Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-03-27
GENERAL.

very emaL uWpre1las ofo 8oang out
Of fashion.
A stone knife OF the aboriginal pc.
Rod has been found oil a farm in Union
County, Pennsylvania.
The entire length of the capitol
building is 751 feet and four inches.
and the greatest depth is 1924 feet.
Boston has an apple mission, which
distributes from 1000 to 5000 bushels
of apples among the poor every year.
"A policeman who has served on
the New York force for twenty years
may then retire on half pay-S600
year.
"A squirrel can run down q tree
head first. The cat and the bear must
get down tail first (f left to them.
selves).
The girls of Maine will rejoice to
learn than q New York doctor pre-.
scribes chewing gum for dyspeptic pa
tients.
"A brick Of silver weighing 1900
pounds has been placed in the Mexican
Department of the New Orleans Expo
sition.
Nevada having no institution Of
the kind of her own, pays for her vet
Grams being hept in the California Vet
Grams Home.
There is an old dentist in Wash.
ington who boasts that he has pulled
over 100, 900 teeth by actual count. He
has been in the dental business for
more than twenty years.-Wdshsngton
Post.
II - ~osl %lok %1o ~; ~sn n a for sNf fbo
Concord grape has raised oyer 10000
seedlings in the past %thirty-hve years
without finding his ideal grape, and
only twenty-one had desirable qualities.
N. Y. Post.
The old carpet on the floor of one
of the rooms in the San Francisco Mint
was taken up the other day and "re-
duced''-that is, they burned it and as
sayed the ashes, which yielded $500
in gold dust.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The deepest gold mine in the
world, says the ANa California, is the
Eureka in California, VIII CHI is down
1920 feet, or 500 feet below the level Of
the sea. The deepest silver mine is the
Mexican, on the Comstock, which is
down {, $500 feet.
An exchange reports that s'sa
Ohio man who shot q boy in his melon
patch has been indicted in the sum of
$4,000" 1t is the testimony Of experts
that a boy who is shot in his melon
patch rarely survives the wound; hence
the crime above mentioned was deemed
nearly equal to ~manslaughter and fined
accordingly LoweN Citizen.
"A New Orleans doctor calls atten-
ton to a very simple fact which merits
attention from medicine takers. If the
medicine is mixed with Iery coldwater.
and a few swallows of the water DO
taken as a preparatory dose, the nerves
of the organ of taste become sufficiently
benumbed to make the medicine nearly
tasteless. The method will not dis
guise bitter tastes, but acts well in oils
and salines.
There are in America at the pres
ent time 80 1000 locomotives. To keep
up the standard and supply new de-
mands, 1900 must be built each year.
Locomotives cost on an average $40, 600
each, which would indicate an expendi-
ture of $12, DOC, 600 a year. There are
sixteen locomotive works in the United
States among whom this work and mon
ey will be more or less evenly distrib-
uted.-Iroy Times.
Thirty years ago David S. Horst,
residing near Mount Joy, Pa, while
eating a meal at a Lancaster hotel,
swallowed a pin. Often since he ex-
p.erienced sharp pains in various por-
tons of his body. OF late on his back
and right limb sore spots appeared, first
above the hip, then further down. until
several weeks ago another sore APP
peared between the knee and ankle. In
the act of dressing it he discovered and
arrested the long lost pin.-PHtsburqh
Post.
Literary talent is kept fully abreast
Of roller skating progress at Bruins
wick, Ca, where one of the papers
prints rink personals" like these:
''Miss Julia Futch glided around the
hall like a sunbeam playing upon the
crests of the sparkling waves. Mrs.
deliver is quite at home on the rollers,
and skates as smoothly as the swan
glldcs over the passive waters. Miss
Mary Stacy fitted around the hall like
a iight-winged dow, on some heavenly
The history Of Boston women be-
gins with a young girl. Ann by name,
ten years old, w],o was the first person
to leap from the boat which broug ht
over the exploring party from Charles
town in 1880; and when, as Mrs. Pol
lard, she died in 1925, aged 1O5, there
was left behind her a canvas, still in
existence in the gallery of the Histori-
Cal Society, in which the strong, hard
lines of the old face indicate a tough
ness which could well have borne the
hardships of the early settlement
Boston Budget.
AT Key West summer is perpetual,
and at MONDAY every soul is asleep.
The coooanut trees nod drowsily and
the great banana leaves droop Under
the heavy air. The flushed sun gilds
the smooth trunks of the palms. and the
hum Of the insects is hushed, and, the
clgarmaker, who sings at his work while
the morning mist lies Upon the island,
seeks the shelter of low-browed roofs,
smokes his cigarette, sips his coffee and
lies down to siesta. Tie people share
their slumber between the day and the
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