Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-08
GENERAL.

Straw pressed into blocks Is 4 new
fuel in Dakota.
"A rat that climbs trees like a SOUR.
rel has been discovered in California.
Ten thousand barrels of apples.
shipped from New York, were sold in
Liverpool at q profit of 500, oo0.-N r
Sun.
The last gastronomic novelty in
| Paris is roast monkey, which is said ia
resemble a cross between hare and
pheasant.
-AJapanese missionary says children
| are better cared for there than in any
other country. He calls it the children'ys
paradise.
A New York railroad company has
| paid 81, 800 as damages to the owner of
| q violin, which was damaged on one of
the company's trains.
The indications of the coming log
crop on the several rivers of the Lake
Superior region point to 6,000,O 900 feet
more than was cut last winter.
In a Western town a handsome
| young man was discovered TO be a wom-.
an, and q local paper heads an item in,
reference to it "a Good Man Gone"
"A town named s.Ball Ground'' in
| Georgia was SO called because it was
once the place where thousands of In
dams met yearly for athletic contests.
"A woman at Sutton, Neb., has OBJ
tanned q verdict of 50, 800 against a sa-
loon-keeper for causing the death Of her
husband by selling him intoxicating
liquor.
Anaconda, in Montana, is n of
the wonders of the West. Two years
ago there was nothing there. Now they
have a city numbering 1000 inhabitants.
Chicago Herald.
-Surgeon-General Cornish, in the
Indian Medical Gazette, urges the pro-
priety of using condemned criminals
for the purpose of testing certain mooted
points in the pathology of cholera.
ALI doctors agree that to enjoy good
health the mind must be kept in a cheer
full condition; but no doctor can give a
man points that will make him joyous
when his collar don't ft.-OI CITY Der
rick.
"A poet says: s'There is always sun.
rise somewhere" This is comforting.
To n who is just going to bed there
comes the happy consolation that some-
body has to get up and 60 to work.
american Hebrew.
Mr.. j. D. Cation writes to the Amer
scan Naturalist that at Santa Clara Col
lege, in the San Jose Valley, a 170-foot
a~rtcsian we'll is flowing, from which are
discharged sightless fishes from one to
two inches in length.
About $4,000, 900 eggs were ex-
ported from Ancona, Italy, to England
last year. To carry them 500 railway
trucks of ten tons each were EN-
ployed. The price varied from G1 10,
to IS los per 1000.
A Japanese court has established a
dangerous precedent by tining an editor
twenty-scven yen for neglecting to ac-
knowledge the source of extracts culled
from contemporaries. Such a rule in
this country would bankrupt scores OF
papers.-N. Y. Post.
Luminous paint is now used in
some railway coaches in England. The
interior is lined with glass, the back of
which is treated with the pant. The
result is, that the tunnels on the roads
over which these cars travel have lost
much of their charm. Chicago Current.
Since one of the Lowell (Mass.)
corporations made it optional with their
employees to receive their pay weekly or
monthly, the number asking for weekly
payments has been only . small proper
ton of the list of workers, and has
steadily diminished since.-Boston Jour-
nal.
"A boy in Cleveland fell from a tree
and dislocated his neck. A surgeon
was sent for, who replaced the disjoint-
ed vertebr@ 50 skillfully that the boy re-
covered, and is to-day as we'll as cver
This operation has been frequently at
tempted, but very seldom with success.
-Cleueland Leader.
just now the ingenuity of mechani-
cal engineers all over the world seems
to be occupied, to a great extent at least,
in trying to devise something to take the
place of the steam engine. Electricity
is looked upon as the most promising
agent, but certain inventors hope even
to improve upon that.-N. Y. Tribune.
One of the unexplained phenomena
OF nature is the sudden and spontaneous
growth of the mushroom. A resident
of Portland, Ore, one morning a short
time ago discovered in his dooryard a
large and beautiful specimen of this
mysterious fungus, which had sprung
up during the night. 1t measured
twenty-four inches in circumference and
weighed one and one-half pounds.
-Umatillo County, Oregon, has an
organization of a vigilance committee
of over a hundred men determined to
rid the county of gamblers and stock
thieves. The committee is well-armed
and mounted. They r~endezvoused at
Pcndleton recently, and gave notice to
several hard characters to leave the
county within twcnty-four-hours. Seven
persons were escorted to the train and
ordered to leave and never RETURN
Chicago Times.
Some funny people travel on the
cars was the observation of the Rock
Island candy man; 'the other day 1
went through one Of the suburban trains
selling chocolate drops. One old lady
bought a package and when l came back
that way she jumped at me as if l had
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