Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-03-22

THE HERALD.
BY BLANK & BLANK.
WASHINGTON SPRINGS, DAKOTA,
90 En- not h in 1a1 'a ass'n''
A YOUNG man died in La Grande,
Oregon. recently from the effects of
over-exertion in dancing.
A sTEEL-sCREw company with capt.
tai stock of $1,000, 900 is soon to open a
factory at Lima, o. The company will
employ 1000 men.
In Rev. Mr.. Surgeons library is the
precious copy of one of the sermons
which was found in DR.. Livingston's
box, in Africa, after the explorers
death.
FIVE years ago good specimen of a
mummy could be obtained in Alexan-
dria for 3d. The price has now adj
vanced to SIS, with 81 extra for real
old veteran.
IT is reported that large number OF
cruciform tablets in the Hittite language
have been received at Berlin, and that
the problem of the Hittite inscriptions
has at last been solved.
MAX O'RELL must have made his
point of observation from Missouri In
his new book Jonathan and His Cont
nent.@ he says: THE population in the
United States is sixty millions-mostly
colonels."
A Nova SCOTIA paper states that
Joseph Palmer, who lives at River
John, Pictou, will be 1Os years old if
he lives till next May. He is an En-
gishman by birth. His faculties are
we'll preserved
A RUSSIAN officer who has made a
tour of observation through India, con-
cludes that English rule there is far
from tottering to it's fall. 1t has struck
out SO many deep roots that to disturb,
it would be no easy task"
MAJ. WILLIS, of Charleston, has made
collection of the teeth of 24O different
species of the shark family, and it is no
wonder that when sailor goes over
board in mid-ocean he figures on being
absent at the next election.
ALBERT HAWKINS, coachman at the
White House for Presidents Grant,
Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, and Cleve-
land, will retire from Washington after
March 4, and go into the service of
Mrs. Cleveland, to whom he is warmly
attached.
The Truth, of Scranton, has discov-
cred that:
.There are beautiful drinks that were never
drunk,
And beautiful thoughts that were never .hunk );
fought,
And beautiful flights that were never fought. I"
ACCORDING to prize essay on cook
ing, the first problem is, what to
cook. +" The prize was probably awarded
on the Judgment of the Office boy. A
man who has been married only two
weeks would have known that the first
and greatest problem is, who is to
cook ?"
The four heirs of the late Paul Tulane,
of Princeton, N. j., have erected at a
cost of nearly $4,000 a granite, life-size
statue of the philanthopist. The in
scriptions reads: paul Tulane, 1901
1887" Founder of Tulane University,
New Orleans" Noted for his public
spirit and enterprise; beloved for his
charity and philanthropy
CAPT. J. NJ. JOHNSTON, city editor of
the Lancaster (Pa.) Iaatelligencer, who
died few days ago, was compositor
when a young man, and put in type
Poe's Raven" from the original manu-
script. This manuscript he kept and
held it in sacred possession until few
years ago, when he sold it for large
sum to George W. Child of the Phila-
delphia Ledger.
A YOUNG woman in New Jersey who
attempted suicide by shooting herself
with revolver because the girls tsased
her about Mr.. Pattie" was saved from
injury by her corset. AS life-pre-
server in such cases the corset has al
ready won q most excellent reputation.
Itwould undoubtedly increase the eff
cheney of the army to require the SOL
diers to wear corsets.
AN exchange thus fifty describes the
term "1Oca1 anternrico". "Tf voY, .on