Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-12

kota Legislature think that they have
been made the victims of shabby
trick. An important measure was be-
fore the Legislature, but the aforesaid
honorable statesmen could not see its
merits until their eager fingers had
first clutched checks from the promo
tors of the scheme. Then the necessity
of the proposed measure was promptly
seen, and it became a law. The
checks had been dated day after the
enactment of the measure, and when
the thrifty statesmen sent the checks
to the bank, their vi ages became blue
with dismay on learning that payment
had been stopped.
A YOUNG workingman in Dubuque,
Iowa, bought a colored shirt. In tear
ing off the tag he discovered a note
therein requesting the purchaser tc
correspond with the maker of the shirt
in New Jersey manufacturing town.
She said she was working for starva-
ton wages and hoped to find home
and husband. when she would be
happy. He wrote to her, was pleased
with her replies, went to New Jersey
and married her. Three weeks after
they were united for life she received a
letter from England, the home of her
ancestors, containing draft for
fl,O00, and notification of the fact
that she was sole heir to fortune of
over 9l5O,OO0.
The late Congress did not peg out
without here and there CLEAN of
humor. While the House was trying
to decide whether to add one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to bill that
did not need it, Mr.. Herbert told story.
Some years ago" he said, "there was
bill before the California Legislature
in relation to all increase in salaries,
and the question was involved whether
the Treasury was in condition to stand
it. One of the members excused him
self for few moments, and, when he
returned, said: MIR. Speaker, I am
just from the Treasurer, and he tells
tells me there is S375, 1854. 40 in the
State Treasury, and I move you, sir
that we rake her,"
Il AM confident" writes DIR. Prime
from Florida to the New York Journal
of Commerce, chat there is much
more numerous insect life in Northern
New England in June and July than
in any tropical country. Our Northern
forests and fields abound, day and
night, in winged and wingless insects
of countless variety and numbers.
Mosquitoes, black flies and gnats are
more of pest in the North than
have ever found in the tropics. An &C.
complished entomologist. who has re-
sided six years in Florida, and several
years before that in Canada, told me
few days ago that his observation fully
accorded with mine, and that he had
found insect life much more plentiful
in Canada than in Florida"
TWENTY-FIVE shoeless passengers
lately entered Chicago, after a night
trip from st. Paul. They all belonged
in the sleeping car which left the latter
city. Another sleeping car is usually
added at La Crosse, and dropped off
at Milwaukee. 1t is the custom with
the porters of the two cars to take the
shoes to be cleaned from the forward
car to the rear one, where they pleas
antly chat while putting an the neces-
sary polish. On the particular night
referred to both the lorters had been
RECALLED rather freely with drinks from
travelling TASKS. They fell asleep over
the shoes, and when the car was
dropped off at Milwaukee two porters
and all the shoes belonging to the peo-
pie in the forward car were dropped
off, too.
A CALIFORNIAN tells this story of
boom time in San Diego: The general
delivery window Of the postoffice was
always crowded. One week the mails
We're delayed for several days, and
when they were at last distributed the
line of inquirers at the general deliv-
cry window of the postoffice extended
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in the early morning got to the win
dow and received his mail about eight
o'clock in the evening. One old lady,
who had plenty of time on her hands
took with her camp-stool and her
lunch basket and camped right there
on the line. She received no letter,
and turned away apparently happy,
although she had waited in the line
for seven hours. When this mail ac-
cumulated the postmaster made no at
tempt to distribute the newspapers.
They were simply piled up in one
corner, and finally q wagonload of
newspaper mail was carted away from
the postoffice. To be distributed?
Oh, no; to be dumped into San Diego
Bay.