Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-05
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WORK CRY woman has been
A NEW +ne penitentiary for six months
s ~ heating her h'1soano'
are six prosperous Shakes
lHE ,,,ns in Concord, Mass., and there
r F talk Of organizing more.
,rs class for window panes has
fo' ,,od,ced in Paris. The pores are
been r 70 admit a draft, but they assist
IN ventilation
ru,rr in Carlisle, Pa, steals moth
,ut Bibles, and he has taken ninety
III s.,m the people of the town with
80 being discovered.
n,rr,1o has almost decided to pass
= ,r7inance restraining COWS from
III ,ning at large, but it is hard to part
'" ~, old customs in farming COM
nunitv,
u,rr +he death of James Winterbot-
49,, there occurs a break in line of
'' ,rtons at All Saints Church, Glossop,
zealand, which has reached through
one family for 200 years.
GIRL in Norwalk, Conn, refused to
oot married after all the guests had as
ssmbled. explaining that she had made
m with an old lover and intended soon
10 90 with him to the altar.
REV. G. A. TEwKEsBURY, of Wash.
octou, lost his wife less than yea,
400. A few days ago he announced his
engagement to a public singer. His
congregation kicked" and he resigned
THERE has been no improvement in
tbe shape of the umbrella for the last
seventy years, and, it may be added, nc
Improvement in the manner of carrying
#. The average person protects his
foes and vets his heels.
TOURISTS who go up the Nile are
taxed every fifteen miles on some pre-
text or other, and annoyed the othe,
fourteen by beggars, insects, and rep
tiles. Any one who can go up Salt
River should not go up the Nile.
4 PECULIAR old man named Boxem
Brown has long made a living by
peddling collins through the Territory
Of New Mexico. He travels with 6
team Of mules, big wagon and about
twenty cheap collins of assorted sizes
JOSHUA TAYLOR, of New Hampshire
thought he was 1O2 years old. Records
were found to prove that he was only
50, and he went to the barn and hung
himself of modification. It is too bad
that a man can't be as old as he wants
TO be.
THE latest estimate places the United
States Senate at valuation of $139,
100000 According to this calculation
there will be, including Vice Presiden
Norton, nineteen millionaires in thu
American house of lords. Only IA
Years ago there were but nine.
THE New York State Asylum for tn,
Insane contains over fifty patients sen
there by the practice of smoking cigar
cites. This fact won't stop tn
practice in the least, nor ought it to
The sooner the smoker gets into tn
asylum the better for all hands.
THE Commissioner of the Chilial
State railroads says that Chili's annua
surplus is ST., 100000, which is devoted
to internal improvements, particular.
railroad building. There are 1,2O
mlesin operation, GOO being constructed
and 800 projected, all being or to b
owned by the State. w
WHEN the seven dynamite guns no,
ordered are placed in position along tn
Atlantic coast it will make pretty warn
work, in spots, for vessels which ar
proach with hostile intent. But tn
number will have to be multiplied b.
seven times seven to protect our lon1
lines OF coast and our many harbors.
AGRICULTURAL depression in Europ
lsnot confined to Great Britain, but
lett lei even more seriously in Russia
The high charges for railway transit
LOT commission and shipping, tn
hopeless Indebtedness of all classe
possessing land" the exhaustion of fe,
unity by over-cropping are all givel
'helr due share Of the blame for til
present state Of things.