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

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The reason given why birds do not
fall from their perch is because they
cannot open the foot when the leg is
bent. Look at hen walking and see
it close it's toes as it lifts its foot and
open them as it touches the ground.
A LOVER received the following note,
accompanied by bouquet of flowers:
Deer =. send hi the boy buck
EFT Of flowers. They is like my love
for H. The mite shaid menes keep dark.
The dog fenil means am ure slave"
TRADEMARKS were known in ancient
Babylon. China had them as early
as 1000 B. g. They were authorized
by Parliament in England in 1900.
Even Gutenberg, the inventor ofprint-
ing, is said to have had q lawsuit over
his trademark.
The Moldavian Princess Cusa is an
unworldly girl. Her young husband,
who died not long ago, left her all his
property, worth about 100000. Sheis
devoting all of her yearly income to
charities, and is nurse in children's
hospital at Jassy. She is sister Of
the Roumanian Minister. Theodore
kosetti.
JOHN MERR1MAN, of Rhode Island,
called himself humanitarian, and
bought up a lot of old horses, and
turned them out to pasture to end their
days in peace. He had got about thirty,
and the papers were eulogizing him,
when his wife got divorce on the
ground of extreme cruelty. She proved
that he almost starved her to death.
AMERICAN naval officers who adopted
the cholera belt in the tropics find it so
beneficial that they often retain it in all
ATTITUDES. 1t is simply broad land of
flannel worn night and day the year
around tight about the waist, so as
to protect the stomach from sudden
changes Of temperature. 1t is an ex-
cellent preventive Of stomach dis
orders.
A MYSTERY OF New York is Nor
wegian. thorough cook and house
keeper, with the best of references as
to character and ability, and now out
of employment, who has been adver-
Using for situation for nearly year.
Sometimes she receives as many as
one hundred letters q day. Several
decoy letters have been sent to her adj
dress by newspaper men DESTROYS of
penetrating the mystery, but they have
been unsuccessful.
A FRENCH paper announces that sue
cessful experiments with navigable bal
looms have recently been carried out at
the Mendon Arsenal After number
of failures M. Renard has succeeded in
constructing an electric motor of
seyenty-horse power, of very small di
mansions, weighing only 4s0 kilogram-
mes, and working for ten hours. 1t is
believed that with the aid of this in
vention the problem of navigating bal
looms may be finally solved.
AT Norristown, Me-, B. Logan,
horseshoer, made nine miniature horse
shoes from silver 10 cent piece. Each
shoe has the number of holes usually
drilled in horseshoes of the ordinary
size, but, strange to say, the smallest
needle is too large to be used as nails
for these little wonders. Logan has
made affidavit that each and every one
Of the miniature shoes were made with
the same hammer and punch used in
making the largest-sized real horse
shoes.
A Jov1AL gentleman near Sheffield,
England, was lately fined f1OO, with
costs, as between solicitor and client,
for committing what the justice de-
scribed as most outrageous contempt
of court by frightening solicitors
clerk who was sent to serve writ upon
him. 1t was alleged that the gentle
man had set his hounds upon the clerk,
but the Judge held that the defendant
had not intended any serious mischief
should happen to the clerk, but merely
to frighten him. He was, therefore,
fined for his contempt of court in at
tempting to brighten the server of the
writ.
The Humane Society of Pittsburg
has turned up genuine wild boy. He
is colored, aged thirteen, and his name
is supposed to be Harry Allen. He
was brought from the mountains of Vir-
ginia because his parents, who lived
there in semi civilized state, could not
keep him at home. He would run away
ever since he was old enough to climb
up the mountain side. Sometimes he
would be in the woods alone for a
month at time. He lived on berries,
roots and live birds, which he could
catch with the facility of a cat These
birds he always ate raw. His hands
are like claws, and the pupils of his
eyes dilate like those of cat.
In Sarotov, Russia, an interesting
traveller on foot arrived recently. He
was a peasant, Nikolay Audukin by