Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-06-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

New York is said to have the largest
Catholic population of any city in the
world.
Windsor, Conn.,, has a rogue detect
i've society, embracing in its member
ship $50 Of the most influential men OF
the town.
"A commercial paper in Boston
prints a "Credit register" which ex-
poses tho names of those who do not
pay their grocery bills.
Letter and note paper. either in
gray or palest blue is conceded theb best
form at present. Heraldic devices and
names of places either in solid colors
or illuminated are newer than mono
grams.
"A woman makes the surgical in
struments used by the most skillful
operators on human flesh in New York
City. She has been in the business
nine years, and both makes and sells
her sharp-edged wares.-N Y. Herald.
Rev. John M. Steiner, the retired
minister of Fishkill, N. Y. who had
been missing from his home in that
place for several weeks, was found re-
Gently in adistant town in Pennsylvania.
His mind had become ~deranged by the
recent loss of his wife.-1roy Times.
John Thomas, a colored boy of
Lexington, KY, got up a mouse trap
entirely on his own ideas. A drummer
saw the boy with it, and paid him fifty
cents for it. He sent it to Washington,
secured a patent, and now thousands
of them are being sold all owe the
country Chicago Herald.
Patti seems to have carried off all
the money in San Francisco. A sad
looking citizen of that town the other
day carried to the express Office an old
and battered silver dollar which he had
found in the street, and asked to have it
sent TO Mime. Patti. He thought Unjust
belong to her, as it was the only money
he had seen since she went away.-Chi
cago Inter Ocean.
There are, it is said, but two author
lied dynamite factories in France-one
at Ranville, the other at Honileur; and
the utmost supervision is exercised over
these establishments. The names of the
manufacturers have to be entered in a
special register, a deposit OF fifty thou
sand francs is required of them, and the
formalities relating to the sale OF trans
mission of explosives are numerous.
A correspondent in an agricul-
tural paper asks, "What is good for
canker worms?n After considerable
experience in the matter, we can sug-
gest nothing so good as an apple tree.
1t appears to be particularly healthfui
for the canker worm, and we were
not aware. until this correspondent sug-
gested it, that the canker worms were
not entirely satisfied therewith.-Boston
Post.
While Antonio Morie, an Italian
bootblack was shining a pair of boots
belonging to q marketman in New York
City he found q roll of bills amounting
to seven numbered dollars in the leg Of
one of the boots. The money had fallen
through a hole in the, mans pocket
into the boot, and the man did not
discover his loss when he took the
boot off. The boy returned the money
to the owner, who gave him as a reward
five cents for the shine.-N Y. NcaUs.
The United States is the only Gov
eminent which imposes no burden on
commerce for the support of the light
house and buoy system. At present
there are over seven hundred light
houses on the American coasts and riv-
ers, and also twenty-five floating-light
stations, the total annual expense being
S 1889, OH. In addition to the above
there are nearly six thousand buoys and
beacons, which mark danger of less
threatening character Chicago Times.
The few gymnasia for ladies in Bos-
ton and the vicinity are about to close q
very successful season, showing that
| gymnastics, when properly conducted,
are beneficial. 1t is q little surprising,
however, to see at the exhibitions young
girls of fourteen and fifteen climb q rope
to the ceiling hand-uver-hand, vault
bars higher than their heads, and turn
somersaults in the air on flying rings.
One is inclined to believe that the old
Greek days have returned, and that We
shall soon have Spartan mothcrs.-Bos-
ton Herald.
The Providence (R. ~ Journal
says Of the high opinion held of himself
by the boy who has reached sixteen, the
last stage of boyhood: ''There is not a
question of which he has not a confident
and all%-disposingg judgment. Why, if
we We're all sixteen. there would be no
need of Congress nor of the Supreme
Bench. We should each know it all. In
religion his opinions are equally deci-
sive. But do not understand me, nv
friends, that in making fun of the boy,
at this OF any other period of his life, I
mean to deprecate or discourage his as
pirations. Far from it. / would not
give a penny for the boy of sixteen who
did not try to be a man."
.~-Beggars in the new mining towns
share in the general contemptfor money
in beggarly sums. In the Ceur d'Alene
region the solicitor usually asks for a
dollar at least. 1t would not be of
much use to give him less. A nights
lodging always costs a dollar-the &C.
c%ommodation consisting generally of a
share of a bunk strewn with cedar
boughs and a couple of blankets, and
sometimes Of only a corner of a floor
and a few cedar boughs. The ordinary
meal of bacon, porK-chop, beans, and
coffee is a dollar, and the extra meal.
which has two eggs added, cost. fifty
cents more.-Chacago Times.