Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-29


A RECOUNT of the drowned at TIL
Johnstown disaster fixes the number a
$500. The city is larger now than i
was before the unfortunate flood.
THIS is the way the great beast o
Africa goes to his extinction An ordi
nary elephant produces 100 pounds o
ivory, worth 5000. England consumes
$50 tons, for which it is necessary tt
kill 10000 elephants year.
A REMARKABLE invention has beer
made in Austria. Glass tubes project
before the train and if they are broken
by an obstacle an electric movement is
applied to the brakes, bringing the
train Immediately to standstill.
THERE is large farm in Mississippi
in which there is only one old whip
and that is not used. The owner will
not permit the whip to be used on any
of the stock, and the farm does we'll
and the animals work with will with
out feeling the lash.
EDWARD ATKINSON has discovered
that the long process and hard work OF
kneading bread are unnecessary. he
mixes his material with big spoon,
and says with a slow oven or bread
raiser, time will do all that can be &C.
complished by the kneading method.
MANY parents are apt to consider
their daughters worth their weight in
gold, but Scotch gentleman estimated
his two daughters value at even a
higher rate than this, bequeathing to
each her weight in 81 notes. The elder
seems to have been Simmer than her
sister, for she got only e51, 200, while
the younger received esq., 44.
The man who objects to fcrtv-four
stars on the flag, because the blue field
will he overcrowded, and wants to go
back to thirteen, is not likely to find
his motion seconded Thirteen stripes
are all right, but every State is entitled
to its star aud will have it, even if the
number ultimately rises to tifty-or
know the reason.
Miss ELIZA PiSsoN, who died at her
home near Atlanta, Ga, the other day,
had black beard fifteen inches long,
but steadily refused all offers to place
herself on exhibition Poulticing her
face for toothache when young girl is
believed to have been the cause Of the
abnormal growth of beard. There's
valuable hint in this for the hairless
American dude.
This little story is from a New Or
leans journal: Little Floribel Deitch
seven years old, died suddenly at Nor
gan City and her pet pigeon flew into
the room where the corpse lay surround
ed by weeping relatives and friends
The deep grief of the mourners SO i'm
pressed the bird that it dropped it's
head and died. 1t was placed in the
coffin and buried the next day with its
little mistress.
The new bridge to be built over the
Hudson River between New York and
Jersey City will eclipse the monster
Brooklyn structure The great central
span will be $500 feet long, nearly
twice the length OF the span over East
River. There are to be five towers ris-
ing to height Of 500 feet above the
water. 1t is one OF the most daring
feats of engineering undertaken in this
or any other country.
JUST after the war ended the Navy
Department gave Ericsson fifteen
inch shell found among the ruins of
Sumter. 1t had been fired from one
Of the monitors, and somehow the fuse
had failed to go Off. Ericsson sent it
to the King OF Sweden, and the good
Oscar placed it in the great museum at
Stockholm, with a simple and touching
inscription in honor of one of the most
honored Of Swedes. It's there now.
If an honest man in dire distress
goes to a stranger, makes frank repre-
sensations of his identity and con.
dition, and asks to borrow dollar, the
chances are 10 to l that he will he re.
sarded as an impostor and very point
eddy snubbed. On the other hand, a
swindler who goes into the business
with all deliberation and GOODNESS may
fatten upon the thousands of credulous
people and escape detection for years.
EDWARD RosEwATER, of the Omaha
Bee, recalls the fact that he once drank
beer with President Lincoln. 1t was
during the battle of Fredericksburg
Rosewater was on duty at the War De-
partment, receiving dispatches from
the battlefield, and Lincoln was there
in his slippers, very pale and anxious
about the result. Stanton, Seward and
Captain Fox We're also present. At
noon Mr.. Stanton sent out and got a
pitcher OF beer and some crack ers from
this the party lunched, Mr.. Lincoln
drinking beer and munching crackers
with the rest. 1t will be seen, there
fore, that persons who work the growl-
er have distinguished precedent
for it.