Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-26

A WICKED exchange says there is n
streak of consolation in marrying a girl
with a squint. You never need to fear
her daring you to look her square in the
face when you are explaining how it
happensthat you arc late from your
club.
THE best way to stop the carrying of
firearms is suggested blythe New Or
leans Christian Adcocatc. Everybody
is TO be allowed to carry arms, but
every pistol must be three feet long and
worn openly. Wearing short pistols is
to be punished by a fine of $1,000.
SEVERAL entcrprising citizens OF
Illinois have been doing a rushing bus
incss in the way of wolf scalps. The
State, in order to encourage hunting
and discourage wolves, offers a reward
of ten dollars for the staying of each OF
these ayowed enemies of she%ep-raising.
TuE late freeze in Florida has de-
vcloped chat the orange tree stands a
greater degree of cold than it has hither-
to been credited with. Although the
Rcavcs were killed the trees themselves
slavc not been injured, and they are
preparing for a large crop of the deli
cious fytit this coming fall.
PMt,ApELPH1ANs have set on foot a
movement to mark the spot or the bat
elc-Gcld of Gettysburg whore General
Hancock was wounded. The plan is to
erect q granite bowlder upon the spot
with & simple inscription recording the
fact chat at this point Hancock was
svoandcd on che Sd day of July. 1863.
THERE is, or was recently, living in
Green County, Ga. aman who. accord
ing to the Greensborough Herald, could
r,sssss, Himself heard distinctly at a dis
sance of five miles. He might hire HIM
self out as a telephone exchange
In Mdiataa now that the regular hello
companies are withdrawing from the
State.
IHE statement is made that all the
varied machinery of Great Britain now
operated by steam power is capable of
performing more work, and hence Of
creating more products than could be
E,roa'accd by the labor of four hundred
million able-bodied men, a greater
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the earth.
Ins largest plate-glass window in
NhM couatry was put UP recently in
HreaS.yay, New York. 1t is pure
i&'rcnch plate. manufactured at Vitry,
and was rolled to order. Its height is
'&f.Atccn feet eleven inches, breadth
foot four inches and thickness one
;ah4,a half inch. 1t is insured for its
sSujt s,@lne.
The city Of Philadelphia has deter.
'hincd TO get rid of her gas works by
selling the entire plant to the highest
bidder. The ordinance for the sale pro-
s'idcs for a minimum bid of Sis, 900, 900.
III requires the purchasers to maintain
the works in an efficient condition and
to make such improvements and add.
Sions as may be reasonably required.
lit is said that Governor Seymour set
tE1cd the question of a monument for
himself ten years ago by selecting a
large bowlder in its natural state as the
only thing which he wished to mark his
grave. The stone is of granite, nearly
six feet long, two feet wide and e little
.cyer n foot thick. 1t will be polished
II side. and, whom suitably in.
:sctis@d, it will be placed over his re.
.?nainS.
HERE orc four thousand offices to be
aiilcd by the President with the advice
and consent Of the Senate. Out of this
'ann1fee1' tho President has suspended
'S43. and about 1900 offices have become
vacant by death, resignation or expira-
zion of terms. In the States of Mary.
land and Connecticut there have been
no removals, and in many Of the South
ern States very few. In Georgia there
have been but six.
IHE population of London now ex.
every other city, ancient or mod
in the world. New York and all
adjacent cities combined are not
taquM TO two-thirds of it. Scotland,
Switzerland and the Austrian colonies
saaeia contain fewer souls. while Norway,
Ssicrtias Greece and Denmark have
scarcely half 81 many. Yot at the be-
ginning of the present century the pop
u!ation of all London did not reach one
million.
hr the meeting of the Washington
Monument Society Colonel Casey made
some very interesting statements. On
every bright day the apex of the monu-
moves at least,one inch westward
MA nsRe aaorning when the suns rays first
San epon it, and eastward again in the
Afternoon when the sun reaches
the western side. The heat of the sun