Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-24

charge followed, after which the Mex
leans retired from the field. 1862,
Nashville taken by the Federal troops.
A PECULIAR accident happened yes
terday on the local Omaha line, says
the ST. Paul Pioneer Press. In going
to the junction, and before reaching
Hersey & Beams mill, the passenger
and smoking cars left the track, owing
to broken rail, ran some distance on
the ties, struck switch. and regained
the rails. The engine and tender had
not left the rails
PIcKPoCKErs are now trying a new
dodge in Paris. 1t takes two OF three
to work" it. One jostles against the
Intended victim and contrives to drop a
lighted cigar i'll his oyercoat pocket. A
few minutes later couple OF strangers
hurry up to him, eNclaiming: Mon
! sie1lr, Your overcoat is ON fire" and,
with the utmost politeness, they squeeze
and compress the burning cloth, p oft
ing by the opportunity to relieve the
pocket of whatever of value it may
contain.
FOLLOWING is scientific description
of W hat happens when you light a fire:
The phosphorus on a match is raised
by fiction to temperature of $50 de-
grees Fahrenheit, at which it ignites.
1t raises the temperature of the sui
phur, if it be sulphur match. to 800
degrees. when the sulphur begins to
burn. The sulphur raises the heat to
500 degrees, when the wood takes up
the work and produces temperature
of 1000 degrees, at which the coal
ignites.
A NEW bellows machine weighing
only seventeen pounds has bee tested
i'll Australia for DISCRIMINATING rabbits
with very satisfactory results. The
machine is charged with half a teacup-
full of a deadly specific comprised Of
one third arsenic and two-thirds sui
phur The burrows being closed the
specific was placed in the furnace OF
the machine and the fumes blown into
the borrows. On trenches being dug.
twenty minutes later, dead rabbits
were disclosed at the end of the bur-
lows.
OVER 100 tools and processes have
been invented by safe-burglars, which
are marvels of ingenuity and scientific
knowledge. A recent burglars outfit
captured by the police consisted of
little giant knob-breaker, diamond
drill. and a high explosive OF the ma
t,lre Of dynamite, but put up in the
form of a powder. 1t would open the
strongest bank safe in half-hour and
without noise enough to disturb people
iii the next house, while the entire OUT
fit could be carried in the pockets of
an ordinary coat.
The Supreme Court of California
has decided that the Legislature may
enact law requiring scholars Of pub
lie schools to submit to vaccination on
the ground chat while vaccination may
not be the best and safest preventive
possible, experience has proved it to be
the best method known TO medical sci
ence to lessen the liability to infection
with the disease" In thus giving vac
cination the credit Of being "the most
effective method OF preventing the
spread Of the disease referred to-" the
court seems to have forgotten SANTA
ton and il isolation.
ME-. GLADSTONE, the English states
man, is reported to have expressed sur
plise that his head has grown in size in
the last twenty years, as shown by the
fact that a hat which he had twenty
years ago is not large enough for him
and will not come down on his head at
all. He declared that he had never
heard of a similar case We think it
is exceptional or rare. Statistics of
brain weights show that the brain is
likely to weigh most about the TWEEN
tieth year, and to gradually decline in
weight from that on. until about eighty.
Possibly Mr.. Gladstone's head has
changed in shape instead of size.
The following auecdote of General
| Sherman is not new, but readable
Out at Fort Bayard there lay, for q
long time, an old cannon, of no use tc
any one, but which had greatly taken
the fancy OF an old Apache chief He
daily asked the commander for it, but
was put Off with the excuse that it be
longed to the Government and could
not be given away. One day General
Sherman arrived at the fort and the
request Of the chief was referred tc
him. He examined the cannon, saw
that it was worthless, and told the ole
chief he might have it. Then, put
ting on grave air. he said to the chief
Il am afraid that you want that gun Sc
that you can turn it on my soldiers anc
kill them" Ugh! no." was the un
expected reply; cannon kill cowboys
Kill soldiers with club"