Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-01-09
OF GENERA

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
--Eyery clearinghouse keeper II
New Orleans expects to makesa for
tune this winter.-M. Y. Sun.
The Mexican canaryis being intro
duced North. Hesras a softer, sweeter
voice than u own yellowfbird.
The boatssof the Union Ferry Conn
Pany,in New York, carriedknearly fifty,
million passengers last year.-M Y,
Journal.
The Russian banker, .Stiegftz, whe
lately died, left six million roubles
,($4, $40, 000) to Nine. Sophie Menter,
the Bavarian pianist.
"A policeman on the Brooklyn forces
has been dismissed for an attempt to-
firt with a young lady who was un-
kind enough to make complaint.N
Brooklyn Union.
The process of drying lumber by
surrounding it with common salt is
just now attracting attention. The
peculiar power of salt for extracting
moisture is we'll known.
Alfred Mitchell, Prosecuting At
torney of Belmont County, West Vir-
ginia, has resigned his Office to avoid
prosecuting his brother, who is in
custody charged with murder.
John Adams lived longer than any
other President of the United States,
reaching the age of ninety. Garfield
died youngest of them all, lacking two
months of fifty years.-M. Y. Tribune.
A jury in Orange County, New
York, awarded three hundred dollars
for a beer wagon, one hundred and
twenty-five for a negro's life, and four
thousand dollars for a broken rib
TROY Times.
A Chinese play at a San Francisco
theater has run forty-two nights and
only reached the third act. There are
twelve more acts to come, and it will be
a year or more before the critics can
begin their abuse.
"A Dundee (Scotland) dairyman
was recently convicted of selling milk
which had stood'in a room in which a.
child was i'll with scarlet fever. Tha
milk absorbed the poison and seventeen
persons were infected with the disease,
four of whom died.
"A process has been perfected in
Pittsburgh by which natural gas may
be burned under boilers in the form of
hot air. 1t is claimed the discovery
reduces the amount Of gas required
one-half, while it doubles its heating
capacity.-Pihsburgh Post.
-''You sit down here" sud Misa
Kate Field to the good people of the
Bay State, land fancy that Boston is
the hub of the universe, and that the
West can teach you nothing. 1t has
taught me than half dozen trips
to Europe."-Chicago Herald.
you've got my seat, SIR" said q
man on a Texas railroad, who had left
his seat for a moment. There is mo-
thing to show that you have retained
this seat" ''Look up there! There in
my hat box on the rack right over this
seat" "Well, then you sit up there ON
your hat box, if that's where you have
retained your seat."-1eras Syitt5mgs.
Special ceremonies are observed in
France at the execution Of a parricadeI
and these were carefully observed latelW
in the case Of a soldier at Rouen. Be-
fore the whole garrison the criminalI
clad in his shirt, feet bare, and ablacA
veil over his head. advanced to a stake:A
At the word "Firc!' eleven bullets en-!
tered the mans body. The troops them
marched past the corpse.
Mercury is firmly believed by the
Chinese to possess wonderful virtues.
they hold that it not only p%rolongs
life, but expels bad vapors, poison, and
the gloom of an uneasy mind. Ihe{
doctrine of the transmutation of mer4
curry into other metals prevailed I'M
China two thousand years ago. CHINA
bar was known to the Chinese in the
| cororth cont1hVx, h6,foro tho (hvicfi,~
era.
"A man who lives near Pittsburghs
has six pieces of silver, each weighing
a little more than the standard silver
dollar, all perfect, and dates as plain
as when new. The dates run from
1875 to 1854. On one side the figureI
resembles General Washington's head,
the other side being hie%roglyphics.
These pieces were plowed up in a held,'
and their owner wants somebody td
tell him what they are-PiWsburgh
Post.
There has been fifty speakers of the
National House. Henry Clay served
longer than any other, holding the po-
sition during six.C Congresses. Jonathan
Dayton served two terms. Nathaniel
Macon three, F. A. Muhlenburg (the
first speaker) two, Joseph b Varnum
two, Andrew Stevenson four, James
X. Polk two, Linn Boyd two, Schuyler
Colfax three, James G. Blaine three.
and Samuel j. Randall three.-N. Y.
Star.
The pompano is considered by
dealers to be the choicest Americans
marine fish, and it now sells in the New
York market. for fifty cents per pound.
Hitherto the average weight of the fish
brought to market has been about three
pounds, but this week two pompano
caught on the Maine coast and sent to
New York weighed twenty-five pounds
each. The pompano is essentially a
Southern fish, but is now found in deep
water all along the Atlantic coast.
During the three hundred years
between A. d. IA and 313 the Roman
Empire had ifty-seven rulers. OF these
twenty-three were assassinated, one
was poisoned by his wife, three We're
killed by their own soldiers, five killed
Themselves ono was nv his