Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-13

"ASNt - 'As ''SSo'Ae o"' S"o1tSo Is Al
an orphan asylum, where he is kept by
the county. Resides the waiter, there
is still another brother, named John,
who resides en- Adams street.
DR.. Clark Whittier Il brother of the
poet has bought 60, 900 acres of land in
North Carolina, which he intends cut
ting up into small farms. sci.
The wine product for 1885 is estima.
ted at 5000, 600 gallons.
"Look here! 1 wish you would ex-
plain how this got into one of your ci-
gars," said a man, rushing into Il Fifth
avenue tobacco store and holding mp d
little strip of calico. The manufacturer
eyed it with disgust and exclaimed:
f1ts those new girls again, They, don't
seem to know the difference between a
Mother Hubbard and a Connecticut
wrapper! "-PWs6urg Chronicle 'Nele-
graph.
Life-insurance agent-"Come, let me
make you out Il policy" i - A
Mr.. Dusenbury-'Not today, sir"
"Why not? The premium on $780,
900 wouldn't be much. 1t would be a
nice sum to leave your wife,:
81 said not to day SIR. Now I say,
never sir! A handsome young widow
with $40, 600 is the most dangerous
legacy man could leave behind him."
Philadelphia cal.
An exchange relates an instance of
a man with y hardened liver dying.
We believe this is usually afatal COM
paint. A man maylhave a hard head,
or conscience, or heart and live for
years, but very few men survive hard
ened liver more than a year or so at
the outside.-Lancet.
Only eight American poets have lived
beyond the age of 60. This shows the
power of the press.-.herchant Irayeley..
A couple of Vienna doctors recently
gave a younger colleague a mark Of
delicate attention. They SEM him a
letter bearing both their signatures,
stating that desiring to celebrate his
anniversary by presenting him with
something he never possessed, they re-
quested him to accept as a birthday
present the bearer of their missive, a
patient, to treat him we'll, and keep out
of harm's way.-keue F1eie Presse. Z.
There isn't a fly in our sanctum. We
ran them all out. We hung up a S.
bill by a string, where the wind would
wave it, and the flies that had laid
around this sanctum for years and new
er seen one, took it for some kind of q
green monster that would catch them,
and lit out. We have not patented our
device for there isn't another sanctum
in tile country that can produce q bill
to try the scheme with.-Ev0nsvizle
argus. "'''
Nurse to fashionable mother-The
baby is very restless, ma'am. I can't
do anything with her.
F. M.-She's teething, l suppose.
N.-Yes'm. l think if you was to
take her in your arms a little while it
might soothe her.
!. Mp Impossible! l haven't the
time to spare. | am just making ready
to attend a meeting OF the Society for
the prevention OF Cruelty to Children.
Give baby some paregoric.-Bostou
Courier.
"Who did it?" is the title of q new
book by Lillian Spencer. We don't
know positively who did it, but we al
ways thought that it was that little
dirty-faced cuss on the next seat back
OF us, for we saw him with a pin in his
hand not two minutes before we sat
down, and when we extracted that
bent n from the seat Of our pants he
didn't have any pin, but he had hard
work 10 keep from bursting with laugh
ter at the way we jumped DunvWle
Breeze.
The man who drives the sprinkling-
cart revives the ancient feud, turns on
the water with u start, and almost
browns the dude; the man Aho draws
the l~ager-beer awakens from his sloth
n does 1T so that very nearly all of it
is froth; the nan who eats bananas
drops the peelings Oh the street, the
man who follows after fops along for
twenty feet, and, so on, half q hundred
things combine to make it clear the
heated term, with all it brings of cuss-
edness, is here.
A kentucky hen, while being driven
out OF a neighbours garden, let fall an
egg, which the woman who drove her
out picked up and utilized. A suit was
brought in court to recover the price
OF the egg, when it was decided that
"the egg being laid on the premises of
the defendant it was her egg" An
appeal was taken to a higher court,
when this decision was reversed on ac-
count Of the word. ''iaid' having been
used. .'The hen did not lay the egg,
but dropped it, ri "a journal
A New Orleans religious weekly says:
''The white race is, we believe, already
beginning to decay" This is sad news,
but it will not cause rs much conster-
nation in some quarters as would the
announcement tnat the horse race had
begun to dccay.-No191stown Herald.
y man called on the Chief of Police
OF Allegheny a few days ago and said
he had been robbed of $50, 600, 600.
The man is supposed to have been a
curve pitcher for u professional base
ball club, and had just been paid half
of his seasons salary. -N0221s5own Her.
ald.
A poetess MARBLES: 81 love to sing
when | am glad-song is the echo OF
my gladness; | love to sing when | am
sad, for song makes sweet my very