Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-30

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CONGRESS appropriates annually the
sum of $4,000 for White House station
airy, telegrsms, books and other such
contingent expenses.
THERE are three men in the Oregon
State Prison each of which cut Off a
hand to avoid work. They are confined
in solitary cells. Two others cut off
the ends of their fingers.
PRINCE BISMARCK intends to devote
the remainder of his days to making
himself comfortable. He has dismissed
his physician, and intends hereafter to
smoke as much as he pleases and to
drink what he likes.
Two YOUNG women compositors on
the country paper at Forest, Missis-
sippi, bought it when the sheriff closed
out the Contemplating proprietor." and
are now running as good a paper as
there is i'll the State.
The recent persecution of the Jews
in Vienna became so dangerous to all
s~hopkeepers that the city recently APP
peared covered with such signs as 81
am a Christian Tradesman :" christian
Brandy Shop:" christian Cheesemon-
ger::" christian Old Clothes Shop"
JAMES PAWN. the English novelist,
has written about forty novels. and
every word of the manuscript is in his
own handwriting. He will have nothing
to do with stenographers and type
writer's. He sleeps ten hours out of
the twcrty-four, spending the remain
der in reading and writing.
SEVEN of the supposed-to-be-sharp-
est and wisest lawyers in the country
have made wills, passed away. and the
said wills have been broken all to fin
ders by heirs and other lawyers. An
ignorant Missouri farmer wrote his will
in four lines on a slate. and it stood
three lawsuits and ten lawyers.
ONE of the best players of the Cor
nell University baseball nine has been
dropped on account of neglect of col
lege work. The university has decided
through the supervising athletic COM
mittee Of the faculty to take a decided
stand against the notion that athletics
are the chief end of student life.
lT was a popularity of the late
Samuel j. Randall that he left the
handling Of his W financial matters
to his wife. 1t was a common occur
renee for those who were frequently at
his home to hear him call to his Young
son Sammy to ask mother" for 50
cents or 81 wherewith to buy postage
stamps.
NEAR Boston, Ga. there lives an
extensive family by the name Of Groo-
yer. One popularity about them is
their intermalriage. Within a radius
of five miles there reside seven par
ate families, and each head Of the fam
lily married a lady Of the same name,
and the kinship of none runs lower than
the third cousin.
WILLIAM FRAsEB, of Ledeclune. SAYS,
in a letter to "Notes and Queries" that
he conducted General Grant over the
houses of Parliament and showed him
the "humors" Of the place. He adds
the Generals character for silence was
certainly indicated. "He did not utter
one work until L had called a cab for
him in Palace Yard, when he uttered
the historical words: Sir, l thank
YOU" ..,
A WOMAN dressed in mourning called
at a Montreal police station and re-
quested that she might be given her
sons picture. When told that there was
none there she answered that it was in
the rogues' gallery. "He was once &C.
cused of picking pockets" said the
visitor, "but was discharged. This pic
ture was taken at that time. I have
none, except n showing him as q