Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

AS Jay Gould's income is estimatedI
to be So a minute, a statistician says
that he lost S135 by the change from
solar to standard time.
"A society has been formed in Hart
ford, Conn, toprovide harmless amuse-
ments for young men 1t is known as
the Union Recreative Company, and
has a capital of $4,000 in twenty-ivey
dollar shares. 1t will charge forlunches,i
tobacco and billiards, but will have no
Intoxicating liquors OF gambling.
The organ of the bachelors is wor-,
ried to find out why a woman will spend
six weeks putting scallops on her dress
that nobody but herself will eve get 3
glimpse of, and then run about the
neighborhood in an old dirty wrapper
without any belt, and every other butt
ton burst of.-Fremont (Ne6.) Herald.l
During her latest visit to America;
Patti pieced q ''crazy quilt" six feet
square, composed entirely of bits of
plush and velvet, of which no two
were alike in color, and not one larger
than one of her hands. She took it
home with her, 4'to line it with swans
down, and then give it to be ratified of
at a swell charity fair"
The Washington Capital says that
MI. Chaffee, father-in-law of Ulysses
Grant, Jr., could have saved $500. 900
of the $500, 900 in the bank of Grant &
| Ward. but the recovery of this sum
would have pressed close or the good
name of his son-in-law, so he refused
and lost all of it; but he is still q man
0f wpa1th and will NOT c1ffnr
But l do know that when q rich
Teddy is caught a-pilferin', they say:
"Poor soul! She's a kayleptomaniac'';
while if a poor devil of a pickpocket is
caught workin' the shop-liftin' racket,
they says: clock him up, the thief!!'
Now, if anybody ever had the kaylepto-
mayney, it surely was me, for l don't
remember when [ didn't steal, or didn't
want TOD Reformed Thief, in San
francisco Chronicle.
Not long ago q big whale got
stranded on one of the Shetland
Islands. A venturesome small boy
thought he was dead, and sat down on
his snout. The whale showed that he
objected to this liberty by giving a
snort-which sent the small boy flying
into the water fifty feet away. When
he swan ashore he knew more about
whales than he ever did before.
Cousin Alice-They tell me, Tom,
that you can be heard a mile of when
on duty. How is it you can't speak
above a whisper when you talk to me !?
Captain Tom (much smitten but rather
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS see, l haven't
any authority oyer you; buff you'd
give me the prospect of having it some
day [ think you'd find 1 can make
lenty of row. Would you believe it f?
he did.-Lomdom Judy.
The S~usquehanna River and Ches-
apcake Bay are said to be literally
swarming with small herring, and the
hauling seines are taking them in any
quantity desired. The supply is far in
excess Of the demand for this kind of
herring, and the fishermen are glad to
dispose of them at any price. Hun
dreds Of barrels of fish have been al
lowed to escape from the seines, and
many thousands Of them have been
hauled away by the farmers in Hartford
and Cecil counties to be used as COM
post. A great many have been sailed
and smoked and the supply of cured
herring will be large. But few shad,
however, are being caught. The gill
boats are doing so little that onlya lew
of them fish at all, and they get eight
or ten shad or two hundred or three
) hundred herring a night.-Rhi1adelpA5c
Press.