Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-22
ODD, QUEER AND CURIOUS.

ODD, QUEER AND CURIOUS.
A NEW cannon just made b. Krupp.
is forty.two feet long, can be fred twice
minute, and throws two-thousand
pound shot twelve miles,
The power Ct Russian gypsies to en-
dure cold is wonderful. They live in
light canvas tents, while the outside
atmosphere is from twenty-five to thirty
degrees below the freezing point
A WEDDING in high life is announced
in Cincinnati, where Mr. friedrich
Shields and Mrs Anna Parsons, each
over seven feet in height, were
recently matrimonially united.
The trees which are not liable to be-
struck by lightning, are those whose
trunks are covered with moss or litchen.
SO says German scientist, who has
closely studied the subject.
THROUGH long practice, q colored
dentist in Macon, Ga, has become ex-
pert in drawing teeth with his fingers.
and IN rapidity can excel any dentist
who uses forceps.
The tallest schoolgirl in the world,
German contempory assures us, lives
at Reidnaun, near STERLING. She is
in her eleventh year, and, is about
SIX feet in height. She is taller than
any woman in that community.
The dolphin is said to be the fastest
swimmer in the seas. 1t has been oh,
served to dart through the waters at
rate greater than twenty miles an
hour, and it is often seen swimming
round and round a vessel that is sailing
at its highest speed.
A LIVE frog was found, not long since,
imbedded in the centre of fourteen
inch stick of timber, at the Omaha
Mine, near Grass Valley, Gal. The
timber was sound, with no opening
whatever in it, and the frog only came
to view when saw revealed its habi-
tation.
SOMETHING unusual in the marriage
and divorce line recently occurred in
Fresno, Cal. August Young. WE'LL
known merchant of that place, aston
ished his neighbors by marrying for
the third time the woman who had
twice secured o divorce from him.
AS warning to be careful in COM
pounding or handling poisons, drug
gist in Ansopia, Conn.,, has his danger
medicines in a cabinet by themselves.
When he opens the door, an electric
currant rings bell to remind him that
he must have his mind on his work.
A THERMOMETER valued at ten thou
sand dollars, and perhaps the most ex-
pensive one in the world, is in use at
the John Hopkins University, Balti-
more. 1t is an absolutely perfect in
strument, and the graduations on the
glass are SO fine that it is necessary to
use microscope to read them.
The Japanese do most of their wash
ing, when streams are convenient, by
getting into boat, and letting the gar
ments drag after the boat by long
string. 1t is an economical habit OF
travelling Japs to get large amount Of
washing thus accomplished by steam
boat excursion, and has given rise to
the story that once year they travel to
wash.
A TRIUMPH OF engineering is reported
from California in the lifting of the
Feather River, fast-fowing stream
fifty feet, and carrying it for more than
a mile in an artificial bed, at that height
| above its original channel 1t has
been accomplished in little less than
year. The object was to drain the
river near Oreville, in order to reach
the rich gold deposits believed to ex-
list in its bed.
A COUPLE of hogs belonging to George
P Craig, Of Gwinnett, Ca, are very
fond OF fresh milk-so fond of it that
they take it surreptitiously from COW,
as if they were calves. Mr. Craig had
noticed that his COWS were falling short
of milk for several weeks, and, upon ex-
animation, he found that two roguish
hogs had been imbibing the milk of the
cows, both remaining in the same lot TO-
gether at night.
A BA1TED hook and line disappeared
from the boat used the other night by a
fisherman in Preston, Conn. After an
unsuccessful search, the next morning,
he started for his work in Norwich. In
crossing the lofty Shetucket bridge he
saw fish line stretching across that
structure, which he traced into Mr..
Burke's store. In that shop was his
family cat, evidently in great fright,
and the fish line terminated inside of
her, and she was wild with pain, the
cat was killed.
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