Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-12-05

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WASHINGTON SPRINGS, SOUTH DAKOTA
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GEORGE VANDERB1Lr's ambition is to
collect the finest library in America.
A WESTERN cowboy committed sui
eide because thirteen year-old girl re-
fused to marry him.
Two HUNDRED AND -FOUR American
carpet mills, running IL, 600 looms, en-
ploying $4,000 hands, made, in the year
1889, 76,soo,0oo yards of carpet.
The mines along the Union Pacific
Railway now produce over 1,40o, 600
tons of coal annually, and the owners
are preparing for much larger out
put.
PROF. i. STONE W1GG1Ns is at it
again. He predicts an earthquake in
Pennsylvania and the maritime prov
inces of Canada Aug. II, 1904, and an
other one in 1920.
DARK-HA1RED persons have better
chance in the great struggle for exist
ence than those of the opposite COM
plexion, except in contagious diseases,
where blondes are comparatively ex-
empt.
Now THAT the Louisiana lottery can
no longer use the mails, they propose
to utilize the express companies in dis
tributing advertising matter Even i'll
that case they will be checkmated, as
the law forbids private companies to
carry postal matter.
A NEW and lucrative business for
women has been opened by the anna
teur photography craze. Printing pho
tographs is an occupation for which
women are especially adapted, and
their work in this branch is said to be
superior to that done by men.
The committee for the erection of
monument to William Tell has, by
majority of nine to three, decided in
favor of the site in front of the Town
Hall of Altorf. The hero is to be re-
presented in bold and resolute atti-
tude, with cross-bow in his hand and
in the costume of the Swiss peasantry
of his time.
The City of Mexico is as badly dis
appointed in its census as New York.
Notwithstanding there are evidences of
growth on every side, the new census
shows a less population than the one
taken about year ago. The total
count is 100000, and Tavo Republics
says it is now apparent that the popu
lation has always been overestimated.
MINISTER PHELPS says English is the
language in diplomatic circles in Ber-
lin. The Kaiser, Chancellor Caprivi
,s..A l.s mp s...s4s..s,,
ciety people, speak English, and show
such preference for it that it would be
ungracious to insist upon German.
One reason of this is the national dis
like to the French language and the
partiaity of literary people for English
and American books.
A NEW YORK physician, who has for
several years been studying the relation
of eye-strain to headache, etc., in chill
dren, finds that cases of short sight,
far sight, and irregular sight often go
unrecognized until the continued eye
strain results in chronic headache and
lassitude, or even more serious nervous
disorders. The most approved modern
treatment in certain cases of headache
is to order the use of spectacles.
AN innovation in the method of hand
ling green fruit at the port of New York
is about to be put into practice. The
new arrangement consists of steam.
heated wharf. In the past fruit has
been landed on the wharf without re.
gard to the weather, and when the tenn.
perature ranged below the freezing
point great damage resulted. The
heated wharf will be Sc by 1874 feet in
dimensions.
The new automatic machine now
used for stamping in the New York
postoffice will cancel, postmark, count
and stack the letters and postal cards
at the rate of rs, 900 per hour. In two
hours and two minutes it cancelled
post-marked, counted and stacked 46,
4sO letters and postal cards, of which
$1,000 were letters. The machine il
driven by an electric motor, but it can
be run with foot power like small
printing press.