Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-29
or GENERAL INTEREST.

Tho Mount Vernon estate was
bought by public subscription for two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
Washington Post.
The NEAR elevation of this country
above the sea is two thousand six hun.
dred feet, and the average rainfall il
twenty-nine inches. Chicago Herald.
1t is computed that seven hundred
and fifty thousand people go into Lon
don by rail every day to earn their
livelihood, and leave it and yet an acct
dent rarely occurs.
The villa on the Island of Elba
which was occupied by Napoleon after
his abdication in 1914, was recently
purchased by the Jesuits, who intend
to convert it into a college.
An entomologist has reported hav.
ing found seven hundred and twenty
four species of noxious insects in the
trees, shrubs and plants of the New
York parks last year.-M Y. MoH.
I'm New York, Philadelphia and
other Eastern cities is a movement for
the reduction Of prices of admission to
amusements. There is a prospect that
the time will come when the young
clerk may take his girl to the theater
without the sacrifice of a whole weeks
salary.-CnhcinnaH Commercial Ga
gette. !
The oranges imported at New York
during 1884 were valued at about
$1,000, 600 in a total of So, O67, S51 of
green fruit received from abroad.
Lemons rank next to oranges, bananas
next, then cocoanuts, pineapples,
grapes and. lines. The duty on the
oranges aid lemons amounted to $780,
SS2.-N Y. Tribune.
A boy was recently before a police
court in San Francisco on the charge
of having maliciously stabbed a num-
Der of his playmates. Upon investiga-
ton it was found that the promising
youth was in the habit of sticking a
penknife into other children for the
fun of hearing them howl. His victims
numbered a half-dozen or more.
April fool jokes are not wholly a
bad thing. as a Lawrence (Mass.),
man found, who lost on the street a
pocketbook containing forty-two dol
lars. Several passers-by winked know
ingly at each other and carefully let it
alone, so that when the owner retraced
his steps half an hour later he found
it just where he had dropped it.-Bos-
ton Herald.
There should be some uniformity
about the name of Aspinwa]l. The
native name is Colon (after Columbus),
but when it was made the eastern ter
minus of the Panama Railway it was
christened Aspinwall, in honor of the
eminent New York merchant of that
name. In Secretary Whitney's dispatch
to Admiral Jouett it is referred to by
both names.-CVeveland Leader.
Thomas Johnson, of Adairsville,
has in his possession an oid-fashioned
skillet which has been in use in his
family over one hundred years. His
grandmother, who lived near the battle
field of Guilford Courthouse, in North
when it was burned by the British in
1871. 1t has the marks of the burning
on it to this day.-St. Louis Globe.
Genuine Perique tobacco only
grows on a ridge situated about one
mile from the Mississippi River, in St.
James Parish, La, and that sRid ridge
is only about two miles wide and seven
miles in length. Tobacco will grow in
any part of the State, but it is on this
patch only that the famous Perique is
cultivated. The average crop is abou,
seventy-tive thousand Chicago
Herald.
Postmaster j. N. Sheldon, of Scio,
was taken deaf in April, 1874. On
April 2, 1884, as he was sitting in his
office, suddenly the song of a canary
bird and the conversation Of people in
the room broke on his ear. His hear
ing had returned. A few days ago,
while Mr.. Sheldon was talking to a
friend, his hearing suddenly left him
again, and he is now as deaf as ever
Utica IN. ~ Herald.
Travellers in. Dalmatia some years
ago noticed large tracts of land GOV
cred by a wild flower, neal which not
a sign of insect life was visible. The
bloom was the pyrethrum, whose odor
deals death to the lower forms Of life.
and whose powdered leaves forms the
basis of s'insect powders" The seed
of this flower has been distributed in
the United States, and a Dalmatian has
been growing it with great success in
Stockton, Cal.
Thursday evening as No. / was
Oh luc pOlut VI 1CdFluS tue OepOG uSIc,
a young man jumped off, and before a
young lady who stood there could say
"Jack Robinson" she was seized and
kissed by him, and the young man i'm.
mediately boarded the train and left
her to recover from her aston.
ishment. We have hesitated to pub.
lish this item, as we feared
that hereafter every time No.
comes the depot platform will be
thronged with ladies.-Waverly (N.
The frequent sinking of Florida
land and the disappearance of lakes in
that country is accounted for by the
Jasper Times in this way: The State
has q good many caves and subterrap.
a rivers. They are generally arched
.over with rock, supported by huge rock
pillars, but in some places veins Of
sand, varying in size, run through the
rock. During the wet seasons these
sand veins get filed with water, which,
percolating through. sometimes causes
the entire vein to fall through. When