Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-01
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The Tichborne claimant is exhibit
gland to arm a living.
OF the 217 members who in 1921
formed the Paris Geological Society
said to be the oldest organization of its
kind-only one is 10Y living.
While elephant hunting recently in
the Garrow Hills, in Bengal, Lords Ar
thur and Henry Grosvenor captured
eighty-tive elephants in three drives.
1t has always been the belief of
Mrs. Burton, wife of the well-known
traveller, that since England took the
Koh-i-noor diamond. proverbial for the
ill-luck it brings, nothing but disaster
has attended all concerning British In
dia.
"A fatal duel, arising from a most
trivial cause, is reported from Cologne,
where two officers met recently, and,
after the exchange of seventeen shots.
one of them was mortally wounded, ex-
piring within an hour. The cause of the
duel was that one of them put on the
others cap.
"A young Engl;shman has had his
let leg specially exempted from the in
surance granted him by several COM
pan:es, whose losses through the sud
den weakness of that limb had led them
to be wary in the matter. Hence
clauses in his policy provide that he can
not recover unless proof is made that
his injuries shall not have been caused
by the faulty member.
The Lancet saws that appetite is q
most misleading sensation, only re-
motcly related to the actual demands
of the organism. II we only ate more
deliberately we should find half our
accustomed quantity of food sufficient
to satisfy the most eager cravings OF
hunger, and hence save ourselves from
the evils of dyspepsia, or, on the other
hand, a tendency to over increase in
weight.
Timber RATS on the Rhine are a
noticeable characteristic of that his
toric river. A single raft has often
eight IL ten small houses on it, and
from 400 to 500 workmen, rowers and
pilots. The vast pile is steered by
means of immense oars, and is so con-
structed as to twist like Il huge snake
IN the narrow channels. The sale of a
raft at the end of tse voyage often real
ICES about $500 O0.
Porto Rican ladies, although as
dark as mulattos, carry with them to
all public places a face powder made
from grinding a peculiar shell, and
\ when they think no one is looking their
way they give their faces fresh coats of
it. OF course the powder shows, but
good breeding makes the observer tech
nically blind to the ludicrous combina-
ton Of black nature and white pulver-
| ized shell.
The increase of the criminal class
in England has by no means kept pace
with that of the general population.
In the fifteen years from 1860 to 1874
the population of England and Wales
IS augmented by nearly 5000. 900 souls,
Blu the prison population had actually
fallen by more than 1900. If England
had gone on producing criminals at the
rate at which she was turning them out
in 1869, she would have had a prison
population in 1884 of something like
IA, 900, instead OF one below 10, 900.
The public baths of Vienna are
said to be the finest in the world. The
building itself, says the English Ne
ch0nic, is situated in the heart of the
city. and incloses a basin 1856 feet in
width by SIS feet in length, and vary
ing in depth to twelve feet. The enor-
nous quantity of water contained in
this basin is renewed three times aday.
The whole establishment has accom-
mediation for 1900 persons, and is
open from May LIST to October31st. and
from five in the morning until dusk.
There is also a bath, restricted to
ladies. open from nine in the morning
unit | one, and the Vienna ladies are
especially good swimmers.