Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-12-27

Wolf, the dog is guilty of biting the
man, and his owner must pay 81;
damages.
Two WAITER girls in Rapid City
IS. ID. hotel took up claims near tina
city some time ago and have bull
houses, fenced their claims, raise(
stock and crops, and at the same time
waited on the hungry boarders at tho
hotel
The smallest town in the world tt
support newspapers orlando, in Big
Bend County, Oregon. There arc
three houses in town and eight inhabi
tants-four men, three women and 6
little girl. Yet the NeaUs is published
every week.
UNAcouA1NTED with the game birds
of this country, newly arrived Ger
man living near. Scranton shot barn.
yard turkey under the impression that
it was Wild fowl. He took it home
and had it cooked, and was about to sit
down at the dinner table to eat it when
he was arrested fo2 killing his neigh,
boris poultry.
CONNECTICUT has established sort
Of dam commission" whose object is
to detect all unsafe dams and prevent
all others from being built unless the
plans show them to be perfectly safe.
Connecticut has more dams in proper
ton to its size than any other State.
Probably many of them are unsafe
and all are to be looked after.
The improvement in arms now going
forward will deter nations from war,
not because their weapons are so dead
ly, but because it will cost too much
to use them. Krupp's new gun fires
two shots q minute, each costing be-
tween 1850 and 1900. A dozen or
two of these guns would bankrupt any
country in eight or ten battles.
In Iceland there are no prisons. and
no officers answering to our policemen.
In 1874 it celebrated the one-thou-
sand anniversary of its colonization,
and at the same time became independ-
ent of Denmark, though subject to the
King Of Denmark as the head of the
Icelandic Government. Iceland's new
Government is thoroughly republican
in spirit, all citizens having equal
rights and perfect religious liberty.
GENERAL BoULANGER lives a curious
life on the Island Of Jersey. He spends
his time in reading history and talking
politics to his followers. He smokes q
vast number of cigarettes, and seems
inclined to disobey the commands OF
his physicians regarding wine. He is
very pnnctilious as regards his dress,
and always dons an evening suit fol-
dinner
FRENCH musicians have decided
"Hail Columbia to be the real nation
al hymn of America. They conSide
it the most dignifed of our national
tunes, and that is true enough. for
"America" is borrowed from England.
yankee Doodlee" is English, and a
trivial affair to boot, while ",rhe Star
Spangled Banner" was drinking-song
originally-also English.
L THE water lily is largely used in
some parts of India as food stuff. The
fruit of one species that grows plenti-
fully in the lakes of Cashmere is rich
I in starch and has much the flavor of a
chestnut. If the nuts are dried the;'
will keep for a long time, and when
ground may be made into cakes OF
porridge, or they may be soaked for
some hours and then boiled.
WITHIN the past ten years the aspect
OF Rome has considerably changed.
The old narrow winding streets are a
thing of the past, and are replaced by
large, wide thoroughfares. Blocks OF
the old houses have been knocked down
and large modern palazzi have sprung
up in their stead. The narrow Corso
of old times will soon be no more. as il
is gradually being widened by halt
again its original width.
ROBERT BONNER makes spirited
answer to his critics, who accuse him
of appropriating all the finest horse
flesh in the country and doing nothing
for the development of their speed.
He shows that about all the fast horses
that have come into his possession have
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