Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-16
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Paris is to have an international ex-
hibition of railroad inventions and app
planes next year.
Italian railroads, it is said, reduce
the fares of all dog-bitten persons who
go to consult Pasteur, at Paris.
"A London restaurant keeper paid
$4,000 for the privilege of catering at
the Colonial Exhibition now in prog
ress.
"A mass of lead in an elevated fur
mace in Paris was completely d%issipated
by a stroke of lightning, no trace of the
metal beingfound a%fterward.
"A French Anti-Tobacco Society
offers a prize of scooter an essay on the
effect of smoking on the health of liter
airy men and its probable ultimate re-
suits upon French literature.
"A witty woman of Paris says that it
is more difficult for a woman to make
excuses for her beauty among other
women. when she is really beautiful,
than for a plain woman to find favor
among the men.
"A peculiar Partisan fashion which
hrs grown rapidly within the past few
years is the custom for women to go
bareheaded out of doors. The cap once
worn by the laboring woman is now
rarely seen.
The housewives of Norway make
their common flat bread largely of the
powdered branches of the young pine,
not so much to save flour as to secure a
light loaf. The bark proves to be not
only nutritious, but actually injuri-
Gus, and is now being denounced by
medical men.
An Irish journalist in London
dressed himself in blue and gold livery,
with q pair of green spectacles, and
spent two hours with the clown in the
sawdust at the circus performance given
before the Queen. He wanted to tell
how the Queen acted on such an occa-
sion.
-Mauna Loa, the Hawaiian volcano,
is situated on the southern slope of the
Mauno Loa mountain, some several
thousand feet below the apex. The crater
proper is nine miles in circumference
and about six hundred feet deep. The
floor of this crater is covered with black
lava, and every few weeks or months it
receives a new coating.
What is the value of a flea? Ac-
cording to Professor Erbini, who owns
those marvellous insects now perform
ing at the Exchange Rooms in London,
the highly trained Russian "pulex irri-
tans' is valued at S125-at least that is
the sum offered by the professor for the
recovery of a missing member of his
troupe that plays ''leading business"
On an average each inhabitant of
London consumes each year thirty-two
times as much fish as each i~nhabitant of
Berlin. and Paris consumes more fish
than the whole of the German Empire.
Efforts are now being made to popularize
the eating of fish in Germany. 10 bring
this about, a German paper suggests
that fish be made into sausages.
"A woman has Just died at the ace
of n hundred and twenty-five, in a St.
Petersburg almshouse, where she had
spent the last seventy years of her life,
during which period she had never once
been seriously i'll. She could see quite
well up to the last, her eyes presenting
no trace of atrophy so common with
aged persons. Her memory and in
telligence were also unimpaired at the
time of her death. The same institution
possesses another inmate, a soldiers
wife, who, on being admitted about two
months ago, presented her papers to the
managers which certified that she is
now n hundred and ten years old.