Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-02-19
CURRENT TOPICS.

IHE LOnQOn ponce are Ouce HloIe Wa1Su
ing for dynamiters.
THE New Orleans Exposition is financial
ly embarrassed again.
OuIDA's English publishers give her $1,000
for every book she writes.
ONLY one Minnesotian has ever sat in the
Legislature of Minnesota.
MIR. STURGEON is convalescing, and will
resume his labors in February.
THE boy member of the Ohio Legislature
is John A. Fimple, aged tw%enty-six.
Ex-QuEEN ISABELLA, of Spain, is said to
be a shareholder in the Kelley moter.
THE late Mr.. j. B.. Lippincott, of Phila-
delphia, is said to lave been worth s20,000,-
600.
DIVORCE cases in Lane County. Oregon,
outnumbered marriages nine to one last
year.
, WHEELING, w. VA, is said to have the
handsomest female postal clerk in the
service.
SENATOR LELAND STANFORD gets about
twenty-five begging letters every day of
his life.
LIE Wlle VI liz OdpuueSc liils l Soiu
to be the most expert needle woman in
Washington.
LONDON is supplied with water by eight
stock companies, which received 1885, 2S5
rental in 1883.
THE periodical with the largest circula-
tion in Great Britain is Lloyd's Weekly-
$500 0 per week.
cy-1>nr< oo,,o 41ek T1l, EcoIx, %1n
end of his nose While q Brooklyn barber
was shaving him.
Mrs. HENDRICKS is putting her husbands
papers in shape for his b%iographer, who is
still to be selected.
COLUMBUS, MISS, has an ordinance which
prohibits more than two persons walking
abreast in the street.
Tai number of passengers hurt on the
railways of Connecticut last year was less
than one in a million.
The drinking of unlimited quantities Of
tea, is said by NJ. German See, of Paris,
will reduce corpulency.
THE unpleasantness between the Presi-
dent and the U. S. Senate concerning APP
pointments continues.
LOUIS MICHEL announces that she is going
to Russia and "plunge headlong into an
iarchism." Poor Gear!
THE English language is spoken by 1OO,-
900, 900 people, the French by 45, OO0, 900 and
the German by 60, 100000
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has started an insurance or relief depart
ment for the benefit of employees.
EVERY Indian in the countfy-man,
woman and child-has on an average five
hundred and thirty acres of land.
I A MACHINE which melts snow as fast as
Fifteen men can shovel it has been success
fully tried on the streets of New York.
AN electrical furnace for reducing refrac-
tory ores has been devised by Professor I.
Stcrry Hunt, the eminent Canadian ply
sicist.
THE post-office department. will soon
issue a stamped letter-sheet, combining q
letter-sheet and envelopes great con-
v%enience.
A ST. LOUIS paper remarks that though
there are about 365 murders a year in that
city, there is only one execution in the
same time.
THE police reports of Philadelphia show
that during the year 1885 'six thousand
front doors were found open and the fami-
dies retired"
Mrs. MoRos1rI-ScHILLING complains
that she is annoyed by silly dudes who
write her love letters asking her to fly! fly!
fly! with them.
a New YoRK firm is competing with a
London house for the job of constructing
an organ with nearly ten thousand pipes.
and costing 100000.
LIE two richest men in Russia are the
Noble brothers, who are estimated to be
worth $500, 100000. They made it all in
coal oil and in oil lands.
lie craze has gone so far that Washing
tonsociety has what are known as "Yum
Yum teas" Meanwhile cold teas are still
excluded from the Capitol.
JOSEPH L1LLEY, the oldest exhibited
States Senator, finished his n%inety-fifth
year heartily and in happiness at Noting
ham, N. H., a few days ago.
The late famous Colonel Burnaby left
the manuscript of a novel, but his Chi
'ography is undecipherable, and no expert
has yet succeeded in making it out.
A o~NE-HoRsE power engine would keep
H.OW,OO0 watches going, so says La Ma
tire, and yet jewelers. ask as much for one
good watch as would buy a good horse.
FRANCIS MURPHY and his son, working to
reclaim men from drunkenness, have tied
the blue ribbon on twenty-five thousand
persons in Cleveland, O., during the last
two months.
DROPPING a hot chestnut down a fellows
back inside his clothes may still be very
funny, but is an old joke. So thought a
Western cowboy, who shot q barber for
practicing it.
TIE use of gypsum, with the view of pre-
venting the escape of ammonia from farm
yard manures, is now discouraged; and it
is asserted plaster OF anything like chalk
and mari stimulates the escape.
A JAPANESE inventor has succeeded in
making paper from sea-seed. 1t is thick in
texture, and SO translucent that it can be
substituted for glass in windows. When
colorcd it makes an excellent imitation of
stained glass.
SEVERAL physicians having reported to
the British Medical Journal cases of chill
dren whose weight at birth was only three
pounds or thereabout, a practitioner with
Il long memory refers them back to the
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