Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-15
CURRENT TOPICS.
/. PAsrEuR.s father was a tanner.

vested IN cooperative stores.
CoLoR1D men have organized IN oyster
packing company at Annapolis.
Z CHRISTMAS DAY seems to have made a
tbloody record all over the country.
SENATOR STANFORD has subscribed 5000
ito the Zion Wesleyan College Of North Caro-
Limo.
SENATOR HALE, it is said, submits drafts
of all speeches to his wife before delivering
them.
THE Sultan Of Turkey, owing to hard
times, has reduced the number of his wives
to $50.
THE eldest daughter Of Mrs. Kate Chase
itformerly Mrs. Sprague), is preparing for
the stage.
THE total amount of mileage paid to
Senators and Representatives in Congress
is s143 600.
GERT1R REvIN, q Westmoreland County
Pa, girl, sent President Cleveland a Christ
mas turkey.
THE fruit trees in Santa Barbara are be-
ing dug up and English walnuts planted in
their stead.
No fewer than $50, 900 cattle chew the cud
on ex-senator Dorsey's ranch in Colfax
County, N. NJ.
A NEVADA man has raised three kittens
that he obtained from the nest of a wild cat
that he had killed.
MORMON who was accidentally killed in
Utah the other day left sixty-seven child
ren to mourn his loss.
RECENT discoveries prove that the art of
wood e%ngravings originated with the Arabs
about the ninth century.
From $4,000 to $1,000 people cross the
Brooklyn Bridge every day in the cars,
while about IL 1000 walk over.
THE late John Landon Sibley, Librarian
of Harvard, courted his sweetheart for
twenty years before he married her.
EDITOR CH1LDs, of the Philadelphia Led
ger, is estimated to be worth S5,OO0,0o0. And
he is as generous and noble as he is wealthy.
IT has been decided to admit the new
words "bulldozing, - 'fboycott' and sdude"
into the new edition of Webster's Diction-
!ary.
PLAQUES on which is a snow scene, includ-
ling a church with a real clock in the tower,
were among the newest exhibits of the holi-
days.
. A RUSTIC visitor to Burlington, VT, spent
Thanksgiving Day on the horse railway,
making the trip Of four miles twenty-five
times.
THE Illinois militia will be consolidated
into six regiments of infantry, one bat
is5alion of cavalry and two batteries of ar
'tillery.
i sured his life for $4,000, the other day, in
4 hnha1f nf t1c rsn,,3e 1-l kL1- ~@-nr
lsuicide.
~ TALL ladies who don't like their height
may console themselves with the fact that
the handsomest woman in Italy stands
NEARLY feet high.
FERDINAND WARD has changed his local
sity and not his business. He is still en-
gagged in keeping the ~books-this time for
the Sing Sing contractors.
C~oMMoDcRR V~ANDERDILT's sound advice
to his son William was: "Don't you ever
sell anything you haven't got, nor buy
anything you can'tpay for"
THE demand for copies of the Presidents
message exceeds that for any former Presi-
Dental message. A fourth edition has been
printed, and a fifth is contemplated.
TaE value of the pig iron produced in
this country during the past year was over
z 100000 or nearly the value of the out
put of both the gold and the silver mines.
NJ is a common thing among the people
OF Dutch Guiana to inocculate themselves
with snake poison to guard against the
bites of poisonous serpents that infest that
country.
CREMATION will soon be practiced in the
Pere La Chaise Cemetery, Paris. The CITY
has just given a contract for the erection
'of a building with apparatus for the in
scineration of bodies.
IT is stated in consequence of the net
Treasury balance increasing by above ST.
0OO,0O0 in December, Secretary Manning
'contemplates making a call Tor three per
cent. bonds in January.
LORD CHARLES THYME, uncle of the
Marquis of Bath, was a priest and canon of
Canterbury Cathedral. He resigned his
preferment in 1852 and now, in his I'D year,
has entered the Catholic priesthood.
NINETY cigars in two hours was the test of
"a record by an Orlando (Cal.) man who en-
sdeavored to smoke himself into fame and
some cash. It is said that he lost only
on the ninetieth cigar, which sickened him.
IT is understood to be Queen victoria's
pleasure that the jubilee of her reign should
not be celebrated until the completion of
fifty years from her ascension. That
period will be accomplished on June 20.
1857.
1T is believed that in ten years Yankton,
d.. T., will be an inland town. In front of
the city, where the river ran twenty feet
deep five years ago, there are now one hun
'dred acres of land six feet above high water
mark.
Ex-senator DAv1D DAVIS is reported to
have prepared a volume of memoirs, to be
published after his death, in which he
makes some interesting revelations regard
ing various public p~ersonages in and out of
Congress.
PRESIDENT SEELYE, of Amherst College,
says that if girls would run every day they
would never die of consumption.
Mr.. JAMES H.. SHIELDS, formerly con-
nected with the Ford Plate-glass Company,
of Jeffersonville, Ind, has organized a
company to start plate-glass works at
Butler, Pa These will be the eighth in the
United States.
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