Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-09-12


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THERE are 797 daily and weekly Ger
man papers published in the United
States and Canada.
DOMESTIC servants are so scarce in
Montreal that women in want of help
are said to visit the Jail with q view to
engaging young woman to work for
them at the close of their term of i'm
prisonment.
THERE is nothing pleasanter to use
as cure for rough or sunburnt skin
than slices of raw cucumber 1t is q
much cheaper remedy than any of the
preparations in bottles, and the best
way is to cut off slice and rub the
juice we'll into the skin and then dry
with towel.
A TRIAL has been made at Civita
Vecchia of nautical ball invented by
Signor Balsamello. It is seven feet in
diameter and can hold four persons.
When closed it sinks, and is steered
and propelled under water by rudder
and screw. 1t has windows and Crap
piers, and, besides fishing up things, it
may be used for destructive purposes
in time of war.
SALMON P. CHAsE's old law sign has
been discovered, covered with dust and
cobwebs, on building formerly occu-
pied by lawyers on Third street near
Main, in Cincinnati. The name of
Flamen Ball, for many years promi-
nent character in Cincinnati, appears
on the sign as Chase's law partner. It
was in this building that the late Chief
Justice and his distinguished partner
had their law Offices for several years.
In short time the Sun, the Times,
the World and other New York
dailies are to begin the use of typesetting
machines. It is also announced that
the printer of the Century Magazine
is to have his typesetting done by ma
chinery. A syndicate of book publish
ers has also made arrangements to put
fifty or a hundred typesetting machines
into cooperative Office, where all the
body matter of cheap publications is
sued in New York will be turned out.
A MOST peculiar case is reported
from Edwardsville, Ill. Mary A. Walsh,
an orphan of IL, has been for some
time suffering from severe pains in the
head. An examination revealed the
presence in the head of screw worms.
These worms are developed from eggs
deposited in the nose by the Texas fly.
They average in size from one-half to
three-quarters of an inch in length,
and are one-quarter of an inch in
diameter. Fifty-seven of the worms
were removed.
The Empress of Germany has mill
tary tastes as we'll as her husband. At
the late grand review on Templehof-
field she was in the saddle for two
hours, riding superbly, and leading her
own regiment of cuirassiers past the
Emperor. Her uniform as colonel was
habit of white cloth, embroidered on
shoulders and collar with the red and
silver colors of the regiment, and
three cornered white felt nat with many
ostrich feathers, in which she looked
remarkably pretty.
STANLEY said on one occasion: 1 have
always found tobacco solace and an
aid to concentration. I remember on
one journey down the Congo we were
just about to enter most dangerous
country. knew that a fight was in
evitable, and told my men to make
ready. took an observation, lighted
my pipe, and smoked for five minutes
to settle myself for action. We were
fighting for our lives few minutes
afterward, and the battle went on for
hours. Livingstone never smoked.
MISS MATTE HESTER is the United
States mail-carrier over the route from
Condar, Laurens County, to Lothian,
Montgomery County, Georgia, dis
lance Of forty miles through sparsely
settled region, which she traverses
three times week. She drives her
own mail-cart, carries revolver, and is
punctual as the sun at all seasons and
in all weathers, Besides transporting
the mails, she manages farm, gets
out lumber, splits fence rails and con-
trives to support a widowed mother,
two younger sisters and brother,
while she is not yet twenty years of
age.
J. NJ. Herring, of Suffer County
California, has been granted patent
on an agricultural machine which ought
to revolutionize something or other, in
asmuch as it combines digging, subsoil-
ing, pulverizing, planting and har-
rowing; and in addition to this, when
curfew tolls the knell of parting day
and lowing herds wind slowly DER the
lea, the operator can convert it into q
tent or ]iving-house and "put up" in it
all night. The object is to provide
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