Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-11-08

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WASHINGTON SPRINGS, DAKOTA.
TERMS -sss FL ao as IN As1 7a .sv'n''
CALIFORNIA, it is said, now manufac-
lures nearly all the iron she needs,
though only few years ago she de-
pended on the East for her supply.
THERE are altogether about $1,000
Arabs in this country, and not 10 per
cent. of them have settled home or
any other means of support than ped
ding.
ADVERTISEMENTS in London journals
indicate that the purchase of cast-off
court suits, artificial teeth, ETC., "for
export" is quite a considerable bust
ness.
The Constitution of North Dakota
provides that the property of the wife,
acquired before or after marriage,
cannot be taken for the debts of her
husband.
LYONS, France, is completing the
worlds biggest dam, begun century
ago. It is 1000 feet long, IT'S feet
high, and the foundations are 100
feet deep.
GIN few years." says Mr.. Edison,
~the world will be just like one big
ear; it will be unsafe to speak in a
house until one has examined the walls
and furniture for concealed phono-
graphs"
A CHINESE doctor in San Francisco
is said to enjoy an income from the
practice of his profession of $4,000 per
month. He has been in America near
ly thirty years, and many Caucasians
are among his patients.
Nova SCOTIA is remarkable for the
number of it's old people. It has
larger population of centenarians than
any other country, there being one to
every $4,000 Inhabitants, while Eng
land has only one in every 100000.
SOME folks think it is awful nice to
be Gear, but if they had to travel
around their own country as that chap
does, in car covered with iron and
cork, they would be glad to be COM
mon people again and give up the Gar
business.
BAYLUs CADE, of Raleigh, N. c., has
invented system of telegraphing to
and from moving railway trains. A
wire is placed along and near the rail
way track, and connections are made
with the moving train by drag de-
scending from the car The project is
successful.
THERE is q secret organization in |
Baltimore, Md, the object of which is
to protect it's members from unfort,l-
nate marriages. When one of the club |
feels that he is falling in love he con-
fesses to his fellow-members and they |
appoint committee to investigate the
nd Cd 1,i,,, /
BISHOP FOWLER thinks that Prince
Ii, the Viceroy Of China, is zone of the
greatest statesmen the world has ever
produced" General Grant used to say
that the two men who had impressed
him most during his travels around the
world were Prince HUNG, formerly Re
gent Of the Celestial Empire, and
Prince Bismarck.
MAJOR r. H. PARTRIDGE, of Month
cello, Fla, has an old saber which was
picked up in an old field near that
town several years ago. With it, at the
same time, was found steel armor
weighing eighty pounds. Both the
saber and shield bear marks of antiu-
uity, and no one has ever been able to
account for them.
Z A WRITER in the United Seruice
Magazine says that the stones used
for scrubbing the decks of ships are
called "holy stones" because the work
was generally done on Sunday. But
writer in the Chqtychnla1a says that
they were so called because those who
used them had to go down on their