Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-26
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Canadian waters.
NJ. PAsTEuR's latest notion is the compul-
sorry incubation of alldogs.
WHAT is the difference between money
and a monkey! The letter h., of course.
THERE is a movement among the Cincin-
natl BARRIERS to close their shops on Sunday.
LIEUTENANT GREE1l's book, Three Years
of Arctic Travel, will be published this
month.
THE New York Journal calls for a poetry
match, the prize to be a silver waste
basket. -.
The favorite music of President Cleve-
land is "Auld Lang Syne'' and the Mock
ing Bird"
FIVE hundred million dollars worth Of
eggs and poultry are eaten annually in the
United States.
THE amount of cutlery and edged tools
produced in this country is about Sl5.OW,-
600 per n
A CINCINNATI woman died a few days
ago, who had for months drank five pints
of bad whisky daily.
THE Episcopal clergymen of New York
consider cremation a ''barbarous way of
disposing of b edead."
FRANK JAMES states that he does not be-
lieve that Governor Crittenden was privy
to the killing of Jesse.
IT is said that English sparrows make
the best of eating and are dainties of the
first order when made into pie.
GENERAL SHERMAN thinks that every girl
i'll St. Louis should attend the meeting of
the National Sugar Association.
THE Prussian Government has submitted
to the Bundesrath a bill to prolong the.
anti-Socialist law for five years. :
THE National encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic will be held in San
Francisco, Tuesday, August 3, 1856. :
IT is said that two hundred patents have,
been granted for machines to polish low.
grade coffee and make it look like the best.
street, Los Angeles, Cal, historical land
marks, are being torn up by the street
graders.
SHOULD the Mormons decide to elnigrate
to the Sandwich Islands sandwich jokes
will then be in order by the press of this
country.
OUT in Oregon they catch wild geese by
inebriating them with corn soaked in alco-
hol and scattered on the field where the
birds feed.
THREE Vice Presidents of the United
States, Gerry, Wilson and Hendricks, have
died in office, all dying in the month of
November.
THE Medical Record estimates that one
half the men above the age of thirty years
of American birth living in our cities are
bald-headed.
THE London Lancet says that eff a man
can keep his teeth until after middle age he
may generally count on keeping them to
the end of his life" .
PROBABLY the Oldest minister in the world
is Thomas Tenant, of Vineyard Township,
Arkansas. He was born in 1771. He is an
itinerant Methodist minister.
SENATOR JOHN A. LOGAN has a son-in-lnw
named Tucker and Congressman Tucker
has a son-in-law named Logan, and they.
are always getting mixed up.
The Department of State has directed
an investigation to be made of the circum-
stances attending the killing of Captain
Crawford by Mexican troops.
YALE COLLEGE has officially declared
that it wants no women students in the
law department, and will issue no diplomas
to them under any circumstances.
BELGIUM, one Of the smallest powers in
Europe, is the most densely populated
country in the world, more than sixty per
cent of the whole being under the most ex-
haustive cultivation.
This winter is a discouraging one for the
ice-men. TIL heavy crop chat is being
piled in the i%ce-houses on top of that left
over from last year., insures cheap prices
during next summer.
MISS MARY J.. HANRAnAN has been APP
pointed by Judge Wilson, of Clarion
County, Pa, as %apermanent court tipstaff.
She is said to be the first and only female
tipstaffin Pennsylvania.
THE Mormons are reported to lave a pro-
ject to buy land and settle in the Sandwich
Islands. 1t would be a matter of economy
for the United States to encourage them by
bearing part Of the expense.
A YOUNG lady named Love visited the
Presidents mansion a few days ago, and
SOM one made the remark, Glove in the
White House," hence the rumor that the
President is about to be married.
FRANCE, with an available territory of
only 9s,4Go square miles, realizes more than
s20O,0O0,000 annually from her poultry,
shipping large quantities to England, where
the demand is far less than the supply.
THE suggestion is made that bottles con-
taining citrate of silver be slowed awayin
ships boats. Seven ounces of the citrate
will, it is said, turn enough sea water into
drinking water to supply a man for a week.
THE Philadelphia Herald says there is
hut one way to keep the girls away from
the skating Kinks. just start the story
that skating makes the feet grow big, and
not a solitary female will ever be seen at a
rink.
JUNGLE REMus,'' (Joel Chandler Harrisy
who writes funny articles in the negro
dialect, is himself of African birth, having
been born in the northeast of Africa while
his parents were engaged in Missionary
work there.
The President has presented gold watches
to Captain f. NJ. Hughes and Second Off
Ger Edward V. Roberts, of the British
steamship Lord Cough, for rescuing the
crew of the American schooner Chaptra in
Dncnmhar last,