Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-07-10

THE HERALD.
NJ KRR1DLER L GuNDERsoN,
A BEDTIME luncheon of lettuce in
duces sleep.
A VERY large acreage is devoted to
grape growing in New Jersey, and the
area is extending yearly.
The Ceylon pearl fishery last season
was the second largest on record dur
ing the present century.
T The cheapest car fare known is said
to be the cents fare on the Pittsburg
Traction Road for a distance of six
miles.
PORTUGUESE immigrants have begun
to arrive in considerable numbers,
many of them bound for the vine
growing districts of Calf ornia.
The Alta California died affirming
with it's latest breath, as the result OF
forty years Of experience, that decent
paper couldn't make a living III San
Francisco.
MAJOR TURNER GOLDSMITH, of At
lanta, enjoys the distinction OF having
lived under twenty-one Presidents. He
is eighty-nine years old and has host
of descendants.
A NUMBER of Partisan ladies recently
applied hair bleach to their locks with
the intention OF turning them red, but
only succeeded in producing a beauti-
full shade of green.
CONSTANT rains are very hard On wo-
men who are out good deal. Since
the hustle went out of style, they have
had no way of carrying their gossamers
in re adiness for storm.
WALTER HAYNES has lived upon
Haynes Hill, Brimfeld. Mass, since
he was Is months old. He is 101
years now, has wife of 90 and sister
of So, and the horse he yet drives about
confesses to 26 years.
BRIGHAM YouNG's grave is covered
by plain and inconspicuous slab Of
granite. 1t lies in an inclosed city los
in Salt Lake City, surrouned by a low
iron fence. A few of the prophets
wives are buried near.
The model husband was seen or a
Detroit car recently. He had letter
written by his wife stuck in his hat band
so as to have sure thing on mailing
it. There was not a lady in the car
who did not catch on and smile approx
ingly.
The right Of telling trees over no
fewer than 665, 600 square miles of the
Kerassond forests, and 497 900 square
miles of the Fireboli forests, neal
Trebizond, has been granted by the
Turkish Government to private specu-
lators.
The diamond cutters of New York
earn an average'salary Of $50 a week,
and are considered the best workmen
in their line in the world. Twenty
years ago nearly all the diamonds sold
in this country were cut and polished
in Amsterdam.
IT was long thought that the waite,
from melted snow was the purest Of all
water This idea has been proved in
correct, as the reverse is true. Snow is
really purifier Of the atmosphere, at.
tracing to it as it falls, various impuri
ties; and these are found in the snow
water.
One advantage enjoyed 10y those who
live in Madagascar, where the Queer
distinguishes herself from the common
run of people by taking bath once {
year, is that they are not likely to be
come deeply interested in charmin!
story and have it end in soap adver
tisement.
THERE is a paper in Harlan nty
KY, which may fairly claim to be Ell
tirely free from sensationalism Tn
other day it contained the followin
laconic paragraph: "Aleck Smith wa
killed yesterday by man by the nam
Of Holbrook. We did not learn tn
particulars.
A SECONDHAND mattress, which 70
two months had been in the possessio
of its purchaser, aresident of Mebanes
n. c., caused him some uneasiness tn
other night, because Of hard lum
which had worked toward the surface
He investigated. and found that tn