Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-10-02

The temples in Dahomey are al.
most entirely built of human skulls.
Chill pays a bounty of five dollars
q head for the scalps of condors, bu,
the birds are SO sly that it does not pay
to hunt them.
"A rock altar, with steps battered
and weatherworn. has recently been
discovered near Zorah, the home OF
ManOah, the father of Samson.
The pavilion of Henry w., at St.
German, has been turned into a res.
taurant, and people dine in the very
in which Louis NV. was born.
The little town of Battcnbere,
from which the husband of Princess
Beatrice and his brothers derive their
title, has been part of the Prussian ter
ritory nearly nineteen years.
An invention which will be Of
great service has just been patented by
MI. Crammond. of Belfast. 1t shields
the wheels of train cars so as to pre-
vent the possibility of injury to any
person from falling between them.
Though simple, it fultills the purpose.
Including women and children
whose livelihood depends upon the es-
Enlistment, there is in the Krupp iron
works, at Essen, q working-class popu-
latlon of not fewer than G5, 3Sl persons,
OF whom nearly $4,000 live in houses
owned by the works.
The Arabs made a pyramid of the
skulls of Hicks unfortunate command.
which persisted in the Soudan before
Gordon went there. OF this expedition
TO-, 600 soldiers, including 1000 caval-
ry, persisted. and 1000, 900 rounds of
Remington ammunition, seven Krupp,
six N%ordenfelt and Twenty-Five noun
tain guns were captured.
"A %patriarchal couple living in the
south OF France have hadltwenty-seven
children. Of whom twenty-five arc Iiv-
ing. and three are serving in the army
in 1%'onquin. The father and mother,
aged respectively seventy-three and
sixty-eight, cultivate a farm, aided by
six other sons. OF their twenty-scyen
children, twenty-one were bows.
Ont of 500 members of the House
of Lords no less than 44O are landlords
in the fullest sense of the term; that is,
they derive the whole Or greater part of
their revenues from land. Fifteen mil
lion acres of land. with an annual rent
roll OF Els 900. coo, represents their
property and income, while another
$3.50, O00 in the shape Of pensions. an
%nuities, and salaries also falls annually
to the lot Of this privileged class.
Last aatumr a bookseller named
Meyer, of Ronneberg. tied q wateY-
proof label under the wing of a swal-.
low which had occupied a nest at hrs
house and had become comparatively
familiar. On it he wrote a query in
German to the. effect that he would like
to Know where the swallow would pass
the winter. The bird returned 10, its
former nest bearing al exchange label
similarly fastened saying. in Grrman.
al %: In Florence; at Castelar, house,
and bear many salutations."
Among the fints Of chalk formation
is occasionally found Gaae that emits a
clear naasical sound when struck with
another flint A F%rencAman has just
succeeded in making Is piano ttom
these musical stones. The tlint1 are
suspended by wires above a sounding
board, ard are played by two other
t1ints. The stoneSo of the piano nrpMber
t%wenty-si3, forming, two chromatic oc-
taves. and were callectad with much
patient labor, during q period of more
than thirty years. There seems no. be
go relation between. the sizes CT the
stones and their tono4.