Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-01-16

IT is said that thirty new one dolla
bills weigh as much as a twenty dolla
gold piece. Any one who can get hol
of $50 at one time can easily ascertai
the truth of the above statement.
FISHERMEN over a large part of Ell
rope always kill the fish as soon as the
take them out of the water, and do S
upon the ground that it is better for tn
flesh of the fish that it be killed a
once.
AN increase of about one million
people in thirteen years in Spain is a
tributed in great measure to the sue
cess that has attended the chang IS in tn
hygienic condition of the cities ant
large towns.
The man who is effusively pleasan
with everybody usually makes himsel
nuisance, but the man who endeavor.
habitually to make himself nuisanc,
never succeeds by any accident il
being pleasant.
ToBAccoN1srs say that smoking is
becoming more general than ever, but
tobacco chewing is on the decline. The
fact seems to be that tobacco cannot
hold its own against both cigarettes
and chewing gum.
IT is strange how many of a mans
relations can be proved insane when he
is charged with serious crime, and
the most peculiar part of it is that the
lunatics have Lived and died without
being suspected in SO many cases.
AN Indiana man who has followed up
the work Of the White Caps has learned
of thirty men who used to loaf but are
now at work, twenty wifebeaters who
beat no more, and over hundred petty
thieves who wouldn't keep chicken
nowif it few into the house and asked
to be baked.
A MISSOURI farmer set trap on the
edge of pond for a muskrat. A goose
gotta foot in it and then an eagle dropped
down and seized the goose and couldn't
carry her away. The man was near by,
of course, and all he had to do was to
grab the eagle and run him into coop
and sell him for S25.
The report OF the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue shows that New York
State last year manufactured over one
billion of cigarettes, North Carolina
made 619,o62,5 500, and Virginia $780,
100000. Other States helped out the
aggregate. What hope is there for
people that smoke cigarettes at that
rate.
The proposition to establish flax in
dustries in the Northwestis straw that
shows which way the wind is blowing.
The wind has blown flax straw to the
dogs heretofore 1t will be good
thing for the farmers of the Northwest
when the straw which rots in the field
is turned by manufactures into useful
forms.
The advancing Niagara River oddly
enough causes the constant receding Of
Niagara Falls. Horseshoe Falls, for
instance, has receded two feet per
year since 1912 The maximum recess
sion at one point was 27O feet and the
mean recession of the American Falls
80 feet 6 inches. And all this we know
on account of advancing science and
scientific observation.
REV. FATHER FRANK BARNUM, who is
on the mission of the Catholic Church
in Alaska, is a native of Baltimore and
a son Of the late Genus Barnum, pro-
prietor of the once famous Barnum's
Hotel, Of that city. A brother, when
dying, wishing to perpetuate the family
name, left him $4,000 upon condition
that he got married. This legacy Fa.-
Their Barnum forfeited when he Joined
the Jesuits. He is known to his order
as very learned man and famous lin
guist.
VERA SAssUL1TcH has been the cause
Of more alarm to the Gar than all the
other Russian anarchists combined. In
her early years she was pretty COVER
ness in little country village of Rus
sia, and she still possesses traces of
beauty. She is woman of iron will
md stern resolution. At one time.
hiding it impossible to conquer her, the
Russian Government is said to have
offered her bride of 1000, 600 rub]es
% quit the cause Of anarchy and leave
lie country.
lr is proposed to improve the mail
ervice between the United States ard
treat Britain by having sorting clerks
n tie mail steamers, SO that when the
'orts Of destination are reached the
nail will be ready for distribution.
has plan is simply an extension of the
allwsy mail service system, and there
good reason to expect that the carry