Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
"A Rondout IN. Y.,) man of small
stature gives as a reason for his stunted
growth that he was brought up, when
a baby, on condensed milk.
The Boston Transcript Y .tPub-
lie sentiment is awakening to the bar
barity of destroying birds for decora-
tive purposes. Large numbers of our
people, ladies and gentlemen, have
signed protests against this cruel prac-,
tice."
III the Treasury at Washington is
a rat catcher, q colored man, who has
a record of six hundred rats killed with
his bare hands. He has the knack of
grabbing the animal by the skin be-
tween the a and the jaw, and by a
sudden twist breaking its neck.-N,
Y. Sum.
The two little sons of the Widow
Harrison, of Georgetown County,
South Carolina, were wrestling in. the
woods, when a tree that was being cut
down fell and killed them both. This
happened while their mother was at
the bedside of her dying father.
An Atlanta COW fell into a deep
well on Sunday, and her owner was
unable to hoist her out, SO he brought
many loads of shavings from a neigh
boring planning mill and dumped them
into the we'll. AS fast as they fell the
COW trampled them under her feet, and
thus she came to the surface and
walked away.-Chicago Times.
"A sensational suicide occurred at
Kane, Pa. George Welker, son of the
proprietor of the Kane House, picked
up a revolver and asked how a fellow
did who committed suicide and with
the remark: ''Well, 1 guess Eli shoot
myself, placed the revolver to his head
and blew his brains out.-PiMsburgh
Post.
"A very interesting discovery is said
to have been made by the experts who
are now examining the collection of
papyri, consisting of many thousand
rolls, which were found at Ell Fayoum,
in Egypt, and were acquired by the
Archduke Banner. The experts declare
that among the relics are several auto
graph letters of the prophet Mahomet.
A Macon young lady is studying
medicine. A few months ago she was
studying law, and a few months pre-
ceding She was studying theology. OF
course the changes in her studies were
made as she discarded a preacher for a
lawyer. and then a lawyer for a physi-
clan. The signs Indicate that she will
soon be studying dudeology.-Macon
Telegraph.
The many individuals who persist
in reading by lamp or candle light
while they lie in bed and thereby neces-
state several times a year the calling
out of the fire department, may possibly
in the future indulge their literary habit
with perfect safety. An Italian claims
to have invented Il luminous printing
ink which will make it possible to read
newspapers or books inthe dark.-Chs-
cago Tribune.
"A gentleman was m winters day
looking in at the window of a print
shop when he felt some one at his
pocket. AS there was only one by
stander, he instantly turned round,
and, looking him full in the face, said:
"Your hand, sir, was in my pocket"
"Was, it, sir?" the other calmy replied.
81 really beg your pardon if it was; but
the weather is so very cold one is glad
to put ones hands anywhere!'-N Y.
Telegram.
The level of the Baltic sea is found
to differ considerably in various local
tiles, according to some minute re-
searches lately undertaken. Thus the
level in the north of the sea at Tornea,
in the Gulf of Bothnia, and Kronstadt,
in the Gulf of Finland, is more than
three feet higher than that of the
southern waters in the Bay of Kiel.
| Tho RI fororno &c o{frsb,,fal ,,,o;1,, -
the currents existing in the straits
which separate the continent from the
Scandinavian peninsula.
"A Maine fisherman, who used to
sail the Southern seas, reports that he
saw q sea-serpent the other day off
Wells. 1t was like one he once saw in
the Caribbean Sea, except that it has
grown considerably. 1t held it's head.
the size of a barrel, high in the air; its
eyes, as big as saucers, cleaned with a
marvellous light, and its huge, open
mouth was armed with triple row
of teeth. The paper that reports this
says the old saltis not addicted to drink
Boston Journal. +
AS the Boston Transcript learns,
yankee Doodle probably came from
Holland, where Il song with the follow
ing burden has long been in use among
the laborers in harvest time, when they
receive as much buttcrmilk as they can
drink and a tenth of the grain har-
vested:
Tanker didel. doodel doun, |
Didel. dudel lanter, !
Yanke viver vooyer vown, ,
Buttcrmilk and tanther.
The tune was known in New En-
gland before the Revolution as Lydia
Fishers Jig"