Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-09-25
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Nearly all the aged inhabitants O
Persia cat opium.
Brooklyn, N. Y, has a real romance
il the marriage OF q widow Of 81 tc
a double widowcr OF - summers.
The suppression Of the rebellion in
the Northwest has cost the Canadian
Government @2, 600, 900, besides a mum,
Der ct valuable lives.
The Philadelphia court records show
Shat during the past ten years tho ratio
OF divorces to marriages have been
about ono in tbirty-three,
Mrs. HubertinoA uclorc is the French
wouan's-rights champion, and she de-
mands the suffrage for her suffering
French sisters. She says there are only
1900, 900 OF 'cm who want to vote.
Charles w. Calsr Of Waldoboro, Me-,
is the last survivor of the prisoners who
were confined in Dartmoor prison
during the wal OF 1912. He is 90 years
OF age, but is doing his own farm work
this season.
There is q school at Sweetwood, Ga,
. remarkable peculiarly OF which is
that of sevonty-one pupils each and
every one is rotated to the teacher and
to each other. Only one Of the scholars
is over fifteen years OF age.
Thomas A. Ellison, the electrician,
is extremely fond of music. He plays
tolerably. well on the piano by ear, not
being able to road notes. Although he
is troubled by deafness, he hears music
without difficulty, and remembers with
ease the intricate airs Of operas.
Dallas, Tex, claims to be the most
striking example of growth in the
Southern States. In 1928 it was
only a clump of unpretentious ware
houses and shanties on the Trinity;now
1t is solidly built over IN area Extend
ing back two miles from the river,
and has a population of over So, 0
Arctic expeditions do not pay, and a
we'll known book dealer says that mo-
ney was lost on all the arctic books
that have been published about the
Greedy expedition. He says the news
papers furnished so much information
about Greedy and his unfortunate ex-
petition that there was no demand
for anything further in the shape of
books.
The remedy for corpulence, accord
ing to the Lancet, i; in the method of
and drinking. Ii we only ate
more deliberately, it says, we should
lind half our accustomed quantity of
food sufficient to satisfy the most eager
cravings Of hunger. Let men of all
who lead healthy lives resolve
to eat and drink slowly.
His death has recalled a story about
Gilbert Burnet, one of the most popu-
lar Bishops that ever Wore the mitre of
Often, after preaching out
the hour-glass, which in those DAYS
was part Ct the furniture of the pulpit,
and he held it up in his hand, the con
grcgation DANGEROUSLY encouraged him
to go on till the sand had run OF once
more.
Since 1878 the black sand petroleum
territory has produced $780, 400, O3S bar
and the white sand Al, 44G, 264. The
most productive year was 1881. Va
rious causes, added to the extreme
have extended the use OF
petroleum enormously. For the past
nine years the average increase in con
sumption has been 1,572,363 barrels
per annum.
Ayoub Khan, one of the aspirants to
the Afghan throne, is constantly guard
ed by policemen to prevent his escap
from Persia, but the %precaution seems
to be needless, for he is drunk all the
His putfed-up face, says a cor
respondent, his dull, CLASSY eyes, and
his heavy, sensuous lips show the de-
moralizing life he leads. His followers
see with dismay hat he is fast becom-
ing q wreck.
Vanilla is the most popular soda
syrup; then CONF lemon and pineapple.
Germans do not drink soda, and the
scandinavian consumers demand straw
berry and raspberry syrup, of as pro-
nounced a red as possible. 1t is with
ICES as with sodas; vanilla is most in
demand, then come lemon and straw
berry and pineapple. Chocolate is gen
called for. with other %lavors, and
beach is Sighted.
The current superstition that Boston
PRODUCES the brains that make the CITY
great literary and intellectual cen
OF America has no foundation.
1owells is an Ohio mar and Aldrich
born in New Hampshire, and of
writers really born in Boston near
? all are young and but just beginning
Q make their mark, such as Robert
5rant, r. j. Simpson, John T. Wheel
light, and Cabot Lodge.
Moscow has an enormous new cathe-
raj, built in the Greco-Byzantine
lyle. which covers rs, 0 square feet.
nd has cost S12, 900, 900. 1t has five
upolas, on which 900 pounds Of gold
ere used as establishment, and thir-
cen bells, the largest half as big again
the "Great Paul' in London. The
lrgest door weighs thirteen tons, and
ost 1910, O0o. The marble in the build
g cost 81, 500, 900.
Gen. Joseph Z. Johnston, the oldest
the mourners who followed Grant to
le grave, is 78'yoar5 of age. Sheridan
but "a, though be looks older-beine
such the youngest OF the great mill
Try Generals on The Union side. Sher-
is S., Buckncr 81, Siokles S.,
Hancock g.. SchoGeld 81. and Wade
-ampton 81. Admiral Porter is n
nd Admiral Brown 20. Ii Gen. Robert
!. Lee We're alive Ia wn,1lG ha ,io,rlv