Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-04
MISCELLANEOUS

Pug dogsare no longerth the fashion
and the poor, discarded creatures
about with an injured innocence cas-, 80
c~onntenance, as if realizing the trrv VI
of the remark that lone might as w us@
be out of the world as out of the fash
ion. "-Micago Journal.
-Lightningcut up curious Gamer -,
Gently at L~awrenceville, Ga. The c1ao
trio fluid struck asmall treein the orare
yard at that place and circled aroma
it until it reached the ground, when IL
scooped the earth from a grave down
to the coffin and promiscuously Seal.
tered the bones on top of the ground.
-~Pcnsacola, Fla, is a great fisbinc
mart, being exceptionally we'll situated
for the trade. AS many as $500 fsbNN
ermen make It their market. By mean.
of refrigerator cars their catches ars
SEM to all parts of the country. 'rho
trade at present is worth S5OoM
and is increasing at the rate of 1ftv
per cent annually.
An amusing incident happened
when the band of the Seventh New
York regiment was serenading General
Sheridan lately, In one of the pauses
of music a loud voice said: SHERIDAN
twenty miles away" Immediatelv
the whole two hundred of the Sew.
cnth's boys who were in front of III.
house shouted in chorus; .%'But-he-sot.
therc-all-the-same." Washimgton Pos.
A new kind of beggar is loose on
the streets of New York. He sat on q
dirt pile and repeated with great unc.
ton: "Sirius, Orion, Jupiter, the
Great Bear, Venus, Mars, Gemini,"
ETC., until he had gone through the list
of stars, planets and consultations.
Then he began in scripture, and ran
along: "Moses. Ezekiel, Solomon, Ben
;amin, Peter, Elijah, Noah, Aaron"
and so on indefinitcly.-M. Y. San.
During the season of 1885 there
were packed in New York State factor
les 2,464, 800 ans of tomatoes, an in
cas- over 1884 of over twenty-six per
cent. This places New York third in
the list of tomato-picking States, New
Jersey being first and Maryland Sec
ond. The total pack of the United
States for the season of 1885 was
s4,416, 900 cans.-Troy Times.
AT a recent meeting of the Paris
Academy of Sciences some remarks on
the danger of fire arising from the use
of nitric acid in the manufacture of
certain industrial objects, and espe-
cially of explosive substances, such as
gun-cotton and dynamite, were made
by nj. G. Lccharticr. Several instances
are mentioned of straw and other Or
ganic substances when heated, and
even at a low temperature, taking fire
by accidental contact with this acid.
"A curious suit has recently been
settled in Wilkes County, Georgia. The
case was that Of Mr.. Barksdale against
Mr.. Anderson. Mr.. Barksdale claimed
that the backwater from Anderson's
mill-pond had greatly injured his bot
tomland above, and suit was instituted
for the recovery of damages. A yer.
dict of $500 was given in the Superior
Court and the case was carried to tho
Supreme Court, which sustained the
verdict.
"A new arrival at Castle Garden re-
fused employment as a coachman, be.
cause he had not come three thousand
miles to be a servant. When asked
what he wanted he said he had con
out, sure, to be a plumber, for, in
coorse, he didn't know anything about
plumbing, 'but they write home to say
to send out all the men they can, as tho
plumbers in New York make fortunes"
In a few months he will probably &C.
yertise to do sanitary plumbing.-M Y.
Tribune.
1--WE submit" says the New Haven
NcOs, "that a dead bird is not a good
decoration for a hat. 1t is not in good
taste, to say the least, and, a v that
the present fashion blinds the eye Of
many, no n would think for an in
slant that it was in any way seemly to
put a stuffed songster on a bonnet. It
ought to make any %deccntly sensitive
person ashamed of his race to consider
this illustration of how far the vanity
OF fashion can make respectable people
forget their W primitive instincts Of
humanity.