Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-28
scELLANEous

Fifty American dairy cows wor,
Gently shipped from San Francisce
China. 70
"A kennel or a large scale is
! started IN Nashville, Tenn. by hns;oo DC
men of that city. 1t is intended 'ess
breed all sorts Of pure strained fan to
animals. A speciality will be made Lucy y
mastitfs. VI
Newport will gain yearly five tho,
sand dollars in taxes alone from t%'
| estate of Alfred Smith, who has fou .ne
long q time had his property ret,rna ~
to the assessors as four hundred they
| sand dollars, when, after he recenI-
became insane, it was found to amo,,n.
to at least two million dollars. s
At the foot of Main street in M.
bury. Conn. stands a house built hr
Elnathan Osborn in 1896. 1t is a low
hip-roofed house, studded with enor
nous beams and lighted by very sman
diamond window-panes. When tha
British under Tryon fired the vi)}aao
this wasthe only house spared.-Boaou
Post.
"A foreign violinist, Ti,nothee Al. |
amoski, is the latest celebrity in Boston
but the Philadelphia Press r]ecoenizo,
in the Russian name of the virtues
one Tim Adams, "who used to play tbo
fiddle at corn huskings on Bcrgo Grepl, |
away back in the sixties" Boston Is !
behind Philadelphia in rural reminjs.
cences Chicago Sun.
An Italian professor wishing to find
out whether the miasma of malaria
existed in the dew and soil, expert /
mented on himself by having infusiops
of dew and soil collected from unhealth.
full places injected under his skin. He
experienced no evil results. He and
his friends made tifty-two similar cx-
perimcnts without harm.
Il recently heard a conversation
which actually took place in our store,
and which, i think, will interest your
readers in these days when we are
hearing SO much about bribery. A gen.
tleman who was known to be engaged
in lobbying a bill. in which he was per.
sonally interested, through the Board
Of Aldermen, was asked: swell. did
you persuade them to pass your bill?'
''Yes," said he, pulling out his pocket
book, 81 p~urse-swayed them."-N. ~
| Ledger.
DIR. z. j. Westford, of Middletown,
N. Y, has an interesting relic of thd
Harrison log-cabin'' and ''hard cider
campaign of 1910. 1t is a silk badge
bearing the portrait of Harrison, thd
Wing candidate, with a record Of hi
birth and the successful battles nd
fought-Maumce, Fort Mcigs, Thames
Tippecanoe, etc. There is a picture o.
a log cabin and a man blowing, ove]
which is the inscription: 1--WE will
take him from the plow."-N Y. 7riJ
une.
Specimens of Il curious water bu|
have been exhibited recently in Wash
ington. They live principally in waite
and on aquatic larva, insects, youn
fish and, probably, fish. eggs. Pro
Riley says that one of them killed
goldfish as soon as it was put in til
same aquarium. Their sting is poison
GUS, though perhaps not deadly to thu
human body. They conceal then
selves in crevices during the wints
and live in a torpid state till war;
weather, when they leave their qual
tiers and fly to considerable distance
usually during the night and rarely b
fore June or July.
A young lady recently told u
says the Conyers, (Ga.) Weekly, Of
young MAJ in town who always WRIT
off and commits to memory what
aims to say to a young lady when
calls upon her. This plan seems
have worked very well until !
Gently, when in the very midst OF q
most important part of his speech
memory proved treacherous. and
had to draw his paper and refresh hq
self. At another time, not thinking
he used the name of another youl
lady, to whom he had just been reel
ing the same piece. all the way throua
the entire evenings recitation.
In 1885 there were fifteen inhaa
tants to the square mile in Kansas,
Il population of 1858, 562. The valu
ton of the property of the State
$3.50, 900. 900. The expenditures +
school purposes in 1885 amounted
S 2,259,479. There is a reserve pub
school fund amounting So, 800, 000.M
a million acres of lands, yet unso1
destined to increase this fund to 81
600, 900. There is Il State University
State Normal School, and a State 4
ricultural College. Kansas possess e
a larger number Of cultivable aa b
relatively than any other State in =
Union. After the civil war l@'y !"
soldiers established homes in this sa q
AN INGENIOUS CLOCK. = =
The Complicated Timc-Pfece Construe di
by an Indian Firm.