teeth which q
Pottsville (Pa.) woman insisted had
lodged in her throat, she found the
teeth in a drawer, where she had put
them. Post. 1!
The deep bass of the organ ceased
suddenly in a church in Lewiston; Me-,
when a lady voice was heard by the
whole congregation distinctly to declare:
81 don't care one bit; l do want q
piano. Boston Transcript.
Frank Bert, a fourteen-year old boy
of Lynn, Mass, hung himself the other
day because he could find nothing to do
to support himself and Mlieve his par
ents of the burden Of his board and
clothes. He was soon cut down.-Bos-
ton Herald.
Physicians declared that two chill"
dren of L. E. Grant Strang, of Amster-
dam, who were sufferingfrom d%iptheria,
caught the disease by playing with a
doll, which had been handled by their
sister, who recently died of diphtheria.
Troy IN. ~ Times.
+, There are three thousand seven hum
bred Cinnamon in New York City, and
quite a number of them offend Sunday
school, where they goto learn the En-
glish language. Many more Cinnamon
are leaving the country for China than
are coming here.-M Y. Times.
Mono Lake, in Colorado, was re-
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by a tornado, which dashed the water
and piled lathery foam upon the shore
twenty feet high. In the mass of foam
were thousands of dead ducks that had
been dashed against the rocks.-Denvcr
Tribune.
We are thinking of writing a great
temperance drama in four parts, as fol-
lows: Part Admitted to the bar.
Part II.-Hanging around the bar
(same actors, but different scenery.)
Part IIl.-Behind the bars.-Part w.
Stranded Con the DISQUALIFICATION
Free Press.
In certain countries in South Amer
lea birds are kept to tend focks as dogs
are here. The bird generally used is
the chana, an allied form to the horned
screamers. 1t is extremely %pugnacious,
darting at dogs or other birds when they
approach its charge, driving them away
with loud cries and sturdy blows from
the beak and tail.
William Hycks, of Huntingdon,
sold his little daughter, aged about
twelve years, to a laborer at the reform
atory for the consideration of three
drinks of whisky. The child, upon re-
fusing to accede to the inhuman trans
action when called for by the purchaser,
was ~mercilessly beaten by her brutal
and drunken Observation-Disclosures
Press.
We met two of our friends from
the country. both disabled, one with a
black eye and the other with a lame
back, and both attributed their mis-
fortunes to a dream. The first sprang
upon al imaginary foe who was about
to assail him, and ran the bed post
into his eye, and the other poor fellow,
tumbled over chair trying to kill a
snake.-New Boston (Ter.) Herald.
Matters must have come to a pretty
pass in Boston, when the Herald talks
out in this strain: ''Between garroters
on the streets and bald-headed old
Washers in the horse-cars making
themselves d~iragreeable to ladies.
Boston is not improving her reputation.
A few straight shots or long sentences
for the footpads, and a woman or two
with spirit enough to grind the corns
or slap the faces of the salacious old
wretches, will help to restore good
order and decency."
Navy and army officers enjoy much
leisure which they frequently employ in
the cultivation Of the fine arts. This
privilege has often been noted half en-
viously by men less favored as to time.
These persons will bemore envious than
ever when they hear about a young
naval officer in Washington, who spends
his spare hours in making fancy work.
He is an adept at macrame lace and
crazy quilts, and makes elaborate
pieces for charity fairs, besides little
gifts for his young lady friends.-In-
dianapolis Journal.
The Baltimore San says: '.Woman
is a luxury-loving and generous buyer,
and it. is to her demand for the beauti-
full fabrics that the manufacturer, un-
der the new social conditions of the
last two centuries, has looked with
most confidence for his reward. This
demand did not exist to anything like
the same extent q hundred years ago,
when woman, being regarded in the
ordinary walks of life as a somewhat
inferior creature, was restricted in her
liberty, her expenditure and her discre-
ton as to a number of things, dress in
included, affecting her happiness"