Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-04-12

TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
F., choice Selection Of Inter-
esting Items.
r,su,SoroN correspondent states
su+ one Senator smokes cigarettes.
-, vine trade of Oporto has been
inN q monopoly by the Portuguese
government.
,,.,xr follows the example of Massa-
ta in the matter of free textbooks
70. . the public schools.
n,,r laws of the United States forbid
:. ;,nnortation of liquor into Alaska,
w =. J,,neau has twenty-five saloons in
full blast.
Southern papers are discussing the
.ss;b;lity of establishing negro reser-
at;on on the principle of the Indian
Territory.
.K.xsAs man hauled 800 carloads of
rrt IN one month, and the local editor
1-.n;c,ed Il $500 transfers of real es-
tote in one month.
uns SENATOR STANFORD, in her
1r;ves about Washington, rides behind
nair of magnificent black horses which
ora valued at $4,000.
An English naval officer estimates
chat there are 5000, 5000 in gold and
silver under the sea, which could be
reached by good luck.
THERE is bill before the Ohio Legis-
1.tnre to prevent any doctor in that
State from advertising himself as med
;calman. The idea is that it demeans
the "purfesh.'
JOHN w. WATSON, the principal author
Of Beautiful Snow" is brakeman on
the New York elevated railroad at a
salary of So week. Thus the whirli-
zig of time brings in its revenges.
ST. Louis has half dozen or more
professional clock winders. They each
have list of time-pieces which they are
to wind on certain days. One of them
saws he attends to over 200 clocks day.
You've Walter, who owns one-six-
tenth of the London Times, has only
received ZIG in dividends for the year,
The usual profit annually divided among
the Times owners is upwards of $780,.
900.
A Los ANGELES paper says that in
helping her husband on his farm at San
Jacinto, Mrs. T. N. Meade plowed and
sowed over 100 acres of wheat, taking
care of her own four-horse team, and
she is "city-raised" woman, too.
JUSTICE KE1Gw1N of Jacksonville
Ind, does not consider marriage fail
ure During the ten years he has acted
as magistrate he has united 2,97e
couples, and of these about 80 per cent
came from Kentucky, most of them be
ing runaway matches.
Francis w. LAsAK, when he was 1;
years old, walked from Prague to Berlin
where he learned the fur business. Ii
1919 he came to this country without
cent in his pocket. Recently he died q
Dobbs Ferry, N. Y, aged so, leaving
an estate of Sc, 100000.
A GENTLEMAN in Columbus, Ga, ha
razor which has been in constant US
l04 years. It bears close resemblance
to broadax, but does good service yet
and may cut many whisker before it
finally laid away among the relics OF by
gone days or used for trimming corns
A SHERIFF in Georgia actually Of
tached railroad train by running
chain through one of the wheels of til
engine and fastening it to the track
After while he was convinced that h
had no right to stop the United State
mails and the train was allowed to pre-
| coed.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer say
that Christian science gets cold comic,
from the clergy of that city. The sui
stance Of their conjoined opinions is the
the delusion is neither Christian nc
scientific, and that whatever effect
has upon people is the effect of imagine
ton.
ACCORDING to the Boston TRANSCRIPT
1t is a noteworthy circumstance tina
While the female population of Bosto