Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-24

81 Co. OF Chicago at three and one.tfth
percent premiun2, amounting S'5.o32D0.
Only two lots Of territorial bonds have
heretofore brought premium, and they
less than ~one-fourth OF one per cent,
while Other lots have been SOLD as low
as 90. % and 98 per cent, The proceeds
from the sale of the bonds win 0e ready
in a day OF tWo-as soon as the bonds
are executed.
New York Sun: "Yes,'' said thepro-
prietor of IN uptown barber shop, Jim
Was a good workman, but I had TO get
rid of him
"Nyhat was the trouble?,
Gle Was too absent minded and for
getful. One old fellow with IL head
like a billiard bali, he never failed to
ask If he didn't want a shompoo. An
other bald headed old chap got mad be-
cause Jim insisted upon selling him a
bottle of Elixir that was warranted to
keep the hair from falling out; and a
young man who was slightly under the
influence OF beer fell asleepin the chair
and Jim shaved off his mustache. l
had to call in a policeman then. He
cut one mans ear nearly off while
watching a dog fight in the street, and
sometimes he would rub hair-oll Yer
a customers face instead Of his head.
and fill his ears full of lather and for
get to wipe it out. Jim didn't mean
anything wrong, but as | said he was
absent-minded. You rememher when
old Deacon Jones died?"
EYES,"
"Well, the family sent for Il barber
to shave HIM, so l told Jim to go up.
1t was that JOB that lost him his situa-
ton. He did the work all ~right-no-
body ever found fault with Jlln's work
but when he had'p OF the finishing
touches and pulled the towel Off the
poor old deacon, he turned around
and shouted Next, so that people
heard him a block away. so I told Jim
that | guessed I'd have to let him go
Booth and Balloon We're digging a
grave in a cemetery at Evansville, Liv-
ingston county, n. y, when they I'M
earthed a skeleton. This so shocked
Booth that he tainted. His mother
was sent for, and came in a wagon
with such speed that, colliding with
another wagon, she was thrown out
and seriously hurt. In crossing a
bridge on their return, the bridge gave
Way, and the entire party, horses, wag-
on and all, were precipitated into the
water, Which was from five to ten feet.
One of the horses was rowned.-N. Y.
Times.
What warning to our whisky drink
ers is conveyed in the singular accident
at Ionia, Mich. II an empty whisky
barrel exploded with a terrific noise
heard blocks away" blowing men
through windows into the street and
setting a building or fire, simply
through a match being scratched upon
it, What may not lie the fate OF some
persons who are as thoroughly Inpreg-
mated with the spirit as The barrel was,
and who are never entirely empty!
Fancy the peril such persons are in of
explosion when. as we have frequently
seen them do, they light a match by
scratching it or their pantaloons.-
Mail.
AT the school election in Canton re-
Gently about geo ladies voted. A cor
respondent says OF the election: "The
scene Was in the extreme. 4 few of
the younger ladies had to give away
their ages-a history they had sacredly
guarded for years, hourly expecting a
matrimonial strike Of lightning, Sew
eral Of foreign birth could not put in
their votes on the strength of the citi-
zenship of their husbands. Carriages
Were plentiful, gliding hither md thith-
er filled with ladies. Your c~orrespon-
dent noticed several ladies at the polls
with infants in their arms, while baby
carriages were quite numerous. The
best ladies' Of Canton voted, and here
after it is probable the ladies of Canton
Will be far from a cipher in school cleo
lions.
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