Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-07-25


them they regard it as ali right, make
the best of it, and in many instances
argue that it was all for the best. The
hay crop, owing to a %protracted drouth,
is short this season and they maintain
that the drouth was beneficial. as it
made the grass less rank and more MI
tritious: and that it will cure vastly
better for winter feed. Last week they
had a destructive cyclone and arattling
big hail storm, destroying much OF the
crops in that region. But still they ar
que that the hail fall vas beneficial,
Upon this subject, the Spearfish Regis
ter says: "But inasmuch as the crops
were in a fair way to be a total loss for
lack of rain the chances now are that
part of crop can yet be raised, SO that
on the whole the damage is not q serl-
Gus one" They are a dandy people
out there, who look upon a kicker with
as much disfavor as they do upon a
horse-thief.
Col. Gilbert A.. Pierce, the newly ap-
pointed governor Of Dakota, is an eX-
pert marksman. He was a member OF
the Paw Paw rifles at Poseyville, Indi-
ana, during the Mexican war, and en-
joyed a wide reputation as a crack shot.
One Of his favorite pastimes was to
practice rifle shooting at an old-fash-
toned half dollar thirty PAGES distant.
Such was his accuracy that he would
invariably send & bullet through the
girdle Of the figure Of the goddess of
liberty, on the silver piece, doing it sc
cleverly that the robe Of the goddess
would fall about her feet before she
could recover it. Col. Pierce will have
a fine field for his prowess in Dakota.
where they shoot mosquitoes with navy
revolvers.-Chicago News.
Pioneer Register;-A curiosity inthe
way of four hens sitting on n nest Of
eggs al be seen On the farm Of IL. j.
Cation. lie set a hen IN some eggs in
an old nail key. Another hen took it's
place on top of the first hen, and then
the third hen wanted to set and shegot
on top Of the second. This filled the
key. Still another hen wanted to have
a hand in Matching those same eggs
and she perched herself on top Of the
other three, which topped out, the key.
Now the question arises, which hen
will be the mother Of the chickens, or
in other words, which hen Matched the
eggs?
A good story is told of Artemus
Ward, when travelling on a slow-going
southern road soon after the wal.
When the conductor was punching his
ticket, Artemus remarked: "Does this
railroad company allow passengers to
give advice, if they do SO in a respect
full manner?" The conductor replied
in gru1f tones that he guessed so.
"Well," Artemus went on, sit occurred
to me it would be well to detach the
cow-catcher from the front Of the en-
CINE and hitch it to the rear Of the train.
For, you.see we are not liable to over
take a COW; but what's to prevent a
COW strolling into this car and biting a
passenger?" p
Prof. Bailey, tie eminent geologist
of Wyoming, says Of the tin in Dakota:
"The tin stream alone is SO abundant
that all the companies that can afford
to work it could go on for twenty years
without e%xhausting it. Yet this is but
the waste, you might say, CT the main
deposit-the mere scraps which water
and frost have detached, a little bit at
a time, from the great mass and source
Of the ore, which is Harvey Peak itself,
more than a mile high, and the sur
rounding tin bearing rock which ex-
tends for miles"
Dakota Free Press:-The Mitchell
Capital says that during the recent fire
at Woonsocket, Ravens, of the Times
made himself usefulby passing up pals
| of water with both hands and catching
the empty buckets in his mouth. We
never knew; before that Bro. Ravens
had such a mouth, and it only adds one
more to the list Of Dakota editors cele-
brated. for their big hash-hoppers.
, There is Bro, Willis, Of the KimOall In
dex, for instance, he can take a key OF
beer by the; chimes between his teeth
and drink out Of the bung hole and not
spill a drop.
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Observation-Disclosures the fourth
of july programme at Chamberlain.
the hanging Of six horse thieves was
advertised%as one"of the attractions
The event was eagerly anticipated by
the "culchaWed' Chamberlainites, bat
failed TO transpire, and the authorities
are e~ndeayoring II vain to ferrit oft
the author Of the Islander on the city's
fair name.
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