Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-12-11

a colored woman at Ad~airsville, Ga,
imagines herself beWitched, and thinks
her mission is TO find cut who broke
the law in Eden and took the first bite
OF apple.
Chicago may play better ball than
New York, but Chicago is not a patch
to New York in talking about building
Great mouumeEts.--UetroD Euentng
Jou2WaI.
A prominent physician Of Athens,
Ga, who had many cases of sore
throat, lately made IN investigation,
and found nearly every one OF them
was caused by cigarette smoking.
Nh. Alexander Vogelsang, of Phila-
delphia, threatens TO startle the world
with a flying machine OF Il new sort.
Instead OF using wings of enormous
size, be says he can do 1t with fans of
length Of two feet.
The death of an eccentric citizen of
Eastman, Ga, whose chief proclivities
consisted in wearing his hair long,
done up in a net, and walking through
the swamps in his sleep, is recorded in
the Times of that place.
Mrs, George Dawson Coleman, of
Lebanon, Pa as a current item says,
Gowns d portrait painted on q cobweb.
The col ors are beautifully laid on and
simply perfect as to harmony. 1t Is
said TO have cost $1,000"
Gen. Benjamin L. Butler has a pre-
sentiment THAT he will die in four years
He says that none of his family was
ever known to live beyond the age of
IS years. The general iss64 years old
now, and he is IN excellent health.
The modern beverage in cheap tav-
erns in Normandy is cider that tastes
like vinegar and water, and is sold at
2 cents Il quart. A tourist says shat a
mouthful OF good New England. apple
juice would delight and astound a na-
tive.
If any of our own esteemed contem.
poraries can show the farmers how to
get out OF debt and how to keep out,
the whole question Of political economy
will be near solution. Some IS per
cent of mankind await that miracle
augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
News has reached Mrs. Angles, the
Irish woman who writes very sentimen-
tai novels as 1.-The Duchess of the
American who has made a round OF
the watering places as a claimant OF
the authorship. and she publishes a
card declaring that she has never been
in this country.
The word "Selah," which often oc,
ours in the Psalms, is one Of doubtful
meaning. 1t is supposed by some Bible
scholars to signify silence, or a pause
in the musical performance OF the sa'
cred song. Others again claim that il
is intended to indicate special attention
to the subject.
The subscribers of the Hugh Conway
memorial fund have decided to have Il
medallion and q tablet of the author,
at a cost of $500, and to found an in.
tcrmittent scholarship at the Bristo.
University College, amounting to abou,
$4,000. The scholarship Will be fol
English literature.
A kite 16! feet high and II feet wide
has been built at Yorkville, N. Y. Its
made Of white, red and blue cloth,
mounted on cross sticks II inches
square, with a center stick OF y inch
stuff. The tail is OF rags and 400 feet
long, and the cord, LOCO feet long, il
as big us 4 clothes line. SO far il
hasn't been Il success, the tail being
too heavy, but startling results III,
promised.
The late Mr.. Calverly has told us
that those who smoke tobacco grow
brainless as chimpanzecs and n~eryeles;
as lizards, and that most of them q
mad and beat their wives. and plunge
after shocking lives, razors and %carvin:
knives into their @izZarGs. On tn
other hand. two German sayants. afte
minute and exhaustive investigation b
the most approved scientific methods
arrived at the conclusion that smoking
is nothing at all except watching tn,
smoke.
The famous Victoria Bridge at Mon
treal is to be supplemented BY anothe
bridge crossing the St. Lawrence from
Lachinc to Caughnuwauga, four mile
above the city. 1t will be OF iron truss
es, the eight spans measuring 5000 feet
and will cost, with its approaches,
million and a quarter Of dollars. Tn
owners are the Canadian Pacific Rail
way, who expect to have it finished b.
November Of 1856. No such bridge Il
the Victoria Ca tubular one) will eve
be built again.
An Eastern paper thinks that if al
the wise suggestions made about tn
public schools are adopted. their cours
OF study, By TIE year 1900, will b
about like this: One hour, sewing; on
hour, washing and ironing; one hour
cooking; one hour, table setting an,
other branches of housekeeping; on
hour, music; i hour, dancing; on
hour, painting; II hour. modelinga an,
sculpture; one hour, reading; one hour
writing; one hour, arithmetic; on
hour, bookkeeping; one hour, indus
trial education; one hour, civil govern
ment; n hour each on geography, al
gepra, trigonometry, Latin, Greek
French, German, botany, astronomy
tariff and free trade, farming and TIT
weather.
A rich man in Davenport hired a ma
to DIG Il c~istern, agreeing TO pay SD 10
the job. After it was done the ric
man seized the laDorcr's tools IAN,