Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-06-26
TOPICS OF II DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Russ1A's march to the Arabian Sea
has not been stopped. She has merely
halted.
AUSTRALIA lost $4,000 900 from
pleuro-pneumonia. introduced by ~ sin
gle COW that was supposed to have re-
covered.
The area of the United States, eXclu-
sive of Alaska, is S,110,06l square
miles, and will equal Il square whose
sides are 1,764 miles long.
A PENNSYLVANIA woman, snnoved
by a newspaper borrowing neighbor,
found relief by subscribing again and
having a copy of the paper delivered to
She borrower.
The Pennsylvania Legislature passed
Che eight hour law. afew days ago. The
bill imposes a fine of from $500 to 5000
on persons compelling employees to
work more than eight hours per day.
SURGEON GENERAL HAMILTON, OF the
marine hospital service, Washington,
SAYS that the danger of a visitation OF
cholera this summer is extremely
small, though he hopes there will be
enough fear of cholera to promote clean
lincss.
AN old Government clerk at Wash
Jngton asserts that fully 1000 lottery
tickets are bought monthly by employees
of the various departments, and that
the female clerks are IS persistent buy
ers as the male.
ONE of the greatest ~undeveloped re-
sources of the State Of Tennessee is its
marble. The peculiar and striking
beauty of the variegated marble o.
Tennessee has arrested the attention O
builders in every part of the Unitcc
States.
THERE are only 451 miles of new
railroads constructed the current year
of which forty-three per cent. lie in two
Southern States-Texas and Florida
fThe construction of 1885 is about one
sixth of that of 1882 in the correspond
ang, period.
VICTOR HUGO was buried with all tht
honors which the world q bestow up
on the remains of an illustrious either
of the World. Paris never beheld :
snore unique. splendid and impressive
spectacle than that of the obsequies O.
the great poet.
The pension Office announces that i
has probably reached the down hill
grade in its work, where the number o
applications begin to be less than thu
number of certificates ioc pension
ISSUED. Heretofore it has not been abl'
10 keep up with the applications. APP
plications come in at the rate of 400
day.
THERE seems to be good ground fol
che belief which is widely prevalentth
lists of superiluous and incompetent de
partment employees are in course O
careful preparation, and that tn
services of all such will be dispensed
with at the close of the fiscal year
June so.
IN 1870 the population of the tcrrilor,
chat soon afterwards became the United
States was 5000, 0o0. The population
III 1S80.was so, 156. 600. showing an aver
;asg5e increase OF 80 per cent. compound
eh each decade. At the same ratio O
increase, the population at the end O
century, beginning with 1880, will b,
1852, 900, 900.
GEORGIA has a post-ot1ice named
Talking Rock" Some one discovered
in the vicinity a large stone upon which
had been painted the words, ''Turn M
over 1t required considerable strength
TO do this, and when it was done the
command, CHOW turn me back and lei
,s,e fool some one elsc," painted on the
s1ndersidc Of the stone, met the eve.
THERE are u large number of queer
names of Postoifices in the country
.1iauy Of them, too, have a very interest
ing and curious history. 1t is odd, fel
instance, to know the Postoflice "Hat.
aof'' was named for Postmaster General
AHatton, but being told there was al
ready one office of that name in the