Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-02-06
,OF GENERAL INTEREST.

OF GENERAL INTEREST.
AT West Point, Ca, a fruit-growel
has sold since 1881 seventy-six thou-
san dollars worth Of peaches off of
not more than fifty acres of trees.
"A st. Louis man has discovered
that cod fish skin, when properly
tanned, makes elegant leather. It Is
OF a pearl gray color, and verynpugh.
"A very brilliant light is obtained in
China from candles-only of late years
imported into Europe-made of wax
supplied by insects specially reared
through Chinese ingenuity.
A Bloomsbury IN. J.) woman,
who was born dumb. began to laugh
just before her death, and laughed con-
tinuously until she breathed her last,
N. Y. Herald.
An expert on insanity holds that
an imperfect supply of oxygen, or
simply breathing AFFILIATED atmosphere.
may suffice to produce the mental dis
order known as melancholia.-Chicaqo
Times.
There are but four national banks
in Mississippi. There is said to be a
movement on foot among Nashville
capitalists to establish one at Natchez.,
where there has never been a National
Chicago Times.
Between the clapboards of his
house A. Billings, of LIE Roy, Mimi,
found n hundred and fifteen pounds
of honey. One piece of comb was five
feet nine inches long and twenty-three
inches wide.-&. Paul Press.
"A few weeks ago a man who was
walking from Peekskin to Sing Sing
became tired, and coolly turned the
signal light near him and stopped a
freight train. He got aboard the train,
but was arrested, and has been SEN
fenced to one year in State prison
Troy Times.
The use of the magnet for the cure
vf disease was known to the ancients.
1t was known to Aetius, who lived as
early as the year 500. He SAYS: 1--WE
are assured that those who are troubled
with the govt in their hands or feet, or
with commissions, find relief when thew
hold a magnet"
In twenty-one counties of Califor-
MIA during 1888 about n%inety-four mill
ion dollars in gold and one hundred
and fourteen million dollars in silver
was produced, which was four million
dollars less gold and a like amount
o silver than was produced in the
same counties during the previous
year.
Norman Lowell, chief of the largest
and wealthiest band of gypsies in this
country, died recently near Elizabeth
N. j. His wife, the queen, died in May
last, at the age of n hundred years.
Their eldest son will rule until next
spring, when there is to be a great
| gypsy council and a consolidation of
several bands under one head.-M. Y.
San.
"A well-dressed man was seen to
stare at a woman impudently, hail q
street-car imperiously, pay his fare con-
~descendingly seat himself fashionably,
and expectorate furiously. "Who is
that distinguished gentleman?" whis-
pered an awe-struck stranger to the
conductor. And the conductor re-
piled: "He is the j%anitor of a West
Side fat" - Cincinnati Travellers
Magazine.
"A Stamford dog which had been
used to drink at a certain trough found
it empty the other day, but a hose lying
close by. After evident consideration.
he picked up the hose in his mouth,
put the end in the trough, and waited
for the water to run. It is pleasant to-
know, that having got so far, there
was a witness who turned the stop
cock, so that the dogs hopes were
realized.-Hartford Courunt.
There's no use talking, I'm going
to get married." SAID a bachelor to a
married acquaintance the other day
while busily engaged in sewing. "Here
| have worked just twenty minutes by
the watch trying to get this needle
threaded, and then, just as succeeded,
| pulled the thread out. Finally 1 got
it threaded, and now, after sewing on
this button fast and strong, 1 find I've
got it on the wrong side, and [ have
my work all to do over again. IN. y.
Ledger.
"A travelling combination at a hotel
in one of the small Ohio towns left
word at the Office before retiring for a
general call at half past seven o'clock,
to enable the members to make the
next train for Cincinnati. The night
clerk was a son of ould Ireland, and
at half past five in the morning he
raped at the doors, awakening all Of
the company, saying: cit is half-past
five. I'm going off watch. You have
an hour and a half to sleep yet."-Czeve-
land Herald.
Europe and British India con-
sumo about 100000 gallons of hand
kerchief perfumes yearly. The Eng
lish revenue from eau de cologne is
$40, 900 annually, and the total revenue
of other perfumes is estimated at
5000, 900 annually. There is one per-
fume distillery at Cannes, in France,
which uses yearly 100, 900 pounds of
acacia flowers, 10000 pounds of rare
flower leaves, $4,000 pounds of jasmine
blossoms, 10000 of tuberose blossoms
and an immense quantity of other
material.-Sprsmqfed (Mass.) Repub-
lc0a1.
The use of arsenic is alarmingly
on the increase. The researches Of
DR.. Draper and Professors Wood and
Austen show that it is extensively en-
ployed in wall papers, textile fabrics,
WRITING and nrintinp nana. oond1oe